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ABHIJIT ALOK

Bengaluru

Summary

Seasoned collaborator experienced in meeting needs, improving processes and exceeding requirements in team environments. Diligent worker with strong communication and task prioritization skills.

Work History

Senior Manager (Banking Alliance)

Open Financial Technology
- Current
    • Took SBI Connected Banking and HDFC Bank white labeled solution projects from 0 to 1, and 1 to 10
    • Established strategic tie ups with the banks like ICICI Bank, Yes Bank, Axis Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and SBI
    • Ensuring higher level of engagement with the banks by cross selling of various products like Connected Banking, POBO and Expense Management
    • Capitalizing bank's extensive network for distribution of the product to the bank's customer base
    • Liaising with external and internal stakeholders for smooth onboarding of banks
    • Keeping abreast with and analyzing the competitor's propositions
    • Using data and MIS for driving both external and internal stakeholders
    • Examination of various banking parameters for better positioning of the product in banking channels
    • Helped improve the average Current Account balance by 6X, to INR 10 lacs per account
    • Contributed in increasing the accounts onboarded by 30% per annum
    • Managing accounts with annual transaction value of $16 billion and transaction volume of 13 million.

Senior Business Analyst (App Store)

Open Financial Technology
  • Collecting customer insights and using it to enhance existing apps in App Store of Open.money
  • Mapping products and apps, clubbing them to fit for easy understanding of customers
  • Introduced new apps in app store and helped create it as hook for merchants
  • Analysing competitor products and pricing products in accordance with that
  • Liaising with external stakeholders like Google, Ecwid and others for third party integrations
  • Capability building of internal drivers of product.

Product Manager (API Banking)

ICICI Bank

Development of APIs to add new use cases on Connected Banking platforms, industry first initiative

  • Client portfolio analysis to take new interventions to improve Connected Banking portfolio and increase business
  • Channel management to cross sell product across ICICI Bank verticals and capability building of internal stakeholders
  • Created business of INR 500 Cr AAB growth post product launch
  • Won Asian Banker Award for “Best API Initiative” for Connected Banking
  • Managing Direct to Customer communication through mailers, SMSs, ATMs, campaigns etc.

Business Development Manager

OYO Rooms
  • Responsible for the supply side in Haridwar and Roorkee area
  • On boarding hotels on Oyo after transforming them to Oyo standards
  • Managing the on boarded hotels
  • Adding 100 rooms per month on Oyo.
  • Increased client base by identifying new business opportunities and cultivating strong relationships with key decisionmakers

Area Manager

Safexpress Private Limited
  • Responsible for the Sales and Operations activities of the area
  • Responsible for managing a 30,000 sq
  • Ft
  • Warehouse in Hubli
  • Managing and leading a team of 11 employees as well as 15 labours working in the hub
  • Managing both the delivery and booking franchises of the area.

Engineer

Usha Martin Limited
  • Being responsible for Boiler and Turbine operation of one of the captive power plant having 30MW capacity, out of a total capacity of 135MW of 5 captive plants, learned about standard operation, start up and shut down procedure of boiler and turbine.

Education

PGDM - Marketing

IIM
Kashipur
2015.07 - 2017.05

B. Tech. (Applied Electronics & Instrumentation) -

Dehradun Institute of Technology
Dehradun
2007.07 - 2011.05

Skills

Achievements

  • Awarded the Most Valuable Player for my contribution in streamlining App Store of Open.money
  • Awarded recognition certificate for HDFC Bank project
  • Addressed the gap in Open Ads achieved significant monthly savings of INR 2,50,000
  • By streamlining the entire flow of GMB in the App Store, we successfully reduced the failure rate of validation from 20% to just 5%
  • By addressing the inactive users decreased the monthly charges incurred for Ecwid's Open Ads, resulting in substantial savings of INR 1,00,000 per month

Internship

PRADAN, 04/01/16, 05/01/16, Empowering cooperative dairy run by rural women through development of business, Enhancing operations, marketing, and HR processes of the company

Timeline

PGDM - Marketing

IIM
2015.07 - 2017.05

B. Tech. (Applied Electronics & Instrumentation) -

Dehradun Institute of Technology
2007.07 - 2011.05

Senior Manager (Banking Alliance)

Open Financial Technology
- Current

Senior Business Analyst (App Store)

Open Financial Technology

Product Manager (API Banking)

ICICI Bank

Business Development Manager

OYO Rooms

Area Manager

Safexpress Private Limited

Engineer

Usha Martin Limited
ABHIJIT ALOK