
Victor Raafat
Operations & BPO Management|Project Management|COPC®- Certified HPMT
Nozha, Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Business Process Outsourcing Operations ManagerFull Time
Tamara KSA
Sep 2024 - Present -9 months
Saudi Arabia , Riyadh
- Job Details:•Owning daily and weekly BPO performance and KPI management. Actively pursuing variance reduction through data backed action planning •Collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders as a strategic partner and consultant •Leading through partnership and timely engagement •Leveraging resources and feedback to improve training, quality, and performance management •Building long term strategic vision and uplifting our BPO network capabilities to do increasingly complex work more effectively, efficiently, and with improved experience outcomes •Driving operational compliance, risk management, and mitigation efforts with BPO sites •Implementing projects and pilot programs to advance performance or business outcomes •Sharing best practices, feedback, and results with stakeholders and BPO sites as applicable
Contact Center ManagerFull Time
Aug 2022 - Sep 2024 -2 yrs, 1 month
- Job Details:• Defines and develops operating approaches to ensure call center standards and requirements are met. • Manages operations through performance metrics management tools that identify deviation from target and ensure that corrective action is taken based on the root cause analysis approach. • Ensures that end user privacy policy is properly and consistently implemented. • Provides Leadership to a large and diverse staff and ensures that everyone works towards unified vision. • Ensures that department financial objectives are met and maintained through: o Preparing an annual budget plan. o scheduling expenditures. o Estimating requirements to increase the Gross Profit. o Plan actions and managing the revenues and COGs. o Proper control of equipment and personnel costs. o Maintaining existing accounts revenue levels, initiating corrective actions, and avoiding the penalties. • Maintains monthly operation reports reflecting all indication figures across all projects and presents to management. • Ensures that manpower succession plans are in place and implemented effectively. • Ensure the invoice generation, validating all terms, following up with the client on the cycle till receiving the confirmation on the invoice and its certification. • Negotiate and own all agreements with the client regarding the invoice roles or amendments required for better business experiences. • Maintain and improves call center operations by: o Monitoring system performance, identifying and resolving challenges. o Preparing and completing action plans. o Completing system audits and analyses. o Managing system and process improvement and quality assurance programs. • Maintaining an updated practices of COPC approaches and standards and follow up on the implementation to successfully meet the Performance results (PST) expectations. • Oversee all the activities of own team to ensure high performance levels and efficient implementation. • Responsible for the professional development of own team and ensure it is aligned with the organizational career progression and succession plans. • Responsible for setting the team objectives in correlation with the department objectives, provide coaching and action plans required to achieve objectives.
Service Delivery Manager OperationsFull Time
Jan 2018 - Jul 2022 -4 yrs, 6 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:• Monitor and analyses operational activities and help improve efficiencies and resolve operations issues. • Design the new processes for new programs implementations • Supervises and directs the Operations • Sets the weights for Team members monthly objectives • Appraises the Team members on annual basis • Ensures that corrective actions are taken in the process of monitoring and coaching • Ensures that Team members adhere to monitoring schedule, as communicated by the WF unit, and makes sure that the members adhere to the schedules • Communicates with Call Center clients concerning the business / operational results • Conducts regular meetings with client to present and review business results. The MOM of those meetings is to be documented with the specific actions required, the owners of those actions and the due dates of delivery. • Applies operational, qualitative and business analysis of project operational processes. • Updating service manual for assigned project constantly • Conducts process improvement opportunity analysis on all assigned projects in order to maximize efficiencies in service delivery and provide value added • Conduct a quarter review with the client to align the strategy of the client with the offerings of RCC • Translate the yearly clients’ feedback to actions aiming at improving the level of satisfaction of the client • Arrange for hiring calibration between the client and HR • Maintains table “F” of the project, ensures that the set targets are met and performs the CUIKA exercise • Applies the problem solving technique whenever any KCRP is experiencing a wide variation or not meeting the bench mark • Carries the responsibility of achieving targets communicated by the Operations Manager. • Maintains the COGs % of the project as agreed with the Sales account Manager • Analyses monthly the project’s cost/call and the rev/call to ensure GP % are met • Meets the financial objectives by ensuring that the contribution margin has the allocated costs within budgeted tolerances. • Analyses cost of Absenteeism on monthly basis and takes action as needed • Acts as focal point with the supporting functions for project related issues (including verification of monthly invoice) • Acts on negative feedback received from the QA dept. on the monthly end-user satisfaction survey to ensure better results for the following month • Meets one-to-one with all relevant Team members to communicate feedback from monthly performance assessment • Holds meetings with Team members to review operational results and to discuss improvement steps • Ensures enforcement of the End-User Privacy Policies • Ensures that all team members adhere to code of conduct and takes disciplinary action where necessary • Perform on floor audits to ensure consistency in delivering the service to the end user • Follow the implementation approach for any new scope or change of scope • Keeping a track sheet for all process change forms to track clients’ requirements and change requests • Performs other related duties
