Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Additional Information
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Khursheed  Ahmad

Khursheed Ahmad

Customer Service

Summary

Experienced professional with 24 years in customer service, specializing in customer retentions, value management, and life cycle management. Skilled in enhancing overall customer experience, retail operations, collections, credit monitoring, bad debt recovery, telecalling, field agency management, showroom/store management, and field service operations. Proven track record in cross-selling and up-selling strategies.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
12
12
Certifications

Work History

Head Retention & Customer Value Management

Vodafone Idea Ltd.
04.2023 - Current
  • Managed customer base of 1.2 million for mobility and 1.4 million for IoT across 14 states in North and East.
  • Achieved targets for retaining enterprise subscribers.
  • Drove market share growth with effective customer value management programs.
  • Managed end-to-end Customer Life Cycle using proactive and reactive strategies.
  • Followed national processes, identified improvement areas, redefined processes using gap analysis.
  • Developed skills and competencies to create an efficient customer service team.

National Head Collections & Credit - Enterprise

Vodafone Idea Ltd.
07.2020 - 04.2023
  • Annual billing - Rs. 1800+ Cr. | Unique accounts - 80K+ | On-roll team - 180+ | Agency count - 100+.
  • Formulated strategies to optimize collections for Mobility & IoT across the country.
  • Oversaw collections from large and medium accounts by leveraging both in-house and outsourced resources.
  • Managed collections from small accounts using centralized telecalling methods.
  • Automated and digitized collections and credit processes, including onboarding, verification, and de-duping.
  • Identified improvement opportunities through team reviews and VOC.
  • Reducing involuntary churn through proactive & reactive tools & techniques i.e. retention tools, waivers.
  • Ensured collection costs remained within budget through strategic cost management.
  • Partnered with shared services team to maintain accurate and timely MIS and KPI reports.
  • Led cross-functional teams in business improvement initiatives.

Head Circle Collections- Retail & Enterprise

Vodafone Idea Ltd.
11.2018 - 07.2020
  • Job responsibilities & wok profile same as above at state level

Head - Zonal Customer Service

Idea Cellular Ltd.
01.2014 - 11.2018
  • Postpaid billing & collections | Customer retention & churn control
  • Service center operations & expansion | Customer experience management
  • Company owned store operations & RoI | Service experience & assurance
  • Training & development of store & zonal staff | Process compliance & audit

Head - Service Marketing

Tata Communications Ltd.
02.2008 - 08.2008
  • Customer communications / Customer loyalty program management
  • Channel / Field customer service operations
  • Service renewal & retention target achievement
  • Up-selling through structured customer connect & relationship

Head of Customer Experience & Service Assurance

Reliance Communications
03.2012 - 01.2014
  • Customer experience management | Customer on-boarding
  • TERM compliance | Document warehouse management
  • Acquisition quality control | Customer verification & audit

Zonal Service Head –Aug’08 to Mar’12 Kanpur & Lucknow (U.P)

  • Billing collections & retention | Customer life cycle management
  • Key account management | Showroom operations & RoI

Head- Zonal Service Delivery

Bharti Airtel Ltd
12.2005 - 01.2008
  • Collections & credit | Retention & churn control | First bill & high value churn
  • Showroom experience management | C-Sat & quality audit scores
  • Customer life cycle management | Service provisioning | Documentation & activation

Customer Care Associate

Shoppers Stop Ltd.
07.2001 - 08.2002
  • Sales target achievement | Billing & Cash management
  • Customer service desk management | Complaints handling
  • Visual merchandising | General floor management

Assistant Manager - Collections

Idea Cellular Ltd
08.2002 - 11.2005
  • Hard collections, Skip tracing | Legal actions through notices & Lok-Adalat
  • High value default control | Negotiation & settlement | Agency management.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Marketing

Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University
Faizabad, UP

Skills

Customer Service

Accomplishments

  • 'Rockstar' award for exemplary performance -Vi 2021
  • Elevated as 'National Collections Head - Enterprise' - Vi 2020
  • Elevated as 'Circle Collections Head' - Vi 2018
  • Rated amongest the "Most effective managers" of the organisation across country - Vibes survey Idea 2017
  • 3 times winner of quarterly "Best service delivery zone" award - Idea 2015
  • Certificate for "Outstanding improvement in all KPI's" across zones - Idea 2014
  • Elevated as Circle Customer experience & Service assurance head - Reliance 2012
  • Winner of "Best functional team award" acquisition process - Reliance 2009
  • 'Most popular manager' in customer service award - Airtel 2008
  • Presented a rural customer service model that got replicated PAN India - Airtel 2008
  • Six sigma yellow belt - Airtel 2006
  • 2 times winner of 'SPOT' award - Idea 2004

Certification

5 Certificates of HARWARD Online business management courses

Additional Information

01-07-1977

Timeline

Head Retention & Customer Value Management

Vodafone Idea Ltd.
04.2023 - Current

National Head Collections & Credit - Enterprise

Vodafone Idea Ltd.
07.2020 - 04.2023

Head Circle Collections- Retail & Enterprise

Vodafone Idea Ltd.
11.2018 - 07.2020

Head - Zonal Customer Service

Idea Cellular Ltd.
01.2014 - 11.2018

Head of Customer Experience & Service Assurance

Reliance Communications
03.2012 - 01.2014

Head - Service Marketing

Tata Communications Ltd.
02.2008 - 08.2008

Head- Zonal Service Delivery

Bharti Airtel Ltd
12.2005 - 01.2008

Assistant Manager - Collections

Idea Cellular Ltd
08.2002 - 11.2005

Customer Care Associate

Shoppers Stop Ltd.
07.2001 - 08.2002

Master of Business Administration - Marketing

Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University
Khursheed Ahmad Customer Service