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Imtihaz Goria

Chandigarh

Summary

Customer Support and operational leader with more than 17+ years of experience in Telecom, contact center with proven record of success in executing strategic plans to meet company objectives. Highly skilled in developing high performing teams and collaborating cross functionally to implement business initiatives, improve workflow efficiency, and decrease operating cost.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Director of Customer Success

Jungleworks
06.2023 - Current

Strategic Planning: Developing and executing strategies to enhance customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty.
Team Leadership: Leading and mentoring a team of Customer Success Managers, providing guidance and support to achieve individual and team goals.
Customer Relationship Management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with key clients, understanding their needs and ensuring timely resolution of any issues.
Customer Onboarding: Handling the onboarding process for new clients, ensuring a smooth transition and alignment of expectations.
Customer Advocacy: Acting as the primary advocate for customers within the organization, ensuring their needs are understood and addressed across all departments.
Retention and Renewals: Driving customer retention efforts through proactive engagement, risk mitigation, and value realization initiatives.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborating closely with Sales, Product, and Support teams to ensure a cohesive customer experience throughout the customer lifecycle.
Performance Analysis: Analyzing customer success metrics and KPIs to track progress, identify trends, and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
Customer Feedback and Insights: Gathering and analyzing customer feedback to identify areas for improvement and drive product enhancements or process optimizations.
Training and Development: Developed the training program to empower the customer success team with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively serve customers.
Customer Success Technology: Evaluating and optimizing customer success technology platforms to streamline processes and enhance productivity.
Risk Management: Proactively identifying and addressing potential risks to customer satisfaction and retention, implementing mitigation strategies as needed.
Customer Success Culture: Fostering a customer-centric culture within the organization, ensuring that all employees understand the importance of customer success and their role in achieving it.

Vertical Lead

Canara HSBC OBC life Insurance Company
01.2021 - 06.2023
  • Managing outsourced & inhouse call center's catering pan India customers Leading the vertical to deliver the service level target and enhanced customer experience, ensuring internal/external stakeholder satisfaction by the delivery of quality services through calls/e-mails correspondence by adhering to the SLA's
  • Managing NPS performance for all verticals of the company Initiating projects to reduce customer complaints & increase FCR% Leverage a wide range of coaching and change management techniques to help in delivering the overall targets
  • Influencing multiple stakeholders to ensure right level of focus and attention is paid to customer experience for customer delight
  • Relationship Management with top HNI customers and driving Resolution of complaints/escalations received through different channels in the team, ensure best in class solution to be given to customers by team along with business outcome
  • Effectively manage risk and foster an environment where team is fully aware of Operational Risk management
  • Ensuring adherence to standards, procedures and identify risk mitigates wherever there is a control issue
  • Continuous staff development programs enhancing employee engagement, service, knowledge, skills, and morale
  • Develop strategic initiatives on customer Interactions quality management, workforce planning, recruiting, coaching and training.

Wave Money – Process Head

Mascon International Business Services
03.2020 - 03.2021
  • Managing Myanmar's biggest Call center - Operations for mobile financial services” Wave money” process with 10 Lob's Assuring seamless customer experience Ensuring process KPI's to be met & exceeded matching the forecasted numbers week on week & month on month basis
  • Ensured the call center quality standards are 100% reinforced daily
  • Forecasting, planning future changes on the business based on previous trends
  • Managing P&L, budgeting, analyzing and control expenses of the call center
  • Coaching & Mentoring managers on leadership principles and approaches to harness the optimal behavior for driving results
  • Established and implemented performance and service standards
  • Developed and implemented process and operational improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of operations
  • Ensuring productivity met or exceed service and quality standards
  • Contribute to long- and short-term organizational planning which includes planning for initiatives geared toward operational excellence

