Pradeep Vishwakarma

Talented Manager with expert team leadership, planning, and organizational skills built during successful career. Smoothly equip employees to independently handle daily functions and meet customer needs. Diligent trainer and mentor with exceptional management abilities and results-driven approach.

Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

Performance-driven professional with over 19 years of rich & extensive experience in Channel & Media Operations Management and People Management in the Media- TV & Advertising sector.

Played a key role in highlighting the balances money with Sales & PRS to get it converted to avoid savings along with Revenue Maximization & Clients Servicing to achieve our daily Nos and trying to consume as much revenue for the same month; wherein trying to achieve 95-97% of business by end of month in Star India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

Managing National reports as per Management requirements.

Maintaining National inventory & Revenue Maximization to achieve our Daily Run rate.

Led productive cross-functional team using interactive and motivational leadership that spurs people to willingly give excellent results.

Managing all India Ops team & guiding them on their daily routine to be top on their work, guiding team to do timely bookings without any error, sending Client Recons to sales to avoid any wastages of the campaign.

Hands-on experience in daily follow-up on the Release order expected with sales as per the Projection Shared.

Maintaining the tracker of Impact Property to achieve the respective nos.

Steering initiatives in identifying underlying risks, deficiencies, and opportunities at forefront, while managing all India inventory on respective channels.

A strategist cum implementer with recognized proficiency in spearheading business to accomplish corporate plans and goals successfully.

• Imagine TV, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Senior Executive - Sales Coordinator, 2007-12-01, 2012-04-01
• FCB ULKA Advertising Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra, Media Executive - Operations, 2005-05-01, 2007-12-01

• Star India Pvt. Ltd., Manager (Marathi Genre, Channel head in Operation GEC & NGEC) - Pravah Network Portfolio; Pravah SD/Pravah HD/Pravah Pictures SD & Pravah Picture HD - was currently working on All India Ops Business for Marathi Genre., Team Management and Motivates team for their high Performance amongst the team of 7 members in all India., Getting timely Ro/Deal Recons to be shared with sales to avoid any wastages., Collaborating with PRS/Sales/Traffic/Programming on Smooth functioning on Business., Tentatively handling the Business of 35-40 Cr Monthly., Handling high pressure to start the critical campaign on network along with Impact properties., Maintaining Report as required by Management, Ro in Hand/DRR/Impact Report/Fill level on channels/ASR/ADR and so on., Getting timely Bookings done from team along with Impact Sponsorship to action on timely basis.

• Maa Network Portfolio, Manager (Telugu Genre, Group Head for West Region along with National Business of GEC & NGEC) - Maa Network Portfolio; Maa SD, Maa HD, Maa Movies SD, Maa Movies HD, Maa Music & Maa Gold - Developing & executing high-level operational strategies, making high-stake decisions and overcoming complex business challenges using experience-backed judgment, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity., Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters the development opportunities and motivates the high performance amongst the team of 14 members in all India region for Operations of all Telugu channels., Collaborating with Sales while keeping them informed of progress and issues to manage expectations on all requirements and wastages. Weekly Meeting on Expected/Pipeline business as per the Targets planned., Traffic Team, Sales Team & PRS Team to ensure smooth flow of Bookings., Contributing towards timely bookings/ taking MG/ commercial follow-up and so on, Achieving Nos. as per target shared, as facilitating 45-55 Crores business in a month., Monitoring: Timely campaign execution, Creating Inventory for clients/agencies on short Notice, Execution of the critical campaign, Sending the daily reports to management, Ensuring effective preparation of Reports, RO in Hand, DRR, HUL & PNG servicing., Getting balance monies conversion to avoid any savings, giving suggestion to Sales & PRS on the same., Managing team in their annual leave so that work doesn’t get hampered.

• HGEC Portfolio, Manager (Group Head for West Region) - HGEC Portfolio; Star Plus SD, Star Plus HD, Star Bharat SD & Star Bharat HD & Star Utsav - Developing & executing high-level operational strategies, making high-stake decisions and overcoming complex business challenges using experience-backed judgment, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity, Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters the development opportunities and motivates the high performance amongst the team of 14 members for Operations of all HGEC channels., Collaborating with Sales while keeping them informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all requirements and wastages., National Leads to get west inventory as much to achieve our west Target., Traffic Team, Sales Team & PRS Team to ensure smooth flow of Bookings., Contributing towards timely bookings/ taking MG/ commercial follow-up/ sponsorship and so on, Achieving West Nos. as per target shared, as facilitating 83-85 Crores business in a month in HGEC, Monitoring: Timely campaign execution, Inventory for client and agencies, Sending the daily reports to management, Ensuring effective preparation of west Reports, RO in Hand, DRR, HUL & PNG servicing, NPT tracker, Instituting NPT maximization to achieve nos.

• Regional & Hindi Movies Portfolio, Assistant Manager (Group Head for West Region) - Regional & Hindi Movies Portfolio; Star Jalsha/ Jalsha Movies/ Star Pravah/ Star Gold/ MOK/ Utsav Movies - Identified and implemented strategies for building team effectiveness by promoting a spirit of cooperation between team of 14 members for Operations on HGEC, Engaged in getting all the operation work done from team including timely bookings/ MG/ commercial follow-up/ sponsorship/Recon and so on, Attended weekly meetings with Sales & PRS to understand the future business also on the monies lying out of the system within team and sales to get the Nos achieved for the month.

• HGEC Portfolio, Assistant Manager (Group Head for West Region) - HGEC Portfolio; Star Plus SD, Star Plus HD, Star Bharat SD & Star Bharat HD - Identified and implemented strategies for building team effectiveness by promoting a spirit of cooperation between team of 10 members for Operations on HGEC, Engaged in getting all the operation work done from team including timely bookings/ MG/ commercial follow-up/ sponsorship/Recon and so on, Attended weekly meetings with Sales & PRS to understand the future business also on the monies lying out of the system within team and sales to get the Nos achieved for the month.

• Media Implementation (English Movies Portfolio), Exec/Senior Executive - Media Implementation (English Movies Portfolio); Star Movies SD, Star Movies HD, Star Movies Action & Star Movies Select HD - Directed national inventory for complete STAR Movies SD, Led a team of 2 for Operations of all English Movies channels., Worked on achieving all India Target (Region wise & Month wise), Facilitated reconciliation of deals, Engaged in sending: Sponsorship letter & following up to start the sponsorship ASAP. All India avails & preponing spots to reach the daily target., Liaised with: All India to prepone FCT and fill the inventory. Programming Team to release the FPC for the next month. Traffic Team to ensure smooth flow of sales units.

Achievement – Achieved a Best Performer certificate in 2022