فرحات ربيعة, Senior Partner & Consultant

فرحات ربيعة

Senior Partner & Consultant

Global Management Consultants

البلد
باكستان - كراتشي
التعليم
دبلوم, Management Development Workshop
الخبرة
27 years, 10 أشهر

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مجموع سنوات الخبرة :27 years, 10 أشهر

Senior Partner & Consultant في Global Management Consultants
  • باكستان - كراتشي
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ يونيو 2016

• Delivering learning solutions that assist our clients to engage, develop and retain talent.
• Execute organizational assessments
• Development and implementation of results-oriented and sustainable strategic change training and development initiatives tied to ROI:
o Organizational Design
o Talent Design
o Business Design
o Customer Experience
• Driving corporate growth with Global learning programs
• Business development with multinationals, medium sized and SMEs for business performance
initiatives
• Funneling the sales pipeline and engaging with client base
• Mentor Sales team to help drive new business and month over month increasing revenue

Regional Manager Quality Assurance & Training في Mobilink - A Vimpelcom Company
  • باكستان - كراتشي
  • نوفمبر 2008 إلى مايو 2016

• Drive customer-centric changes in the organization.
Executive Trainer in Mobilink Learning Center.
• Hand's on management of the following key functions:
o Lead a team that solves customers’ complaints and delivers a positive experience to sustain customer loyalty.
o Manage an end-to-end service delivery experience to our customers that shows we care about them on all front end and contact centers.
 Closing the loop with Technical, Marketing and Customer Care teams on known detraction reasons received via :
 The Customer Delight (Text based) Reporting.
 Mystery Shopping
 Voice of Customer
 Random Activity Monitoring in the CRM
 Regular visits to all customer walk-in centers
o This includes operational leadership of our assisted support channels (corporate accounts, contact center, care centers, franchise centers, service points)
o Self-help channels (FAQ & content creation).
o Supportability Design - Working with internal partners (Project Management, Marketing etc.) that drive the launch of products & services in Pakistan.
o Customer Analytics, Reporting & Insights - Gathering and collating customer insights from the support experience to provide actionable recommendations and report data that enables fast, educated actions to eliminate customer pain. Customer Experience reporting and analysis.
o Coaching- Providing coaching and escalation management to team members.
o Communication - developing and delivering internal communications and content to support business partners including Operations and Corporate teams. This includes the development communication review and dissemination to the internal audience.
• To plan, develop and manage the annual training programs within customer care based on defined Training and Development strategies and negotiate priorities with business managers based on resources and timelines.
• Rolling out VAS initiatives such as upselling/cross selling and related mechanics/ rewards plans.


Key Achievements:
• Lead a change Team and developed and rolled out individual CCR KPIs for Front end staff nationwide.
• Managed and led new CRM Siebel and Product related trainings for more than 2, 000 employees.
• Define, standardize and implement all CS processes.
• Coordinated with CS Operations in setting up 605 Jazz Service Points across Sindh and Baluchistan
• Executed Mobilink Internet services, trouble shoot & Upsell campaign for all contact centers and Jazz Service Points (service partners) in the region for around 900 employees.
• Launched ‘Train the Trainer” initiative aimed at developing the Customer Care Center & Franchise Executives and Quality Assurance teams, tying results to their performance appraisals.
• Launched and implemented the New Hire Assessment centers and passing matrix nationwide which led to improved post training performance of the agents by approximately 20%.
• Partnered with the Customer Care, Sales and Marketing functions to better understand customer, competitor and industry dynamics and ensure execution of strategy.
• Established contact centers/customer care’s first ever customized training programs for all contact center employees.
• Contact Center Karachi was nominated as Nationwide Contact Centre of the Quarter 5 consecutive times & Customer Care Centers South was rated as the best nationwide 3 times.
• Partnered with stakeholders to review existing systems and recommend lean, effective customer centric processes
• Delivered comprehensive analysis to senior management highlighting stakeholder performance in customer service delivery.
• Ensured process guidelines are implemented for quematic analysis, random calls monitoring and loyalty programs.
• Galvanizing Mobile Financial & Data Services training nationwide with over 3500 Customer Care Representatives across the country.
• Certified Change Coach
• Successfully assisted H.R.in launching Customer Loyalty measurement called NPS.

