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BENJAMIN A. GRACIAS

BENJAMIN A. GRACIAS

Mumbai

Summary

Seasoned sales professional with a flair for undertaking challenges, with a cumulative experience of 19 years across industries and domains. Worked in different industries such as Real - Estate, Ed-Tech and Outsourcing companies. Data-driven Sales Operations Specialist with demonstrated success streamlining sales process to maximize efficiency.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

AGM

Sunteck Realty
06.2024 - Current
  • Managed a team of 10 sourcing managers
  • Activated new CP market for the company – Mira Road
  • Managed end to end deliverable of CP vertical from awakening to invoicing
  • Train, Mentor and develop the managers
  • Planned different meeting with CP
  • Successfully planned and executed CP meet and JBP

AGM

Xanadu Realty
10.2022 - 04.2024
  • October 2022 – April 2024. AGM Xanadu Realty | Mumbai TATA Serein
  • Managed end to end deliverable of CP vertical from awakening
  • CP Meet planned and executed
  • Set monthly and quarterly targets
  • Tie up with Channel partners to increase sales volumes • Negotiate with interested clients
  • Coordinate with Marketing and strategic team
  • Set budgets for manpower, marketing
  • Decide on Channel partner brokerage and ladder.
  • Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services. Mayfair Virar
  • Activated new CP market for the company - Virar
  • Overall gross revenue generated in launch 80cr
  • Managed end to end deliverable of CP vertical from awakening to invoicing
  • Train, Mentor and develop the managers
  • Planned different meeting with CP
  • Successfully planned and executed CP meet and JBP

Senior Manager

Whitehatjr
10.2020 - 07.2022
  • Responsible for revenue generation and meeting the revenue targets
  • Responsible for driving cost initiatives
  • Responsible for staff development, staff planning to meet service requirements and involvement in recruitment process to Create a work force requirement plan to manage performance and behavior of front-line supervisors through effective meetings, coaching and mentorship
  • Responsible to address any grievances on social media
  • Ensuring a healthy work environment

Senior Manager

Vodafone
08.2018 - 09.2020
  • Enterprise customers at New Zealand
  • Liase with other departments on which dependency exist to ensure timely completion of work as per SLA
  • Upselling of products and services
  • Interacting with LOB to ensure smooth flow of work
  • Identifying opportunities and cause process improvements
  • Hiring able candidate for the team
  • Analyze and adjusting staffing to maximize efficiency and service level requirements
  • Shrinkage management as per the process requirements
  • Conduct Daily/Weekly meeting with leads and process head
  • Knowledge management by means of updated documentation of policies and procedures
  • Strategic approach towards staffing and work allocation Work with in house technology team and on shore technology team to enhance system capabilities
  • Accurate reporting of process performance to the Business Unit and senior management via Dashboards and Performance Reports
  • Manage escalations and ensure retention of customers
  • Managing both calls and back office work
  • Process Improvement - Improved response time on hold cases.

Team Lead

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
11.2014 - 08.2018

• Manage a team of chat associates who handle customer queries on mobile customer service (HRO)

• Drive quality targets

• Quality Analysis via RCA and PARETO

• Liaise with training team

• Performance evaluation of associates

• SDO wide Operations Maturity Model Management

• Deploy the OM principles across Mumbai SDO in accordance with the BE leads

• Conduct trainings and floor walks to ensure Delivery team is adhering to OM framework

• Audit and Report the OM practice adherence of the various deals across SDO

• Drive the standardization of OM reports, SLA dashboards, control charts and 3x3 with the respective BE leads

• Support the automation & process improvement opportunities for a health account along with the BE lead

Team Leader

TATA CONSULTANCY
05.2012 - 10.2014
  • Managing overall process with regards to ensuring the designing, quality check, query resolutions and printing is done is completed for Yellow Pages
  • Manage workflow with regards to ensuring that books get printed on time and queries are also answered on time
  • Send reports regarding to daily performance concerning quality and productivity
  • Planning staffing and hiring
  • Part of Training and development team (L&D)
  • Liaise with training team
  • Daily, weekly and monthly reporting of YP performance to middle and senior management
  • Liaise with training to enhance team skills and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Liaise with clients regarding process updates
  • Was part of the Business Continuity plan testing for applications and systems.

Assistant Manager

BA Continuum India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2006 - 04.2012
  • Manage a team of 18 associates for servicing customers regarding their monthly payments, insurance, taxes, payoff, loan history, verification of mortgage, setting and deleting the escrow account
  • Daily, weekly and monthly reporting of team performance to middle and senior management
  • Actively involved in hiring new associates
  • Ensuring employee satisfaction and retention by means of recognition, 1x1 feedback sessions, performance enablement and cross-training
  • Performance evaluation and career pathing of associates via means of scorecards
  • Liaise with training to enhance team skills and identify opportunities for improvement and improve skills and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Customer retention by means of offering compensation tools
  • Partner with support groups such as Technology, Training, HR and Admin for effective functioning
  • Recruitment and on-boarding of frontline staff to fit the job profile
  • Network with the Line of Business to work in cohesive manner to understand the challenges of the business and provide alternate solutions
  • Continuous improvement by applying quality tools such as Six Sigma and reducing the variation
  • Actively involved in migration of two new processes
  • Link with onshore and multiple sites
  • Workforce management to meet business needs
  • Managed back office operations by providing customer service via e-mails.

Senior CSE

ICICI One Source
02.2005 - 05.2006
  • Worked with Lloyds TSB contact Center
  • Resolved Customers queries regarding Account Balance
  • Basis request from the customer have done Balance Transfer over the call
  • Setting up Standing instructions and direct debits
  • Placing a request for Foreign currency and getting the same delivered at home address or at the branch
  • Placing a request for Check books
  • Setting up Utility bill payments
  • Promoting different sales products like insurance, Credit cards and Balance transfer etc.

Education

MHRDM -

Mumbai Education Trust

BMS -

Mittal College
01.2004

HSC -

St. Francis D'Assisi College
01.2001

SSC -

Don Bosco
01.1999

Skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Project Planning
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Relationship Building
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Decision-Making
  • Process Improvement
  • Customer Relations
  • Team Member Training
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Customer Complaints Escalation

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 11/20/83

Timeline

AGM

Sunteck Realty
06.2024 - Current

AGM

Xanadu Realty
10.2022 - 04.2024

Senior Manager

Whitehatjr
10.2020 - 07.2022

Senior Manager

Vodafone
08.2018 - 09.2020

Team Lead

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
11.2014 - 08.2018

Team Leader

TATA CONSULTANCY
05.2012 - 10.2014

Assistant Manager

BA Continuum India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2006 - 04.2012

Senior CSE

ICICI One Source
02.2005 - 05.2006

BMS -

Mittal College

HSC -

St. Francis D'Assisi College

SSC -

Don Bosco

MHRDM -

Mumbai Education Trust
BENJAMIN A. GRACIAS