Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic

David Mahendran

Madurai

Summary

Customer service Manager with extensive experience in SaaS industry. Proven ability to establish rapport with clients and identify customer needs. Committed to delivering effective solutions and maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction. Contributes to overall company success through dedicated service and teamwork.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager

Apptivo Software Pvt Ltd
Madurai
04.2022 - 02.2025
  • Supported senior PMs in managing the product lifecycle.
  • Wrote clear product requirement documents (PRDs) and user stories for development teams.
  • Collaborated with engineering to prioritize product backlog and feature development.
  • Analyzed competitor products to inform strategic decision-making and planning.
  • Prioritized features and bugs using data from customer feedback and internal metrics.
  • Coordinated with UI/UX designers to improve usability, reducing bounce rate by 18%.
  • Assisted in the go-to-market (GTM) strategy for new product releases and feature rollouts.

Customer Support Manager

Apptivo Software Pvt Ltd
Madurai
03.2022 - 02.2025

Responsibilities

  • Ensured the support team is customer-centric and provided the utmost customer support experience.
  • Stepping up and resolving an escalation of the customer that the team is unable to resolve.
  • Monitoring performance and efficiency of the team based on metrics and customer feedback
  • Measuring and reporting the efforts and successes of the customer support team on the weekly review meeting with the Top level management

Achievements

  • Standardized the support process by creating tier level support like L1, L2 and L3
  • Had the team to improvise their standards by incorporating themselves to valued adding training courses
  • Assessed reports, monitored calls and analyzed chats to identify process improvement opportunities and helped them develop accordingly.

Senior Customer Support Executive

Apptivo Software Pvt Ltd
Madurai
01.2018 - 04.2022

Responsibilities

  • Have been delivering excellent post-sales support to clients through chats, emails and online screen sharing sessions.
  • Been instrumental in helping customers not lose faith in Apptivo by setting up screen sharing sessions whenever needed and assisting them with their inconvenience
  • Effectively coordinating between internal and external teams to try and bring out a resolution in quick turnaround time
  • Never turning down customers who wants to have pre-sales sneak peek into Apptivo's functionality and briefing them on the betterment it can have on their business
  • Continually encouraging the sales team to proactively reach out to promising prospects that drop by in chat thereby increasing revenue

Achievements

  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of product and service changes
  • Quickly and accurately answered customer questions, suggested effective solutions and resolved issues to increase customer satisfaction
  • Compiled customer feedback and recommended service delivery improvements to management
  • Followed-through on all critical inter-departmental escalations to increase customer retention rates
  • Increased efficiency and performance by monitoring team member productivity and providing feedback.

Customer Success Representative

Apptivo Software Pvt Ltd
Madurai
05.2015 - 12.2017

Responsibilities

  • Pre-Sales Activities - cold calls, campaign emails and virtual demonstration of the product to prospective clients
  • Liasoning with prospects as well as existing clients on customization or feature Implementation within the software
  • Interfacing with the client team and multiple teams within our organization for effective communication between both parties
  • Systematic Post sales followup demo's, emails, calls until on-boarding them to the platform

Achievements

  • Promptly responded to inquiries and requests from prospective customers
  • Used consultative sales approach to understand customer needs and recommend relevant offerings
  • Liaised with customers, management and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions
  • Improved sales abilities and product knowledge on a continuous basis to provide optimal service and achieve quotas.

Business Development Executive

Randstad India
Madurai
05.2013 - 02.2014

Responsibilities

  • Looked after the operation and managing services for the South Tamil Nadu involving 9 Districts
  • Involved in selling our premier HR services to companies comprising mainly of Recruitment and HR Solutions
  • Met high profile personnel in the Medium and Large Enterprises and showcased our services

Achievements

  • Researched and identified opportunities for market penetration and expansion
  • Facilitated and maintained relationships with multiple enterprises to increase service sales
  • Duly fostered all Skill training programs to drive empowerment of students.

Education

MBA -

School of Business And Law, Gloucestershire University
London, UK

PG Diploma - Molecular Pathology and Toxicology

Leicester University
Leicester

BSc. - Zoology

Bishop Heber College
Trichy, India

Skills

  • Strategic sales knowledge
  • Complaint resolution
  • International sales and support
  • Service standard compliance
  • Strategic planning
  • Project management
  • Customer relationship management

Timeline

Product Manager

Apptivo Software Pvt Ltd
04.2022 - 02.2025

Customer Support Manager

Apptivo Software Pvt Ltd
03.2022 - 02.2025

Senior Customer Support Executive

Apptivo Software Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 04.2022

Customer Success Representative

Apptivo Software Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 12.2017

Business Development Executive

Randstad India
05.2013 - 02.2014

MBA -

School of Business And Law, Gloucestershire University

PG Diploma - Molecular Pathology and Toxicology

Leicester University

BSc. - Zoology

Bishop Heber College
David Mahendran