Akshay Bhandari

Key Responsibilities:

• Devised processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels.
• Implemented process improvement to shape organizational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow.
• Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time.
• Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe, or ineffective practices.
• Established positive and effective communication among unit staff and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications, and missed deadlines.
• Negotiated contracts with vendors and suppliers to obtain best pricing and terms.
• Led hiring, onboarding and training of new hires to fulfill business requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implements plans with an understanding of the company’s strategic goals
• Assists with project initiation and scope definition, prioritization of assignments, and adherence to client-driven priorities, commitments, and milestones
• Business to Business Sales in Kenya
• Analyze brand positioning and consumer insights
• Shape and communicate our vision and mission
• Translate brand elements into plans and go-to-market strategies
• Manage a team of marketing people working on brand initiatives
• Lead creative development to motivate the target audience to “take action”
• Establish performance specifications, cost and price parameters, market applications and sales estimates
• Responsible for overseeing a large variety of analyses and all relevant documents, including but not limited to: project initiation, proposal comparison packages, letters of intent, and broker's opinions of value
• Closely working with Finance/Accounting teams to ensure integration between the service lines
• Administers quality assurance program, tracking and reporting of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Coordinates the efforts of various vendors in order to ensure that required tasks can be accomplished on time
• Develops a timeline for the completion of certain milestones for a given project, by Gantt Chart
• Creates a budget for the completion of a particular job, and monitors the amount of money spent in order to ensure the project does not exceed this amount
• Recommends changes to a project that is ongoing if it appears it is not proceeding on schedule or is producing unsatisfactory results
• Develops an alternate course of action for completing a job should the initial plan fail
• Makes presentations to investors, business partners and company executives concerning different phases of a project
• Reviews proposals and approves or denies them
• Contracts with outside agencies for support on an as-needed basis.

Goga Ji Global Ltd.(GGL)

• Having 12.5 MVA Solar Power plant In Paten

• Project Management & Operations

• Govt. liasioning

• Working for PPA of 12.5 MVA with Govt. / Semi Govt. companies

Bhagyashree Power Transformers

• Sales & Marketing Strategy Development

• Channel development

• Corporate Sales

• Branding

• EPC – Location, Planning, Machine installation & Govt. approvals Suppliers and Planning & execution of the Plant.

Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Consulting on Risk Management to Corporate Clients and Advising Clients on improvements across the spectrum of risk management, Liability, Property and Human capital

Key Responsibilities:
Overall responsibility for Sales and Development of market for Retirement fund products (Group Gratuity, Super-Annuation & Leave Encashment)- and Business Development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Handled Operation of the plant from Manufacturing to ensuring policies and procedures are followed.
• Decision making to pursue the project
  Project approval and contracts signed, and order placed
• Handling Construction, Commissioning and beneficial operational process

Significant Highlights:

• Mapped new markets
• Appointed new dealers in Goa & Indore (MP), Udaipur, Parts of Gujarat for sales
• Developed a channel sales system for the organization in which have appointed 12 Channel Partners across the state of Gujarat, MP & Goa.
  Successfully achieved 245% of the targets assigned for the year 2010-2011, Rs.44 Cr order booking done in 2010 -2011 from Rs.8 Cr in 2009-2010.
• Development of a branch of 2-3 Cr to an average sales of 35-45 Cr year on year.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the business development strategy formulation, supporting sales, client management, branding and PR
• Branding - Starting the new FM network in Ahmadabad, Looking into the branding of the station
• Tracking of trade events, seminars, webinars, trade publications and industry summits and identify opportunities for participating, exhibiting, sponsoring and speaking at such events
• Also responsible for the local branding of MYFM 94.3 wherein my job was to conceptualize themes and continuity of advertisements, niche positioning, marketing communication, media management, corporate communications, and client and public relations

Significant Highlights:

• Successfully Launched MYFM 94.3 Radio station in Ahmedabad
• Contributing towards growth of the Sales & Advertising Revenue; and got 45 new advertisers in the first month of launch
• Achieved 90% of targets in 2008 year on year sales target

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate sales Revenue from Space Sales
• Responsible for supporting the business development strategy formulation, supporting sales, client management, branding and PR.

Significant Highlights:

• Expanded the retailer base by adding 40% of new retailers or customers in the assign region
• Successfully achieved 140% assigned target in 2007
• Launched and Developed the brand “ SIMPLY GUJARATI”
• Did the first ever Reverse gate fold for Simplies with revenue
• Did the first ever Stip ads with simply Gujarati

Key Responsibilities:

• Research, identify and pursue opportunities for additional business with existing clients
• Identify attractive industry sectors (Telecom, IT, ITES, BFSI, FMCG, Hospitality) and key players in those sectors and develop sales strategy to target them providing recommendations on existing product portfolio vis-à-vis market opportunities
• Completing the client file with all the post-meeting reports, proposal, contract, any other relevant details about the requirements and background of the client and handing it over to the training Consultant before any program.