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YOGESH KUMAR

YOGESH KUMAR

Passionate Customer Success Manager
Pune

Summary

Experienced passionate customer success manager bringing 8+ years of quality performance in customer support supervisory roles. Skilled in mentoring team members to deliver exceptional service and building team morale through effective communication and positive performance feedback. Accustomed to defusing customer dissatisfaction and managing competing priorities with superior results.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Client Service Manager

Sakon
Pune
07.2020 - Current
  • Managing 12+ key customer relationship for US and EMEA region
    with $1.5M+ ARR (enterprise and mid touch clients).
  • Resolved all client escalations and responded promptly to over 120
    daily service requests, resulting in higher CSAT.
  • Achieved client retention rates of between 80‐90% in my client
    portfolio.
  • Assisted in increasing application adoption rate by more than 30%.
  • Decreased client churn rate to less than 20% by analyzing client’s
    needs, problem solving critical issues, adding and demonstrating values, and contract negotiations with sales.
  • Initiated and assisted in internal projects which increased CSMs
    efficiency by 20%. This is based on Jira support application rollout, customer documentation and training sessions and application demo.
  • Conducted regular business reviews to demonstrate value of services and application.
  • Lead customer on-boarding for new services and modules with steady state.
  • Assisted employees and assessed CSMs performances to determine training needs and define accurate plans for decreasing process lags.
  • Conducted training and mentored team members to promote productivity and commitment to friendly service.
  • Monitored metrics and developed actionable insights to improve efficiency and performance.
  • Created customer support strategies to increase customer retention.
  • Took ownership of customer issues and followed problems through to resolution.
  • Step by Step documentation in Salesforce and Gainsight
    tools for complete visibility and leadership reporting.
  • Reviewed repeated issues within operations and business management to solve problems and improve company outcomes.
  • Resolved customer complaints while prioritizing customer satisfaction and loyalty.
  • Generated customer satisfaction surveys to analyze results into action plans.
  • Addressed potential cancellations and offered catered solutions to retain accounts.
  • Created and reviewed invoices to confirm accuracy.
  • Developed service procedures, policies and standards.
  • Trained and assisted associates on performance-oriented strategies and customer service techniques.
  • Collaborated with upper management to improve customer service processes and support structures company-wide.
  • Collected customer feedback and made process changes to exceed customer satisfaction goals.

Manager of Customer Success

Global Governance Advisors
Pune
02.2020 - 04.2020
  • Assisted and contributed in setting up operations within India.
  • Overseeing hiring, training and professional growth of employees.
  • Worked within applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
  • Onboarded new temps by entering employee information into systems.
  • Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
  • Created plans and communicated deadlines to complete projects on time.
  • Assisted sales and marketing department in market review and potential market for emPower board and committee meetings application.
  • Assisted sales and marketing department for strategic rollout of application and services within India.

P.S: Short stay at GGA but huge learning and experience. Not given up, however, GGA-India operations got closed due to COVID-19.

Customer Success Manager

BMC Software
Pune
09.2016 - 02.2020
  • Built client base and maintained client relationships and customer
    service quality of over 70+ clients across globe (mid and low touch accounts).
  • Increased customer satisfaction ratings to more than 90%.
  • Assisted in creating customer monthly e-newsletter delivered to over 500+ client POCs.
  • Worked closely with team to improve customer support
    experience which increased customer satisfaction 10%.
  • Maintained and delivered weekly and monthly custom reports for clients which further helped in driving value of services and application offered to clients.
  • Achieved 99% retention rate 6 months in row, thus reduced churn
    rate to 1% for assigned clients.
  • Conducting demos and training sessions for clients which increased adoption rate by 25%.
  • Created strategic success plans for my client base for their business requirements that helped in achieving more than 90% customer satisfaction.
  • Monitored metrics and developed actionable insights to improve efficiency and performance within CSM team.
  • Played instrumental role in client satisfaction by working with operational teams for proper resolution of service issues.
  • Conducted regular business review to drive and demonstrate value achieved by client through our services and application.

Operations Manager

BMC Software
Pune
06.2015 - 09.2016
  • Assigned one of major Pharmaceutical companies, Novartis, from operations perspective.
    - Handling operations side calls for customer (changes management, upgrades, issues discussion, etc.)
    - Building faith and trust in operations for customer
  • Leading Indicators
    - Responsible to drive CSAT from particular customer assigned.
    - Customer Satisfaction Survey
    - Issue Aging
    - Backlog of issues
  • Service Review
    - Responsible to prepare and provide Weekly, Monthly metrics to immediate management for assigned customer.
    - Managing escalation very effectively and in professional manner for assigned customer
    - Insourcing new work and changes in process for better development of relationship with customer by partnering with other leads and managers
  • Individual Contributor:
    - Worked as Operations duty manager reviewing daily operation activities for assigned clients.
    - Review summary and take appropriate action of escalating or engaging proper resource for issue resolution.
    - Getting support engaged with escalated issues and engaging customer and support better interaction for building relationships.
    - Work with SME's on escalated issues and ensure it reaches resolution.
  • Implemented and computerized day to day business operations of 2 enterprise customers.
  • Developed and launched pilot projects that helped in better customer handling and helped support to achieve their 93% highest CSAT.
  • Promoted after 16 months of employment for exceptional client
    account service.

PMO Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
Pune
02.2014 - 05.2015
  • Worked with PMO team as project assistance manager taking care of banking project, resource handling through tickets, and customer interaction.
  • Assisted in managing invoices and factors controlling them for banking sector.

Education

MBA - Business Strategy And Leadership

Liverpool John Moores University
07.2020 - 06.2022

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
08.2009 - 06.2013

Skills

Account management

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Interests

Fitness - Trained Master Personal Trainer and Strength and Conditioning Coach

Enthusiastic Interior Designer

Work Availability

monday
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Timeline

Client Service Manager

Sakon
07.2020 - Current

MBA - Business Strategy And Leadership

Liverpool John Moores University
07.2020 - 06.2022

Manager of Customer Success

Global Governance Advisors
02.2020 - 04.2020

Customer Success Manager

BMC Software
09.2016 - 02.2020

Operations Manager

BMC Software
06.2015 - 09.2016

PMO Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2014 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
08.2009 - 06.2013
YOGESH KUMARPassionate Customer Success Manager