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Ayoub Taha

Ayoub Taha

Barcelona

Summary

Senior Customer Service Manager with expertise in BPOs, business intelligence and customer service, overseeing forecasting, projections, budget, training, quality and leadership, strategy design, developing and implementing optimized operations, directing site performance turnaround, reducing attrition and driving customer satisfaction across multiple channels.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Account Service Delivery Manager

Majorel
Barcelona
10.2022 - 01.2024
  • Managing service delivery.
  • Supervising KPIs achievement.
  • Managing budget achievement and company margin.
  • Developing long lasting and effective relationships with clients by providing onboarding, in-depth training and continuous technology support.
  • Monitoring all aspects of contracts with third party organizations to ensure that required services were delivered.
  • Establishing policies and strategies for resource allocation and infrastructure while managing service delivery expectations.
  • Consistently meeting company and department objectives within budget and time constraints.
  • Coordinating and monitoring inbound and outgoing deliveries, keeping abreast of delays and other issues.
  • Identifying opportunities to reduce cost and improve productivity.
  • Managing Contract compliance.

Group Operations Workforce Manager

eDreams Odigeo
Barcelona
07.2019 - 12.2021

Areas:

  • Budget and workforce forecasting
  • Spent control and cost efficiency
  • Resource management for 6 BPOs, in 4 continents: Weekly scheduling, intraday placement, agent utilization and occupancy
  • Multi-Channel Customer Service Projects
  • Responsiveness
  • Operations and BPO performance/contracts management
  • Project management: digital transformation, product improvement, failures analysis and process elaboration.

Objectives includes:

  • Created workforce planning and development models for quarterly scheduling and processes.
  • Reduced financial discrepancies by accurately managing project details and revenue streams.
  • Managed schedules of team of 1000+ personnel to keep shifts properly staffed.
  • Developed and updated scheduling policies covering all department activities.
  • Developed effective scheduling processes to achieve production objectives.
  • Managed all payments processing, invoicing and collections tasks.
  • Reviewed budgetary data for accuracy and consistency with goals and objectives.
  • Analyzed monthly reports on actual revenue performance and compared with budgeted projections.
  • Reviewed operating budget periodically to analyze trends affecting budget needs.
  • Reviewed monthly financial results with partners to identify opportunities to improve profitability.
  • Forecasted trends in expected business levels and adjusted labor and inventory to match expectations.

Group Outsourcing Market Operations Manager

eDreams Odigeo
Barcelona
09.2017 - 06.2019

Areas:

  • Account and Operations management: 3 call centers in 3 countries and over 350 agents
  • Operational excellence
  • Responsiveness and business performance
  • Quality assurance
  • Productivity and resource planning
  • Projects implementation and customer service revamp

Objectives included:

  • Built strong operational teams to meet process and production demands.
  • Resolved challenges associated with company websites, vendors and telecoms.
  • Connected with clients and developed strategies to achieve sales and customer service goals.
  • Aided senior leadership during executive decision-making process by generating daily reports to recommend corrective actions and improvements.
  • Contributed to proposal and contract development, negotiations and meetings.
  • Monitored resource use to achieve set goals within budget constraints.
  • Created corrective actions based on adverse KPI trends.
  • Recruited, hired and trained crew members on application of projects, customer relations and customer service.
  • Developed initiatives for process improvement and reviewed and assessed ongoing operations.

Quality, Sales Delivery Manager

Xceed
Casablanca
05.2016 - 04.2017

Areas:

  • Customer service management
  • Sales team implementation
  • Account performance and profitability
  • Quality and Training cross-functional management
  • Performance and Business KPIs
  • Quality, Productivity, scheduling and Voice of the customer
  • Recruitment
  • Fraud control.

Objectives included:

  • Conferred with business leaders to evaluate business needs and implement operational improvements.
  • Trained staff to provide excellent customer service to challenging customers.
  • Coordinated schedule to maintain appropriate staff coverage.
  • Led department and supported team leads with process and personnel needs.
  • Established and created training programs to enhance employee knowledge of best practices, resulting in improved customer satisfaction.
  • Oversaw workforce schedules and allocated resources in order to achieve project goals.
  • Forecasted trends in expected business levels and adjusted labor and inventory to match expectations.

Manager - Training and Quality

Xceed
Casablanca
03.2014 - 05.2016

Areas:

  • Quality and Training account management
  • Voice of the customer
  • Process Continuous Improvement Strategy
  • Agents performance improvement
  • Write Offs and financial losses management
  • Recruitment.

Objectives included:

  • Mentored team members to succeed and advance within department and company.
  • Planned and led training programs on staff development to enhance employee knowledge, engagement, satisfaction and performance.
  • Implemented training improvements to achieve desired results.
  • Delivered cohort training, learning activities and assessments, monitoring adoption of learning.
  • Discovered and implemented new learning techniques and industry best practices to drive learning through professional training.
  • Designed training schedules for new and existing employees.
  • Inspected incoming raw materials shipments for compliance with quality standards agreed upon in vendor contracts, reporting discrepancies as necessary.
  • Managed company onboarding processes, interviewing and selecting new quality assurance personnel and cultivating teamwork and technical proficiency in training.

Training Officer

Xceed
Casablanca
01.2012 - 03.2014

Areas:

  • Customer Service trainings delivery
  • Continuous improvements and process dysfunctions review
  • Process and document management
  • Point of contact with the provider, for ramp up and skills management
  • Process creation
  • Floor support
  • Support to operations and responsiveness.

Objectives included:

  • Determined training needs and developed related classes.
  • Mentored specific employees on areas in need of improvement.
  • Organized key training sessions and qualifications for personnel.
  • Developed skill-specific training programs to promote employee development.
  • Blended business's goals, mission and values with learning development initiatives to deliver high-quality training to employees.
  • Evaluated client processes, employee performance and training progress to determine additional training needs.
  • Documented training activities and changes to analyze program effectiveness.
  • Scheduled training sessions based on availability of classrooms, equipment and instructors.
  • Monitored training costs and prepared budget reports to justify expenditures.

Education

Master of Science - Marketing and Management

Sherbrook College

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

Sherbrook College

Skills

  • Customer Service
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Staff Management
  • Budget Control
  • Lean Sigma
  • Drafting and Administering Contracts
  • Project Management
  • Employee Development
  • Forecasting Employment Needs
  • Hiring and Onboarding
  • Recruiting and Interviewing
  • Strategic Thinker
  • Training Methods
  • Sales Leadership Development
  • Classroom Training
  • Quality Processes
  • Operation Monitoring
  • Budget Preparation
  • Project Scheduling

Technology and Systems

  • CRM.
  • Genesys/Genesys Cloud.
  • Jira/Zendesk/Freshdesk.
  • Power BI.
  • Coupa.
  • GDS (Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo).
  • AS400.

Languages

  • Arabic – C2
  • French – C2
  • English – C2
  • Spanish – B2
  • German – A1

Timeline

Account Service Delivery Manager

Majorel
10.2022 - 01.2024

Group Operations Workforce Manager

eDreams Odigeo
07.2019 - 12.2021

Group Outsourcing Market Operations Manager

eDreams Odigeo
09.2017 - 06.2019

Quality, Sales Delivery Manager

Xceed
05.2016 - 04.2017

Manager - Training and Quality

Xceed
03.2014 - 05.2016

Training Officer

Xceed
01.2012 - 03.2014

Master of Science - Marketing and Management

Sherbrook College

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

Sherbrook College
Ayoub Taha