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Cherry Abraham

Client Experience Manager
Pune,MH
Cherry Abraham

Summary

Experienced Senior Customer Success Specialist with 19 plus years of customer success experience in Product and SaaS Operations. History of implementing successful improvements to support processes and fostering team collaboration.

Recognised for demonstrating unwavering dedication, enthusiasm, loyalty, and a strong focus on operations excellence.

Skilled in building and maintaining strong client relationships.

Prepared to contribute to a demanding role. Acknowledged for exceptional self-motivation, practical leadership skills, and a steadfast commitment to nurturing robust customer relationships. Demonstrated success in independently resolving intricate problems and ensuring the team focuses on addressing diverse business and customer needs.

I have a proven track record of successfully managing relationships with Clients/Partners/Vendors from the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Australia.

Support Professional with expertise in efficiently managing critical issues, important client accounts, conducting training, and team building activities for the team.

Energetic and proactive professional adept at diagnosing and fixing complex product issues and documenting articles.

Driven by a relentless commitment to excellence, I bring flexibility and adaptability to manage client demands effectively. With a track record of successfully handling diverse customer requirements, I ensure optimal outcomes and maintain high-performance standards.

Overview

22
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education
3
Languages

Work History

Icertis
Pune, MH

Client Experience Manager
01.2024 - Current

Job overview

  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by streamlining communication channels and implementing efficient CRM tools.
  • Organized multiple successful events strengthening community engagement while fostering rapport between the company and its clientele.
  • Boosted efficiency by developing standardized procedures for handling common client inquiries and concerns.
  • Regular connect with high value and critical accounts helped in gaining their trust and building a good rapport.
  • This helped me in meeting the targets quarter on quarter case reduction to 5%.
  • Increased the impacted low TSAT coverage from 15% to 93% by end of year 2024.

HCL Technologies
Pune, MH

Sr. Customer Success Specialist (Technical Architect)
04.2021 - 01.2024

Job overview

  • Transitioned from IBM to HCL, assigned to IBM Emptoris Project
  • Report directly to RM in HCL, supporting team by submitting high-value ideas to meet organization's quarterly targets
  • Work with hiring managers and cross-functional teams to define job requirements and establish evaluation criteria for candidate assessment
  • Ensure adherence to SLAs and effectively handle escalations
  • Act as Key Account Manager and primary point of contact for high-value accounts, prioritizing client satisfaction
  • Generate daily reports to monitor and track performance, including backlog index, CSAT (NPS), and knowledgebase article targets
  • Deliver technical and process training and coaching to newly hired team members for HCL-IBM Project
  • Serve as team's go-to person for current best practices and alternative solutions when creating functional design documentation
  • Diagnose critical issues related to functional workflows of various IBM Emptoris Supply chain Products, such as Supplier Lifecycle Management, Sourcing, Contract Management, Program Management, and Strategic Supply Management
  • Manage installation, upgrades, and deployment of in-house setups for Development team to facilitate testing of security vulnerability fixes
  • Leverage expertise in Supply Chain products to develop custom SQL scripts, optimizing support response time for critical accounts
  • Led and managed support team, ensuring efficient resolution of client issues, compliance with SLAs, and skillfully handling escalations
  • Ensure compliance with data protection regulations and cultivate a customer-centric, collaborative, and continuously improving support culture
  • Achievements:
  • Successfully onboarded three new HCL resources to IBM Project and conducted internal HCL and IBM process training
  • Managed resource allocation to ensure proper client coverage during India festival time
  • Conducted weekly reviews of Support and Engineering tickets, ensuring achievement of team's backlog indexing, NPS targets, and attachment of knowledge base articles to closed cases
  • Designed team rosters to ensure efficient resource allocation across different time zones, enabling competent customer assistance and adequate coverage
  • Have implemented efficient and effective candidate filtering methods to streamline hiring and interviewing and ensure optimal project resource allocation.

Emptoris India, (IBM India Pvt. Ltd)
Pune

Senior Staff Software Engineer
10.2008 - 04.2021

Job overview

  • IBM India Pvt. Ltd. acquired Emptoris India in June 2012.
  • Performed root cause analysis and general troubleshooting.
  • Collaborated with outside departments to implement system-wide improvements.
  • Analyzed and evaluated user problems using test scripts, personal expertise, and probing questions.
  • Applied superior Product knowledge to improve Customer Experience.
  • Provided account-level customer support to a few major accounts such as HSBC, SSE, Maple Tree, TD Bank, Henkel users with daily status update calls on current status and investigation Progress, often working double shifts to accommodate time zones of users.
  • Develop and nurture customer relationships, identifying growth opportunities.
  • Utilized remote diagnostic tools to identify and address on-prem (BTF) customer issues, explaining complex technology-related matters clearly and understandably.
  • Improved user experience through support, training, troubleshooting, and effective communication of system changes.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance product quality.