Senior Accounts Manager OperationsFull Time
Raya Contact Center
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017 -2 yrs, 11 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Accounts Managed: • Al Borg Laboratories™. • Nestle® Care Center • Lilly® Patient Support program • NovoNordisk® Care Center • Hoffman La Roche • AstraZeneca Ask.Medical • Al Shams Laboratories ™. • Al Mokhtabar Laboratories ™. • Tabibi 24/7 • Dawi Clinics • Dr.Soliman Fakeeh Hospital DSFH • Nile Scan & Lab Key Responsibilities: Nature of Impact: • Monitor and analyses operational activities and challenge to help improve efficiencies and resolve operations issues. • Design the new processes for new programs implementations within the existed accounts • Supervises and directs the Operations of Team Leaders • Sets the weights for Team Leaders and Advisors monthly objectives and calculates the monthly variable for incumbent’ Team Leaders • Appraises the Team Leaders on annual basis • Warns (through letters) Team Leaders that do not meet 80% of their target • Ensures that corrective actions are taken by Team Leaders in the process of monitoring and coaching Advisors • Ensures that Team Leaders adhere to monitoring schedule, as communicated by the WF unit, and makes sure that the Advisors under their management adhere to the schedules • Communicates with Call Center clients concerning the business / operational results • Conducts regular meetings with client to present and review business results. The MOM of those meetings is to be documented with the specific actions required, the owners of those actions and the due dates of delivery. A status report is to be sent on weekly basis updating the client with the progress of those agreed actions. • Applies operational, qualitative and business analysis of project operational processes. • Updating service manual for assigned project constantly and present it and approve it from the client on quarter basis • Conducts process improvement opportunity analysis on all assigned projects in order to maximize RCC efficiencies in service delivery and provide value added to clients • Conduct a quarter QBR with the client inviting the top managers from both sides to align the strategy of the client with the offerings of RCC • Translate the yearly clients’ feedback to actions aiming at improving the level of satisfaction of the client and meeting the set CSS bench mark • Arrange for hiring calibration between the client and RCC HR then sample the heads hired onwards as to ensure the profile agreed is maintained • Maintains table “F” of the project, ensures that the set targets are met and performs the CUIKA exercise • Applies the problem solving technique whenever any KCRP is experiencing a wide variation or not meeting the bench mark and documents case • Carries the responsibility of achieving targets communicated by the Operations Manager. • Ensures that the K base of the projects is up-to-date • Maintains the COGs % of the project as agreed with the Sales account Manager • Analyses monthly the project’s cost/call and the rev/call to ensure GP % are met • Meets the financial objectives by ensuring that the contribution margin has the allocated costs within budgeted tolerances. • Analyses cost of Absenteeism on monthly basis and takes action as needed • Acts as focal point with the supporting functions for project/Advisor related issues (including verification of monthly invoice) • Acts on negative feedback received from the QA dept. on the monthly end-user satisfaction survey to ensure better results for the following month • Takes action as necessary on feedback from transaction monitoring • Meets one-to-one with all relevant Team Leaders to communicate feedback from monthly performance assessment • Skip level with the Advisors randomly every Quarter • Holds weekly meetings with Team Leaders to review operational results and to discuss improvement steps • Ensures enforcement of the End-User Privacy Policies • Ensures that all team members adhere to RCC code of conduct and takes disciplinary action where necessary • Perform weekly on floor audits to ensure consistency in delivering the service to the end user across all Advisors of the project • Follow the implementation approach for any new scope or change of scope required by the client by filling out the process change request form and following the rest of the approach • Keeping a track sheet for all process change forms to track clients’ requirements and change requests • Performs other related duties
Accounts Manager OperationsFull Time
Raya Contact Center
Dec 2011 - Dec 2014 -3 yrs
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Accounts Managed: • Al Borg Laboratories™. • Cairo Scan Radiology Center™. • Cairo Scan Lab™. • Ministry of Health “Mammography Awareness Campaign” • Nestle® Care Center • Lilly® Patient Support program • NovoNordisk® Care Center • Hoffman La Roche • P&G Outbound Survey • AstraZeneca Ask.Medical • Al Shams Laboratories ™. • Al Mokhtabar Laboratories ™. Key Responsibilities: Nature of Impact: • Supervises and directs the Operations of Team Leaders • Sets the weights for Team Leaders and Advisors monthly objectives and calculates the monthly variable for incumbent’ Team Leaders • Appraises the Team Leaders on annual basis • Warns (through letters) Team Leaders that do not meet 80% of their target • Ensures that corrective actions are taken by Team Leaders in the process of monitoring and coaching Advisors • Ensures that Team Leaders adhere to monitoring schedule, as communicated by the WF unit, and makes sure that the Advisors under their management adhere to the schedules • Communicates with Call Center clients concerning the business / operational results • Conducts regular meetings with client to present and review business results. The MOM of those meetings is to be documented with the specific