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Tan Lok Wen

Minato-ku

Summary

Insightful Support Centre Senior Manager with experience directing and improving operations through effective employee motivational strategies, developing support strategies and optimizing operations. Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations. Support Centre Manager with over 18 years of experience in Contact Centre and 10 years of experience in management. Currently managing Oceania support centre, solution software and IT Expert Services operations to provide technical support and customer service to customers. Dedicated professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SUPPORT CENTRE SENIOR MANAGER (OCEANIA OPERATION)

Fujifilm Business Innovation (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
04.2024 - Current

Team Management:

  • Provide strategic direction and leadership to support center, guiding the team towards achieving goals and company direction.
  • Oversee the recruitment, training and performance management of support center, ensuring that employees have the necessary skills and resources to excel in their roles.
  • Maintain high-level of technical expertise in relevant areas, providing support to team members as needed and staying updated with industry trends and best practices.
  • Identify and resolve issues and challenges, leveraging the expertise of the team and implementing effective solutions to drive continuous improvement.
  • To optimize team productivity an effectiveness, ensuring the teams remain agile in handling various tasks.
  • Manage support center budgets ensuring that personnel and non-personnel cost are allocated effectively and within planned budget.
  • Foster collaboration and communication between teams and departments ensuring alignment with overall objectives, priorities, and goals.
  • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including customers, vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for team’s initiatives.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, industry standards and internal policies within support center.

Digital Transformation

  • Promote and champion a culture of innovation within support center, encouraging team members to explore new technologies and approaches to drive business growth and competitive advantages.
  • By using DX / innovation to turn support center into a hub of insights which collect, analyze and share with stakeholders to implement or improve the feedback from customers effectively.
  • Increase support center efficiency and productivity through DX.
  • Continuously evaluate and improve support center processes and procedures to enhance efficiency.

Projects Handling

  • Coordinate and manage projects from start to completion, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget, required standards and meeting the agreed target.
  • All necessary stakeholders are identified, engaged and consulted effectively.
  • To ensure support activities contribute to company’s growth.

Customer Experience

  • To established quality assurance measures to monitor and evaluate customer interactions ensuring that service standards are consistently met.
  • Feedback from quality assessment s used to identify areas for improvement.
  • Serve as OpCos consultants, providing insights into customer inquiries, trends, and areas for improvement to consistently achieve exceptional customer experiences.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTRE MANAGER (SEA OPERATION)

Fujifilm Business Innovation (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
04.2017 - 03.2024
  • Standardize processes across all OpCos during remote technical support operation transition.
  • Study and analyze OpCos' tasks (Service Workscontroller, Electronic Partnership Broadband) that can be support in FBAP technical support centre.
  • Lead, mentor and manage a team of remote technical support to deliver high quality service.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews, set goals and create development plan for team members.
  • Foster a positive, customer focused culture within the team and enhance motivation and engagement.
  • Manage team scheduling and resource allocation to ensure optimal coverage and efficiency.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholder or OpCos.
  • Ensure customer feedback and data is captured to provide customer behaviors, trends and satisfaction. Utilized these feedback and data to improve services and process.
  • Monitor and ensure compliance with SLAs, KPIs and quality standards across all support interactions.
  • Prepare and present performance report to OpCos and management, identify trends and areas for improvement.
  • Implement and refine support processes, workflows and remote tools to improve service delivery.

TEAM LEADER (SINGAPORE TEAM)

Fuji Xerox Malaysia Sdn Bhd
04.2014 - 03.2017
  • Workforce management and manage daily operations of the team including incident management and escalations.
  • Produced detailed reports outlining performance against benchmarks.
  • Enhance processes to improve efficiency, reduce resolution time and enhance customer satisfaction.
  • Collected, arranged and input information into knowledge base.
  • Analyse support centre performance data to identify trends, challenges and opportunities for improvement.
  • Assist in recruiting, onboarding, and training new hire agents.
  • Monitor and ensure compliance with SLAs, KPIs and other performance metrics.
  • Monitor customer feedback and drive initiatives to improve overall customer experience.
  • Coordinate with other teams or departments to address systemic issues and improve service delivery.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT SENIOR (SINGAPORE TEAM)

Fuji Xerox Malaysia Sdn Bhd
04.2012 - 03.2014
  • Lead and mentor the support team to ensure high quality performance and adherence to service standards.
  • Analysis on agent’s adherence
  • Provide end to end training to new hired agents.
  • Handling complains from customer and account managers.
  • Scheduling on plan shrinkage
  • Handling Inbound and outbound interaction.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT REPRESENTATIVE

Fuji Xerox Malaysia Sdn Bhd
12.2009 - 03.2012
  • Handling Inbound and outbound interaction.
  • Handling admin task such as email, orders ordering, online support etc.
  • Educate customers on product and service details and information.
  • Maintained customer satisfaction rate.

