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Pranava Rao

Bangalore

Summary

Experienced leader in B2B enterprise sales and account management with over 10 years of experience. Skilled in developing new business development,strategic partnerships, alliances, and offering digital services and concept selling solutions. Known for building long-term relationships with C-level customers, including CPO, CAO, CMOs, CIOs, CTOs, and CEOs. Currently focused on understanding changing market dynamics in the security manned industry. Provides a customized risk mitigation strategy based on a deep understanding of the client's value chain stage. Successfully generates revenue and drives corporate/enterprise sales in the South region of India. Proven track record of ensuring month-over-month revenue growth through strategic planning and assessments. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, department heads, and leaders to ensure smooth operations across key business parameters. Recognized for suggesting process improvement measures that resulted in cost savings, product life improvement, and time optimization in production work schedules for clients. Results-driven sales performer with a solid history of success in bringing in new customers, managing revenue streams, and maintaining solid account relationships. Continuously monitors competitors and researches market conditions to stay responsive and successful in dynamic environments. Possesses persuasive negotiation and program management abilities.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Sales Manager-South

G4S Secure Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd
04.2024 - Current
  • Developing and executing sales strategies to expand G4S's market presence.
  • Handled customer relations issues, enabling quick resolution, and client satisfaction.
  • Identifying and targeting potential clients across various sectors. Conducting market analysis to understand customer needs and competitor activity.
  • Generating new sales leads through various channels, including cold calls, meetings, and networking.
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing and potential clients and Assessing client security needs and providing customized solutions.
  • Preparing and delivering proposals and presentations.
    Acting as the primary point of contact for clients.
  • Setting and achieving sales targets,tracking and monitoring sales progress.Providing sales forecasts and reports to management. Utilizing CRM tools to manage sales activities.
  • Supporting and leading the bid process, including bid writing, finalization of commercials, customer negotiation, proposal submission, and contract finalization.
  • Providing regular sales reports to senior management.
    Analyzing sales data and market trends.

Strategic Account Manager (Digital Sales)

Ecom Express Ltd
08.2021 - 03.2024
  • Currently managing South regions for EDS -Digital Services
  • Responsible for on-boarding client from BFSI, Forensics, Consulting, FMCG, Telecom and IT
  • Monetizing the regions to the maximum potential and drive product growth cutting into various sectors
  • Extensive experience in end-to-end onboarding of customers/partners from lead generation to commercial negotiations, technical integration
  • Responsible for revenues through digital supply chain solution business through Partnership & Strategic Alliances and cross sell of other tech products
  • Working internally with functions that cut across the organization including category teams, customer service, customer experience (CX), technology, After sales service, building and maintaining healthy business relations with major corporate
  • Handling complicated integrations and giving multiple solution to the new and existing customers
  • Closely working with operations and other cross functional product team to deliver solution to meet the client's requirement
  • Giving better customer experience by understanding the customer need and the pains areas and accordingly stitching the synergy across

Enterprise Sales Manager

Rivigo Services Private Limited
06.2019 - 06.2020
  • Hunting new accounts and growing existing accounts by offering all prime business products
  • Co-ordinate internally and externally with multiple cross functional teams to ensure overall customer satisfaction
  • Competition mapping to generate new business opportunities with existing and new clients
  • Executed strategies to develop business opportunities and increase client base by X% month on month
  • Exceeded sales quotas and increased profitability through effective sales strategy and business planning

Strategic Account Manager

Dun & Bradstreet India
01.2018 - 06.2019
  • Responsible for Key Account Management and New business development in South India
  • Developing Marketing solutions utilizing D&B Commercial Database
  • Liaising with South based clients and generating revenue for various Research
  • Implementing marketing strategies by analyzing trends, market mapping, competitor analysis to enable effective decision-making and forecasting of sales numbers
  • Identify new business opportunities/ sponsorships for all events & content-based reports by pitching concepts to key decision makers (CXOs/ Directors, Business & Marketing Heads)
  • Enhancing company brand awareness through flagship IPRs with media/ press/ key industry analysts and promote the brand & business at all levels
  • Building and maintaining a strong sales pipeline and consistently delivered quarter on quarter targets
  • Concept selling and selling ideas for Newsletters, Cluster studies & Industry report, White Papers

Key Account Manager

Staples India Ltd
10.2015 - 12.2017
  • Providing the consultative sales to clients
  • Finding out the new business opportunities in existing accounts and forecasting the business need of the customer
  • Created multiple GTM offerings leading to successful penetration of cross-selling and up selling other service offerings to a client
  • Have always come up with effective project planning strategies which ensure before time completion of projects
  • Managing the strategic and Key Accounts for the BFSI and IT domain and responsible for end-to-end farming/Hunting

Key Account Manager

Manipal Technologies Limited
07.2013 - 10.2015
  • Providing the consultative sales to clients
  • Finding out the new business opportunities in new and existing accounts
  • Forecasting the business need of the customer
  • Working closely with category team and tendering team
  • Created multiple GTM offerings leading to successful penetration of cross-selling and upselling other service offerings to a client
  • Lead all delivery and sales engagements end to end for the clients assigned
  • Have always come up with effective project planning strategies which ensure before time completion of projects
  • Managing the strategic and Key Accounts for the BFS domain and responsible for end-to-end farming

Sales Executive

Alembic Pharmaceuticals
12.2009 - 11.2011
  • Worked as medical representative for specialty division

Education

MBA - Marketing

Visvesvaraya Technology University
Mangalore, Karnataka
05.2013

Bsc - Statistics

St Aloysius College, University of Mangalore
05.2009

Skills

  • Business development
  • Sales Strategy Development
  • Enterprise B2B Client Management
  • Competitor analysis
  • Strategic Market Growth
  • Business Strategy Development
  • Profitability
  • Business Objectives
  • Business growth and retention
  • Leadership
  • Client Account Management
  • Strategy tie-ups
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Digital Service Optimization
  • Solution-Oriented Selling
  • Long-Term Account Planning
  • Strategic account penetration

Timeline

Senior Sales Manager-South

G4S Secure Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd
04.2024 - Current

Strategic Account Manager (Digital Sales)

Ecom Express Ltd
08.2021 - 03.2024

Enterprise Sales Manager

Rivigo Services Private Limited
06.2019 - 06.2020

Strategic Account Manager

Dun & Bradstreet India
01.2018 - 06.2019

Key Account Manager

Staples India Ltd
10.2015 - 12.2017

Key Account Manager

Manipal Technologies Limited
07.2013 - 10.2015

Sales Executive

Alembic Pharmaceuticals
12.2009 - 11.2011

Bsc - Statistics

St Aloysius College, University of Mangalore

MBA - Marketing

Visvesvaraya Technology University
Pranava Rao