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Gray White

Humber Valley Resort,NL

Summary

· Serve as the main point of contact with key customers, managing the relationship throughout their customer journey.

· Scheduling and attending over 300 zoom customer interviews (last 12 months) with customers at key points along their journey to understand their needs and assist with product adoption or training to drive value and boost retention.

· Working with customers to understand their needs and provide solutions such as new product adoptions and training. Working cross functionally with various internal resources to ensure effective projects are submitted on behalf of the customer.

· Target driven, possessing resilience and determination to achieve cycle targets (40 Interviews per month), while dealing with challenges beyond my control such as last minute customer cancellations, customer no shows etc.

· Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the Verafin application by researching new product developments, attending internal training sessions, and shadowing project management and customer training calls.

· Proactive approach to problem solving by utilizing cross functional teams, such as Project Managers, Product Owners and Sales specialists to ensure the customer is achieving their customer goals.

· Contribution to the wider CSM team through Continuous Improvement Steering Committee and helped facilitate and moderate a 3-hour work session to the broader SMB team to help them hone in on their CSM skills.

· Worked strategically with the Team Lead for the Pooled CSM Team to develop and streamline processes to increase our customer engagements for over 1000 Financial Institutions.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Success Manager

Nasdaq Verafin
St.John's, NL
02.2022 - Current
  • Serve as the main point of contact with key customers, managing the relationship throughout their customer journey.
  • Scheduling and attending over 300 zoom customer interviews (last 12 months) with customers at key points along their journey to understand their needs and assist with product adoption or training to drive value and boost retention.
  • Working with customers to understand their needs and provide solutions such as new product adoptions and training. Working cross functionally with various internal resources to ensure effective projects are submitted on behalf of the customer.
  • Target driven, possessing resilience and determination to achieve cycle targets (40 Interviews per month), while dealing with challenges beyond my control such as last minute customer cancellations, customer no shows etc.
  • Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the Verafin application by researching new product developments, attending internal training sessions, and shadowing project management and customer training calls.
  • Proactive approach to problem solving by utilizing cross functional teams, such as Project Managers, Product Owners and Sales specialists to ensure the customer is achieving their customer goals.
  • Contribution to the wider CSM team through Continuous Improvement Steering Committee and helped facilitate and moderate a 3-hour work session to the broader SMB team to help them hone in on their CSM skills.
  • Worked strategically with the Team Lead for the Pooled CSM Team to develop and streamline processes to increase our customer engagements for over 1000 Financial Institutions.

Customer Support Specialist

Nasdaq Verafin
St.John's, NL
05.2022 - 02.2023
  • Responding to telephone calls, email, and other requests for application support and following up as necessary Identifying, researching, and resolving issues in a prompt and accurate manner within the Verafin software solution.
  • Probing for customer issues and concerns to ensure the highest customer satisfaction.
  • Documenting, tracking and monitoring customer inquiries using Salesforce to ensure timely resolutions and provide follow up customer education.
  • Lead an internal team on the research, design and initial implementation of a framework to create subject specialists within the Customer Support Team.

Taxpayer Services Agent

Canada Revenue Agency
St.John's, NL
08.2021 - 05.2022
  • Gathering information from taxpayers and their representatives, problem solving and researching possible responses and solutions to accurately respond to their enquiries. Use of communication skills to assist a wide variety of callers and empathy and sensitivity to ensure taxpayers receive the highest standard of customer care.
  • Application of procedures and policies to ensure standardization of service, across all callers. Responsibility for safeguarding taxpayer's information, confidentiality and meeting government taxation and data protection legislation. In addition to individual enquiries, contribution to team goals, collaboration with other departments and proactively assisting colleagues with their work. Continual professional development and on the job learning to ensure taxpayers and their representatives receive up to date information and efficient effective service.

Head of Sixth Form

Bournemouth Collegiate School
Bournemouth, UK
09.2014 - 12.2020
  • Overall Responsibility for managing a team of tutors to facilitate academic and pastoral care for 100 students
  • Planning and implementation of University Application project, including training tutor team to monitor and support student online applications. Also working with external stakeholders such as University, National business representatives and UCAS, the organization responsible for the application process to facilitate focused workshops to assist in successful completion of university applications which resulted in 100% of all applicants receiving at least one offer from their chosen universities.
  • Planning and implementation of 4 month revision project involving building a team of subject teachers, heads of department and form tutors to deliver targeted revision based on individual student data and included a student loyalty incentive, all of which resulted in above target grade performance across the year group in their final exams.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - NPQL Middle Leadership

University College London
London UK
06-2019

Post Graduate Certificate of Education - Business Education

Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames, UK
06-2006

Bachelor of Arts - Leisure And Business Management

Thames Valley University
London, UK
06-1998

Skills

Communication
Organization
Relationship Building
Problem Solving
Cross functional team work
Project Implementation and Planning
Resilience and Determination
Goal Orientated

Key Achievements

An integral part of developing and contributing to the new "Pooled CSM" team at Nasdaq Verafin, which involved collaborating with my Team Lead and other team members, to ensure a great customer experience. Provided feedback for continuous improvement and opportunities to streamline efficiencies to enable the Pooled CSM Team to operate effectively while maintaining a book of 1000 plus customers. These processes have helped the team to align with the customer and help them achieve their customer goals with Nasdaq Verafin. As a result, we have seen an increase in customer engagements, increased product adoptions, higher NPS scores and a reduction in the price gap leading into renewals.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Customer Support Specialist

Nasdaq Verafin
05.2022 - 02.2023

Customer Success Manager

Nasdaq Verafin
02.2022 - Current

Taxpayer Services Agent

Canada Revenue Agency
08.2021 - 05.2022

Head of Sixth Form

Bournemouth Collegiate School
09.2014 - 12.2020

Some College (No Degree) - NPQL Middle Leadership

University College London

Post Graduate Certificate of Education - Business Education

Kingston University

Bachelor of Arts - Leisure And Business Management

Thames Valley University
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