Sandy Cruz, Lead Station Manager

Sandy Cruz

Lead Station Manager

Serco Middle East - Dubai Metro

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, in Science of Biology
Experience
26 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :26 years, 11 Months

Lead Station Manager at Serco Middle East - Dubai Metro
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since July 2009

• Lead a group of station supervisors and station staff in overall daily operation of Dubai Metro and its Car Park
• Ensure standard, timely, safe and word class customer service in a multi-national transport environment
• Manage customer service survey and client (RTA) feedbacks and provide improvement measures to meet KPI targets.
• Manage competencies and training of staff with globally-accepted standards
• Monitor team or individual performance and submit report to Line Manager
• Provide action and reports for the rectification and improvement of building asset and equipment
• Conduct procedures in maintaining service and safety of public during emergency cases
• Coordinate with Dubai’s Third Party teams in ensuring metro safety and rescue
• Operate internal metro station systems that support operations and fault reporting
• Manage public crowding during special events; create and submit crowd control plans to upper management and RTA
• Implement standard access controls to concessionaires and retailers; manage business relationships

Branch Manager cum Sales Manager at Suncellular Telecom (Digitel Mobile Phils Inc.)
  • Philippines
  • February 2005 to June 2009

• Manage overall branch operations that include retail and corporate sales, customer service and inventory management
• Supervise and improve staff performance in sales and customer service
• Provide sales and P&L reports to Regional Sales management
• Create and implement sales plan and strategy designs in meeting business targets
• Manage customer relations and retention; conduct sales presentation for value-added service offers

Collections Supervisor for Personal finance at Citifinancial Corporation
  • Philippines
  • May 2004 to January 2005

• Manage collection of payments from clients with personal loan overdue.
• Prepare collection reports, staff performance and conduct client visit for account mitigation.
• Prepare collection strategies and present to Collection Head.
• Conduct training and/or coaching of collection staff

Collection Assistant for Credit card delinquent accounts at Metrobank Card Corporation
  • Philippines
  • March 2001 to May 2004

• Collect payments from clients with credit card balance overdue.
• Prepare collection reports and meet clients for making of account restructuring.
• Coordinate with accredited external collection agency and provide report of their performance.
• Attend court hearings to represent the bank for additional means of debt collections.
• Conduct training and/or coaching to collection staff

Credit & Collection Officer at Citibank Phils.
  • Philippines
  • June 1998 to March 2001

• Collect payments from clients with credit card balance overdue and meet monthly targets.
• Prepare account reports and meet clients for making of account restructuring.
• Coordinate with accredited external collection agency and report their performance.
• Make daily calls and send collection letters to delinquent card holders

Academic Professor at De La Sale University (Campus)
  • Philippines
  • June 1997 to May 1998

• Teach college students with health subjects thru classroom learning and outdoor
• Provide lectures, visual aids, laboratory exercises and examinations to measure class standing

Education

Bachelor's degree, in Science of Biology
  • at De La Salle University (Philippines)
  • April 1997

Graduated with honors as Cum Laude, the third highest academic excellence award. Recognized as Best Program Thesis submitted in College of Arts and Sciences

Specialties & Skills

Field Operations
Sales Presentations
Customer Service
Management
Coaching
Business writing
Problem solving

Languages

English
Expert
Tagalog
Expert

Memberships

Institution of Railway Operators
  • Associate
  • November 2013

Training and Certifications

Customer Service Excellence (Training)
Training Institute:
RTA Dubai and Serco
Management of Dubai Metro Stations (Training)
Training Institute:
Serco Dubai Metro
Railway Competence Assessor Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Serco Dubai Metro
DGEP Customer Service (Training)
Training Institute:
RTA Dubai
Incident and Accident Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Serco Dubai Metro
Advanced First Aid (Training)
Training Institute:
Dubai Ambulance
Date Attended:
May 2014
Duration:
8 hours
Workplace Safety (Training)
Training Institute:
Serco Dubai Metro

Hobbies

  • reading news, playing team sport like basketball, dancing, organizing gatherings
    In present employer •An excellent member of Competence team being an Assessor of the Month in December 2013 •One of the reliable pioneer officers in Dubai Metro being member of the Assessor Team From previous employer •Recognized as Top Seller in Retail in year 2005 to 2008 •Successfully achieved yearly positive P&L in own managed branch thru increasing sales performance from 2005 to 2009