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Manpreet Kaur

Customer Service And Operations Manager
Manpreet Kaur

Summary

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An accomplished certified Scrum Master, offering 10+ years of experience in managing projects for highly complex corporate clients and customers. Skilled communicator and collaborator; able to forge strong working relationships with vendors/clients, key stakeholders, and team members to promote consistency and business excellence. A multicultural expert with an ability to build and motivate high- performance team to thrive in fast-paced and deadline-driven environments. I'm Distinguished by my ‘Can-do' and positive attitude and unwavering commitment to exceed expectations in supporting both internal and external customers.

Overview

21
years of professional experience
1
Certification
3
Languages

Work History

Concentrix
Mississauga, Canada

Operations Manager
04.2022 - 07.2023

Job overview

Accountable for delivering within service levels, managing customer satisfaction, and overseeing a team of team leads to drive performance and day-to-day operations, focusing on customer relationships, data analytics, coaching, recognition, and performance objectives.

  • Implemented performance standards aligned with corporate objectives, client needs, and business plan to drive team excellence.
  • Established and nurtured strong relationships between customers and service teams to ensure a positive experience
  • Handled day to day operations with focus on customer relationship, data analytics, coaching, recognition, and performance objectives
  • Liaised between customers and internal stakeholders and product teams, to help improve products and services
  • Spearheaded change management initiatives that introduce and sustain new methodologies conducive to growth, boosting efficiency and reducing operational costs
  • Managed and reported on governance meetings at various intervals, providing updates to the leadership team and client.
  • Interacted regularly with the customers to share updates, and take project/ program level feedback
  • Collaborated and worked closely with process owners, training, and quality managers to enhance process efficiency and implement best practices.
  • Partnered with the Wellness Team to gather insights on team's health check outputs and took appropriate corrective action if needed to promote positive employee relations.
  • Enforced, and optimized internal policies to maintain responsiveness to client demands.

Tech Mahindra
Seattle

Operations Manager
04.2017 - 05.2020

Job overview

The project consisted of tier 3 support for resolution of incidents/tickets raised by client (Rogers lab, Canada). The tickets were related to Network, Configuration, Connectivity, Device, Provisioning and Billing issues, encountered during testing of new and existing products and services

  • Led end-to-end processes encompassing customer relationships, scope definition, workflow, resource allocation, deliverable creation, coordination, and contributed to result presentations.
  • Developed trusted client relationships with client project managers and managed engagement within teams
  • Conducted client workshops, consistently delivering exceptional quality and exceeding client expectations.
  • Provided daily coaching and mentoring to ticket resolution teams, fostering an open feedback culture to achieve and maintain high customer satisfaction levels.
  • Conducted regular team-building, motivation, and employee engagement activities, alongside process alignment, coaching, performance management, and training for the team.
  • Provided operational governance by implementing best practices and continuous improvement methodologies.

Bharti Airtel Ltd
Chandigarh

Zonal Customer Service Manager
04.2008 - 03.2017

Job overview

  • Oversaw resource allocation to ensure cost-effective, high-quality service delivery within agreed SLAs and timelines by effectively matching resources with workloads.
  • Mentored, and led a team of Assistant Managers and Team Leaders to drive customer loyalty and retention programs
  • Diagnosed SLA non-compliance issues and collaborated with BPO to implement effective solutions.
  • Regularly reviewed performance reports with the team to identify and address causes of performance deviations and recommend actionable solutions.
  • Worked closely with BPO HR to ensure high employee morale and retention initiatives
  • Maximized revenue generation to reach long and short-term financial projects (i.e Data collection for billable/non-billable hours, forecasting, budgeting, etc.)
  • Managed and reviewed operational reports (Attendance adherence, BPO scorecard, Metrics management, reports) and implement improvement plans as needed
  • Created and maximized relationships between the company and Business Partners

Bharti Airtel Ltd
Chandigarh

Team Lead
03.2008 - 04.2009

Job overview

  • Mentored, trained, developed, and led ‘Customer Service Team' of 115 agents by providing clear direction, training and leadership through positive feedback and leading by an example
  • Based on customer feedback, recommended process changes to ensure improved customer experience and reduced operational cost
  • Ensured to achieve targeted service levels, talk time and CTI/PI scores through constant monitoring
  • Monitored, reviewed, and analyzed daily customer complaint trend/dashboards
  • Provided feedback to cross functional teams to ensure continuous improvement and service excellence to clients
  • Kept track of attendance, daily statistics, paid time off, sick time and reported payroll information for the staff, along with rostering their shifts for 24x7 call center
  • Identified performance related issues, developed an action plan for improvement, implemented corrective action, and tracked performance improvement
  • Ensured service delivered to customers (internal and external) meets contractual Key Performance Indicators
  • Provided subject matter expertise in handling escalated customer calls as needed.

