We're looking for a Channel Strategy Consultant to join our Client Care Operations team. You'll develop and implement channel strategies tailored to our business needs, build strong business relationships, and lead projects to boost operational efficiency and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Channel Strategy:
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with Visa client care organizations.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, providing insights and recommendations to optimize channel strategies.
  • Design and implement effective channel strategies for client care organizations.
  • Analyze processes and suggest improvements to enhance client satisfaction and efficiency.
  • Monitor the performance of strategies to ensure they meet business/client expectations.
  • Adjust strategies based on performance metrics and feedback.
• Project Management:
  • Lead multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery aligned with business goals.
  • Coordinate with internal teams and stakeholders for seamless project execution.
  • Chair and participate in meetings for new business requests related to channel opportunities.
  • Validate deployments to ensure releases meet business criteria.
  • Manage pre/post-project testing and coordinate agent-level testing with the contact center.
  • Conduct retrospective reviews for projects and implementations as needed.
• Collaboration:
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, and tech.
  • Communicate effectively with all levels of business/client and internal stakeholders.
  • Partner with Contact Center leaders and teams to identify risks and escalate issues with mitigation plans.
  • Provide thought leadership to managers, supervisors, stakeholders, and developers.
• Strategy:
  • Consider broad strategic issues and articulate their impacts.
  • Improve corporate knowledge and best practices by creating/enhancing documentation and processes.

This is a hybrid role, alternating between remote and office work. You'll be expected to work from the office two days a week, usually Tuesdays and Wednesdays, aiming for 50% office time based on business needs.

The Staff Consultant, Customer Success will work within our Customer Success team, supporting clients that leverage the Google Marketing Platform (GMP). Specifically, the Staff Consultant is a generalist role that contributes to revenue growth for Merkle | Cardinal Path (“MCP”) by supporting the four key Customer Success functions:

• Customer Onboarding
• Scaled Outreach
• Organic Growth
• Contract Renewals

The optimal candidate will have first-hand experience working with GMP products, particularly Google Analytics. They will also have at least basic familiarity with common enterprise analytics use-cases such as website and paid media optimization.

A successful candidate must be an effective written communicator and possess the ability to work with teammates across locations and time zones. They must have a very strong attention to detail, ensuring that client-facing deliverables meet our standards and that feedback from teammates is incorporated correctly.

Duties & Responsibilities:
 

The Staff Consultant, Customer Success will cover responsibilities related to the four key functions referenced above for a large number of customers.

Onboarding:

• Ensure new customers have a seamless onboarding experience from an administrative and logistical standpoint.
• Minimize time-to-value for the customer.
• Identify any immediate customer issues that need to be addressed and show the customer a path toward resolution.

Scaled Outreach & Organic Growth:

• Use MCP proprietary tools to scan our customers’ Google Analytics accounts (and possibly other GMP product accounts).
• Analyze the output of these scans to identify relevant, compelling opportunities for our customers to gain more value from the GMP products they have purchased from MCP.
• Understand the rationale behind why various recommendations are being made to customers, and how those recommendations can benefit MCP commercially.
• Creates a customer-facing deliverable which reflects the output of the scans, the resulting opportunities that have been identified, and other relevant information.
• Works with customer-facing colleagues across the Customer Success team to ensure the deliverable meets the requirements, incorporating feedback as necessary.
• Ensures all customers are aware of and invited to marketing events such as webinars, client roundtables, etc.

Contract Renewals:

• Work proactively and ahead-of-time to make the contract renewal process stress-free for both customer and MCP.
• Minimize churn by identifying risk in advance and developing a plan to retain at-risk customers.
• Win contracts that are advantageous to MCP, e.g. contracts that auto-renew, contracts that include rate increases, contracts that reduce MCP risk exposure, etc.

Customer Care Consultant

Reporting to: Team Lead

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR ROLE

We’re an outsourcing provider with a difference—offering clients flexible engagement models backed by our solid suite of shared support services. As a Customer Care Consultant, your role is vital in keeping our customers happy and contributing to our organization’s growth and success.

