PRASAD JAHAGIRDAR

Role:

• Business Development
• Sales and Marketing
• Preparing, Monitoring,and Achieving Yearly Revenue Target
• Managing Business Compliance
• Business Collaboration and Expansion
• Vendor Management
• Key Responsibilities:
• Client management and networking
• Continuously making a healthy business pipeline
• Project management and delivery
• Ensuring revenue is achieved as per the plan
• Ensuring all compliances are met in time
• Managing vendors for timely delivery
• Yearly budget management

Role:

• Handle a team of graphic designers, content writers, digital marketers, and website developers
• Monitor and fulfill requirements received from all verticals across the organization
• To maintain timelines and quality on deliverables across functions
• To plan and maintain the overall budget allocated for activities
• Career planning for team, team mentoring & team upscaling
• Team motivation & continuous improvement
• Key Responsibilities:
• Brand Communication for Retail (Quick Heal) and Enterprise (Seqrite) brands
• End-to-end campaign management
• Manage an advertising, digital, and web development agency
• Define a creative objective based on the marketing objective
• Ensure creative output from agencies as per the objective
• Brand Strategy
• Understand the market and plan communication
• Formulate brand strategies (for retail and enterprise brands)
• Translate brand strategies into a brand communication plan
• Digital Communication
• Formulate digital strategies in line with marketing and communication objectives
• Lead digital team for retail and enterprise brand
• Plan and monitor a yearly digital calendar for retail and enterprise brands
• Monitor the digital agency's performance and keep improving
• Manage campaign effectiveness and take corrective action
• Content
• Lead content team for retail and enterprise brand
• Decide and plan the organization's presence through blogs, white papers, threat reports, webinars, and other channels.
• Ensure the effectiveness of blogs and other content by regular monitoring
• Website Development and Maintenance Team
• Lead the website development and maintenance team
• Website and maintenance of 14 websites of the company
• Creative Development
• Understand creative requirements from all stakeholders like Sales, HR, Admin, R&D, Product, etc, for retail and enterprise brands
• Ensure the appropriate brief is shared with the creative and graphic design team
• Monitor creative output and suggest modifications
• Ensure timely creative output of elements required for ATL, BTL, Outdoor, and Digital media
• Planning and Managing Yearly Budget
• Plan and manage yearly budget for creative development, digital marketing, website maintenance, and development
• Monitor budget utilization
• Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
• Maintained a professional, organized, and safe environment for employees and patrons.
• Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
• Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
• Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive Profitability (P&L responsibility)
• Ensure the smooth management of day-to-day operations. Foresee problem areas and tackle them.
• Ensure execution of all types of campaigns/work, keeping in mind the process from presenting a campaign to final execution
• Drive business growth discussions (internal) and help identify potential opportunities for the agency's business growth
• Actively lead New Business pitches
• Embodiment of the agency culture and drive it with the team to the junior-most level.
• Clients / Brands Handled: Bajaj (Corporate), Kirloskar, Praj, Videocon d2h (ATL, BTL, Digital)
• Implemented business strategies, increasing revenue, and effectively targeting new markets.
• Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the commercial management of a group of clients and the management and development of Brands under their supervision.
• Contribute to new business development activity and lead new pitches.
• Maintaining team motivation and retaining key team members.
• Ensuring the quality and timeliness of work delivered to clients, including organizing quarterly key account reviews with sponsors at the client's end and internal project reviews
• Clients / Brands Handled: Bajaj (Corporate, 3 Wheelers and 2W Export), Kirloskar, Praj, Mahindra CIE, Bharat Forge, Pravin Masale, Parampara Foods, Scandic Foods (SIL), Ekbote Furniture, Kimberley Clark Professionals, Quick Heal
• Applied business and marketing knowledge to develop briefs and pitches for customer projects.
• Directed client projects with an eye for quality and customer needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Acts as day-to-day client contact, sometimes across a global client in a fast-paced atmosphere; workload prioritization skills are a must for success
• Balances daily client requests alongside support of account teams to ensure on-time delivery of projects that align with client goals and vision
• Assists client communication and management by developing and distributing conference notes/reports, scheduling client meetings, and communicating the status of initiatives to relevant internal and client stakeholders
• Oversees and runs team status meetings to align internal stakeholders on priorities and goals of the meeting/projects
• Works with directors on account leadership to develop strategy presentations, communication plans, element/creative briefs, and other client-mapping deliverables
• Set clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly, and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary
• Prioritize and streamline tasks to ensure accuracy and efficiencies, proactively identifying issues/risks
• Passionate about understanding clients' business and the associated news regarding the company; updates internal teams on any pertinent news
• Compiles project details and insights
• Assists in identifying business challenges and competitive insights
• Helps coordinate client input/feedback and shares feedback with internal teams
• Clients / Brands Handled: Bajaj (Corporate and 3 Wheelers), Kirloskar, Praj, Nihilent
• Identified new business opportunities through cold calling, networking, marketing, and prospective database leads.
• Met existing customers to review current services and expand sales opportunities.