Bharti Airtel Ltd
Chandigarh

Trainer
04.2005 - 03.2008

Job overview

  • Responsible for day-to-day functional direction of agents within the program training classroom environment, including new hire's progress monitoring for the duration of training, providing coaching and developmental feedback and readiness recommendations
  • Supported Instructional Design team in designing and developing training materials for various instructional delivery methods including computer-based training, interactive, mock sessions, classroom training, and written job aids
  • Measured the effectiveness of training programs using various feedback methods – focus groups, interviews, and surveys that led to enhancement of training resources and programs based on results of evaluation
  • Recommended curriculum modifications to Training Manager based on internal customer feedback and/or Training Needs Analysis
  • Participated and contributed to continuous learning culture by maintaining engagement on change management, product and services releases, policies, processes, and procedures.

Bharti Airtel Ltd
Chandigarh

Quality Assurance Auditor
04.2003 - 03.2005

Job overview

  • Recommended, implemented, and monitored preventative and corrective actions to ensure that quality assurance standards are achieved
  • Provided analysis on compliance scores, CSAT/Customer Satisfaction, first call resolution and other agent quality performance measures, along with other operational metrics such as average handling time, hold time, calls handled per hour, etc
  • Based on daily call audits, provided root cause analysis on program, team and agent level and coordinated and collaborated with Operations team to implement identified opportunities
  • Prepared Quality Improvement Plans and ensured implementation through close calibration with Operations team.

Bharti Airtel Ltd
Chandigarh

Call Centre Representative
07.2002 - 03.2003

Job overview

  • Received, assessed, and responded efficiently as a primary point of contact to 120 customer inquiries and complaints, in a day
  • Entered, retrieved, and interpreted data in electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) and ensured unparalleled customer service through effective call resolution
  • Participated in trainings on operating procedures, daily briefing, and debriefing & new products
  • Identified and referred escalated emerging product or customer dissatisfaction issues to the supervisor and/or manager, when applicable
  • Connected and built rapport with a variety of customers/businesses by attentively listening to customers and offering solutions through other products and services that the company offers
  • Handled escalated calls with empathy, sympathy, and compassion, with usage of swear stoppers and negotiation, wherever required
  • Efficiently navigated multiple software applications, like eCRM (electronic customer relationship management database), Arbor, Excel, Knowledge Base & Word to ensure First Call Resolution.

Education

University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
Toronto, ON

Bachelor of Arts from Economics & English Literature
05.2001

University Overview

Green Belt Certified Leader

University Overview

Skills

Soft-Skills

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Accomplishments

Accomplishments

1. Green Belt Project on Average Hold Time Reduction: Average hold time of call center agents reduced from 55 seconds to 22 seconds, with an annual saving of Rs. 4.8 million. This was done by studying reasons of customers being put on ‘hold' and working on eliminating the triggers.

2. Green Belt Project on Top 2 CTI scores improvement: Enhanced customer satisfaction by significantly boosting CTI scores to 60% (from 34%) and PI (Process Index) scores to 61% (from 48%), within six months. This was done by analyzing transactional calls at the call center and taking appropriate measures at different levels of process, people, product and material.

3. Green Belt Project on Waiver Reduction & Revenue Saving: Successfully reduced waiver from 5.9% to 0.4% within 9 months, resulting in $2.7 million in revenue savings. Achieved through the implementation of double confirmation for every upsell and aligning product offerings with customer usage pattern.

4. Yellow Belt Project on Increasing product Penetration: Boosted Hello Tune penetration ( Value Added Service) from 32% to 45% (Revenue boost of $1.1 million), in 2 months by leveraging customer 'preferred language' data to upsell customized tunes to specific segments.


Certification

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance

Timeline

Operations Manager
Concentrix
04.2022 - 07.2023
Operations Manager
Tech Mahindra
04.2017 - 05.2020
Zonal Customer Service Manager
Bharti Airtel Ltd
04.2008 - 03.2017
Team Lead
Bharti Airtel Ltd
03.2008 - 04.2009
Trainer
Bharti Airtel Ltd
04.2005 - 03.2008
Quality Assurance Auditor
Bharti Airtel Ltd
04.2003 - 03.2005
Call Centre Representative
Bharti Airtel Ltd
07.2002 - 03.2003
University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
Bachelor of Arts from Economics & English Literature
05.2001
Green Belt Certified Leader
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