Customer Care Consultants are the first point of contact to deal with existing or potential customers’ enquiries. The role is required to establish effective relationships with the customer by gaining trust and respect and in turn generating customer information in order to deliver a solution

You’re the genie that fulfils our clients and customer’s needs. You’ll represent the account and interact with clients, brokers, and other parties through emails and calls and ensure their services- are addressed in a timely and efficient manner. You use analysis, focus, and patience, coupled with product knowledge to effectively execute what is required. Your day could see you:

• Provide a first class customer service experience to our clients.

• Providing smart, effective and efficient service to customers.

• Act quickly and decisively in determining customer needs.

• Promote the campaign as a leading Energy provider by delivering quality customer service to new and existing Simply customers.

• Respond to enquiries about gas and electricity (depending on geographic location) and various client promotional offers.

• Identify sales opportunities, up selling and cross selling of products to new and existing customers.

• Address complaints or fault inquiries and transferring calls as required to appropriate personnel in order to achieve a positive customer outcome.

• Comply with all Quality requirements and scripting at all times.

• Ensure all privacy requirements are adhered to accurately enter all data including relevant and appropriate notations on customer files.

• Implement and observe all Acquire BPO conditions of employment and policy guidelines (with particular regard to personal conduct, presentation, behaviour).

• Commitment to maintain all company workplace health and safety procedures.

• Perform various duties and projects as allocated by the Team Leader or members of Management.

• Contribute to an effective monthly one-on-one progress review with the Team Leader.

• Respond to Performance Improvement Plan stipulations and any coaching requirements.

• Actively participate in team and department activities.

A BIT ABOUT YOU

• Excellent in customer service.

• Previous experience in a customer service environment is mandatory.

• Sales background, ideally in a Contact Centre environment.

• High level of literacy and numerical skills.

• Ability to effectively use computers and IT systems.

• Clear and Effective communication skills.

• Sales and Negotiation skills.

• Ability to work under pressure and maintain a positive attitude.

• Able to manage time effectively, works with a sense of urgency whilst maintaining attention to detail.

• Relates well to all kinds of people, able to build rapport and out people at ease.

• Results orientated with the ability to meet targets.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• High customer satisfaction.

• Exceeding/on target scorecard rating.

• Exceeds accuracy goal.

• Meeting settlement deadlines.

WHAT WE VALUE

We’re proud of our diverse global team, all working in a collaborative environment and happy to share these common values:

• Collaboration: Brilliant jerks can be brilliant elsewhere.
• Impact: Do, get it done, create impact.
• Passion: Be positive, bring passion and energy.
• Transparency: A transparent team can help each with other.

Join the A-Team and experience the A-Life!

Position: Customer Solutions Consultant

Reporting to: Manager, Customer Solutions

Location: Ortigas Center, Pasig City (Onsite)

Working Hours: Shifting Schedule

Start Date: ASAP

About Aptean

Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Our industry-specific solutions, designed to maximize business value and process efficiency, are at the heart of our customers’ operations. Over 10,000 organizations in more than 20 industries across 80+ countries trust Aptean’s solutions at their core to assist with running their operations. To learn more about Aptean and the markets we serve, visit www.aptean.com.

General Job Summary

The Customer Solutions Consultant is expected to provide application consulting and customer support to Aptean customers. This individual will participate as a member of the Customer Support and Implementation Team to deploy new projects, and/or provide on-going support to their existing installation. He/She will consult with customers in the configuration and usage of application modules, research and resolves problems and issues. Overall, this individual is expected to manage customer expectations and foster positive business relationships with all customers.

Knowledge: A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This job is the fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position.

Complexity: Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.

Supervision: Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments.