actions required, the owners of those actions and the due dates of delivery. A status report is to be sent on weekly basis updating the client with the progress of those agreed actions. • Applies operational, qualitative and business analysis of project operational processes. • Updating service manual for assigned project constantly and present it and approve it from the client on quarter basis • Conducts process improvement opportunity analysis on all assigned projects in order to maximize RCC efficiencies in service delivery and provide value added to clients • Conduct a quarter QBR with the client inviting the top managers from both sides to align the strategy of the client with the offerings of RCC • Translate the yearly clients’ feedback to actions aiming at improving the level of satisfaction of the client and meeting the set CSS bench mark • Arrange for hiring calibration between the client and RCC HR then sample the heads hired onwards as to ensure the profile agreed is maintained • Maintains table “F” of the project, ensures that the set targets are met and performs the CUIKA exercise • Applies the problem solving technique whenever any KCRP is experiencing a wide variation or not meeting the bench mark and documents case • Carries the responsibility of achieving targets communicated by the Operations Manager. • Ensures that the K base of the projects is up-to-date • Maintains the COGs % of the project as agreed with the Sales account Manager • Analyses monthly the project’s cost/call and the rev/call to ensure GP % are met • Analyses cost of Absenteeism on monthly basis and takes action as needed • Acts as focal point with the supporting functions for project/Advisor related issues (including verification of monthly invoice) • Acts on negative feedback received from the QA dept. on the monthly end-user satisfaction survey to ensure better results for the following month • Takes action as necessary on feedback from transaction monitoring • Meets one-to-one with all relevant Team Leaders to communicate feedback from monthly performance assessment • Skip level with the Advisors randomly every Quarter • Holds weekly meetings with Team Leaders to review operational results and to discuss improvement steps • Ensures enforcement of the End-User Privacy Policies • Ensures that all team members adhere to RCC code of conduct and takes disciplinary action where necessary • Perform weekly on floor audits to ensure consistency in delivering the service to the end user across all Advisors of the project • Follow the implementation approach for any new scope or change of scope required by the client by filling out the process change request form and following the rest of the approach • Keeping a track sheet for all process change forms to track clients’ requirements and change requests • Performs other related duties
Education
BSc in Veterinary Surgery and Medicine
Cairo University (CU)Jan 2003
High School - Thanaweya Amma
Imbaba Secondary Military schoolJan 1981
Achievements
O Towards Quality Top Achiever 2017 In recognition for outstanding quality performance during 2017 O Certificate of Honorable Devotion, 2016 In appreciation of dedication for job in achieving a 100% Client Satisfaction for the Year 2015 O Gratitude Certificate, 2016 Certificate awarded from Roche Egypt for participation in treating and providing exceptional support to more than 3000 patients. O Certificate of Honorable Devotion, March 2014 In appreciation of dedication for job in achieving a 100% Client Satisfaction for the Year 2013 O Certificate of Honorable Devotion, March 2011 In appreciation of dedication for job in Crucial times of curfew and Lawlessness of 2011 revolution O Star of the Quarter, March 2010 for the Team Work value (Fluka March 2010 edition “Company internal newspaper voting award”) for Raya Contact Center O Raya Achiever Club Certificate, 2010 O Certificate awarded of RAC membership In recognition of distinguished achievement for the year 2010
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Client/Customer Experience Management
- Contact Center Management
- Process Improvement
- Team management
- Transaction monitoring
- Audit
- Project Planning
- Microsoft Visio
- Project Management
Languages
English
FluentArabic
Fluent
Training & Certifications
Essentials of Management and Strategic Planning
University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education·2022Project Management
Project Management Institute PMI·2022Business Continuity
Project Management Institute PMI·2022Critical Thinking Skills for the Professional
University of California, Davis·2021Digital Marketing Fundamentals
Google Digital Unlocked – The Open University·2019Six Sigma Tools for Improve and Control
University System of Georgia – Kennesaw State University, Atlanta·2018Six Sigma Tools for Analyze
University System of Georgia – Kennesaw State University, Atlanta·2018Six Sigma Tools for Define and Measure
University System of Georgia – Kennesaw State University, Atlanta·2018Six Sigma Principles
University System of Georgia – Kennesaw State University, Atlanta·2018Six Sigma Yellow Belt Specialization
University System of Georgia – Kennesaw State University, Atlanta·2018Managing Projects Risks and Changes
University of California, Irvine·2018Budgeting and Scheduling Projects
University of California, Irvine·2018Initiating and Planning Projects
University of California, Irvine·2018Project Management Principles and Practices
University of California, Irvine·2018Oral Communication B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference CEFR
American University in Cairo AUC·2017Oral Communication B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference CEFR
2017COPC® Implementation Leader
COPC Inc.·2017Six Sigma Certification – Six Sigma White Belt
Aveta Business Institute·2013COPC® Registered Coordinator
COPC Inc.·2013ICDL- ECDL Certificate (International Computer driving license Certified)
European Computer Driving License Foundation.·2009ICSA Certificate (International Customer Service Association Certified)
Rock Hurst University, Continuing Education Center, Inc.·2005SSADM Structured Business Systems Analysis and Design Diploma
NCC Education-Manchester-England·2004