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Developed strategies for Customer Retention with relevant KPI for customer issues
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Lavannya Raajendran

Customer Care / Retention / Call Centre Manager
Abu Dhabi

Summary

Customer Care Operations Specialist with experience developing realistic solutions to assure satisfactory consumer and customer experiences. Proficiency in Business English. Committed to resolving problems and maintaining accurate metrics and reports.

Overview

2
2
Languages
1
1
year of post-secondary education
22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Business Process Consultant

Update Calls(Waste Management), Student Life International LLC (Overseas Study Visa)
Chennai, Dubai (UAE), Tamil Nadu
09.2019 - 01.2021
  • Performed as consultant for startup business in areas of marketing, logistics and training to various behavioral healthcare service professionals.
  • Set, enforced and optimized internal policies to maintain efficiency and responsiveness to demands.
  • Devised, deployed and monitored processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels..
  • Assisted with identifying, interviewing and testing top talent to optimize productivity.
  • Streamlined operational efficiencies by delivering recommendations for knowledge-base processes and procedures.

Customer Care Manager - Contact Centre

Rentokil Initial India Pvt. Ltd, India,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
06.2015 - 08.2019
  • CVC project, designing & implementation of the CVC process over 200 Branches post JV with PCI (2018 and onwards), with a good improvement in the NPS score
  • Provide inputs and action plans to the India Leadership Team and Branches.
  • Termination Analysis - RCA of the Terminations (Lost Business Analysis)
  • Issues & Complaints (Call Outs)
  • NPP (Non Performing Portfolio – Branch wise) - CVC, Alert Account
  • Improved the CVC scores for the country from 26% NPS in 2016 to 41% YTD
  • Improved Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Customer terminations by introducing Customer Satisfaction online feedback and Tele-Call surveys.

Operations & Customer Service Manager

Calcsoft Pvt. Limited
03.2012 - 04.2015
  • Planning & scheduling manpower (Recruiting) as per projection from the client to achieve the agreed service levels.
  • Ensure the Service-Level Management and TAT administered for the Process.
  • Key member in defining Goal Setting, setting and meeting performance goals with speed, efficiency and quality parameters, KPIs and KRAs for the Team Perform integrated analysis, Planning and development, Periodic performance Review, identifying training needs.
  • Plan, Process and Provide quality results to meet stipulated goals

Quality Analyst, Assistant Manager

WNS Aviva Pvt. Ltd.,
05.2006 - 03.2012
  • Drive Customer Experience (C-SAT) by mapping End to End process (Voice & Admin). Operational Efficiencies monitoring based on Service issues and Complaints (Aviva)
  • Planning & scheduling manpower (Recruiting) as per projection from the client to achieve the agreed service levels. Plan the weekly staffing and roster the team members as per business requirement.
  • Ensure the Service-Level Management and TAT administered for the Process.
  • Instrumental in calibration with Onshore Clients for metrics with regards to the Voice Quality parameters and Process Improvements through process constraints to ensure achievement of production targets through scorecard metrics.
  • Delegated as Asst. Manager from 2010 (Aviva), been Instrumental in providing support, mentoring and briefing service line talent pool and take appropriate action (select or train people) to bridge the gap so as to improve productivity and share best practices with the teams.

Operations Team Leader

Desia Solutions Pvt. Ltd
01.2003 - 05.2006
  • Following up new business opportunities and setting up meetings
  • Plan and prepare presentations and Communicate new product developments to prospective clients
  • Responsible for business prospecting through sales with Fortune 500 companies.

Tele Sales & Customer Service

DSQ Software Pvt. Ltd
01.2001 - 12.2002
  • As a part of the business development Team, identifying sales leads, pitch goods or services to new clients and maintain a good working relationship with new contacts were the primary responsibilities
  • Administered activities related to database formulation for targeting potentials.
  • Instrumental in lead generation through building relationships with top decision-making authorities, industry analysis, marketing research, competitor's analysis, etc.
  • Successfully worked in signing both the process for a Gas Billing and Collection Unit of the Utility Service in The US. (Capacity – 70 & 50 Seats respectively)

Tele Sales & Customer Service Executive

Getit Yellow Pages
03.1998 - 10.2000
  • Delivered scripted sales talks to customers reached via manual and automatic dialing systems.
  • Provided information about available products and services including membership details and purchase advantages.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