Role and Responsibilities

• Consulting Services
  • Provide consulting services to customers based on Aptean’s service delivery methodology and procedures; services engagements may include implementation consulting, upgrade consulting, training, testing, and/or process improvement consulting.
  • Effectively work on multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Work collaboratively with project manager and project team to deliver projects on time, on budget, on schedule.
  • Submit time and expenses punctually each week.
  • Maintain a professional appearance when onsite with customers.
• Incident Resolution
  • Provide expert solutions to complex customer problems in a timely manner by receiving, clarifying and investigating incidents.
  • Take ownership of and follow-through with all priority customer incidents.
  • Offer complete and timely explanations to customers throughout the incident resolution process and ensure that customers’ staff fully understand issue, its resolutions and means for prevention.
  • Clearly and concisely document all customer interaction and all steps taken to resolve incidents.
  • Observe trends and recommend improvements to product design, documentation or implementation and create necessary enhancement requests.
  • Work with R&D and product line team to expedite incident resolution and ensure seamless delivery of support service to customers.
  • Determine when issues need to be escalated.
  • Set severity levels with customers.
  • May be assigned escalated tickets.
• Knowledge Management
  • Expand expertise within the product.
  • Attend training sessions offered and use self-study tools; assist with peer training as needed.
  • Contribute to a customer focused environment that encourages information sharing, team-based resolution activity, cross training and an absolute focus on resolving customer incidents as quickly and effectively as possible.
  • Create KB articles and documents using the Knowledge Centered Support (KCS) methodology, to be published and shared both internally and with the customer base.
• Communication
  • Ensure that all internal and external customer interactions are handled professionally and with the highest level of service, follow-through and consistently keep commitments.
  • Ensure a professional communication manner when in-person or on the phone at all times.
• Additional Duties
  • Participates in system and release testing and QA as needed.
  • Recommend improvements in Customer Solutions policies and procedures.
  • Additional duties as assigned by management.

A Successful Candidate

• Proven track record in providing stellar customer service and technical support
• Outstanding communication skills in the English language – both verbal and written
• Experience working for an ERP company or exposure to using ERP solution is an advantage
• Understands the industry and business environment served by the application
• Basic understanding of relational database concepts and architecture
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work efficiently and independently and do whatever it takes to get the job done
• Ability to handle difficult or sensitive situations with diplomacy and tact
• Previous working experience using CRM (Salesforce) and/or other ticketing solution

Join the A-Team and experience the A-Life!

• 5+ years' experience as project/program manager/Subject Matter Expert, delivering complex system-integrated business application projects. Ideal candidate will have deep knowledge and experience with project planning, execution, go-to-market activities, and managing cross-functional, global project teams.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently while coordinating activities with cross-divisional teams to achieve desired results, effectively prioritize and multi-task under tight deadlines.
• Ability to successfully engage in multiple initiatives and complex situations simultaneously
• Visa subject matter and/or payments expertise
• Strong organizational skills, as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles
• Excellent analytical, communication, written, presentation, interpersonal, and time management with the ability to interact professionally with a diverse groups of executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Understanding of Genesys IWS, Chat, Telephony, IVR and associated routing, queue functionality and reporting
• Understanding and a willingness to learn Artificial Intelligence related to Bot and reporting functionality
• Experience with Knowledge Management systems and methodologies and KM governance

Acceptance Solutions Service Enablement the team responsible for the end-to-end user journey and support servicing model for clients: Issuers, Acquirers, Processors, Technology Partners, and Merchant who accept and process digital and face to face digital transactions.  Acceptance Solutions is one pillar of the Value-Added Services global servicing and support team working with clients worldwide to develop and deliver the best servicing and support model for Visa.

The Service Enablement team is the liaison between Client Services and internal teams. This role is recognized as a thought leader and authority on client enablement functions and needs. This role prioritizes our customers and places them at the heart of our business operations, products, and enhancements. The goal is to offer positive experiences to our customers using common goals and data to drive improvements.

What You’ll Do, Day To Day.

• Hold teams accountable to improve the client experience through data driven projects that tie to OKRs and goals

• Maintenance and creation of all artifacts such as end to end journey maps

• Visio mapping to document regional and functional processes to highlight where we have differences and inefficiencies, and leverage as a tool to identify areas of opportunity. This will also serve as a resource to share with stakeholders

• Continuous improvement to existing services and processes

• Maintain a continuous path of global CS communication to provide timely feedback to Product 

• Identify/prioritize key product needs, dependencies with regions, define success measures and track status with internal teams

• Engage with Product to provide input to design, development, implementation, client engagement and support process with regional feedback and a client lens 

• Support Client Services as an escalation contact for improving the client experience

• Responsible for workflow assignments and maintain commitments toward taking initiative to resolve problems and meet deadlines

• Provide governance to meet target milestones

• Streamline internal processes to enhance effectiveness

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.