Ahmed AlHajri, Associate Director at Contact Center

Ahmed AlHajri

Associate Director at Contact Center

Contact Center Company

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business administration
Experience
19 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 8 Months

Associate Director at Contact Center at Contact Center Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2020

o To ensure the SLA Targets are met within planned time, cost and quality norms by
ensuring effective utilization of the allocated resources.
o To ensure the development and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
and other documentation to ensure uniformity across teams and processes.
o Responsible for process deliverables as per agreed SLA's and quality.
o Performance Management.
o Ensure timely appraisals of the operations team.
o Ensure that attrition is managed in the business and the right people with the right skills
are recruited into roles.
o Handle escalations - internal from within the organization and external from clients.
o Liaison with various departments within the organization.
o Take the lead in implementing new systems and processes.
o Address any people management issues on the operations floor.
o Plan shift management and floor planning.
o Conducting Manager's review sessions periodically and identify the areas of concern
and suggest improvement plan for the same.
o Present the weekly / monthly process wise performance to senior management & to
clients.
o To ensure performance levels of Team Managers and Process Executives meet the
service level agreements.
o Facilitate to meet contractual obligations and client expectations.
o Ensure all contingency plans are in place.
o To maintain a perfect work flow of the profit center, preparing strategies for
implementing effective concept of operation, better productivity and profitability.
o Operational planning and change co-ordination for all expansion initiatives.
o Manage staff on a daily basis, distribute work, assign account responsibilities, ensure
appropriate staff levels, and provide necessary training.
o Monitor core departmental deliverables of cash and asset reconciliations for completion
within established deadlines.
o Exceptions are reviewed, researched and resolved for all accounts per established
tolerance levels.
o Work with the team to complete long-range projects designed to improve workflows,
streamline processes, lower error rates, increase client satisfaction, etc.
o Participate in cross-departmental initiatives formulated to create or improve existing
functionality and processes.
o Consistently evaluate and update documented procedures to ensure they are complete,
accurate and current.
o Drive performance & cost-efficient process initiatives.
o Standards for Measuring Success:
• Client satisfaction level
• Meeting Service level Agreements
• Customer satisfaction survey
• Process deliverables
• Team building initiatives
• Team productivity

Contact Center Manager " Data Section " at Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2013 to December 2019

o Ensure teams are meeting Mobily customer care services level, productivity, quality and
customer satisfaction requirement.
o Ability to motivate. Inspire teamwork and managing employees with diverse engineering
background and experience
o regularly develop and present performance metrics to senior management
o Knowledgeable of current and upcoming technical developments in the industry
regarding proper network maintenance and operation
o Partners with customer care account managers to proactively develop customer care
support plans for new product roll - outs
o Works with other members of operations team to deploy world class support for new

Contact Center Floor Manager at Mobily at Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • October 2012 to May 2013

o Monitoring the day to day tasks in the call center and helping call center agents to
perform better.
o Motivating and leading the team to ensure that the quality of work performed by call
center agents is good.
o purchase orders for the required material and equipment needed for smooth operations
o setting up company’s goals, targets and performance requirements to achieve better
quality in work and profitability for the organization
o Make sure to apply better strategies for work in order to achieve excellence in
performance of call center staff.
o includes motivating, leading and inspiring the call center employees, introduces
incentive and rewards to motivate employees to give their best performance
o required monitor the work performed by employees and conducting performance
appraisal & assessment exercises in the call center
o Meeting with top management to request new tools to improve our new challenges.
o Monitor and assign officers on right segment to maintain and achieved service level.
o Develops current system to appropriate our customer’s requirement.

Credit Analysis Supervisor at Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • April 2012 to September 2012

o Report policies and procedure’s gaps affecting collection target, support other credit and
collection function to achieve KPIS.
o Provide leadership and direction to credit team to achieve maximum control; of risk
factors.
o Implement credit and collection policies ensuring voiced concerns are covered
o Help controlling him and run concept through ensuring proper on high risk accounts are
taken in a timely manner.
o Ensure consumer credit policy as applied at all CRM interfaces.
o Support measuring effectiveness of credit and collection processes in coordination with
whole department functions.
o Guide credit team to carry out close monitoring on roaming, local usage and policies
implementation.
o Utilize all tools not limited to FMS /collection system to achieved function objectives.
o Monitor new products and promotion effective.
o Promoting a customer- friendly attitude among credit analysts, to be reflected in their
calls and phone manners.
o Carry out periodical reports analyzing credit team effectiveness.
o Aiming at highest level of precision and accuracy concerning roaming & credit alarm not
limited to mailbox generated pools & FMS and relevant applications.
o Monitor relevant FMS and credit control alarms efficiency.
o Promoting a customer - friendly attitude among credit officers to be reflecting in their
calls and phone manner.
o Establishing the concept of “ Zero mistake “ among credit team officers through regular
checkups on the accounts reviewed, and ensuring that all actions taken fall under the
credit processes .
o To involve team member in tasks going beyond the scope of their day to day work
(project work) in order to help them grow and develop new skills.
o Implement credit strategies. Coordinating with IOP, RA and IT reporting and controlling
potential risk.
o Effective communication / information dissemination practices to provide the team, other
department & management with pertinent information.

