Deema Marwan Yousef, Contact Center & Relationship Manager

Deema Marwan Yousef

Contact Center & Relationship Manager

Levenbert

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, International Business
Experience
21 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 3 Months

Contact Center & Relationship Manager at Levenbert
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2011

Project & Contact Center Manager

Accounts Handled
 Dubai Public Prosecution
 Hamdan Bin Mohammed e - University
 Ministry of Economy - Consumer Rights
 General Civil Aviation Authority
 Dubai Tennis Championship - Dubai Duty Free
 Global Village
 Dubai International Financial Center
 SAAED - Abu Dhabi Traffic Department
 Emirates Vehicle Gate ( Launching )
 Khalifa Funds

Project / Account Management
 Involved in the ISO certification of the DIFC.
 Managing a number of high profile and valuable contracts and accounts.
 Identifying the organizations needs and customer expectation
 Maintaining a good rapport between clients, customers and organizational heads and coordinate each other’s perspectives.
 Preparing, Analyzing and explaining to clients progress evaluation reports.
 Inform all existing clients about new products launched.
 Identifying potential clients and suggesting ways on converting them to loyal clients
 Consult clients on customer satisfaction and procedures to improve service level
 Regularly updating senior managers of progress or areas of concern.
 Ensuring that clients are maintaining their monthly payments.
 Resolving complaints with key account holders.
 Developing and maintaining relationships with clients.
 Attending Regular meeting with decision makers to improve workflow and provide suggestions
 Providing Reports and Root cause Analysis
 Identifying the client’s needs.
 Consult clients on customer satisfaction and procedures to improve service level

Contact Center Manager
 Manages day-to-day contact center operational aspect, and activities ( 15 Agents )
 Building a team that effectively supports client programs, products and services and resolve issues of team.
 Leading workflow distribution and floor management to ensure service levels are satisfied.
 Hiring, training/developing, motivating, coaching, evaluating and retaining qualified staff.
 Responsible for all staffing levels, scheduling, hiring and terminating
 Maintaining service level agreements / Scope of work
 Meet all organizational functions and standards for the call center, find solutions to improve the call center and increase profitability
 Implementing, reviewing and improving all call center policies, procedures and service standards
 Handle problem calls that employees cannot handle by following policies and procedures.
 Established higher call center standards by redesigning employee performance score cards & monitoring forms to capture essential qualities of high-level customer service.
 Implemented call center customer survey, resulting in valuable feedback for continuous improvement efforts.
 Strengthened service development program by integrating strong mentoring / coaching elements into new employee trainings.
 Increased efficiency by playing a key role in the developing and training of CRM software system.

Customer service Manager - Contact Center - Telemarketing at ContinentAd
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2008 to January 2010

 Managing a team of Customer Service, Telesales Executives, and Outdoor Sales.
 Monitoring Customer Service Executives/telesales making sure Customer handling is up to the level.
 Monitoring outdoor sales performance and assisting them in reaching targets.
 Preparing KPI of Contact Center Agents & all Sales related reports
 Monitoring calls of agents to improve quality and minimize errors.
 Liaising with concerned departments /CEO making sure complaints are solved up to customer's satisfaction.
 Handling complex Customer Complaints.
 Setting targets & project plan to reach desirable outcome assuring speed and efficiency
 Responsible of generating leads.
 Developed contact centre & customer service policies and procedures.
 Implemented customer loyalty scheme and developed customer quality assurance
 Responsible of handling Continent Ad clients, discussing project plan and providing updates.
 Providing and implementing suggestions for cost cutting of Contact Centre.
 Responsible of maintaining an up to date data and improving the ERP.
 Preparing after Sales Satisfactory Surveys and assuring it is conducted properly by agents.
 Handling six publication projects assuring each is finalized as per time and quality set.
 Involved in staff recruitment and appraisals.
 Reviewing staff performance, Identifying staff training needs and planning training sessions to deliver high standard of customer service
 Motivating and retaining staff as well as developing, implementing and reviewing core responsibilities.
 Maintaining an up to date knowledge of industry developments.

After Sales Team Leader at General Motors
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2006 to January 2008

 Monitoring Customer Service Executives’ team making sure the team is achieving the targets set by the management.
 Assisting dealerships as well as retail customers "in the Middle East region" in any Brand related issues Ensure retailer’s participate in GM programs
 Working on Service Satisfaction Surveys covering the customers of the Middle East region.
 Playing a co ordination role between the customers, retailers and the GM senior management in warranty and all other related issues
 Ensure retailer’s service departments are providing the service within GM standards.
 Making sure that the department achieves the target of service level set by the department head.
 Introducing new staff and conduct training on the work flow of the Contact Centre.
 Training new staff on how to operate the systems used by contact centre (CCC and CRM systems).
 Ensure that calls are answered by agents within the time set.
 Ensuring the proper call handling by agents.
 Assisting agents, when necessary, on solving complicated cases and handling aggressive customers.
 Preparing the initial stages of different reports to be generated by Contact Centre Manager and helping in preparing reports of department performance
 Checking complaints taken by Contact Centre agents and distributing according to capability of each agent.
 Handling customer complaints - with a high volume of outbound/inbound calls.
 Answering customer queries and providing information.
 Negotiating with customers and discussing their issues till his/her satisfaction reached.
 Capturing Data and recording all received Data
 Dealing and liaising with the Managers of the GM dealers as well as the Regional Manager’s representing GM (GCC, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan) and with customer to ensure that his/her problem has been solved to his/her satisfaction.
 Marketing the General Motors products through the implement promotions.

Contact Center Supervisor at Al-Futtaim Group - Gulf Marketing Research
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2000 to January 2004

 Supervising the day-to-day operation of the call center to reach desirable outcomes.
 Researching new product information, policies and offers from Showroom Managers as well as internet to keep agents updated.
 Personal Management and maintain staff quality assurance - Identifying staff strengths and weaknesses to maintain consistency in total customer and staff satisfaction
 Decision making and preparing reports.
 Downloading, organizing, preparing and importing Customer sample list used by call center agents for more than 20 projects.
 Checking customer's complaints written by agents and sending it to clients. (UAE- Egypt-Qatar and Oman)
 Following up with certain clients responsible of sending data.
 Preparing a monthly job plan to be followed by agents to attain target on time.
 Interviewing, Training, monitoring and evaluating new staff.
 Providing suggestions and solutions when encountering problems.
 Reviewing and reporting telephone bills and other call center billings.
 Able to deal with and motivate agents (8 agents)
 Conducting surveys and recording the information gathered.
 Calling clients, handling calls, inquiries and complaints.
 Listening to, negotiating with and providing suggestions to clients.

Education

Bachelor's degree, International Business
  • at Skyline University
  • January 2014
High school or equivalent, IGCSE
  • at The Westminster
  • August 1999

Specialties & Skills

Analysis
Proven Leadership Skills
Customer Service
Project Management
Profit Center Management
MS Office
Wincati
Kerridge

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Customer Enthusiasm (GM Difference) (Training)
Training Institute:
In house
Date Attended:
June 2006
Customer service handling and satisfaction (Training)
Training Institute:
In house
Date Attended:
January 2007
3rd & 4th Line Leaders Development Conference (Training)
Training Institute:
In house
Date Attended:
October 2012