Annamalai University
India

Diploma Certificate - Diploma in Desk Top Publishing

Loyola Institute Of Business Administration
Chennai
03.1997 - 12.1997

Skills

    Customer Service

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Accomplishments

  • Implement customer experience and Retention improvements for 13 Locations (PAN India) Root out inefficiencies, incorrect procedures, and detrimental practices to turn around falling customer base at all locations and have worked on data analyses with regards to customer retention, managing the most complex customer complaints with RCA in collaboration with the relevant Branches.
  • Developed strategies for Customer Retention with relevant KPI for customer issues and End to end Complaint Response and Resolution methods, to liberate strategic objectives by responding in 2hrs and resolving in 24 Hrs.
  • Awarded “Star Performer” for demonstrating tremendous innovation to improve and achieve process efficiencies for propelling C-Sat score to 82% and successful implementation of 5S Concepts for Operations - (Aviva WNS)
  • Received “Spontaneous Award” for Kaizen Project, for leadership and assistance throughout, going extra mile to ensure the customer information is protected (DPA) (2010-2012).
  • SPOC and Pivotal in Auditing team dossiers and developing Work Instructions Manuals and Process Manuals for ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Management Systems.

Additional Information

  • Kaizen - Project to avoid any breach in security of the insurance policy details wherein protecting customer's information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure which is Critical to Quality.
  • INFOSEC - SPOC for Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure agreements with Employees.
  • CBT - SPOC for Risk Management, ensure computer-based training ("CBT") programs for sector for specific privacy regulation (Voice and Non-Voice) to educate employees on their obligations towards privacy.
  • PCI - DSS - SPOC for achieving compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard v1.1 ("PCI DSS") across the enterprise to ensure that appropriate security measures are implemented to protect cardholder data accessed by the team.

Interests

Volunteer Work/Community Involvement

Traveling

Child Care

Collecting - Antique Lamps

Developed strategies for Customer Retention with relevant KPI for customer issues

  • Successfully piloted and managing Customer Retention Project for branches in South India phase by phase increasing the branches to North and other parts spanning over 200 Branches.
  • Streamlining the complaint process across all branches in order to make it efficient and deliver effective Customer Complaint Management.
  • Improve Relationship with Customers to promote Contact Centre to increase incoming calls and emails, Optimizing and improving Contact Centre Operations and Best practice sharing between the branches was initiated with process mapping, Cause and effect analysis.
  • Attune Customer Service protocols for different types of issues like Services Issues, Quality Issues and identified numerous areas of improvement with Action Plans for the Branches for Client Retention Project
  • Client Retention project completed with integrated analysis of 2 years data to analyze process failures and create work instruction manuals to improve customer sustenance and decrease terminations.
  • CVC - Voice of the Customer: Summarize and provide critical analysis to top customer issues to be improved on a Monthly review cycles.
  • End to end Complaint Response and Resolution methods, to liberate strategic objectives by responding in 2hrs and resolving in 24 Hrs., this being the Country priority (AOP – Annual Operating Procedure Plans)
  • Manage; Execute and Monitor CVC Survey and Customer Retention Project for country.

Timeline

Senior Business Process Consultant

Update Calls(Waste Management), Student Life International LLC (Overseas Study Visa)
09.2019 - 01.2021

Customer Care Manager - Contact Centre

Rentokil Initial India Pvt. Ltd, India,
06.2015 - 08.2019

Operations & Customer Service Manager

Calcsoft Pvt. Limited
03.2012 - 04.2015

Quality Analyst, Assistant Manager

WNS Aviva Pvt. Ltd.,
05.2006 - 03.2012

Operations Team Leader

Desia Solutions Pvt. Ltd
01.2003 - 05.2006

Tele Sales & Customer Service

DSQ Software Pvt. Ltd
01.2001 - 12.2002

Tele Sales & Customer Service Executive

Getit Yellow Pages
03.1998 - 10.2000

Diploma Certificate - Diploma in Desk Top Publishing

Loyola Institute Of Business Administration
03.1997 - 12.1997

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

Annamalai University
Lavannya RaajendranCustomer Care / Retention / Call Centre Manager