Manager في Quality Assurance Contact Centers
  • باكستان
  • يونيو 2005 إلى نوفمبر 2008

Manager Quality Assurance Contact Centers June 2005 till Nov 2008
Mobilink - An Orascom Telecom, Karachi, Pakistan

Responsibilities
• Preparing Contact Center Quality Strategy and objectives ensuring compliance to processes and KPIs.
• Enforcing specific practices such as call monitoring, customer call-backs, to ensure that quality standards are maintained.
• Using accurate and smart data analysis to identify abnormal trends and roll out remedial measures.
• Core issues reviewed and specific steps taken within all departments to reduce fire backs.
• Ensuring increased calibration and sharing of best practices among all CS teams for high performance culture.
• Tracking and driving initiatives (specific query/specific answer, using alternatives etc. on new services and high volume of calls) thus improving productivity levels.
• Ensured increased calibration and sharing of best practices among all CS teams for high performance culture.
• Assisted in accomplishing Call Center human resource objectives by training, coaching/counseling, employees; administering scheduling systems; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.



• Involved in automating systems to make customer /csr interactions easier, seamless and more focused on what the customer wants, when the customer wants. (Also reduce back end workload) hence improving service quality levels.
• This not only empowered csrs to facilitate customers upfront but also reduced back end escalations from 15-20% to less than 7%.
• Initiated up selling and currently working on rolling out various similar initiatives.
• Major achievement has been to improve Quality of Service level (QSL) to above 85% from a meager 30%.
• By targeting call reasons improved First Call Resolution (FCR) to 85% plus.
• Led major Customer Care projects on managing the IVR content, using alternatives on new services leading to a reduction in • Back end escalations from 20% to less than 7%.
• Initiated up selling and cross selling in the contact center.

Customer Services Agent في Getronics Canada Inc
  • كندا
  • مارس 2002 إلى ديسمبر 2004

• Customer Services Agent- -Getronics Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada Mar 2002 - Dec. 2004

Customer Services Officer في TD Waterhouse Investor Services
  • كندا
  • مارس 2000 إلى يونيو 2000

• Corporate Accounts Ass. - TD Waterhouse Investor Services - Toronto Mar - June 2000
• Customer Services Officer -Business Centre Manager -

Business Center Manager في Mobilink-PMCL -Karachi and Rawalpindi
  • باكستان - كراتشي
  • سبتمبر 1994 إلى أكتوبر 1998

Mobilink-PMCL -Karachi and Rawalpindi Sept.1994 - Oct. 1998

Customer Services Agent في FedEx International
  • باكستان - كراتشي
  • سبتمبر 1992 إلى أبريل 1994

• Customer Services Agent - FedEx International Sept.1992 - April 1994

الخلفية التعليمية

دبلوم, Management Development Workshop
  • في Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • يناير 2008

• Management Development Workshop Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008

بكالوريوس, Business Management
  • في University of Karachi
  • يناير 1992

• Bachelor of Commerce Business Management, Eco. & Accounting 1992 Some of the Workshops attended

الثانوية العامة أو ما يعادلها, Economics & Accounting
  • في GCCE from the University of London
  • يناير 1989

• Advanced levels from University of London Economics & Accounting 1989

Specialties & Skills

Customer Service
Team Management
Management
Customer Interaction Management
Customer Satisfaction
BACK END
BEST PRACTICES
CALIBRATION
COACHING
COMPENSATION
DATA ANALYSIS
SCHEDULING
Trainer

اللغات

الانجليزية
متمرّس

التدريب و الشهادات

(الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
October 2013
Silver Shadow Train The Trainer Certification (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
February 2011
صالحة لغاية:
February 2011