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Education
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Interest & Hobbies
Accomplishments
Certification
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Puneet Soni

Puneet Soni

Sales & Business Leader
E 601 Pioneer Presidia, Sector 62, Gurgaon

Summary

Result-driven business professional having 22+ years of experience in managing Sales and key account management for Enterprise large clients and Govt. Customers.

Hands on experience in consultative sales of Telecom and IT products and other professional consulting services. Track record of consistently delivering business strategy, achieving Sales numbers, Business KPI's, launching new vertical markets, creating high-yielding teams, GTM strategies, vertical growth, forming alliances/collaboration, enhancing business volumes and achieving AOP revenue with process and control.

A strategic planner with commercial acumen and out-of -box thinking having expertise for managing overall business operations and project management. An effective leader with strong interpersonal skills and having the ability to create the positive work environment.


Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Associate Director

Ernst & Young LLP
12.2022 - Current
  • Sales and Strategic Business development in the GCC and Technology Media and Telecom (TMT) vertical market and other large key Unicorns.
  • Building GTM and Account strategy for these specific large accounts for deeper penetration and larger wallet share
  • Aligning global themes for long term business growth, identifying new solution opportunities through thought leadership and driving pipeline growth
  • Working on new solutions across Digital transformation, Automation, Mobility, Enterprise Apps, Analytics, Infrastructure: Cloud and Cyber Security etc in consulting and advisory.
  • And other On-Demand Professional consulting Services like Strategy, BC and PAS
  • Built new business partnerships to drive customer acquisition and generate revenue
  • Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence.

National Sales Leader

Honeywell
02.2021 - 02.2022
  • Responsible for managing overall Enterprise Security business of HSF BU for India & SA region and handling the Sales function in Enterprise and Govt vertical Clients including channel, alliance partners and consultants
  • Managing the overall Sales quota and driving Hardware & Software business Nationally along with Regional Sales Managers and key account managers in the Enterprise, Govt./PSU and Infrastructure & growth verticals (smart city/safe city, railway/metro, airports, healthcare, Logistics & DC) segments
  • Responsible for enabling sales team and driving productivity and efficiency through yearly quota number achievement
  • Successfully launching NPI's and meeting the AOP numbers for the proposed product lines monthly/quarterly/yearly
  • Consistently driving the price gain and successfully maintaining the margin for the overall business profitability
  • Leading and driving Complete Partner management program, introducing new tiering classification and GTM for key large partners including partner enablement, training, certification, joint marketing etc

Head - Alliances & Strategic Partner Business

Huawei Enterprise BG
10.2018 - 02.2021
  • Responsible for handling Sales with large System Integrator & Global alliance partners and doing strategic business development with these key Partners in India & Globally contributing to multimillion sales revenue
  • Developing & managing Global alliance partnership with GSI's and other OEM Partners like Tech Mahindra, Wipro, TCS, Honeywell, Siemens, Alstom, Accenture, OBS, L&T etc Nationally & MEA region
  • Responsible for driving sales in Enterprise segments & Govt (Central & state) & PSU's across Smart City, Safe City, SDC, Campus Networking, Cloud solutions, AI, IOT, BBNL, and Transport vertical (Railway, Metro, DFCCI and Airports) etc
  • With these large SI partners across regions Developed multi-year strategic business plan and create GTM offerings specific to the industry vertical business - especially for high growth areas like Smart city, Safe City, Cloud, Railways, PSU's and State Data centers
  • Consistently creating new revenue streams in the high growth vertical segment through specific RFP's/key projects while working closely with key consulting partners like E&Y and KPMG, AECOM and Egis India etc
  • Complete Partner management and development, GTM by evangelizing suitable Huawei products and solutions and partner enablement, training, certification, joint marketing etc
  • Strategize, create and communicate Huawei global alliance strategies for India Global Partners and create effective GTM and business planning for the regions

