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Goutham Kumar U

Goutham Kumar U

Customer Experience Professional
Chennai

Summary

In the business of changing cost centres to experience centres with stellar record of 15 years working in varied domains like Blockchain, Fin-tech, Edtech/SaaS, E-commerce, Hospitality and Telecom


Part of founding team of Gild - India’s first spends account and the team which launched a targeted personal loan and SaaS product in the education space (Finwego/Anthem).

Handled portfolios such as Pro-active customer experience, Contact centre set-up & management, Customer life cycle management, Escalation management, Telesales, Tele-collection, Loan & Credit card operations/support and Inventory management.


I had done projects which had improved experience or have reduced operation cost. Worked with APAC,EMEA,NA and Pan India teams and customers.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head - Customer Experience

Jax Network
Bangalore
12.2022 - Current


To set up and scale up the customer experience team


Head - Customer Experience and Vendor Relations

M2P Fintech
Chennai
08.2021 - 11.2022


Part of the founding team.

Built Industry first Pro-active customer experience team
Set up and scaling up customer experience and partner success teams.
Credit card operations - anything physical, from card preparation to delivery to return management.
Business Analytics & Vendor management.
Partner Relations - Built an amazing B2B customer success team for Gild platform.

All things credit card!!!

AVP - Operations

Wizi App
Chennai
11.2020 - 07.2021


Built the contact centre team
Responsible for lead conversion, customer delight and DSA management.
SPOC for all bank relationships.

PS: Company acquired by M2P fintech

AVP - Contact Centre Operations

Finwego
Chennai
07.2019 - 08.2020


SaaS sales & support.
0 to 1
Set-up and scaled up the contact center from ground zero covering all aspects of loan operation.
Managing Voice,Email & Chat channels.
Set-up and scaled up the Tele-sales from ground zero - help organization and team achieve monthly goals.
End to End ownership of entire loan application cycle - Sourcing of application, document collection, agreement signing and follow up until disbursals.
Team management, Stakeholder management,Process re-engineering.

Senior Manager - Customer Service and Compliance

Bankbazaar
Chennai
01.2018 - 02.2019


Managing voice, non-voice & chat channels
Escalation Management, SLA management, Team management
Risk & Compliance management
Working with various stake holders for a seamless customer experience.
Process owner for coupon issuance to customers

Manager - Customer Service

Groupon
Chennai
07.2015 - 12.2017


Lead the support teams managing E-Mail, chat & social media contact channels for APAC region
Lead the support teams managing E-mail & chat contact channels for North America region
Growing chat channel for operation efficiency and increased customer satisfaction (improved from 10% on volumes to 83% of overall volumes)
Projects to re-engineer existing processes which are not customer centric or redundant
Working with multiple stakeholders across the globe for better customer experience

Assistant Manager - Reservation, Customer Support

Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Ltd
Chennai
06.2008 - 06.2015


Managed various portfolios over the period of 7 years.

Managing Resort Occupancy for 46 Resorts of Mahindra Holidays
Customer Experience and Complaint Management.
Improve product utilization by formulating strategies based on trends.
Proactive communications and contacts to dormant customers and improve usage.
Services Marketing
Identify Process related gaps and re-engineer processes when required through Kaizens and Lean Six sigma Projects.

Exploring options for Customer Self Service methodology

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English Lit.,

University of Madras
Chennai
06.2006 - 04.2009

Diploma - Diploma in Data Science

Besant Technologies
Chennai
02.2019 - 07.2019

Skills

Customer Experience - CSAT, NPS

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Interests

Travel

Footsal

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Timeline

Head - Customer Experience

Jax Network
12.2022 - Current

Head - Customer Experience and Vendor Relations

M2P Fintech
08.2021 - 11.2022

AVP - Operations

Wizi App
11.2020 - 07.2021

AVP - Contact Centre Operations

Finwego
07.2019 - 08.2020

Diploma - Diploma in Data Science

Besant Technologies
02.2019 - 07.2019

Senior Manager - Customer Service and Compliance

Bankbazaar
01.2018 - 02.2019

Manager - Customer Service

Groupon
07.2015 - 12.2017

Assistant Manager - Reservation, Customer Support

Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Ltd
06.2008 - 06.2015

Bachelor of Arts - English Lit.,

University of Madras
06.2006 - 04.2009
Goutham Kumar UCustomer Experience Professional