Mehdi Raza, Regional Manager Customer Service & Quality

Mehdi Raza

Regional Manager Customer Service & Quality

HBL

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, International Relations
Experience
26 years, 0 months

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Total years of experience :26 years, 0 months

Regional Manager Customer Service & Quality at HBL
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since November 2011

Responsibility to UP LIFT! customer service for the entire region. Prime responsibilities include Mystery Shopping, Service Audits, managing customer counter experience, Implementing & managing new initiatives, supporting business development; staff engagement & Motivation & enhance quality of service delivery. Inline working on TNA and gap analysis for customized trainings for operational staff. Publicist/Editor of the monthly Regional Times (news letter for the region)..

Business Planning & Service Quality Manager at HBL
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since July 2010

Prime responsibilities include managing Initiatives supporting business development; enhance quality of service delivery for 76 Retail Banking outlets, inline working on TNA and gap analysis. Publicist of the Regional Times.

Branch Manager Retail & Lending at HBL
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2009 to June 2010

Responsible for deposit mobilization, raised branch deposit by 224% in the first Six months, marketing consumer products, banc assurance and retail lending products. Along with branch service levels, maintain all prudential regulations experienced in ATM operations Diebold and NCR. Liaison b/w the management and the customers. Core concern for AML and KYC as are critical concerns for all financial institutions.

Manager HBL Nationwide Customer Service Center at HBL
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • December 2006 to December 2008

•Maintain positive force field energy at work, constantly targeting automation.
•Emphasis on team building and quality customer services and KPI management. Ensure judicious and timely performance appraisals.
•Managing a team of 78 front end professionals. Setting and meeting p
erformance targets for speed, efficiency and quality.
•Managing service related issues through out Pakistan for retail and consumer products. Liaising with team leaders, phone bankers, and third parties to gather information to service and resolve issues.
•Reviewing staff performance, identifying staff training needs.
•Handling most complex customer complaints or enquiries.
•Monitoring shift patterns and the number of staff required to meet customer demand.
•Improving performance by raising efficiency benchmarks thru monthly Performance synopsis and sourcing new equipment/methods to enable this speedy one window response.
•Vetting all processes and SLAs’ related to customer services.

Team Manager Citiphone (Asst. Manager) at Citibank N.A Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • October 2005 to November 2006

• Managing a team of 17 Phone Bankers, monitoring and evaluating performance in terms of Sales & Service for Retail and Consumer Banking.
• Ensuring sales targets for all products and TSF is met on a monthly basis.
• To conduct daily huddle with the team to monitor daily sales run rates. Also conduct monthly team meetings and report the problems and suggestion put forward by Phone Bankers to the Mancom members. Use special motivation tools to avoid agent burn out.
• To formulate the ABU; An evaluation program compiled monthly, consisting of Service & Sales targets versus achievements giving an over all picture of each Phone Banker’s monthly performance consisting of areas of weakness, strengths and training.
• To identify initiate and implement at-least one process that could be automated in every quarter. Scheduled visit to walk-in customer service to analyze process impacts on customer and device ways of improvement and automation.
• To make our work environment a fun place as well as challenging to our staff.

Manager/Supervisor Call Center at Saudi Pak Commercial Bank
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • October 2004 to October 2005

Complete deployment of call center solution, inclusive of CRM, IVR, PC based solution to offer one window operation to service customers country wide.

Online Bankier at Union Bank
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2002 to October 2004

Customer service representative at Union Bank, Contact Centre. Won three awards in the period of 2 years

Education

Master's degree, International Relations
  • at Karachi University
  • December 2010
Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Szabist
  • August 2008
Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at St.Patirck’s Govt. College
  • December 2001

2nd division

Diploma, Information Technology
  • at Diploma in Information Technology
  • June 2001

Class A

Diploma, Networking
  • at MCSE
  • June 2000

Specialties & Skills

Training
Customer Service
Management
Call Center
Training
Call center
Process reengineering
Customer Service
Service survey, feed back and Mystery shopping
MS Word Excel, Power Point and Word
CRM concept and design
Consumer Banking
Retail Banking
Quality Assurance
Retail Lending

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Train The Trainer (Training)
Training Institute:
IFC Consultants to World Bank
Date Attended:
January 2007
Master Trainer for Stepping UP ! Customer Service (Training)
Training Institute:
UP YOUR SERVICE BY RON KAUFMAN
Date Attended:
June 2012

Hobbies

  • Swimming , Sharp shooting, Content writing, cycling