Global Alliance Manager

Huawei
10.2016 - 09.2018

Head Marketing & Communication

Huawei
10.2014 - 09.2016

DGM Marketing

Huawei
04.2011 - 10.2014

Manager - Enterprise Business

Vodafone Essar Mobile Company Limited
09.2008 - 03.2011

Manager - Corporate Relationship & Business Development

Bharti Airtel Limited
06.2007 - 02.2008

Asst Manager - Corporate Relationship & Business Development

Bharti Airtel Limited
07.2004 - 06.2007

Senior Officer

Bennett Colemann & Company Limited
07.2000 - 07.2004

Officer - Corporate Sales

Standard Chartered Bank
10.1997 - 06.2000

Education

PGDBM - PG Diploma In Business Management - Marketing

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management
01.1999 - 01.2002

Bachelor of Science - undefined

Delhi University
01.1994 - 01.1997

Skills

Strategic Sales & Business Development

Business Consulting

Partnership & Alliances Management

Key Account Management

GTM Strategy & Growth Strategy

New Vertical Launch/Mkt penetration

Strategic Marketing & Communication

Strong Interpersonal Skills

Financial Analysis & Planning

Negotiations and Large Deal closing

Interest & Hobbies

Vivid presenter, storyteller, reading books 

Believes in innovation, creative working 

Understand the importance of mental Health - practices meditation 

Sportsperson, actively pursuing Badminton, working out and remain healthy  

Accomplishments

  • Into strategic business development by increasing 2x revenue in large TMT a/c's
  • Created Partner eco-system, channel strategy by Tiering of partner business for greater annualized returns while launching channel incentive programs.
  • Launched and built a new vertical business team in Govt. and Infra for growth in new areas like smart city/safe cities, Railways, Metro and Airports etc.
  • Introduced successfully Alliances business in 2016 and signed Global GTM contracts with India GSI's including TechM and Wipro.
  • Created strategic sales plan & co-created joint solutions with large SI's for pushing new market solutions - CCTV Surveillance solution with Honeywell and mPAC with TechM to create multi-million revenue stream.
  • Introduced Inside strategy with large GSI's for building joint GTM solutions - integration in the COE for industry specific solution development
  • Successfully delivered large sales projects end-to-end - SASGUJ safe city, Ranchi smart city, Bangalore Metro, Airtel and Paytm etc.
  • Build sales teams and lead them consistently for achieving higher revenues and desired performance.
  • Received President's award for the best break through project in the region with new partner in 2018
  • Received Gold award for over achieving the annual sales quota for the year 2019

Certification

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Affiliations

  • Social Member of Earth Saviours Foundation Internationally acclaimed non profit organization dedicated to serving underprivileged and environment protection.
  • Member of YATAN NGO - Effort towards children education and Health across India

Timeline

Associate Director

Ernst & Young LLP
12.2022 - Current

National Sales Leader

Honeywell
02.2021 - 02.2022

Head - Alliances & Strategic Partner Business

Huawei Enterprise BG
10.2018 - 02.2021

Global Alliance Manager

Huawei
10.2016 - 09.2018

Head Marketing & Communication

Huawei
10.2014 - 09.2016

DGM Marketing

Huawei
04.2011 - 10.2014

Manager - Enterprise Business

Vodafone Essar Mobile Company Limited
09.2008 - 03.2011

Manager - Corporate Relationship & Business Development

Bharti Airtel Limited
06.2007 - 02.2008

Asst Manager - Corporate Relationship & Business Development

Bharti Airtel Limited
07.2004 - 06.2007

Senior Officer

Bennett Colemann & Company Limited
07.2000 - 07.2004

PGDBM - PG Diploma In Business Management - Marketing

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management
01.1999 - 01.2002

Officer - Corporate Sales

Standard Chartered Bank
10.1997 - 06.2000

Bachelor of Science - undefined

Delhi University
01.1994 - 01.1997
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