Hiral Makwana, Customer Support Personnel / Community Administrator

Hiral Makwana

Customer Support Personnel / Community Administrator

Emaar Properties

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Higher diploma, Business Management
Experience
9 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 8 Months

Customer Support Personnel / Community Administrator at Emaar Properties
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2017 to June 2019

* Customer Communication (oral and written)
* Email management
* Live chat management for customer query resolution as well as new inquiries
* Inter department coordination
* Worked on salesforce software
* Worked on Oracle software for customer data management
* Pro-actively participated in resolution of customer queries and complaints
* Received 3 certificates for best performance and top scorer in the entire team
* Actively participated in internal meetings by suggesting ways to overcome hurdles handling internal and external tasks

Executive Assistant at Gulf Computers L.L.C./ Concept IT & Consultancy
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 2013 to December 2013

• Oral and written communication on weekly basis with the company’s top clients, viz, Etisalat, Emaar, Abu Dhabi Municipality (ADM), Baker Hughes, C4AS, Injazat.
• Coordination with the above clients for company’s Outsourced Managed Resource Group (MRG) with reference to new deployments, leave replacements and new requirements of the consultants.
• Arranging conference calls between clients and candidates.
• Handling Client grievances with reference to consultants’ performance and deployments.
• Sending letters and quotes to clients as advised by the Director - Sales and Marketing.

• Inter-departmental Interaction and coordination:
• Coordinating with business managers and Recruitment team for new requirements of consultants from clients. Scheduling interviews and calls.
• Coordinating and follow-up with the sales team on the sales progress and the Sales Reports.
• Interaction with accounts team for issuing Purchase orders and Invoices.
• Interaction with HR on status of the consultants on bench and for replacements.
• Regular interaction with the HR Recruitment team for new and urgent requirement of consultant CVs.
• Regular interaction with consultants for their deployment and non-deployment status.

• Tenders and Bid responses:
• Coordination for Tender preparation, related documentation and bidding response submissions in liaison with the sales managers.
• Drafting and mailing Tender regret letters.


• ISO 9000 and ISO 20000 Requirements and Procedures:
• Handling assigned Service Reporting task for ISO 9000 and ISO 20000 audit requirements for Sales dept, Managed Resource Group.
• Coordinating with Quality Manager, Management representative and business managers for required documents and forms.

• Database management:
• Managing the consultant database on weekly and monthly basis.
• Managing company’s consolidated client list.

• Managing various Reports:
• Preparing Site Deployment Reports & Site Completion Reports of existing consultants as well as for new joiners’.
• Preparing and submitting individual as well as consolidated Sales report and Sales Forecast reports to the management team.
• Submitting Consultants’ status report on weekly basis to the management team.
• Making handy availability of the Company Profile and other important presentations.
• Maintaining confidentiality of various reports and information.

• HR & Administration Tasks:
• Formatting candidate CVs.
• Screening CVs in coordination with HR recruitment team to match the client requirements.
• Preparing and submitting letters for new consultants to the specific client.
• Preparing presentation material and providing administration support to the Sales and Marketing Team.
• Maintaining Administration forms for the Managed Resource Group (MRG) team.
• Handling leave replacement for consultants.

Executive Assistant at Darashaw & Co. Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • February 2009 to October 2011

 Meetings & Appointments:
o Schedule and Manage Meetings, appointments and Conference Calls.
o Timely meeting reminders, action points & post meeting follow-ups.

 Communication & Co-ordination:
o Acting as a point of contact between the management & associates
o Manage External Communication with - potential clients / external parties /
govt. offices / corporate and banks
o Maintaining confidentiality of information
o Manage email Communications on real time basis.
o Manage & priorities telephone calls & take action on it.
o Browsing Internet for information of potential clients & external parties which helps in pre-meeting communications & subsequent discussions.

 Administration & Correspondence
o Composing semi-routine correspondence
o Create templates to ease work on all correspondence.
o Clients Database generation for the organization
o Manage & maintain up-to-date huge contact database.
o Organizing & filing documents
o Keeping track of annual memberships, credit card payments & donations
o Managing third-party payments & related co-ordination with accounts.
o Managing festival gift distribution for clients & business associates


 Travel Management :
o Visa processing and Organizing visa invitation letters
o Preparation of an Itinerary
o Handling domestic & international flight bookings, hotel accommodations with optimization of travel cost.
o Arranging foreign exchange & necessary travel documents
o Keeping track of airline memberships, promotions and offers.

Executive Assistant at Surul Properties Pvt. Ltd. & Zoom Developers Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • May 2007 to February 2009

• Scheduling & co-ordination for meetings & appointments.
• Composing semi-routine correspondence & managing telephone calls & mails. (handling office administration).
• Proactively interacting with departmental heads and external parties. (Liasioning with Sr. Management offices & maintaining confidentiality).
• Create templates to ease work on all correspondence.
• To thrash out and manage huge contact base.
• Co-ordination with Banks and external parties for business related information.
• Maintaining & updating filing system & contact details on real-time basis.
• Travel & Hotel arrangements - reservation of tickets, arranging Visas, Foreign exchange; preparation of Itinerary for domestic as well as international travel.
• Keeping track of annual memberships, credit card payments & donations, etc.
• Handling Income Tax, Service Tax & TDS payments.
• Searching info using internet.

Executive - Sales & Operations at SME Rating Agency of India Ltd. (SMERA)
  • India - Mumbai
  • November 2005 to January 2007

• Training newly recruited associates in their functions.
• Correspondent appointment and liaison.
• Maintaining MIS.
• Dispatch of rating report and customer feedback.
• Lodging claim with NSIC for subsidy.

• Business Development -
• Initiating contact with banks and associations
• Cold calling, Lead tracking
• Managing and Administrating company website.
• Timely follow-ups for required rating documents with potential clients
• Co-ordination with regional offices
• Supportive to the sales team during business presentations & seminars

Executive Secretary at K.G.K. Enterprises
  • India - Mumbai
  • April 2005 to October 2005

• Self-correspondence of letters & drafts
• Managing E-mails & Communications
• Travel Management
• Managing Reception area with -in bound & out bound telephone calls
• Managing Administrative work for the department
• Library maintenance
• Timely follow-up with clients & suppliers
• Internet surfing for products specifications
• Maintaining physical copies of confidential data & product information

Education

Higher diploma, Business Management
  • at L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai
  • April 2011
Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at M. L. Dahanukar College of Commerce, Mumbai
  • January 2005
Diploma, Commercial & Secretarial Practices
  • at S.N.D.T. University, Mumbai
  • April 2002
High school or equivalent, commerce
  • at Maharashtra State Board
  • March 2001

Specialties & Skills

Database Management
Communications
Internal Communications
Client Communication
Administration
ADMINISTRATION
ASSETS RECOVERY
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Business Communication
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
CUSTOMER SERVICE
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
office administration

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Gujarati
Native Speaker
Marathi
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Playing Carrom, Collecting articles from News papers and magazines
    Received a Gold Medal in Carrom Championship