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Shishir Kumar

Shishir Kumar

Customer Success Manager
Gurgaon

Summary

Dynamic Customer Success Manager with a proven track record of enhancing customer satisfaction and retention through expert relationship building and strategic account management. Skilled in customer analysis and insights, and process improvement, successfully boosted CSAT scores by over 35%. Specializes in driving significant account growth and reducing churn, leveraging both strong project management and interpersonal skills.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Success Manager

Career Launcher
08.2023 - Current

-Cultivating a strong relationship with key stakeholders at schools and colleges.

-Counseling students and help them decide on the career option that would best suit them. Counseled 10 UG students out of which 5 went to top Law and management colleges like NLU Bangalore and IIM Indore and Rohtak.

-Collaborate with schools to help students prepare for competitive exams like CUET, IPM and CLAT. Was instrumental in cracking 20 top schools in Gurgaon.

- Manage centre operations and ensure customers are satisfied by running a quarterly CSAT survey. Instrumental in working on the feedback received and improving the CSAT score from 6.2 to an 8.5.

-Conducting training sessions for customers on product usage and best practices.

Senior Associate - Customer Success

Knolskape Solutions Private Limited
06.2021 - 07.2023

- Executed the operations of top partner accounts including TAG Taurus, DDI and Emeritus.

-Organizing monthly cadence calls to ensure partners are equipped to sell knolskape solutions in the market.

-Created sales enablement and marketing kits for the partners from scratch.

-Created partner dashboard to track the facilitator certification and license consumption.

-Instrumental in the renewal of top partner accounts worth 500k$ and acquisition of new accounts worth 100k$.

-Assisting master facilitator with Train the Trainer and certification support.

End‐to‐end program/project management and execution of blended learning programs (live virtual sessions, self‐paced courses, large‐scale journeys).


Customer Success Lead

Datrux Systems Private Ltd. (Qoruz)
03.2020 - 04.2021

-Worked in sync with the Sales team to develop and manage a portfolio of clients.

-Was responsible for sustaining business growth and profitability by maximizing value and reducing churn.

-Was in constant touch with the clients and ensured they utilized the product and were satisfied with it.

-Analyzed customer data to improve customer experience.

-Evaluated and improved existing processes, knowledgebase articles and external communication.

-Identified potential opportunities for cross-sell/upsell.

Engagement Manager

Knowlarity Communications
05.2018 - 03.2020

-Managed a portfolio of 50 mid to large key accounts concurrently.

-Was responsible to reduce churn. Revived and grew an account which on a brink of churn from a monthly recurring revenue of 30k to a 90k MRR.

-Coordinated with internal teams to ensure pressing issues were resolved in time.

-Collaborated with sales team to grow potential accounts. Was instrumental in growing top enterprise account from a monthly RR of 400k to 1200k.

-Drove alignment for customer renewals. Also worked towards understanding the business objectives and advised/provided consultation on the product/service as per the use-case.

Manager(Sales & Business Operations)

Wheebox Online Assessments
02.2015 - 04.2018

-Was responsible in executing cold emails and making cold calls to potential clients.

-Was responsible in giving a detailed run down of the assessment offerings to prospective clients.

-Shared quotations with prospective customers.

-Negotiated and closed sales through phone/zoom calls.

-Worked as a part of consumer business team and was responsible in organizing job fairs. Instrumental in successfully driving the campus hiring initiative of a top clothing brand.

Education

BBA - Marketing

Skyline Business School
New Delhi, India
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

St. Columba's School
New Delhi, India
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Customer Relationship Building
  • Customer Service
  • Customer Retention
  • Customer Account Management
  • Customer Analysis and Insights
  • Process improvement and implementation
  • Onboarding ans support strategies
  • Project and time management

Timeline

Customer Success Manager

Career Launcher
08.2023 - Current

Senior Associate - Customer Success

Knolskape Solutions Private Limited
06.2021 - 07.2023

Customer Success Lead

Datrux Systems Private Ltd. (Qoruz)
03.2020 - 04.2021

Engagement Manager

Knowlarity Communications
05.2018 - 03.2020

Manager(Sales & Business Operations)

Wheebox Online Assessments
02.2015 - 04.2018

BBA - Marketing

Skyline Business School
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

St. Columba's School
04.2001 -
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