Good management and leadership skills; broad knowledge and experience in the IT and software industry; strong presentation and communication skills, with experience with clients from the travel, hospitality, automobile, affiliate marketing, education sectors; international experience and exposure to different nationalities with focus on the Middle East, US,Australia and Europe; advanced computer skills (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, Marketo, Hubspot, Salesforce, CRM)
Qualifications
• Masters of Arts in Marketing Management from Middlesex University, London, UK in 2010.
• Bachelors of Computer Engineering from University of Pune in 2009.
• Diploma in Computer Engineering from Bombay Technical board in 2005.
Career Summary
Empower Integrated Solutions, Pune, India
Business Development Manager, June 2014 to Present
• Handling a cross functional team of 5 for recruitment, sales and marketing and a project management team of 12.
• Increased the website traffic from 20% to over 50% by revamping the website and working with the SEO and SEM teams
• Creating a new go-to-market strategy, including pricing, geography, target audience for a new product launch with extensive market and competitor research.
• Increased the turnaround time by almost 35% by creating new marketing and sales collateral to be sent out to prospects.
• Setup processes and increased efficiency of the marketing and sales teams to 45%.
• Created sales funnel and managed them using CRM for the entire sales amd Management team to track.
• Identifying new business opportunities and markets through extensive market research and promoting services and products.
• Increased the sales pipeline by over 150% at the GITEX, Dubai expo through successful Digital and Event Marketing promotions.
• Successfully helped in recruiting the IT and marketing staff and setting up the office.
Fujitsu Consulting India, Pune, India
Business Support Consultant, December 2013 to May 2014
• Consulting directly with the onsite CEO and VP Sales of a $ 44 billion company and supporting them in the decision making process.
• The sales analysis and forecast helped the team increase revenue in the current Quaters by over $35 million.
• Using Salesforce to forecast pipelines and setup strategies for the sales teams for each business unit.
• Optimized the sales process and increased efficiency of the sales team of over 50 by 12%.
• Created new reports and dashboards for the Management to help them increase efficiency and cut costs.
• Campaign analysis on Marketo and driving lead generation on Salesforce by optimizing these campaigns.
GlobeTek Solutions, Pune, India
Marketing and Sales Consultant, June 2012 to December 2013
• Worked with over 5 technology partners to help market their services and products in US, EU and Middle East.
• Effective online promotions and had a steady sales pipeline.
• Consulting clients to address their technology and business needs and thus cross selling them various services.
• Created a digital marketing campaign for a travel company to increase traffic and leads to their website.
• Managed teams to meet timely deliveries.
Extentia Information Technology, Pune, India
Business Development Executive, October 2010 to June 2012
• Managed the entire travel technology domain from client servicing to branding, creating new collateral, presentation, attending events etc.
• Handled over 150 prospects, creating proposals, giving demos, presentations etc.
• Increased leads over 150% working with the SEO teams and offline marketing channels.
• Successfully created and launched a travel product with pricing, go-to market strategy for the right target audience.
• Worked directly with the VP Business Development and CEO on resource augmentation, mobile applications etc.
• Created email marketing campaigns to reach out to new and old prospects to schedule appointments for the management.
• Increased the inbound traffic for the travel technology service offering by over 70% by creating and managing social media and content marketing strategies like new videos, info graphics, webinars and targeted events.
• Leveraging social networks to enhance campaign performance and nurture current prospects.
• Managing inbound marketing campaigns for various B2B and B2C clients using marketing automated tools like Marketo.
• Creating digital and mobile marketing strategies for travel companies from different geographies in North America, APAC and EMEA.
• Handled over 10 enterprise mobility clients and their requirement from business ideas to technology conception.
Internship
Tech: Touchstone, London, UK
Marketing Intern, June 2010 to September 2010
• Assisting the sales team members by updating Salesforce CRM and co-ordinating marketing activities to promote new events.
• Co-ordinating with the website design team to update the new web pages for upcoming events.
• Tracking and measuring email campaigns and optimizing them using marketing tools.
• Researching competitor activity and being up to date with market changes and marketing mix used by competitors.
• Researching and evaluating stakeholders participating in the events like delegates and sponsors.
• Ensuring prospect, delegate and sponsor for each event are accurately recorded in CRM database.
• Observing the effective impact of social media programs, studying, evaluating and reporting on the effectiveness of these campaigns to the sales teams and the management.