Contact Center Senior Supervisor at Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • November 2007 to March 2012

Manage a team of call center agents.
o Be available to affect the entirety of the team's operations
o Review and update team members status to make sure we are maintain SL and
customer waiting
o Recheck last working days performance with highlighted lower score and performance
and focus with them with needed doing and motivate the top performer.
o Manage by walking around. Be visible to answer questions.
o Take calls that your agents can't handle and be available when an agent appears to
need assistance.
o Monitor queue and track inbound calls. Keep agents aware of inbound calls, calls
waiting, abandonment rate, adherence etc.
o Motivate and encourage agents through positive communication and feedback
o Perform at least one monitoring evaluation with each agent every week
o Make sure the incentive correct with our team performance and escalated if not to bring
team rightness
o Meeting with team members one to one to give them weakness and strong points for
last month performance and make a plan to next month
o Present to the Direct Manager at the conclusion of each week a details of the past week
performances checklists and a written performance summary of the team.
o Listen live calls to make sure that all agents apply the Quality stander.
o Escalate customer’s issues & system in spot to get customers satisfactions

Contact Center Representative at Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • April 2006 to October 2007

o Obtains client information by answering telephone calls; interviewing clients; verifying
information
o Determines eligibility by comparing client information to requirements.
o Establishes policies by entering client information; confirming pricing.
o Informs clients by explaining procedures; answering questions; providing information
o Maintains communication equipment by reporting problems.
o Maintains and improves quality results by adhering to standards and guidelines;
recommending improved procedures.
o Updates job knowledge by studying new product descriptions; participating in
educational opportunities.
o Accomplishes sales and organization mission by completing related results as needed

Systems Analyst at AlMana Group of Hospitals September
  • Saudi Arabia - Hofof
  • September 2004 to March 2006

o Defines application problem by conferring with clients; evaluating procedures and
processes.
o Develops solution by preparing and evaluating alternative workflow solutions.
o Controls solution by establishing specifications; coordinating production with
programmers.
o Validates results by testing programs.
o Ensures operation by training client personnel; providing support.
o Provides reference by writing documentation.
o Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading
professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional
organizations.
o Accomplishes information systems and organization mission by completing related
results as needed.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business administration
  • at king Faisal university
  • January 2015

Bachelor in Business Administration King Faisal University (KFU), Business School.

Bachelor's degree, Computer & Information Systems
  • at Central Warrington University
  • December 2009

Bachelor degree (Computer & Information Systems) from Central Warrington University 2009

High school or equivalent, MS Office
  • at new horizon institute
  • January 2007

ICDL certificate from new horizon institute 2007

Diploma, Computer Technology
  • at Technical College
  • June 2004

Diploma in Computer Technology from Technical College 2004

Specialties & Skills

Leadership
Organizing
Planning
Problem Solving
Leadership Communication
Computer knowledge
Communication
Leadership
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Problem Solving
INFORMATION SECURITY
MAINTENANCE
MS OFFICE
SYSTEMS ANALYST
Language
operations management
operation
negotiation
operational hr
teamwork
time management
legal affairs
supervising
managerial experience

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Problem Solving & Making Decision (Training)
Training Institute:
TTM associates
Date Attended:
April 2012
CIAC Operation manager (Training)
Training Institute:
CIAC
Date Attended:
April 2012
Leading service Excellence (Training)
Training Institute:
D E I
Date Attended:
May 2009
Achieving Excelance in customer service (Training)
Training Institute:
Glomacs
Date Attended:
December 2010
call center skill (Training)
Training Institute:
Logic
Date Attended:
June 2007
Developing people (Training)
Training Institute:
MEGA Training
Date Attended:
February 2010
Breakthrough to success (Training)
Training Institute:
Deal Carnegy
Date Attended:
April 2008

Hobbies

  • Reading,bodybuilding competitors