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Sai CM

Sai CM

Senior Customer Success Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced Senior Customer Success Manager with a background in Software Development. Cultivates lasting customer relationships and ensures satisfaction by utilizing valuable customer feedback to implement process enhancements and elevate service quality. Proven track record in implementing effective customer retention tactics and resolving conflicts efficiently.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
Languages

Work History

Senior Customer Success Manager - USA

Khoros
Bengaluru
12.2023 - Current
  • Managed a customer profile of almost $4M ARR, serving as the primary strategic contact for all the customers.
  • Managed to build trust and loyalty with C Suite to strengthen our partnerships, thereby facilitating success plans and EBRs for the same to track progress of our shared goals.
  • Optimized the customer journey by analyzing usage patterns and providing tailored recommendations based on unique needs.
  • Reduced churn rate by proactively identifying at-risk customers and addressing their needs via cross team collaborations.
  • Achieved revenue targets by managing renewals effectively and identifying upsell opportunities within existing accounts, throughout.

Customer Success Manager - EU

Freshworks
Chennai
07.2022 - 11.2023
  • Managed a portfolio of SMB and MM-level clients around $1M ARR, serving as the primary point of contact for all customer inquiries, escalations, and issues.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction, identify upselling opportunities and drive advocacy by conducting monthly reviews(QBRs).
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and catalyze solutions.
  • Achieved 100% attainment in both churn and expansion in all the quarters and an award for each respectively.

Customer Success, Regional Head - India

India Shield
Bengaluru
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • As the Customer Success Regional Head for the South India division, I was the first point of contact. It involved a constant and continuous effort to meet the needs and safety of the people during the pandemic and thereby retain the customers.
  • Ensured the people in need were catered to by facilitating the need for hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, medicines, etc.
  • Metric driven based on Fast resolution time, FCR, and Response time, to name a few KPIs. Streamlined metric driven based operations and prioritized tasks/reports, allowing the staff to decrease turnaround time by 20%.

Customer Success & Operations

Vriddhi Foundation
Bengaluru
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Conducted training and mentored team members to promote productivity, accuracy, and commitment to service.
  • Played an instrumental role in client satisfaction by working with operational teams for the proper resolution of service issues.
  • Customer retention and Customer expansion was the goal to generate funds for the people in need. Facilitated a MILAAP fundraiser and raised close to 2,00,000 in a day.

Big Data Analyst & Student Intern

Trendy Tech
Bengaluru
06.2020 - 01.2021
  • Apart from the general norm of analytical solutions, managed multiple job responsibilities to cater to the diverse academic, research, and operational requirements.
  • Fostered better cooperation and coordination between 30 to 50 students and the professor by providing technical and non-technical assistance in content preparation.
  • Conducted AICTE-approved seminars in 2 colleges.
  • Built high-quality dashboards used across organization to monitor key business performance and team-specific results.

Software Developer- US

DXC Technology (Hewlett Packard)
Bengaluru
08.2016 - 04.2020

American Airlines Inc.

  • Developed team communication strategies and facilitated Agile/Scrum meetings for the design, development, and testing of the project, with a focus on timely product delivery and zero acceptance defects.
  • Managed on-site and offshore coordination, including quality assurance programs, on-site evaluations, internal audits, and customer surveys.
  • Environment: Spark, Scala, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, HDFS, Cloudera2, Unix, AWS-EMR, S3, EC2, Glue, Athena.

Education

Big Data Analytics -

TrendyTech Institute
Bengaluru, India
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science

The Oxford College of Engineering
Bengaluru, India
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Retention(NRR) and Expansion

  • Churn Management- Mitigation

  • Customer Engagement: C-level and Reviews

  • Advocacy

  • Communication

  • Relationship management

  • Analytical and Strategical Reasoning

Timeline

Senior Customer Success Manager - USA

Khoros
12.2023 - Current

Customer Success Manager - EU

Freshworks
07.2022 - 11.2023

Customer Success, Regional Head - India

India Shield
01.2021 - 01.2022

Customer Success & Operations

Vriddhi Foundation
01.2021 - 01.2022

Big Data Analyst & Student Intern

Trendy Tech
06.2020 - 01.2021

Software Developer- US

DXC Technology (Hewlett Packard)
08.2016 - 04.2020

Big Data Analytics -

TrendyTech Institute
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science

The Oxford College of Engineering
04.2001 -
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