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Nirosh Lutchman Soorajbally

Nirosh Lutchman Soorajbally

21A Stirling Avenue, Buccleuch

Summary

The enclosed curriculum vitae highlights my career history and educational certifications. From the onset of my career, I have been exposed to and worked across multiple geographies and business units enabling me to have a deep understanding of operations, strategy and people. Although chronologically I am young, my experience and speed to competence has been on an upward trajectory for the last8 years. I have worked in matrix, high pressured environments throughout my career. I am comfortable both in the managerial and specialist space within Customer Relationship Management. My success thus far has been based on the maturity, professionalism and customer management that I bring to the business as well as my ability to integrate the various operational functions into the customer satisfaction strategies seamlessly. I have managed large to medium teams and I am able to easily change my levels of work based at the task at hand. My passion lies in account management which allows me to ensure that a solid relationship is built between the customer and company which thereby advances and strengthens the companies brand image. I work to strict financial regulations and procedures and always keep abreast with the latest policies and procedures to ensure that I am providing the best service I possibly can.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Operations Manager – Principal Specialist

Vodacom Insurance Company
01.2020 - Current
  • Set unit strategy in line with the Vodacom Insurance Company
  • Management of direct and indirect reports
  • Set clearly defined objectives for each team member, lead and assist them in achieving these objectives; employ, retain, develop, integrate, motivate, remunerate and assign people to appropriate tasks, conduct performance management and ensure teamwork
  • Management of the performance of third parties
  • Ensure alignment of Group strategy and fulfillment of the unit’s tasks with maximized productivity and efficiency
  • Responsible for billing and collections, credits and debits, managing third parties, customer complaints, retentions, claims, reviewing daily service levels, customer experience, quality assurance, cancellations, capacity planning, I.T deliverables, continuous system enhancements, continuous operational improvements, translation of suggestions into workable solutions, incident management, fraud management, compliance measures, compiling quarterly EXCO, TCF management decks, asset management, user access management, manage an effective communication model with all stakeholders

Operations Manager

Discovery Insurance Company
09.2016 - 12.2019
  • Staff Management: Responsible for resource planning, recruitment and selection, ensure staff competency through training, daily debrief sessions to assess competency, performance management against goals/objectives and KPI’s, manage performance against benchmarks, drive refresher training quarterly, oversees corrective action process, assess growth plans, disciplinary measures for consistent non-performance and/or misconduct, staff motivation, knowledge transfer
  • Customer Perception: On a weekly basis, analyses customer surveys to assess customer perception, drive customer survey feedback sessions for root cause analysis, report on trends identified, make recommendations into corrective action, drive cross sampling with the QA department in order improve on quality levels
  • Service Levels: Monitor queues to ensure service level adherence
  • Daily reporting on SL (spikes vs expected rates, abandoned calls)

Team Lead

Discovery Insurance Company
10.2013 - 08.2016
  • Developing strategic and operational plans to drive and lead, provide direction for the division through actively communicating and being a visionary leader, generating reports for the business, monitoring of risk, keeping abreast with legislative and industry changes and how this affects our business units, analyzing and problem solving by identifying key issues, effective decision-making by applying entrepreneurial knowledge and “out of the box” thinking and weighing up the risks involved, to manage a team and to ensure that the right people are employed, developed and performance managed, resource planning to meet business needs and ensuring that staff are multi-skilled and that the resource plan is flexible enough in order to cater for unexpected changes, to report on volumes, SLAs, trends, salaries and incentives, to analyze processes and to identify areas that needs processes improved or streamlined, to align and develop SOPs for the areas managed

Operations Consultant

Discovery Insurance Company
10.2012 - 09.2013
  • Setting up the welcome, upsell and retention teams, servicing clients and brokers, quote creation, supporting first call resolution, assisting with senior management escalations, re-issuing of old policies

Sales Consultant – Insurance

Discovery Connect
05.2012 - 09.2012
  • Develop and maintain relationships with new clients including telephonic and face to face, manage ongoing client relationships to ensure desired retention levels, assess the needs and objectives of the client, give advice to the client and formulate recommendations that address their needs, provide comprehensive quotes to these clients, administration, manage daily work flow and correspondence to clients, reporting to management on a daily basis, dealing with DP's and referral leads from brokers

