Retail clients

Sberbank pays a great deal of attention to ensuring a high level of service for retail clients, and also the creation of a positive customer experience. We regularly request feedback from clients and use the information to study client satisfaction and further improve service quality. We regularly track the key metrics for the customer experience – the Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI).

Client centric service model and customer experience

In 2017 Sberbank significantly expanded the list of service channels in which text-message surveys on Sberbank customer satisfaction are conducted. The number of events that are assessed rose from 26 to 108. Sberbank clients can now assess the quality of the work of ATMs, direct sales specialists serving clients outside of branches, banking product consultants, mobile bank transactions, and also personal offers sent to clients.

Sberbank pays special attention to ensure that not a single response should go unmarked. Instances of low ratings are forwarded to the appropriate departments of Sberbank. We make sure that cases of systematic discrepancies are processed and root causes of client dissatisfaction are eliminated. An established system for working with complaints in which clients can report to Sberbank that they consider their issue was left unresolved makes it possible to track and return to working on all such cases. Thanks to the measures taken to eliminate the root causes of problems, CSI shows a positive trend.

In 2017 the process of working with client communications on all key topics was substantially revised. Several solutions were developed and implemented for identifying and eliminating problems with credit and debit cards, even before the client contacts the bank. Achievements in 2017 included the automation of complaints processing and implementing a workflow for top topics.

Thanks to the improvement measures taken, we were able to increase the share of complaints that are resolved wholly or partially automatically from 2% at the start of 2017 to 33% by the end of December 2017, and also to increase productivity by 47%. It is important to note that client satisfaction with the process of handling complaints rose from 6.4 points in January to 6.7 points in December 2017 (CSI, on a 10-point scale).

Top Five Topics of Customer Complaints in 2017

In 2018, with the aim of improving service quality and the quality of work with customer complaints, we plan to introduce a new customer survey tool – an expanded web-questionnaire in text message/e-mail/push. Our plans also include a further expansion of the list of events on which customers are surveyed.

We developed our Communications Policy to ensure that retail clients can have an easy, stress-free dialog with the Bank. All service communications are gradually being delivered in a single manner and tone based on its underlying principles and rules. For example, the approach to drafting responses to client comments introduced in early 2017 allowed us to reduce the share of low CSI scores due to “Response not clear to the client” from 22% in December 2016 to 14% in December 2017. In addition, a computerized module for aligning communications with the uniform communications rules and delivery of all types of communications (service communications and personal suggestions) is being created as part of the technological transformation projects.

Sberbank makes active use of special projects to incentivize employees and raise the level of their engagement with the clientcentric model. The “I Like Sberbank” incentive program unites the Brand Advocate teams – Sberbank employees who actively use the bank’s products and services, understand them well, and recommend them to their friends and acquaintances. More than 25 thousand new participants registered in the program in 2017, with the total number of Brand Advocates now exceeding 83 thousand.

In order to support and promote clientcentric service, Sberbank has a program for non-material incentives for front-officeThe departments responsible for direct interaction with clients., employees whose work receives positive reviews on social networks for service that goes beyond expectations. Over the course of 2017, 274 letters of commendation were given to front-office employees who provided an exceptionally high level of service to clients.