Mphasis
Pune

Senior Technical Support Associate
03.2008 - 10.2008

Job overview

  • Voice-based technical support to US-based clients, assisting with computer issues, software problems, and account-related concerns such as password resets
  • Conducting basic troubleshooting on first level and escalating unresolved issues by creating and dispatching tickets to second level
  • Proficient in working with Digital Workflow and Active Directory to manage and access client information efficiently
  • Providing on-call support for New User ID creation and achieving high First Call Resolution (FCR) rate of over 80%.

T A Ventures
Pune

Public Relationship Officer
02.2006 - 03.2008

Job overview

  • Conducting interviews and hiring new employees to build a strong support team, resulting in 30% increase in team productivity
  • Responsible for employee performance evaluation and providing feedback for continuous improvement
  • Approaching customers for feedback through calls, e-mail and implementing better ideas, leading to enhanced customer experience
  • Achievements:
  • Successfully created cohesive support team by hiring and evaluating employees, implementing various strategies for better customer experience, and contributing to company growth.

Bharti Tele-ventures Ltd
Cochin

Customer Relationship Lead
02.2005 - 02.2006

Job overview

  • Managed team of 15 Customer Relationship Executives, coordinating support activities with AirTel Relationship Center
  • Provided daily reports to the CSD Head (South Zone) and RBM (Regional Business Manager), ensuring effective communication and alignment of objectives
  • Successfully reduced net churn figure in Kottayam region from 4% to 2.5% and increased customer retention rate
  • Initiated and organized customer service camps across various locations in South Kerala
  • Achievements:
  • Achieved "Best Team Lead" award for completing customer retention targets and maintaining highest CSR ratio, increasing it from 60% to 92%
  • Showcased exceptional leadership abilities, adept at motivating and inspiring teams to achieve outstanding results
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.

Rishi Infotech - SESPL, Reliance Infocom Ltd
Pune

Sales Executive
06.2003 - 02.2005

Job overview

  • In this role, I managed sales and marketing channels in Pune, accountable for profitability and sales growth of Reliance India Mobile and Fixed Wireless Phone
  • Expanded distribution network by identifying and developing dealers and distributors, achieving higher market share
  • Additionally, I trained and managed sales teams, maintained effective client relationships, handled Customer Interface Management System, and supervised CIOUs for a zone with twenty-thousand customer base
  • The team successfully launched RIM and Fixed Wireless Phone/Terminal in Pune City.

Education

ITIL - IT SO
APMG International

Certification from Intermediate Certificate in IT Service Operation
11.2017 - 11.2017

University Overview

  • Completed the ITIL Foundation exam and later applied for ITIL Service Operation

IGNOU
New Delhi

Certificate in Computing
01.2001 - 06.2001

National PG College - Agra University
Bhongaon, UP

Master of Arts from English Language and Literature
06.2000 - 07.2002

Shri Chitra Gupta Degree College - Agra University
Mainpuri, UP

Bachelor of Science from Science Education
06.1997 - 06.2000

Skills

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Accomplishments

  • Have assisted new joiners to be inducted to the IBM Emptoris project smoothly
  • I have led a team of 6 members, including the Development and hosting team, to address the critical issue of accounts I have been managing
  • (HSBC, SSE, Telefonica, Henkel, ABB are a few of the vital clients I oversaw.)
  • Have provided training to the US support team to manage 50+ customers during US business hours to drive customer satisfaction and retention
  • Conducted product training and collaborated with different teams to drive adoption of IBM Emptoris, Supply chain products like SSM-PGM, Spend Analysis, and Sourcing modules
  • Build similar skill sets in IBM - US by coaching the US support team on products and processes
  • As a vital member of a 5-person team from May 2015 to May 2016, I actively contributed to establishing support operations in the United States
  • Our Primary goal was to implement a follow-the-sun model, enabling seamless customer service coverage across multiple time zones
  • Have achieved the NPS score target of 90% for the consecutive three quarters in 2019.

Interests

Music

Trekking

Timeline

Client Experience Manager

Icertis
01.2024 - Current

Sr. Customer Success Specialist (Technical Architect)

HCL Technologies
04.2021 - 01.2024

ITIL - IT SO

Certification from Intermediate Certificate in IT Service Operation
11.2017 - 11.2017

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Emptoris India, (IBM India Pvt. Ltd)
10.2008 - 04.2021

Senior Technical Support Associate

Mphasis
03.2008 - 10.2008

Public Relationship Officer

T A Ventures
02.2006 - 03.2008

Customer Relationship Lead

Bharti Tele-ventures Ltd
02.2005 - 02.2006

Sales Executive

Rishi Infotech - SESPL, Reliance Infocom Ltd
06.2003 - 02.2005

IGNOU

Certificate in Computing
01.2001 - 06.2001

National PG College - Agra University

Master of Arts from English Language and Literature
06.2000 - 07.2002

Shri Chitra Gupta Degree College - Agra University

Bachelor of Science from Science Education
06.1997 - 06.2000
Cherry AbrahamClient Experience Manager