Carmen started with Navarik in 2015 as a customer success analyst and office manager (who was also responsible for planning many legendary company parties). Her cheerful and jovial nature shines through her interactions as clients lean on her expertise in their times of distress. As a powerhouse of the Navarik Support team, she manages constant new incoming and ongoing support requests, which requires a strong work ethic, organization, and timeliness. The culmination of her team's hard work is demonstrated when comparing 2022 Navarik Support metrics to the FreshDesk Global Benchmark (FDGB) Report:
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FDGB (All Industries) |
FDGB (Software & IT) |
Navarik Support |
First Response SLA Compliance (%) | 84.33 | 85.81 | 97.34 |
Resolution SLA Compliance (%) | 88.00 | 87.77 | 91.68 |
CSAT, Customer Satisfaction (%) | 79.40 | 80.00 | 92.20 |
With her commitment and dedication towards the Navarik experience, she was recently promoted to CSM. She continues to collaborate alongside other Navarik departments to ensure our client concerns are addressed with the VIP treatment they deserve.
A typical day for Carmen consists of client calls, responding to emails, testing system features, and providing training to customers worldwide with Navarik's ongoing growth. While her schedule is relatively standard, she may facilitate meetings in the evening due to time zone differences. Catering to various time zones can be challenging, but Carmen feels "the varying hours help expand [her] range of customer connections as well as get feedback from a more diverse audience."
Navarik Support agents require many technical and soft skills to deliver appropriate assistance to our users. They are heavily involved with understanding a wide scope of Navarik operations, possessing in-depth product knowledge, writing clear documentation, and even QA testing. Under the multiple hats Carmen wears, she emphasizes the connectedness to various business areas as both a professional and personal development challenge for growth. Carmen's customer-first, wholehearted approach helps her thrive in the front-facing environment, where she enjoys first-hand engagement with Navarik users.
With any long-standing career, challenges, and accomplishments are many. While Carmen expresses she hasn't had to face many large-scale challenges in her seven years at Navarik, she recalls how steep the learning curve was entering the commodity trading industry. In addition to orienting herself with the industry, Carmen became well-versed with our product suites from not only an internal but also a user standpoint to offer proper client assistance. Her perseverance and dedication are rewarded with having recently been promoted to Customer Support Manager, where she is now responsible for training a new support agent and developing her mentorship skills. Likewise, in her approach with Navarik customers, she echoes the same sentiment internally to her team, where she strives for "our department to continue to be a safe space for others to come to for help, advice, and feedback".
Upon reflecting on Navarik's successful 2022 performance in comparison to the FreshDesk Global Benchmark KPIs, Carmen suggests a few important items, which properly reflect her work ethic.
When Carmen isn't behind the screen answering emails and troubleshooting, she can be found outdoors soaking up the sun, or spending time with animals, and enjoys waitressing on the side. Throughout the year, she likes to travel and particularly appreciates time on airplanes and at airports (contrary to most individuals that prefer the destination instead of the journey). Halloween is her favorite time of year, where she can also be found watching a thriller. Lastly, a not-so-well-known fact about her is that she is bilingual and part of her childhood was spent in Germany.