Tele Sales Packages - Holidays

OYO
05.2019 - 01.2020
  • Managing Tele-Sales Call Centre Operations for Packages Sales International (South East Asia, Middle east, Maldives & Mauritius) & Pan India destinations
  • Assuring process conversion target to be met & exceeded matching the forecasted numbers week on week & month on month basis
  • Monitoring both agent & dialer performance on real time basis driving best output Experienced in uploading leads, fetching reports on dialer, maintaining appropriate pace & strategy to aim a healthy Talk time daily & level SLA's Coordinating & negotiating with all departments like Product, Supply, Vendor management Ensuring profit margins as per business targets Ensuring seamless customer experience with Oyo Handling Customer & Vendor escalations
  • Ensuring quality & training metrics as per defined sop's & targets
  • Coordinating for all technical, functional requirements & issues on real time basis Doing all capacity planning, Business ramp up & ramp down plan
  • Taking care of Partner billing, P&L

Operations & PerformanceCall Centre-Punjab, HP & Delhi

Aircel
06.2010 - 05.2019
  • Managing Call Centre Operations for North Region -PB, HP & Delhi Overall responsible to drive First Call resolution across all Centers
  • Maintaining service levels through manpower planning
  • Responsible for increasing Customer Satisfaction score through constantly keeping check through regular audits and capturing voice of customer through health check calls
  • Individually analyzing and implementing to enhance process scores of Customer Satisfactions (C-SAT)
  • Reducing call per subscriber through various automation and process improvement
  • Handling all Operational escalations/follow-ups at call Centre
  • Coordinating with Corporate, Region & Circle teams for improvement of process & performance for call Centre
  • Coordinating with Technical teams like Aircel Business Solutions, Switch team, IVR- Cisco, Wipro ,Local & Partner IT teams Handling all technical escalations from Partner & customer end
  • Ensuring technical capacities augmentation as per business requirements Ensuring adherence to standards, procedures and identify risk mitigates wherever there is a control issue
  • Continuous staff development programs enhancing employee engagement, service, knowledge, skills, and morale
  • Develop strategic initiatives on customer Interactions quality management, workforce planning, recruiting, coaching and training.

Operations & Performance Call Centre

Vodafone Essar South Ltd. (MOHALI)
09.2006 - 06.2010
  • Managing call Centre operations for Punjab & HP circles
  • Driving First Call resolution across call Centers
  • Responsible for increasing External & Internal quality scores
  • Responsible for increasing C-SAT scores
  • Reducing call per subscriber through various automations and process improvement
  • Handling all escalations/follow-ups at call center & taking briefings Coordinating with other Departments for improvement of process & performance for Call center Responsible for SUPERCC upsell process

Education

Master's degree in business administration - Dual specialization in Marketing & Hr

Symbiosis Pune
04.2024 - 04.2024

Bachelor's Degree in arts - undefined

Panjab University Chandigarh
01.2001 - 04.2003

Skills

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Skills Highlights

  • Customer Support
  • Operations Management
  • Team Building and Training
  • IT Service Improvement initiative
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Budget and Planning
  • Call Center Management
  • Cross Functional TeamPlayer
  • Continues Process Improvement
  • Project Management
  • Sales Support Functions

References

References available on request

Timeline

Master's degree in business administration - Dual specialization in Marketing & Hr

Symbiosis Pune
04.2024 - 04.2024

Director of Customer Success

Jungleworks
06.2023 - Current

Vertical Lead

Canara HSBC OBC life Insurance Company
01.2021 - 06.2023

Wave Money – Process Head

Mascon International Business Services
03.2020 - 03.2021

Tele Sales Packages - Holidays

OYO
05.2019 - 01.2020

Operations & PerformanceCall Centre-Punjab, HP & Delhi

Aircel
06.2010 - 05.2019

Operations & Performance Call Centre

Vodafone Essar South Ltd. (MOHALI)
09.2006 - 06.2010

Bachelor's Degree in arts - undefined

Panjab University Chandigarh
01.2001 - 04.2003
Imtihaz Goria