Customer Service Manager and Call Center Manager Experience
Christopher Kelm has been working in the call center and customer
service environment for over eleven years. Call Center Manager
and Customer Service Manager with extensive experience
in billing, sales, customer retention, operations, labor cost management
of medium and high-tech customer contact centers.
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EXPERIENCE MainStreetHost.com/MP
Publishing (www.mainstreethost.com)
Telesales Manager, Account Manager 10/2004 – Present Position
Summary: Manager
supports and leads the Sales Reps as required to help achieve
sales goal for the Department. The Telesales Manager plans,
directs and evaluates the workflow of the sales team in order to
meet business objectives, establish quotas, leads by example by
assisting reps in identifying significant sales opportunities and
working with reps to close them, Establish consumer and
institutional benchmarks and plans for each rep. Implement inbound
and outbound systems that maximize sales opportunities for
prospective customers, Maintain records of sales contacts and
provide weekly activity reports to ownership regarding progress,
Create a motivated work atmosphere, provide leadership by
establishing clear expectations, provide ongoing sales and product
training and provide coaching to sales agents. Injun Enterprises, LCC. Contact Center Manager, 10/2001 – 01/2004 Position Summary: Manager supervises multiple teams of supervisors and agents, is responsible for the day-to-day welfare of those reporting to the positions. Also, responsible for department, associate relations, quality and the reporting of the same to ownership. Cradle to grave process improvement and gap analysis to implement best practices while ensuring peak operational performance to metric goals. Responsibilities: Phone System Maintenance, Metrics, Profitability, Client Satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction, Associate Development, Quality, Attendance, Schedule Adherence, Bonus Reporting, Weekly Reports to Clients and Internal to Ownership, Annual Performance Evaluations, Strategic Business Development, Associate Relations, Corrective Counseling, Interviews, Sales to Forecast, Client Services and Relations, Staffing and Forecasting. ClientLogic (formerly Softbank Services Group, UCA&L and UCA) (www.clientlogic.com) Customer Service Manager, 09/2000 – 06/2001 Position Summary: Manager supervises multiple teams of supervisors and agents, is responsible for the day-to-day welfare of those reporting to the position. Also, responsible for unit productivity, associate relations, quality and the reporting of the same to upper management. Communication of campaign issues to appropriate representatives in the company. Responsibilities: Metrics, Profitability, Client Satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction, Associate Development, Quality, Attendance, Schedule Adherence, Bonus Reporting, Weekly Reports to Clients, Annual Performance Evaluations, Strategic Business Development, Associate Relations, HRIS, Corrective Counseling, Interviews, Staffing and Forecasting. Internal Auditor, 08/1997 – 06/2001 (www.copc.com) Responsibilities: Auditing all aspects/levels of call center management process’s to ensure alignment with COPC certification. Duties include cradle to grave process/project improvement and aligning processes with the COPC standard to ensure optimal operational performance and cost. Account Manager, 02/1999 – 9/2000 (www.clientlogic.com) Position Summary: Insure successful Client relationships with ClientLogic. Provide leadership to the organization, develop and execute Client programs that meet Client expectations. Support the organization on Client Services related matters and perform other duties as assigned. Responsibilities: Understand and communicate client business and strategic goals, Faithfully work to build client confidence in ClientLogic’s ability to deliver solutions, Insure open and frequent two-way communication, Measure and report Client satisfaction and dissatisfaction, Assist in the preparation of Client business reviews, Understand, document, and communicate program goals, objectives, and metrics, Set client expectations that reflect ClientLogic’s capabilities and provide achievable timelines, Regularly obtain timely and accurate input from client regarding changes in the level of activity, Monitor, analyze, and report program performance versus plan, Act as an internal program and project manager, Identify and provide leadership to a cross-functional team that supports the client activities, Communicate program requirements, Work with operating units to design “best practices” solution sets, Ensure the program meets specifications and client goals, Ensure timely implementation. |
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Account Coordinator, 08/1997 – 02/1999 (www.clientlogic.com) Responsibilities: Project management and communicating business statistics of call center to client, relaying and organizing client goals/information to management, making sure that goals and time frame of goals is kept, reporting progress/status of projects and day to day business to client. Supervisor of Customer Service/Inbound Sales, 10/1996 – 8/1997 (www.clientlogic.com) Responsibilities: leading a group of 15-25 telephone representatives. This would include scheduling (labor cost), monitoring call management system (ACD/ACW/AUX), coaching, mentoring, monitoring call quality, reporting call quality, attendance tracking and doing disciplinary actions. Earlier ClientLogic assignments included Product Specialist and Customer Care Associate, 12/1994 to 10/1996. |
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