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Rahul Nagaraj

Rahul Nagaraj

Communications Professional
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Ambitious and fast-learning communications professional with hands-on experience supporting PR and campaign execution for leading clients in the Indian passenger and commercial vehicles industry, as well as the sustainable mobility sector. Expertise in developing automotive content, press material, managing media outreach and contributing to brand-building campaigns. Bring strong storytelling ability with attention to detail and quickly adapt to evolving client needs—ready to take on greater responsibility.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Account Manager

Ruder Finn
Bengaluru, Karnataka
02.2025 - Current

Manage communications for three top clients: JSW MG Motor India, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), and Exicom Tele-Systems.

Content Development: Draft press releases, leadership articles, listicles, questionnaires and executive quotes across all three brands to support thought leadership and brand positioning.
Media Relations: Led hyperlocal influencer campaigns for MG Motor India, coordinated media outreach for their CSR initiatives and prepared timely media lists for DICV and Exicom events.
Communications Coordination: Collaborate with internal teams and clients to ensure smooth day-to-day operations and timely achievement of daily, weekly, and monthly targets under tight deadlines.
Fleet Management: Oversee MG Motor India's ICE vehicle fleet, coordinating with client teams to arrange media vehicles nationwide.
Reportage: Provide daily news updates to clients and com comprehensive national and regional market coverage reports following key press releases.

Senior Correspondent

Team-BHP.com
03.2021 - 01.2025
  • Engaging Content Development: Find & create automotive content which leads to long, engaging and thought provoking discussions among the thousands of forum members.
  • News Stories: Create news articles focussing on the international automotive sector.
  • Internal & external communications: Manage and ensure a steady flow of vehicles for the Reviews team. Including constant communications between brand's PR team and Office team regarding car availability, dates, duration and content ideas.
  • Forum Membership: Shortlist applications to ensure only the right people get access to contribute in the forum.

Senior Sub-Editor

DriveSpark.com
03.2018 - 03.2021
  • Team Lead: Led the English editorial desk, ensuring consistent outflow of automotive news, SEO-optimised articles and feature stories on a daily basis.
  • Native Campaigns: Took the lead to work with marketing team to create engaging promotional/advertorial content; both in written and video formats.
  • SEO Optimisation: Ensure all content on the website are SEO optimised, ensuring they rank high on Google search.
  • Automotive Reviews: Heavily involved in automotive (Car & Bike) reviews, creating true, well-structured and informative reviews both in video & written format.

Sales Engineer

Flowline Engineers Pvt. Ltd
07.2015 - 08.2016

A medium-sized Engineering company in the business of selling Air Compressors & manufacturing Water Treatment & RO plants.


  • Enquiry: Generating enquiries for industrial air compressors via travelling to client location, calls & personal interactions.
  • Sales: Understand requirements, creating documents, tech-specs and ensure customers purchase perfectly suited models.

Education

Master of Arts - Automotive Journalism

Coventry University
Coventry, United Kingdom
04.2001 -

Bachelors' in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

K.S. Institute Of Technology
Bengaluru, India
04.2001 -

Skills

    Content Development

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Timeline

Senior Account Manager

Ruder Finn
02.2025 - Current

Senior Correspondent

Team-BHP.com
03.2021 - 01.2025

Senior Sub-Editor

DriveSpark.com
03.2018 - 03.2021

Sales Engineer

Flowline Engineers Pvt. Ltd
07.2015 - 08.2016

Master of Arts - Automotive Journalism

Coventry University
04.2001 -

Bachelors' in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

K.S. Institute Of Technology
04.2001 -
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