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SANJAY TARAFDAR

SANJAY TARAFDAR

Mumbai

Summary

Results-oriented Customer Success leader with a proven track record of 18+ years in creating and implementing strategic plans to drive client growth and retention. Dedicated to building and maintaining strong relationships with customers and key stakeholders. Adept at working cross-functionally with various departments and leading a team focused on ensuring clients achieve optimal results from our goods and services.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director -Customer Success

Resulticks Digital Solutions
05.2022 - Current
  • Owning P& L for India Accounts
  • Managing projects, setting timelines, and prioritizing tasks to ensure successful delivery of customer success initiatives
  • Team management
  • Key Account Management
  • Retention & Adoption strategies
  • Driving the Revenue business from Resul (Product) for India.

Sr Manage -Customer Success

Resulticks Digital Solutions
06.2019 - 05.2022
  • Managing marque brands like-Tata, Aditya Birla fashion Retail, UTI Mutual Fund, HDFC Bank
  • Manage Implementation, Onboarding, and adoption of the platform
  • Training key stake holders to improve adoption
  • B2B SaaS Account management Strategy
  • Drive High NPS
  • B2C Engagement strategies
  • Give feedback to sales and marketing on prospecting approach
  • Align with commercial teams on renewal and up-sell strategy and focus on selling with a retention focus
  • Define and improvise CSM SOP’s.

Customer Success Manager

CleverTap
Mumbai
08.2018 - 06.2019
  • Managed Brands like- Hoichoi, Dainik Bhaskar, Reliance JIO etc
  • Managed High touch Enterprise Client Portfolios, ensured smooth Onboarding and adoption of the platform
  • Reducing Platform adoption time
  • Use case realization from the Platform prospective
  • Ensuring optimum usage and encouraging more Platform adoption
  • Conducted online training sessions to new clients and led onboarding process to ensure success rate
  • Spearheaded setting up native Email business for Clevertap
  • Ensuring high Net promoter score through relevant consulting and proactive approach
  • Implement, run and manage successful customer pilots working with the Sales team to analyze pilot results and provide input to the business case.

Head Of Customer Success-West And South East Asia

Netcore Solutions
Mumbai
07.2015 - 06.2018
  • Managed key Accounts like- Blibli.co, Telkom Indonesia, Armata Bank, Yes Bank
  • Consulting Top Brands on Improving ROI through Cross channel communication
  • Helping existing client base to improve the quality of Email communication/Cross channel communication
  • Provide technical support to customers or to provide training on their products
  • Coordinating with respective product development/Support function teams to improve product features and make it for acceptable to clients
  • Analyzing performance across multiple metrics and proving relevant suggestions to improve
  • Driving the Revenue business from Smartech (Product) for SEA, Mumbai and Nigeria
  • Managing Team of consultants and guiding them to achieve their goals
  • Managing Custom Automation/Integration projects for Top clients.

Deputy Manager-Online Marketing

Reliance Industries Limited
Navi Mumbai
12.2013 - 07.2015
  • Managing display campaigns via ad nets/Google display-net
  • Media Planning-Planning media requirements/budget/shortlisting publishers/negotiation
  • Preparing post-campaign reports
  • Email marketing: Conceptualizing/implementation/deployment of email campaign/coordinating with agency
  • Championed dynamic retargeting for emails
  • Online reputation management - Sentiment analysis using radian 6/keyword assignment
  • Managing/measuring campaign effectiveness using VCE(comscore tool).

Team Leader- Campaign Management

Accenture
Mumbai
03.2010 - 12.2013
  • Managing Email/Direct Mail and Web-based campaigns
  • Participating in kick-off calls to understand campaign requirement
  • Preparing Monthly Brand scorecard And Dashboard to depict brand performance
  • Web analytics to depict post-campaign traffic
  • Communication of the project schedule and status to the brand and regions
  • Coordination of all resources
  • Execution of global level tasks
  • Escalation of issues
  • Return on Investment Analysis
  • Post Campaign analysis
  • Owning closure of data gaps, Own the field relevant, high-priority ad-hoc requests for the brand
  • Fully manage the global site rollouts to completion
  • This includes but not limited to: Ownership and communication of the rollout and update schedule
  • Tracking and Communication of status, Escalation of issues
  • Serving as the communication point between the brand and measurements organization
  • Keeping the brand informed of rollout timings
  • Leading measurement validation.

Communication Trainer

Tech Mahindra
Mumbai, Maharastra
2007.08 - 2010.03
  • Trained and mentored new Agents
  • Developed Training Materials

Quality Analyst

Global Tele Systems
Mumbai, Maharastra
2004.03 - 2007.08

Monitoring Quality Compliance on calls for sales Reps
Qualitative feedback to improve call quality
Quality Triages

Education

MBA - Marketing

Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research
01.2015

BHM - Hotel Management And Applied Nutrition

Institute Of Hotel Management Catering Technology And Applied Nutrition
01.2003

Skills

  • Client Relationship Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Upselling and Cross-selling
  • Operational Excellence
  • Team Leadership
  • Product Adoption Strategy
  • Performance Metrics
  • Collaborative Communication
  • P/L Management for large size accounts

Roles And Responsibilities

  • Client Growth and Retention, Assure customer and value retention, generating opportunities for upsells and cross-sells within the current customer base., Create strategic and measurable business value, enabling clients to achieve industry-leading returns on investment.
  • Relationship Management, Take charge of and cultivate relationships with clients, particularly in-person executive relationship management with larger accounts., Transform clients into champions and advocates, leveraging their knowledge to promote thought leadership.
  • Product Adoption and Innovation, Boost use cases and product adoption among clients, ensuring efficient utilization of the latest product features., Collaborate with product teams to align the product innovation roadmap with customer needs.
  • Operational Excellence, Establish and implement an operational rhythm to ensure clients are actively engaged, have excellent access to services, and derive value from interactions., Define specific objectives, utilize leading indicators, KPIs, and metrics to foster a performance-driven culture within the team.
  • Collaboration and Alignment, Work collaboratively with sales teams to create plans for customer and account success, maintaining relationships and ensuring organizational alignment., Oversee, supervise, and develop a productive group of customer success managers, fostering a customer-focused culture.
  • Team Management, Leading a Team of CSM’s and Campaign Managers

Timeline

Associate Director -Customer Success

Resulticks Digital Solutions
05.2022 - Current

Sr Manage -Customer Success

Resulticks Digital Solutions
06.2019 - 05.2022

Customer Success Manager

CleverTap
08.2018 - 06.2019

Head Of Customer Success-West And South East Asia

Netcore Solutions
07.2015 - 06.2018

Deputy Manager-Online Marketing

Reliance Industries Limited
12.2013 - 07.2015

Team Leader- Campaign Management

Accenture
03.2010 - 12.2013

Communication Trainer

Tech Mahindra
2007.08 - 2010.03

Quality Analyst

Global Tele Systems
2004.03 - 2007.08

MBA - Marketing

Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research

BHM - Hotel Management And Applied Nutrition

Institute Of Hotel Management Catering Technology And Applied Nutrition
SANJAY TARAFDAR