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Karan Malhotra

Associate Director - New Products

Summary

Highly organized and self-motivated professional experienced in Sales, Account Management and Customer Success. Skilled in developing and implementing strategies to increase efficiency and performance. Passionate about driving business growth and creating positive work environment.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Associate Director - New Products

Tanla Platforms Limited
Gurgaon
08.2022 - Current

1. Currently heading Whatsapp and Conversational.ai business for North and UAE for both New and Existing Business.

2. Heading the Customer Success Division.

3. Leading a team of 4 dedicated resources managing customer relationship and scale up.

4. Forecasting funnel to the stakeholders.

5. Driving all New age solutions and Partnership efforts in liaison with the Marketing Team.

6. Karix's Dedicated Meta's spoc conducting Weekly review to identify gaps and drive New Accelerator Programs.

7. Trained and developed department leaders and Sales Team for specific projects and ongoing operational needs.

8. Driving and Leading all the Events to represent the Business.

Senior Manager - Enterprise Sales

Yellow.ai
Remote
08.2021 - 07.2022

1. Managed Net New Business for SEA and APAC market in positioning our offering to B2B companies which are primarily customer driven in nature and velocity.
2. Briefly managed ANZ Net New division as well.
3. Helping companies automate the CX and driving more engagement to achieve the end goal for the respective business.
4. Managed and lead a special program to assist Sales team with faster closures.
5. Drive a Leads campaign to acquire competitor's logo and increase market share.

Manager I - Sales

Wingify
04.2019 - 08.2021

1. Managed the Farming business for North America, Canada and Latam market.
2. Liasoning with the Customer Success team for creating campaigns and if required giving them a complete walkthrough of the platform to enhance the engagement model.
3. Driving Upsell, Cross-sell, and Upgrades to expand the portfolio and maintain a healthy DRR.
4. Led a team of 2 Account Executives and 5 Customer Success Manager.
5. Briefly managed Net New Business for North America SMB's division.

6. Ran a special campaign to minimize Organic Churn.

Manager-Client Partner(Global Sales)

MarketsandMarkets
Pune
04.2018 - 03.2019

1. Strategic Advisory in high growth niche markets along with partnering with strategic accounts in order to multiply their revenues Accomplishments.
2. Working with Key Strategic Heads of Fortune companies and managing these relationships by providing personalized niche insights for their future growth strategies in order to multiply y-o-y.
3. Managed Net New business for North America , EU and SEA market.
4. Led a team of 2 Business Development Executive.

Territory Manager-EMEA

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
Noida
04.2015 - 04.2018

1. Responsible for managing an annual Direct Sales Quota of $6Mil. per annum and led a team 5 Account Executive's.
2. Acquire Net New Customer and grow market share for Adobe & additionally also manage Adobe's existing account base.
3. Work independently on target customer accounts & leads generated through our marketing channels and help customers change the way they create content by informing them of new trends and ways to be more productive.
4. Work closely with Solution Consulting and other team members to maximize the value of software and develop strong, strategic relationships with clients to identify and leverage the customers' business goals, growth strategies, and profit drivers to deliver value proposition/sales solution strategy.
5. Actively involved in hiring, training, and mentoring new team members.
6. Keep a track of pipeline created by AE's in the CRM system, prepare reports and share on a regular basis.
7. Ensuring daily/weekly updates of pipeline & provide accurate forecast to the sales leadership team on an ongoing basis using Salesforce CRM.

Account Development Manager-EMEA

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
Noida
05.2013 - 03.2015

1. Managing Sales of Adobe's Creative Cloud product line to drive net-new business.
2. Initiate the first-level contact with existing and prospective clients.
3. Engage and understand client's project requirements and help with optimum technology solutions.
4. Present & demonstrate compelling technology solutions to clients.
5. Actively working on RFPs and RFQs for clients.
6. Ensure effective utilization of Enterprise frameworks to achieve successful ROI for clients.
7. Working cross-functionally with marketing, research, engineering, channel/training partners, and licensing teams to address with client's project roadmap.
8.Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Adobe's competitive positioning in the marketplace.

Sr. Client Technical Consultant(Global Sales)

Dell International Services
Gurgaon
10.2008 - 04.2013

1. Case management for the entire LOB Handling DELL US Consumer Segment operations.
2. Conversion of targeted sales lead and managing sales data for the team Proactive calling into identified prospects and install base accounts across assigned territories to achieve revenue targets.
3. Conduct sales oriented research on identified prospects, specific industry verticals and competitors.
4. Responsible for generating potential business for existing customer / new customer to sell Dell Computers & warranties.
5. Achieve monthly, quarterly and yearly pipeline and forecast goals. Revive dead renewals and lost opportunities.

Education

MBA - Marketing

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
Pune
04.2009 - 05.2012

Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computers

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIU)
New Delhi
05.2005 - 05.2008

HSC ( Class 12th ) - Commerce

Hans Raj Model School
New Delhi
04.2003 - 04.2005

SSC ( 10th Class ) -

Hans Raj Model School
New Delhi
04.2001 -

Skills

Direct Sales

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Accomplishments

1. Started New Hire Training-Getting Started at Adobe.
2. Part of Save $$$ campaign at Dell. This Project was initiated by VP,Sales Worldwide to retain the existing Cloud customers which lost interest in the product after Adobe servers got hacked and their financial details got comprised. Had the highest number of Save within the shortest timeframe.
3. Part of SMAC program at Dell where we catered to client blogs and forums on various social networking websites.
4. Awarded in the Wall of fame at Adobe for FY'13, FY'14 and FY'16 as part of the Sales Achievements Award program.

Timeline

Associate Director - New Products

Tanla Platforms Limited
08.2022 - Current

Senior Manager - Enterprise Sales

Yellow.ai
08.2021 - 07.2022

Manager I - Sales

Wingify
04.2019 - 08.2021

Manager-Client Partner(Global Sales)

MarketsandMarkets
04.2018 - 03.2019

Territory Manager-EMEA

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2015 - 04.2018

Account Development Manager-EMEA

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2013 - 03.2015

MBA - Marketing

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
04.2009 - 05.2012

Sr. Client Technical Consultant(Global Sales)

Dell International Services
10.2008 - 04.2013

Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computers

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIU)
05.2005 - 05.2008

HSC ( Class 12th ) - Commerce

Hans Raj Model School
04.2003 - 04.2005

SSC ( 10th Class ) -

Hans Raj Model School
04.2001 -
Karan MalhotraAssociate Director - New Products