SANTHOSH A, Operations & Sales

SANTHOSH A

Operations & Sales

Events

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, Sales & Marketing
Experience
12 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 6 Months

Operations & Sales at Events
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2015 to March 2016

• Handling customers/vendors (End to End)
• Leads via social media (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn etc)
• Making and executing sales, marketing plan & Negotiation and closure
• Making cold calls and establishing contact with decision makers (Toplevel management) in target of new accounts to evaluate new business opportunities.
Management Skills :
• Goal oriented person with high motivation and ambition, team player with strong work ethics, integrity and achieving result with good negotiation skills
• Facilitates efforts to develop, implement and refine standard procedures for researching, collecting, and tracking information about
• Clients including contact data, pipelines, and previous outsourcing experiences
• Build fine-tuning activities related to the new business objects

GM Operations at G7
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2012 to March 2014

Handled customers from Singapore, Gulf & India.

Managing Inside Sales team, Outbound Operations, Handling Telesales, Customer care, Health, Insurance Process & Business Development Management Team.

• Design operation team structure based on Program requirement.
• Study, design, build, operate and manage the operation team for specific client processes.
• Provide end- to- end ops solutions for specific client processes.
• Actively involved in manpower planning and recruitment and carrying out appraisals & performance reviews of various teams & providing feedbacks on areas of improvements
• Derive measuring mechanisms for the derived Quality matrix.
• Developed and headed Management/Executive training programs hired 100+ employees from campus & trained them to drive BDM based strategy.
• Responsible for business development, 2 centers profitability, achieve productivity targets and ensuring maximum client satisfaction
• Presentations to major accounts, Corporate Budgeting and setting targets
• Launched G7 ERP - Pan INDIA & Singapore.

Deputy Manager at Getit
  • India - Bengaluru
  • March 2011 to April 2012

handling Inbound, Outbound, Field sales for Free Ads, Yellow Pages, BizList & BSNL

• Entirely handling BPOs like Quest, G7, CRBI, Serco, Pink Lotus, Sparsh BPO etc as a client (representing GETIT)
• Expanded the branch network from 2BPOs to 6BPOs with close to 200 employees.
• Responsible for quality & quantity of leads, data, Sales & Conversions.
• Define KRAs for the Ops, Training team, WFM & Quality team.
• Objective setting for my team members and help them achieve with support/guidance.
• Helping the BPO’s to achieve objectives and keep them motivated.
• Responsible for early detection of productivity losses and any in disciplinary issues for the Process.
• Study, design, build, operate and manage the operation team for precise areas.
• Provide end- to- end ops solutions for specific customer processes.
• Guiding TSE’s, TL’s, AM s’ their Do’s & Don’ts about Quantity, Operation & Quality.
• Instrumental in initiating quality improvement projects for entire Outbound & New programs/process.

Lead at Logix
  • India - Bengaluru
  • February 2010 to May 2011

LEAD Operations handling IT sales, Inside sales team, selling, websites & Conducting webinars.

• Strengthened client relationship by providing strong and transparent solutions.
• Increase revenue through the excellent customer service and customer satisfaction (C- SAT)
• Successfully launched and transitioned 2 processes (outbound process & Tech support)
• Define KRA’s for the Chat, Websites & inside sales team.
• Ensuring accomplishments of the set quality standards in SLAs.
• Ensuring efficient and effective support meeting quality standards.
• Executing various quality improvements via projects for continual improvements.
• Actively involved in manpower planning and recruitment and carrying out appraisals & performance reviews of various teams & providing feedbacks on areas of improvements.
• Analyzing the training need and accordingly fine-tuning the training modules for soft skills/product..
• Conducting internal process audits & process reviews for ensuring strict adherence to the process parameters/systems.
• Derive measuring mechanisms for the derived Quality matrix

Asst Manager at Max Newyork
  • India - Bengaluru
  • June 2008 to July 2009

• Managing a team of 40 plus Tele Marketing Executives, 3 Team Leaders, Quality Analyst & Trainer.
• Performance reviews with the vendors - Monthly and Quarterly.
• Responsible for managing operations for the Outbound & Inbound process and spearheading teams for excelling business targets & service delivery metrics.
• Core responsibilities include achieving targets (Daily, Weekly & Monthly)
• Supervised and managed the team to ensure optimum performance.
• Guiding CSR s’ their Do’s & Don’ts about operation.
• Recruiting for operations (CSR, Senior CSR, QA, Trainers & Tl’s).
• Draft vendors requirement, details for the project design
• Share Project Team Matrix, Support Team Matrix and Operation Team Matrix with vendors.
• Design operation team structure based on Program requirement.
• Study, design, build, operate and manage the operation team for specific client processes.

Sr.Team Lead at 247-inc
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2002 to February 2008

Handled customers from US, UK, Australia & Canada via calls, emails & social media

Worked as Senior Team Lead Operations for International Process

• Was apart of Fortune 500 US client in the Finance Vertical, who is the 3rd largest issuer of Pre Paid card - GREENDOT, An Inbound up selling Process.
• Actively involved in process migration-Work involved performing detailed process mapping and setting-up operations from initiation, instituting systems and processes and managing a team ensuring smooth project execution.
• Managing a team of 45+ specialists, ensuring optimum performance (entire Evening Shift).
• Core responsibilities include achieving Client Service Level Agreements, weekly and monthly Client interaction, Performance reviews with the client monthly and quarterly.

Oct ‘05 - Mar ‘07 (Promoted as a Team Lead Operations)
Apr ‘04 - Sep ’05 (Moved as a Quality Analyst)
Sep ‘03 - Mar ’04 (Re-Designated as a Process Trainer)
Apr ‘03 - Aug ‘03 (Promoted as a Senior E-Relationship Officer)
Apr ‘02 - Mar ‘03 (Joined as an E-Relationship Officer)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Sales & Marketing
  • at VMRF
  • March 2002

Completed BBM & Diploma in RAC

Diploma, RAC
  • at BDPS
  • March 1999

Diploma in RAC

Specialties & Skills

Operation
Quality Center
Customer Service
Operations

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Expert
Telugu
Intermediate
Malayalam
Expert
Urdu
Intermediate
Kannada
Expert
Marathi
Intermediate
Punjabi
Intermediate
Bengali
Beginner

Training and Certifications

ISO (Training)
Training Institute:
Pvt
Date Attended:
August 2014
Duration:
56 hours
COPC (Training)
Training Institute:
247
Date Attended:
March 2004
Duration:
20 hours

Hobbies

  • Books, TV, Sports & Driving
    Was a kabbdi, Cricket, Football, Kho-Kho, Volleyball district & state player