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Andrea Bernal Lalun

Jacksonville,FL

Summary

Diligent and driven professional with organized and competitive nature focused on customer retention and increasing revenue numbers. Persuasive communication style, strategic problem solving and providing superior customer service.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Renewal Specialist Team Lead

Samsara
02.2024 - Current
  • Helped high risk renewal customers to renew their current contracts with significant uplifts and longer term lengths.
  • Collaborated with sales operations and support leadership on SOP development for enhanced support team efficiency.
  • Awarded Golden Owl for top performance and surpassing targets.
  • Secured over 570 deals contributing to a $2.4 million ACV performance during FY25.
  • Created new templates for common issues along with a document to track errors and closing delays.
  • Established weekly office hours to facilitate team discussions on ticket and pipeline issues.
  • Conducted training sessions for a team of more than eight newly recruited employees.

Renewal Specialist

Samsara
Jacksonville, FL
05.2022 - 01.2024
  • Worked with pipeline of 100+ escalated auto-renew eligible clients per quarter to gauge satisfaction, resolve objections and secure contract renewals.
  • Successfully closed 119 renewals worth $360k of ACV in Q4 of FY24
  • Resolved 900+ Zendesk tickets in Q4 of FY24 coming from internal teams and customer renewal requests.
  • Effectively negotiated with escalated customers to increase pricing and improve payment terms.
  • Took ownership of escalated customer issues with leadership visibility, working with escalations team, sales executives, finance and other internal departments, to resolve and retain customers
  • Interviewed several candidates and helped to onboard and train 6 new team members.

Billing Support Team Lead /SME

Samsara
Jacksonville, FL
02.2021 - 05.2022
  • Assisted customers with Billing Support related issues and worked with escalation management team to resolve
  • Built out Billing Support department from team of 3 to full team of 20 in less than 3 months
  • Administered and created games, training videos and modules using Kahoot's & Google Docs
  • Reduced training schedule from 8 days to 7 days of training
  • Met with senior project manager and upper management to close gaps with other departments such as renewals, sales and finance by identifying key issues, creating and implementing new processes
  • Prepared subject matter documentation and disseminated for use by various departments
  • Continually updated these documents to reflect constant changes and needs of department
  • Listened to calls, graded tickets and scheduled 1x1 on a weekly basis with Billing Support Team and continuously updated quality assurance tracking documents to reflect and improve CSAT & SLA Scores
  • Scores improved from low-mid 3's to 4.0-4.5 within 90 days for CSAT and from 70's to 97-99% in 40 days
  • Ongoing training for current employees on weekly basis in morning huddles to develop and improve overall team performance
  • Identified bottleneck issues and implemented prompt and successful solutions working with other departments such as Tech, Finance, Renewals and Senior Management to eliminate backlog and maximize workflows

L2 Customer Service Supervisor

Nike
Miami
04.2020 - 02.2021

Guided 60+ escalated calls & Emails per day using excellent communication skills and decisive approach

  • Met inbound customer needs while maintaining strict performance targets of 80%+ CSAT
  • Coached team members to deliver hospitable, professional service while adhering to set service models.
  • Actively supported service associates by quickly responding to questions via phone and email and finding appropriate solutions to customer issues.

Store Owner

Ali's Sweet Treats
Miami, FL
08.2003 - 02.2020
  • Helped high risk renewal customers to renew their current contracts with significant uplifts and longer term lengths.
  • Collaborated with sales operations and support leadership on SOP development for enhanced support team efficiency.
  • Awarded Golden Owl for top performance and surpassing targets.
  • Secured over 570 deals contributing to a $2.4 million ACV performance during FY25.
  • Created new templates for common issues along with a document to track errors and closing delays.
  • Established weekly office hours to facilitate team discussions on ticket and pipeline issues.
  • Conducted training sessions for a team of more than eight newly recruited employees.

Education

Bachelor Of Business Administration And Management - Business Administration And Management

Florida International University
Miami, FL

Skills

  • Salesforce Experience
  • Excellent Communication
  • Problem solving
  • Customer Retention
  • Bilingual - English & Spanish
  • Zendesk
  • NetSuite
  • Confluence

Timeline

Renewal Specialist Team Lead

Samsara
02.2024 - Current

Renewal Specialist

Samsara
05.2022 - 01.2024

Billing Support Team Lead /SME

Samsara
02.2021 - 05.2022

L2 Customer Service Supervisor

Nike
04.2020 - 02.2021

Store Owner

Ali's Sweet Treats
08.2003 - 02.2020

Bachelor Of Business Administration And Management - Business Administration And Management

Florida International University
Andrea Bernal Lalun