Director, Business Operations And Customer Care
Greater San Diego Area
Led daily operations of the Customer Care and the Project Management departments. Consistently introduced areas of improvement for company-wide processes and initiatives. Selected and integrated 150-seat Enterprise Business System (NetSuite) to support sales, service, accounting and BI departments. Supervised 12 direct, 49 indirect and nine dotted-line reports. Recruited, interviewed, trained, and developed new employees, including management-level candidates. Assessed performance and terminated under-performing team members. Set goals, company-wide, as they related to company KPIs. Tracked departmental efficiency in process and cost effectiveness compared to KPIs. Documented and established all standard operating procedures across company departments. Created initial and ongoing training program for each department to ensure operational best practices were adhered to. Developed internal project management process using SCRUM methodology to address fast development cycle and fluid business priorities. Evaluated new initiatives for company product offering and performed cost/benefit analysis to determine pricing for customers.- Optimized staff resource scheduling and phone availability, increasing 30-second answer rate from 85% to 93%.- Improved customer retention 20% and collection of accounts receivable by 29%. - Developed systems of use for CRM solution (NetSuite) that tied client lifecycle to measurable numbers from point of sale through maintenance, cancellation, and reacquisition. Resulted in increase from 12-month average age to 15-month average age while decreasing cost of acquisition from 9 to 7-month payback.- Introduced new client orientation process, reducing 30-day cancellation due to buyer’s remorse from 25% to less than 10%- Standardized pricing structure for additional work based on cost benefit analysis, impact to retention, and market pressures, increasing monthly revenue from $95K to $150K.