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Vimal Kumar

Summary

A high performance results driven service industry executive with extensive experience in Sales, operations and quality management. A Proactive team builder who excels in strategic planning, problem solving and innovative process improvement. Coach and mentor with a strong focus on best practices surrounding, training and rewards & recognition.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

CLIENT SUPPORT ANALYST-APAC

American Express Global Business Travel
GURGAON
08.2022 - Current
  • The key area of focus for the role is to handle inbound queries (both over email & phone) from client managers & Client to assist with their client’s program management support across functional areas like, (however not limited to): billing & settlement, data mapping & change support, client profile maintenance, contract maintenance, RFP & rebid support, all backend maintenance activity, client relations & retention, reporting & communication management
  • Primary markets –Singapore & Australia
  • Secondary markets- Hong Kong & India

Travel Analyst (Band-28)

American Express Global Business Travel
11.2018 - 07.2022
  • Responsibility is to provide Customer Support to global region specially, North America
  • Joined as a travel analyst in a Pilot batch At Your Service (Program Care Team) and dealing with all type of queries whether it is related to Online booking tool, MI Reporting Team or CGM’S for contract related queries, PRDS related queries for Negotiated rates upload, GMAX for E-Invoicing and fee related query
  • Working and maintaining in a one single shop At Your Service for client for every type of query or concern they raised and dealing with different departments for resolution
  • Sound knowledge of OBTs, including their maintenance process
  • Exposure to OBTs viz
  • Concur, & Deem (OBT) for American Express Global Business Travel
  • Liaise with the external and internal clients to resolve issues or update the websites as per client requirement and maintenance
  • Providing training to new hires about the different hierarchies and Process knowledge
  • Ensuring meeting the process delivery metrics—Productivity and Quality
  • Hands on experience of working on Salesforce Proficient in GDS like Abacus, Sabre, Apollo, Galileo and Amadeus
  • We support Maintenance, Escalations and Issue Resolution queries
  • Maintenance & Escalations→ We take care of site setup, create rules as per client requirement, profile upload, profile creation, profile deletion, site decommission, Profile and Finishing Template amendment, Custom field creation etc
  • Issue Resolution→ When user face any issues while making the reservation like Credit card issue, fare issue, unable to book the trip they raise a case
  • We as a support team investigate the issue and help the client to resolve the problem.

Travel Agent (Sales)

Southhall Travel
03.2016 - 08.2018
  • Worked in a sales team wherein provide and made complex itineraries selling flights standalone or complete packages including flights, Hotel, Car rental, and Attractions together
  • Making changes to the existing itineraries
  • Achieved successfully all the metrics/goals

Analyst

British Airways Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon
06.2015 - 02.2016
  • Sound knowledge of fares as made reservations for British Airways customers
  • Made changes to the existing bookings depending on conditions of tickets and Voluntary changes or Involuntary changes
  • Ensured meeting the process delivery metrics—Productivity and Quality
  • Achieve highest productivity standards while ensuring control & quality focus.

Process Advisor

Barclays Shared Services
10.2012 - 05.2014
  • To provide the support to our clients in terms of explaining the charges and interest incurred on the statement.
  • Introducing the new launches done in the market and explaining them the benefits how that could help them to minimize the charges on there cards.
  • Worked with the team wherein we need to identify the potential risk involved in huge transactions. transactions belongs to high risk countries and not to be authorize.

Senior Executive

WIPRO Pvt. Ltd
04.2007 - 10.2012
  • Started as a technical customer care executive in AOL ISP.
  • Alongwith technical support need to upsell the other products as well,to generate the revenue.
  • Got promoted as a process trainer in Blackberry BES/BIS, Enterprise and individual services and to train batches about the technicalities. Supported cooperate user to sync outlook and other platforms related to there company on their device.
  • To build interface as per the company agreement and to help them with there respective queries and concerns.

Education

B.A. -

Delhi University

XII -

CBSE

X -

CBSE

Skills

  • Issue Escalation
  • Training Abilities
  • Client Relationship Building
  • Problem Resolution Aptitude
  • Software Troubleshooting

Chief Deliverables

  • Operations Management
  • Process Management
  • Training & Development
  • Quality Assurance
  • Client Relationship Management

Other Work Experiences

  • Barclays Shared Services, Process Advisor, 10/2012, 05/2014
  • WIPRO Pvt. Ltd, Senior Executive, 04/2007, 10/2012

Language Proficiency

English & Hindi

Professional Snapshot

A seasoned professional with experience in General Operations and Process Management Resourceful in analysis, scope & resource handling and ensuring on-time delivery Facilitating the Maintenance Process.

Professional Highlights

  • American Express GBT Pvt. Ltd., CLIENT SUPPORT ANALYST-APAC, 08/2022, Present, GURGAON, HARYANA, The key area of focus for the role is to handle inbound queries (both over email & phone) from client managers & Client to assist with their client’s program management support across functional areas like, (however not limited to): billing & settlement, data mapping & change support, client profile maintenance, contract maintenance, RFP & rebid support, all backend maintenance activity, client relations & retention, reporting & communication management. Primary markets –Singapore & Australia. Secondary markets- Hong Kong & India ROLE REQUIREMENTS
  • Supporting the local client manager & Client with escalation management by coordinating with various internal groups to resolve the issue & also engage in root cause analysis to ascertain the nature of the breakdown.
  • Working closely with the local billing & settlement teams to support the client manager with any billing related queries /discrepancies that need to be resolved for accurate client billing.
  • Coordinating & mobilizing various internal support groups like implementation, shared services etc. to support any maintenance or updates required to a client profiles, UDID hierarchy mapping etc.
  • Supporting the client manager with any updates / modifications required to existing client contracts in the market by working closely with varied internal & external teams.
  • Providing support to client managers for any RFP/Contract rebids in the market.
  • Sending updates and communications to client key contacts
  • Ensuring all in-house administrative & functional databases e.g. Salesforce are updated with the most current information wherever required.
  • Responsible for ensuring preferred supplier programs are distributed and loaded correctly through PRDS.
  • Supporting client managers with any product or VAS (value added service) implementation in the Market.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/01/1985
  • Marital Status: Married

Hobbies and Interests

Dance & Traveling

Timeline

CLIENT SUPPORT ANALYST-APAC

American Express Global Business Travel
08.2022 - Current

Travel Analyst (Band-28)

American Express Global Business Travel
11.2018 - 07.2022

Travel Agent (Sales)

Southhall Travel
03.2016 - 08.2018

Analyst

British Airways Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon
06.2015 - 02.2016

Process Advisor

Barclays Shared Services
10.2012 - 05.2014

Senior Executive

WIPRO Pvt. Ltd
04.2007 - 10.2012

B.A. -

Delhi University

XII -

CBSE

X -

CBSE
Vimal Kumar