Abbas Yousif, Senior Trainer and Quality Associate

Abbas Yousif

Senior Trainer and Quality Associate

Gulf CX

Location
Bahrain - Manama
Education
Higher diploma, Business Administration
Experience
14 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 5 Months

Senior Trainer and Quality Associate at Gulf CX
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • My current job since May 2020

- Develop and maintain a plan of all training needs.
- Review training materials to identify gaps and areas of improvement.
- Deliver soft skills and product training to bridge
knowledge gaps.
- Conduct periodic tests for agents and provide
management with progress reports.
- Coordinate program enrollment with HR, maintain training schedules, costs, training equipment and all the tools required to successfully inject each group
new group of trainees into the workforce.
- Carry out daily briefs prior to shifts and familiarize all agents with the recent product changes/updates.
- Highlight new and recurring issues to the client for remedial and preventive action.
- Act as a reference point for all Quality and
Operational teams for any matters pertaining to
product knowledge.
- Supervise newly injected agents and ensure
adherence to all operational KPI’s.

Operations Manager at Calo Online Services
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • January 2020 to May 2020

- Handle the following key operational areas to ensure business continuity and operational success:

• Inventory Management.
• Logistics.
• Staff Recruitment and Hiring.
• Team Management.
• Kitchen Operations.
• Supply Management.
• Contract Management.
• Vendor Management.
• Customer Support.
• Distribution.
• Procurement.

Logistics and General Services Assistant Manager at TTSJV - BAPCO Modernization Program
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • July 2019 to January 2020

TTSJV
Logistics and General Services - Handle the company's logistics requirements.
- Manage staff flight schedules, transportation and hotel booking.
- Manage the company's PPE and Stationary stock levels.
- Issue FMRs and POs to restock all items needed for day-to-day operations.
- Assess available vendors (Such as Vehicle Insurance, Furniture...etc) and prepare a business case to management to justify the best candidate.
- Publish all drivers' daily, weekly and monthly duties, monitor timesheets and review daily/month vehicle reports.
- Monitor all company-owned vehicles and arrange periodic maintenance.
- Assist in cost control functions and apply monitoring measures on all staff Mobile Phone billing.
- Handle all matters concerning vehicle accidents (Police reports, Insurance Claims, Invoices...etc).
- Extend support to HR for all matters related to admin, transportation, medical, visa, ID renewals and update of public records.
- Establish a coding system for the site/office layout, section mapping, equipment tagging, employee office assignment and ensuring work stations have all the items needed by the employee to perform their duty.
- On-site and off-site transportation of key personnel on special assignments.

Senior Analyst Billing at VIVA Bahrain
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • February 2015 to April 2019

- Mapping operations against the department’s Financial Framework.
- Ensuring timely update of the department’s Processes and Policies.
- Testing of new products and functionalities.
- Preparation of the monthly dashboard to reflect the key operational performance and the company’s financials (Postpaid, ICT, DATACOM).
- Vendor Management (Budget, Contract, RFP and Payments).
- Draft SDs and CRs to eliminate existing defects impacting customer experience, charging systems, bill accuracy or product design.
- Customer data analysis.
- Billing Cycle audit and reporting.
- Bill templates design.
- Billing complaints management.
- Maintaining the Bill Accuracy targets in respect to VIVA’s QA standards across all customer segments.
- Breaking down surveys / articles published by TRA / Other Marketing firms pertaining to VIVA’s Billing systems, bills, information, accuracy, transparency and rating to capitalize on the strong areas and eliminate weaknesses.
- Pre and Post Billing Audits.

Billing Assistant at Silah Gulf [On Behalf of VIVA]
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • May 2013 to May 2015

- Program customer data and generate regular cycle reports
- Maintain billing systems and software
- sourcing and maintenance of software/systems enabling the configuration/data programming of customer bills
- identify system errors or disruptions and initiate remedial action.
- communicate to vendor/other billing sections.
- Monitor and report on bill cycles.
- Spot check bills for accuracy and quality compliance.
- identify bills in error and follow up their amendment.
- consider and implement preventative mechanisms.
- Ensure tariffs and pricing structures are reflected in customer billing.
- identify and rectify billing/data programming errors.
- Design and maintain bill templates.
- Run customer reports and identify payment in arrears.
- Manage billing process.
- ensure billing information is collaborated, programmed, documented, issued and resolved up within agreed timeframes.
- Resolve Billing related complaints.

Complaints & Escalations Management at Silah Gulf [On Behalf of VIVA]
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • October 2012 to May 2013

- Analyze customer complaints.
- Match the customer’s concerns against data present on CRM.
- Provide proper guidance and clarification to customers regarding their complaints.
- Provide a breakdown of customer’s bills.
- In the event a customer has raised a valid complaint regarding an issue - Channel the complaint to the appropriate resolver groups.

Collection Representative at Silah Gulf [On Behalf of VIVA]
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • January 2012 to October 2012

- Answer customer quieries.
- Troubleshooting various technical problems.
- Provide guidance and advice to which services might best suit a certain customer.
- Ensure customers get maximum value out of their service.
- Deliver an excellent and unique image of Viva.

Customer Care Representative at Silah Gulf [On Behalf of VIVA]
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • June 2011 to January 2012

- Answer customer quieries.
- Troubleshooting various technical problems.
- Provide guidance and advice to which services might best suit a certain customer.
- Ensure customers get maximum value out of their service.
- Deliver an excellent and unique image of Viva.

International Debt Collection Rep at NCS - Al Nabaa Commercial Services
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • February 2010 to July 2010

- Prepare Claim & Demand letters.
- Initiate communications with debtors to negotiate the terms of settling outstanding amounts.
- Initiate legal proceeding against uncooperative defaulters.
- Prepare reports on all portfolios.
- Coordinate the International and Local Collection Departments cases.

Direct Sales Representative - SME at Standard Chartered Bank
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • April 2009 to September 2009

- Approach business owners through various intermediaries (Meetings, Telephones, and Seminars).
- Conduct financial analysis for credit and debit turnover.
- Loan disbursement.
- Analysis of Credit Bureau Reports (CRB Reports).

Direct Sales Representative - SME at BMI Bank
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • November 2008 to March 2009

- Approach business owners through various intermediaries (Meetings, Telephones, and Seminars).
- Conduct financial analysis for credit and debit turnover.
- Loan disbursement.
- Analysis of Credit Bureau Reports (CRB Reports).
- Introduction of BMI Bank and SME Banking.

Hedging, Pricing and Contracting officer assistant at ALBA
  • Bahrain
  • July 2007 to September 2007

- Communicate with customers and send various documents to them through courier services (Bill of Lading, L/Cs, Certificate of Origin…etc).
- Contact LME Brokers for Aluminum pricing.
- Handling various invoices and pricing tickets.

Education

Higher diploma, Business Administration
  • at Bahrain Training Institute
  • July 2009
Diploma, Sales and Marketing
  • at Bahrain Training Institute
  • June 2007

Specialties & Skills

Customer Service
Analytics
Office Management
System Administration
General Business Administration
SD Development
Workload Management
Analysis
Business Presentations
Vendor Relationship Management
DATACOM Billing
ICT Billing
Leadership
Team Leadership
Procurement
Logistics
Recruitment

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

On-Job Training (Training)
Training Institute:
ALBA
Date Attended:
July 2007