Keysight TechnologiesSenior Operations Manager
Jan. 2016Englewood, Colorado► In this role, I have the following responsibilities: ✔ Leadership, coaching, and mentoring staff with mixed abilities; this includes 5 general managers, 5 assistant supervisors, and 64 customer service representatives. ✔ Vigilant assurance of quotes and orders getting processed in a timely manner in Oracle, Siebel, and SFA to bring in an average of 3.9 billion dollars in sales per year. ✔ Business opportunities are identified, developed and secured business in line with Keysight’s business objectives. ✔ Oversight, review, and approval of LOP’s, SOW’s, Government clauses and any idiosyncrasies that direct reports come across when processing quote requests and/or purchase orders per Keysight’s order acceptance policy. ✔ SOX compliance and reporting for revenue recognition and UBI including cancellations. ✔ Collaborative assistance in the peculiarities with government, international, channels and major account business. ✔ Continuous improvement leadership that drives efficiency through sponsoring at least 4 LEANS per fiscal year. ✔ Stakeholder interaction to gain approval on business processes that will increase Keysight’s organic growth. ✔ Deviations monitor and response via Keysight’s customer experience survey and by directly contacting customers who have given Keysight a low survey score. ✔ Departmental policy, procedure, objective and goal establishment and implementation to sustain business continuity. ✔ Customer service phone line monitoring and servicing where an average of 90,000 calls are received annually, maintaining an average service level of 94%. ✔ Routine communication between employees, field sales, divisions, contracts and collections to ensure business flow. ✔ Successful service level of 95% for the 1-800 line was achieved, quote and order TAT was increased by 40%, and customer service requests response time was improved by 42%.