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Brandon Ng

Head Of Commercial, Carsome | ex-Grab
Petaling Jaya

Summary

A passionate problem solver rooted and grown in the start-up life and culture. Fortunate enough to have been a part of two great tech companies, Grab and Carsome, with a decade of experience and strong foundations in operations, process optimization and product launches.


A firm believer in
• Taking full ownership and responsibility of role and tasks
• Working closely with stakeholders to deliver the best outcome
• Growing and developing people to their best potential
• Never being comfortable and constantly challenging the status quo
• Driving product development that meets business requirements


Finds joy and excitement in figuring out solutions to business needs/problems.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of Commercial

Carsome
Petaling Jaya
2021.11 - Current

Head of Commercial

July 2022 – present

Led the commercial department to drive commercial strategies and initiatives to accelerate business growth.

  • Grew adoption of customers who trade-in their cars to improve sales conversion from 6% to 20%
  • Grew contribution of sales from third party brokers to 14% of overall sales
  • Spearheaded and project managed four large scale Carsome Autofair event across different cities

Head of Demand Operations Excellence

Nov 2021 – Jun 2022

Spearheaded end-to-end process optimization and product enhancement for Carsome’s systems and processes in order to drive efficiency and maximize effectiveness of the demand funnel. Oversee customer journey planning and process enhancements to improve customer experience.

  • Reduced turnaround time of sales from 32 days to 16 days (reduction of 16 days)
  • Improved sales conversion of appointment to order from 18% to 30% across all branches
  • Built a revamped NPS and CSAT framework to effectively collect customer feedback and measure customer experience
  • Maintained NPS at 70 and above, achieving highest score of 74 (8 points improvement from 66), and achieving above industry standard of 33 (Automotive) and 34.3 (e-Commerce)

Head of Demand Operations Excellence

Carsome
Petaling Jaya
2021.11 - 2022.06

> Drive end-to-end process optimization for the business to better optimize online-to-offline strategy with efficiency and optimizing customer experience in mind

> Built a revamped NPS and CSAT framework to effectively collect customer feedback and measure customer experience

Manager, Acquisition Operations

Grab
Petaling Jaya
2017.10 - 2021.11

> Business owner for all acquisition product and processes to ensure optimized and most efficient conversion of leads
> Oversee all GrabCar, GrabFood and GrabExpress driver and rider acquisition efforts from different channels across 20+ cities in Malaysia
> Oversaw operational efforts and processes for GrabCar to comply to newly implemented e-hailing regulations for Malaysia

  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.

Assistant Manager, Driver Acquisition

Grab
Petaling Jaya
2016.04 - 2017.09

> Optimized acquisition processes and channels – integration of Zoho CRM, Zapier, and other automation tools
> Oversaw a team of 20 people comprising telesales/follow-up calling team & admin functions

Driver Performance Lead

Grab
Petaling Jaya
2015.08 - 2016.03

> Strategized weekly incentives to drivers to address peak hour demand
> Performed fraud checks to prevent fraudulent incentive payouts
> Oversaw and built incentive payout team & payment support
> Oversaw and launched new products – GrabPay, assignment-based job allocation

Driver Loyalty & Retention Executive

Grab
Petaling Jaya
2014.10 - 2015.07

> Increased demand by training drivers to refer passengers in driver refer passenger program
> Plan and executed the Elite driver loyalty program to ensure retention of MyTeksi’s best drivers

Management Associate

Grab
Petaling Jaya
2013.10 - 2014.09

> Marketing - Built JB market – grew demand through on-ground marketing activities and secured key partnerships with partners such as Legoland and UTM - Plan and executed campaigns to promote passenger app downloads and activation
> Business Intelligence/Analytics - Conducted data analysis on key initiatives to improve business metrics such as driver churn data, new customer life cycle retention - Supported data requests for SEA region - Prepare weekly insights for key stakeholders
> Driver Loyalty & Retention - Pioneered, designed and executed driver incentives to address peak hour demand - Pioneered, designed and executed cash out process from driver’s credit wallet

Education

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
2009.03 - 2013.06

Skills

Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, Powerpoint

Zoho CRM - setup, module building, integration

Third-party integration tools - Zapier

Google Suite

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline

Head of Commercial - Carsome
2021.11 - Current
Head of Demand Operations Excellence - Carsome
2021.11 - 2022.06
Manager, Acquisition Operations - Grab
2017.10 - 2021.11
Assistant Manager, Driver Acquisition - Grab
2016.04 - 2017.09
Driver Performance Lead - Grab
2015.08 - 2016.03
Driver Loyalty & Retention Executive - Grab
2014.10 - 2015.07
Management Associate - Grab
2013.10 - 2014.09
Monash University Malaysia - Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
2009.03 - 2013.06
Brandon NgHead Of Commercial, Carsome | ex-Grab