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Koushik BR

Bangalore

Summary

Strategic Customer Success Visionary and Transformative Leader in Engaging Enterprise Clients while Architecting Growth Strategies through Data-Driven Excellence
6+ Years Championing Customer Success Across FMCG, BFSI, and Diverse Verticals.

Former E-commerce & Ad-Tech Alchemist, Crafting Insights for Impactful Decision-Making.

Let's Elevate Customer Experiences and Drive Revenue Growth Together!

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager, Customer Success

Lemnisk
12.2021 - Current
  • Owner of $2M+ ARR enterprise accounts in the insurance and banking sector with 0 churn.
  • Proactively Mitigated and conducted Churn risk analysis for all accounts and created strategies to avoid churn.
  • Upsell of $330K which resulted in 100% increase in ARR in a single account in 1 year.
  • Took ownership and Setup App Push as a digital channel from scratch for all customers with relevant documentation, monitoring systems and processes to handle day-day operations.
  • Setup processes to improve delivery rate across various digital channels. Dived Deep to improve performance of campaigns for customers. Notably, Increased delivery rate for Android from 20%-49% and iOS from 24%-63%
  • Strategized and conducted in-person workshops with customers to deliver tangible $ value by increasing the revenue generated Y-o-Y
  • Established strong relationships with CXOs to align various teams like Marketing, Development, Product teams, etc to essentially improve the experience of end customer. This ensured long-term partnerships and repeat business.
  • Handled a team of 3 across CS and delivery, mentored and enabled the team to ensure smooth flow of daily operations.
  • Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.
  • Actively incorporated feedback shared by customers and delivered product updates in a timely manner. These product updates helped all the customer by saving time (automation of processes) and resulting in quicker GO-LIVE.
  • Adoption of product in an efficient way to provide a 360 Degree visibility on the status or health of the account. Productized updates noted across various accounts resulting in potential upsell for all customers
  • Automated several processes and setup monitoring systems to ensure low down-time of product.
  • Detailed understanding and setting up ON-PREM implementation of systems in the Middle east.
  • In-Depth understanding of Integrations across various digital channels like Email Service Providers -ESP, SMS Service Providers -SSP, App Push, Whatsapp, Website, Social Media, DataBase

Customer Success Manager

Onlinesales.ai
04.2021 - 12.2021
  • Monetize ads spends on ecommerce marketplaces by enabling sellers to run ads/campaigns to increase visibility of their SKUs.
  • Increased revenue generated for a Fashion Brand by 100% Q-o-Q.
  • Share key insights with brands by analyzing seller behavior based on KPIs such as clicks,impressions,product catalog,etc
  • Provide actionable insights related to acquisition, adoption, retention and churn of sellers through MBR,QBR to help brands maintain the marketplace spends.
  • Handling SMM for brands on FB and Google My Business to reach an extended audience.
  • Currently handling a team of 2. Responsible for aligning team with their respective KRAs and guide them to become good Customer success leaders.

Senior Customer Success Manager

Capillary Technology
06.2018 - 03.2021
  • Handled 2 Parent Accounts consisting of over 30+ Exclusive luxury retail brands each, present in 12 different countries with a turnover revenue of $300M annually
  • Increased Product adoption with customers by 300% in a short span of 10 months.
  • Aligned all brand PICs on tailor-made KPI's and setup automated reports to carry out business functions smoothly.
  • Maintained a constant NPS score 9+ with all customers.
  • Pushed all retail customers to move into Ecommerce space as part of product adoption(anywhere commerce) exercise during Covid-19 pandemic in order to curtail losses for our customers and engage with end customer in an efficient manner.
  • Provide valuable insights to brand PICs, CXOs and COOs through Newsletters,MBR, QBR using various segmentation and clustering techniques.
  • Used Data mining techniques like Market Basket Analysis to help brands understand the end customer better and increase sales/campaign revenue.
  • Managed successful negotiation of long-term contract renewals with franchise owners and sales affiliates
  • Setup multiple loyalty programs for brands in order to increase repeat sales, retention & constant engagement with end customers.
  • Applied & honed problem-solving skills using SQL, python, Excel & Power BI to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement

Business Analyst

Meredith Corp(Time Inc.)
07.2016 - 06.2018
  • Analyze data from various sources and create relevant dashboards and reports using Excel/VBA providing valuable insights on marketing strategies in order to retain customers
  • Forecast expenditure for future quarters in order to retain existing and new incoming customers thus giving a clear picture on health of its brands
  • Trained & mentored peers on process improvement automation to increase efficiency and save time spent on reports
  • Reviewed marketing department's monthly analysis of customer acquisition data and campaign performance and made recommendations for improvement

Transaction Risk Investigator

Amazon
08.2014 - 03.2016
  • Gained knowledge of Risk Investigation in Ecommerce
  • Analyze orders placed by buyers (customers) on accounts and prevent fraudulent activities and Enhanced Customer experience by maintaining 98.5%+ accuracy.
  • Analyze data using excel and SQL to identify MO's to ensure safety and security of customers
  • Trained & Mentored investigators on queues for better results
  • Started a project in Amazon to reduce the amount of time spent on calls by 1 hour/investigator/per day and achieve accurate results.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Science & Engineering

New Horizon College of Engineering
Bangalore

Skills

  • Tools: SQL, Excel, Power BI, Python, Google Analytics, Jira, Asana
  • Domain: Customer Success, Strategy, Marketing, Customer relationship, Business analytics, Business reviews
  • Integrations: Email Service Providers -ESP, SMS Service Providers -SSP, App Push, Whatsapp, Website, Social Media, DataBase
  • Management: Internal and external Stakeholders collaboration, Expectation setting, Time, Delivery and performance

Accomplishments

    Amazon Project - FLAG

  • Started a project in Amazon to analyze data with MS Excel and SQL to identify MO's by using certain values present in different internal tools
  • These values combined together to provide a generic formula, gave a better understanding of such MO's
  • In Short, this project was created to save time and money spent on investigating such patterns and prevent loss to company and thus providing an excellent customer centricity

Certification

  • Become a Blockchain Expert 1 - May'21

Timeline

Senior Manager, Customer Success

Lemnisk
12.2021 - Current

Customer Success Manager

Onlinesales.ai
04.2021 - 12.2021

Senior Customer Success Manager

Capillary Technology
06.2018 - 03.2021

Business Analyst

Meredith Corp(Time Inc.)
07.2016 - 06.2018

Transaction Risk Investigator

Amazon
08.2014 - 03.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Information Science & Engineering

New Horizon College of Engineering
Koushik BR