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Customer Experience in the Automotive Industry

Exceptional automotive customer experiences start with intentional design

In an increasingly crowded automotive industry, exceptional customer experience is the key differentiator for OEMs to attract and retain loyal customers. Through our previous work and extensive industry knowledge, we offer our perspectives on the current CX landscape in Automotive.

Oaklin was proud to receive a Gold Award in the Automotive category by the Financial Times & Statista in 2025

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Customer Experience That Competes – Make Every Journey Count

Key Themes

The following outlines Oaklin’s key points on delivering outstanding customer experience in the automotive sector.

Prioritise CX to survive

In today’s saturated automotive market, consistent omnichannel journeys are the new competitive advantage. More brands are competing for the same customer base and need to utilize CX as their core differentiator

Continuously manage your journeys

The best customer journeys aren’t built once. They are managed, measured and evolved to stay ahead of consumer expectations. Ensure customer journey mapping is continually maintained, supported by data and VOC insights and integrated within company culture to achieve maximum success

Design for specific personas

When you build your CX with specific groups in mind, the experience gets better and the commercial results get stronger. Design for personas to convert regular customers into loyal brand advocates. We believe customer journey mapping can provide real insight and value for Fleet and Used Car personas.

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Proof that it works

Launching the next generation of 4x4

Oaklin was engaged by an Automotive start-up, who had identified a gap in the market for an uncompromising, utilitarian, hardworking 4x4 vehicle engineered for modern day compliance and reliability, to define their Digital Customer Experience Platform.

Launching the next generation of 4x4

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Stephanie Meehan

Partner

Partner at Oaklin with proven record of delivery in complex situations. I have a deep understanding of what needs to be in place to support rapidly growing and complex businesses. I excel at establishing then leading teams, enabling businesses to expand and grow.

I lead Oaklin's Automotive Practice advising both established and new market OEMs, supporting clients through transformations in back-office operations, customer experience, commercial and large-scale technology delivery.​

 

Mark Croucher

Associate Partner

Mark is a Digital Transformation Consultant with strong experience delivering technology change across a wide variety of industry sectors. He has experience across the full project life-cycle, including digital strategy, product design, agile methodology definition and digital delivery. Mark enjoys helping clients make the most of the latest digital technologies and has a keen interesting in driving customer experience. He has an open and collaborative style of working and thrives on driving sustainable business results through new technologies.

Mark is currently supporting an Automotive startup to define their portfolio of customer-facing digital initiatives. Recently, he was the Lead Digital Business Analyst for a large-scale customer experience transformation programme; he scoped, mobilised and led the delivery of a cloud-based document management platform at a “Big Six” UK energy supplier; and worked with a major UK bank to lead teams of business analysts in a global supplier assurance programme.

"The best part of the Digital Capability at Oaklin is that it keeps you on your toes and up-to-date with the latest digital trends. We meet regularly, with everyone bringing an advancement in digital technologies they have seen as a potential topic for discussion"

Nathan Whittaker

Consultant

Nathan is an experienced consultant and certified customer experience (CX) professional with demonstrated delivery across digital and large-scale transformation engagements, supporting a wide range of clients. He is most driven by designing and delivering meaningful change for clients, customers and employees.

Nathan co-leads Oaklin’s Customer Experience practice and has recently led a CX strategy engagement to deliver a governance framework, process optimisation and CX best practice to embed Customer Journey Mapping as a cultural process across all 5 UK entities of a large automotive manufacturer.