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Archana Yatin  Barot

Archana Yatin Barot

Customer Service Manager
Bangalore,India

Summary

Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading, and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring, and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Skills

  • Product knowledge
  • Complaint resolution
  • Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Staff education and training
  • Customer service & Call centre operations
  • Employee management
  • Exceptional telephone etiquette
  • Adherence to high customer service standards
  • Training and development
  • Professional Diploma in Network-Centred Computing from NIIT
  • Working Knowledge of Software: Gorgias, Shiphero, Shopify, WordPress, Braintree, Ship Station, E-Tracker, Recurring Billing by Recharge, Checkout Champ, AuthorizeNet, Stripe, Richpanel and Klaviyo
  • Team building

Work History

Customer Service Manager - WFH

Puppy Dogs & Ice Cream Publishing - San Diego
Bangalore, India
09.2021 - Current
  • Develop & implement customer service policies and procedures. Defuse irate customers and resolve challenging inquiries utilizing negotiation skills while following guidelines to satisfy the customer.
  • Makes, receives customer calls, and resolves customer inquiries professionally. Takes ownership and initiative to complete necessary research and customer follow-up or direct the customer to the appropriate department for resolution.
  • Oversee the achievement and maintenance of good customer service levels and standards.
  • Direct the daily operations of the customer service team.
  • Plan prioritize and delegate work tasks to ensure the proper functioning of the department.
  • Ensuring Amazon, return requests, PayPal & Braintree dispute cases are responded to promptly and precisely.
  • Track customer complaints and their resolution.
  • Handle complex and escalated customer service issues.
  • Constantly reviewing and measuring the customer’s journey and our delivery along it observing where service or experience can be improved.
  • Identify and address staff training and coaching needs.
  • Liaising with our internal department including inventory management, the warehouse, and other fulfillment to ensure that queries regarding deliveries and orders are resolved.
  • Delivered feedback constructively to enhance staff performance.
  • Reviewed processes and practices regularly to achieve business goals.
  • Sought customer feedback and applied data to inform service-level improvements.
  • Handling escalations through BBB (Better Business Bureau) complaints & comments.
  • Ensuring smooth functioning of social media comments & direct messages received on the company direct page and through third-party pages.
  • Recruited customer service team members and mentored them in company policies and best practices.
  • Collect and verify employee timesheets and report data thereafter to the payroll team for payments.
  • Development and maintenance of company help center through Richpanel.
  • Coordination with warehouse and inventory for smooth order processing.
  • Handling wholesale customers by negotiating and sending quotations & invoices.

CCSS Representative

HSBC Electronic Data Processing India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, India
06.2020 - 09.2020

Procurement Professional

IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
11.2016 - 03.2018

Customer Care Email Support

Accelyst Solutions Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
07.2015 - 07.2016

Customer Care Officer

Deutsche Bank A G
Mumbai, India
09.2007 - 01.2010

Customer Satisfaction Officer

Standard Chartered Bank
Mumbai, India
10.2005 - 09.2007

Credit Ops Executive

Solutions Integrated Marketing Services Pvt Ltd, ICICI BANK
Mumbai, India
06.2004 - 10.2005

Front Office

Ichibaan Honda
Mumbai, India
12.2003 - 05.2004

Core Roles & Responsibilities

Banking & Customer Sevice

  • Hands-on experience in effectively managing the general branch loan operations, Home Loan Accounts, Personal Loan Accounts, and Auto Loan Accounts along with Asset and Liability walk-in customers of the bank.
  • Meticulously involved in taking care of Head Services and Premium Care, Asset & Liability customer complaints, requests, and queries through email.
  • Maintenance of Data and MIS of complaints, requests, and queries of customers and preparations of PowerPoint presentations.
  • Deftly managing after authorization of banking operations like issues of correspondence with customer letters, requests, queries, funds transfer, RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement), and cheque receipts.
  • As a Customer Care Email Support representative have gained experience to provide assistance to company customers through email and social media.
  • Key responsibilities for this role include developing customer relationships, solving customer issues, modifying orders, processing refunds, reshipment of orders, promoting products and services, maintaining their job knowledge, reporting to supervisors, and forwarding unresolved queries to specialists.
  • Ensure consistent delivery of customer delight relating to queries or problem resolution.
  • Consciously maintain levels of performance that measure up to standards and provide feedback to customers on issues. Maximise sales and referral generation where relevant.
  • Process financial and non-financial transactions assistance pertaining to Asset and Liability customers.
  • Required to maintain an effective working relationship with various departments of the Bank to ensure that the Customer Contact Centre supports the delivery of business objectives.
  • Provide extraordinary service through phone interactions with customers, focusing on resolving their requests the first time in an efficient, accurate, professional, and courteous manner to create customer loyalty.

Procurement

  • Act in compliance with all relevant IBM business conducts guidelines and client-driven procurement processes.
  • Perform periodic analysis within managed commodity scope to identify savings, and define efficiency opportunities and tactical initiatives that should be undertaken.
  • Set up new suppliers and initiate outline agreements and maintain all meaningful supplier documentation. Ensure audit readiness of all supplier documents.
  • Collaborate with Businesses and suppliers on payment issues and support hands-free strategies to resolve blocked invoices and resolve supplier and payment issues.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce

Bangalore University
Bangalore
07.1998 - 05.2001

Address

Fusion 4 Pearl Apartment, Flat # 208, 2nd Floor, 7th Cross, Ashwathnarayan Road, Near Tirumala Dhaba, Attur Layout, Yelahanka New Town, Bangalore -560064, Karnataka, India

Languages

English
Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
Gujarati
Proficient (C2)

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rodgers
Archana Yatin BarotCustomer Service Manager