Marketing Consultant - Credit Card

Discovery Connect
02.2012 - 04.2012
  • Marketing Discovery credit cards, dealing with broker requests, assisting brokers with applications, managing leads, credit vetting members on ITC, doing live online applications with FNB, assisting with sales queries

Sales Consultant - Vitality Health

Discovery Connect
10.2010 - 01.2012
  • Promoting Vitality to existing Discovery members, following up on new leads & web requisitions, data capturing, processing sales, attending to sales queries, providing customer solutions, retention of sales

Education

High School Diploma -

Drakensburg Secondary School
Estcourt, South Africa
12-2005

Skills

  • Leadership, Strategy, Operations, Communication, Customer Management, Interpersonal understanding, Sales, Project Management, Campaign Management, Building talent Pool, Decision-making Process, Change Management

Experience Highlights

  • I have a total of 10+ years’ experience in Customer Relationship Management
  • I have an extensive knowledge in the Insurance Industry focusing on Customer Management.
  • 10+ years of establishing and implementing policies and procedures
  • 10+ years of understanding and enforcing Human Resources practices
  • 10+ years of building relationships with different operational business units.
  • 10+ Experience in continuous improvement through the implementation of best practices
  • 10+ years of developing, implementing and monitoring business plans focusing on sales, customer service, complaints, and risk compliance and setting performance targets
  • 10+ years of business and financial acumen on all aspects of the support services

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

Policy Administration, Policy Activations, Policy Cancellations, Collections, Billing, Retentions, Quality Assurance, Claims, Complaints, Credits, Debits, Salvage, Third Party Management, User Access Management, Attestation, Capacity Planning, Service Levels, Revenue Realization, Profitability, Asset Management, End-To-End Daily Operations, Internal I.T Deliverables, System Incidents, Process Improvements, System Enhancements, Internal Audit, External Audit, Operational Improvements, Internal And External Stakeholder Management, Fraud Incidents And Monitoring, Staff, Reporting

Responsibilities, skills and capabilities

  • Provide input and support into defining business requirements key customer value management (CVM) capability development projects, including campaign management & measurement systems, channel capabilities and integration;
  • Ensure all policies and procedures are documented, regularly reviewed and implemented effectively throughout the operation
  • Manage campaign for outbound and inbound customer contact activity, based on the customer contact plan and requirements from customer value management base marketing and operational teams.
  • I work closely with project managers to ensure that progress is in line with customer value management Roadmap, any risks or issues are actioned upon timely, set mitigation actions and provide subject matter expertise where required, reduce TCO effectively in a timely manner.
  • Manage the post-activity reports and in-depth performance evaluation to determine how existing decision making rules can be enhanced to drive increased business benefits
  • Manage and resolve escalations that have impact on critical path of service delivery
  • Resource planning to meet business needs and ensuring that staff are multi-skilled and that the resource plan is flexible enough in order to cater for unexpected changes
  • Reporting on volumes, SLAs, trends, salaries and incentives.
  • Effective decision-making by applying entrepreneurial knowledge and “out of the box” thinking and weighing up the risks involved
  • Analyze processes and to identify areas that needs processes improved or streamlined.
  • Manage ongoing clients relationships to ensure desired retention levels are achieved
  • I have achieved effective client management and continuously ensure that all client’s engagement are managed professionally and effectively demonstrates the organizations values at all times.

Timeline

Operations Manager – Principal Specialist

Vodacom Insurance Company
01.2020 - Current

Operations Manager

Discovery Insurance Company
09.2016 - 12.2019

Team Lead

Discovery Insurance Company
10.2013 - 08.2016

Operations Consultant

Discovery Insurance Company
10.2012 - 09.2013

Sales Consultant – Insurance

Discovery Connect
05.2012 - 09.2012

Marketing Consultant - Credit Card

Discovery Connect
02.2012 - 04.2012

Sales Consultant - Vitality Health

Discovery Connect
10.2010 - 01.2012

High School Diploma -

Drakensburg Secondary School
Nirosh Lutchman Soorajbally