CALL CENTER JUNIOR EXECUTIVE

Nature Environment Products Sdn Bhd
03.2007 - 12.2009
  • Handling Inbound and outbound interaction.
  • Handling admin task such as onsite assignment, handling onsite case closure and reports.
  • Educate customers on product and service details and information.
  • Maintained customer satisfaction rate

CALL CENTER EXECUTIVE

Maxis Communications Bhd.
03.2006 - 12.2006
  • Handling Inbound and outbound interaction.
  • Handling admin task such as billing dispute, promotion etc.
  • Educate customers on product and service details and information.
  • Maintained customer satisfaction rate

Education

Bachelor of Science - Environmental/Health/Safety

University Putra Malaysia
Seri Kembangan
01-2006

Skills

  • Leadership & Team Management
  • Customer Success
  • Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Project Management
  • Process Optimization
  • Performance Metrics
  • Crisis Management

Accomplishments

  • Transited remote technical support operations for SEA OpCos to KL support centre within 2 years.
  • Live Chat and Service Cloud implementation.
  • Standard Chartered Bank PMS onsite support implementation.
  • Transited Solution support for FBCN and FBHK from KR support centre to KL support centre.
  • ITES Support Implementation

Jobdescription

Support Centre Senior Manager I, FBAP Support Centre (FBMSB), 12, To oversees the strategic direction, operations and performance of the support center which involves managing team including team of technical experts, setting performance targets, ensuring high quality services, and aligning support efforts with company direction., Provide strategic direction and leadership to support center, guiding the team towards achieving goals and company direction., Oversee the recruitment, training and performance management of support center, ensuring that employees have the necessary skills and resources to excel in their roles., Maintain high-level of technical expertise in relevant areas, providing support to team members as needed and staying updated with industry trends and best practices., Identify and resolve issues and challenges, leveraging the expertise of the team and implementing effective solutions to drive continuous improvement., To optimize team productivity and effectiveness, ensuring the teams remain agile in handling various tasks., Manage support center budgets ensuring that personnel and non-personnel cost are allocated effectively and within planned budget., Foster collaboration and communication between teams and departments ensuring alignment with overall objectives, priorities, and goals., Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including customers, vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for team’s initiatives., Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, industry standards and internal policies within support center., Promote and champion a culture of innovation within support center, encouraging team members to explore new technologies and approaches to drive business growth and competitive advantages., By using DX / innovation to turn support center into a hub of insights which collect, analyze and share with stakeholders to implement or improve the feedback from customers effectively., Increase support center efficiency and productivity through DX., Continuously evaluate and improve support center processes and procedures to enhance efficiency., Coordinate and manage projects from start to completion, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget, required standards and meeting the agreed target., All necessary stakeholders are identified, engaged and consulted effectively., To ensure support activities contribute to company’s growth., To establish quality assurance measures to monitor and evaluate customer interactions ensuring that service standards are consistently met., Feedback from quality assessments used to identify areas for improvement., Serve as OpCos consultants, providing insights into customer inquiries, trends, and areas for improvement to consistently achieve exceptional customer experiences.

Certification

  • Certified COPC Implementation Leader for CX Standard Release 6.0
  • ITIL 3 Foundation
  • Problem Solving Certification
  • Mid-Range Leadership Certification
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Chinese (Cantonese)
Upper intermediate (B2)
Malay
Intermediate (B1)

Timeline

SUPPORT CENTRE SENIOR MANAGER (OCEANIA OPERATION)

Fujifilm Business Innovation (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
04.2024 - Current

TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTRE MANAGER (SEA OPERATION)

Fujifilm Business Innovation (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
04.2017 - 03.2024

TEAM LEADER (SINGAPORE TEAM)

Fuji Xerox Malaysia Sdn Bhd
04.2014 - 03.2017

CUSTOMER SUPPORT SENIOR (SINGAPORE TEAM)

Fuji Xerox Malaysia Sdn Bhd
04.2012 - 03.2014

CUSTOMER SUPPORT REPRESENTATIVE

Fuji Xerox Malaysia Sdn Bhd
12.2009 - 03.2012

CALL CENTER JUNIOR EXECUTIVE

Nature Environment Products Sdn Bhd
03.2007 - 12.2009

CALL CENTER EXECUTIVE

Maxis Communications Bhd.
03.2006 - 12.2006
  • Certified COPC Implementation Leader for CX Standard Release 6.0
  • ITIL 3 Foundation
  • Problem Solving Certification
  • Mid-Range Leadership Certification
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Bachelor of Science - Environmental/Health/Safety

University Putra Malaysia
Tan Lok Wen