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RAJESH SHARMA

Bengaluru

Summary

A Specialist in Team Coaching and Skills Development, SMB Marketing Activations, and Client Advocacy.

Resourceful and diverse revenue producer with vast skills and abilities that span more than 20 years in: sales, business development, lucrative relationships, and superior client services. Ability to create imaginative solutions to intractable problems. Relentless optimist who believes there is no failure, only feedback. Excel in the management and mentoring with an innovative approach that encourages and enables attainment/exceeding of imposed goals and objectives.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Sales

Atlas Systems
01.2023 - Current
    • Established ambitious sales targets, managed deployment strategies, and developed go-to-market plans to capitalize on every revenue opportunity.
    • Developed strategic plans for India based on current conditions in the marketplace and implemented marketing campaigns that increased brand awareness among target audiences by 70%.
    • Builds lasting, consultative relationships with customer accounts.
    • Demonstrates thought leadership by directing the customer's application of technology to new business problems.
    • Combine entrepreneurial drive with business-management skills to drive gains in revenue, market share and profit performance.
    • Develops relationships with key decision makers, influencers and partners
    • Manages effective working relationships with assigned region, Technical Sales Engineers, and Consulting Professionals

Co-Founder Partner

Ralvin Foods LLP
10.2019 - Current
    • Responsible for the overall management and business operations for cafe
    • Maintained high customer service standards while working with vendors, staff, and customers.
    • Responsible for all administrative duties, from inventory control, and forecast of revenue, expenses, and bookkeeping.
    • Successfully led the business through the hard time of lockdown.
    • Created a brand value and successfully open another outlet.
    • Achieved a self sustainable model with a revenue of more than 1 Cr.

Freelance Business Consultant

Self-Employed
08.2021 - 12.2022
  • Developed Business Case and Go-to-Market strategy for clients serving restaurant software and SaaS product-line.
  • Introduced new methods, practices and systems to reduce turnaround time.
  • Identified key products, services and customers and used data to devise innovative sales and marketing plans enabling dramatic growth.
  • Work with the Training & Knowledge Management team to develop effective internal training programs
  • Worked with the sales team and provided assistance in generating and converting leads
  • Provided expertise in strategic planning, corporate promotions, product development, incentive plans, sales
  • Created new product positioning and demand to secure new market share
  • Evaluate company's competition and its competitors
  • Provide support to Account managers and provide input regarding business development and solution expertise
  • Assists Sales Managers with preparation and compilation of data to proactively manage account relationship and performance

Founder/Director

Attainment Solutions Pvt. Ltd
06.2016 - 07.2021

A cloud based platform for delivering the GRC related training, industry news, experts-on-hire, Q&A under one roof, across industry in US region or any Educational Institute/company doing business with India. This is going to be the first subscription based SaaS platform which will combine and address all the challenges and required enhancements from user perspective.


  • Education, Direct all organizational operations, policies, and objectives to maximize productivity and returns
  • Analyze complex scenarios and use creative problem-solving to turn challenges into profitable opportunities
  • Interview, appoint, train, and assign responsibilities to department managers
  • Monitor cost-effectiveness of operations and personnel using quantitative data, offering feedback and making cuts where necessary
  • Conceptualized and launched a business, single handedly expanding it from one-man operation to 10 employees and several high-profile clients
  • Responsible for all non-tech elements of start-up including strategy, business development, partnerships, marketing
  • Uncommon ability of developing innovative tactics and its effective implementation
  • Pioneered the enterprise angle of the business by creating a separate pricing structure for regular and one timer
  • Spearheaded pricing and business model based on expert - professional interaction (onboarded 170+ experts, including several corporate
  • Overcame market challenges, developing counter strategies to retain maximum one-time customers.

Associate Director - BD

Atlas Systems
03.2015 - 05.2016
  • Involved in the development of new business models, conducted a successful viral marketing campaign, which led to a rapid increase in the number of customers for ComplyScore Suite of offerings on Vendor Management, Incident Management, TPRM, IT Risk and Compliance Management Software and related Services on both front of Enterprise & SaaS
  • Increased sales more than 50% in one year and grew revenue 20%, reduced fixed costs 15%, and raised quality and on-time delivery by 30%.
  • Worked directly with strategic partners, participate in key customer presentations, over 30 projects valued at 6 MM USD in 12 months.

Manager Sales & BD

Metricstream Inc.
01.2014 - 03.2015
  • Developed and implemented strategic/marketing plan focused on enhancing public image and client relationships
  • Introduced alternative sales strategies for services contracts, resulting in $1.2MM in annual sales increase
  • Exceeded Quota in 2014 by 160%
  • Hold full P&L responsibility for sales Operations and business development through direct training, leadership, and supervision for 28 sales and business development individuals
  • Pioneered product positioning strategies and marketing plans that included shop-within-a-shop formats and product sets, consistently realizing a 40% - 50% Return On Investment (ROI)

Branch Manager

Precision Infomatic
02.2013 - 01.2014
  • Accountable for P&L for Karnataka region including overall customer satisfaction
  • Brought in 5 million dollars of potential opportunities in one year
  • Increased the overall customer acquisition by 200% and overall revenue of 3 CR
  • With an effective bottom-line of 23%

LE Vertical Head

New Wave Computing
03.2011 - 02.2013
  • Managing sales target of 3 different territories
  • Acquired a portfolio of 250 accounts that included Yokogawa, Intuit,
  • Timken, Royal Orchid, ,sales Factor, and various colleges through identification of unique business opportunities, execution of corporate presentations, and strong contract negotiations/ closings.

Manager BD

MFG Sourcing India Private Ltd
07.2010 - 12.2010


  • Driving global sales working with teams in USA, Paris, Bangalore, and Shanghai
  • Establishing strategic alliances globally to increase revenue by intelligently leveraging the relationships
  • Able to manage complex sales processes and negotiations to a successful conclusion
  • Accountable for 70% of total contribution in revenue including overall customer satisfaction
  • Managed team of 5 of professionals.

Asst. Manager - BD

MetricStream Inc
03.2007 - 06.2010
  • Contributed significantly to make the business grow from $600K annual to $1m per quarter
  • Developed and implemented plans for strategic accounts that exceeded expectations in revenue retention/growth, account profitability, and customer satisfaction
  • Initiated and implemented certification programs e.g RAPS, NASBA
  • Cultivated relationships with over 600 industry experts and produced over 3000 trainings for sale across FDA, HR, Cyber Security verticals along with Proposed GRC Solutions.
  • Exceeded Quota in 2007 by 140%; 2008 by 180%; 2009 by 175% and 2010 by 210

Sales Accounts Officer

Andale Information Technologies
08.2006 - 02.2007
  • Successfully maintained and increased client base by designing and implementing strategic customer-retention program
  • Promoted the introduction of new products/product mix to identify high- end/low-end markets
  • Conducted sales analysis to determine status of account activity
  • Skilled in cold calling, consultative selling, negotiating contracts, forming alliances and partnering with others

Sr. Customer Support Executive

ICICI One Source
12.2003 - 02.2006
  • Handled a high influx of outbound calls within a dynamic call center environment
  • Accepted assignments with an open, cooperative, positive and team- oriented attitude

Executive

Shrimali Fixtures
09.1998 - 10.2003
  • Helped in implementing ISI BS 1504 and ISO 9000
  • Maintained documentation on dealer communications, including customer service opportunities and complaints

Education

Bachelor of Commerce -

Pondicherry University DDE
Pondicherry

Skills

  • Staff Management
  • Policies and procedures
  • Strategic planning
  • Business administration
  • Financial Management
  • Business planning
  • Business Development
  • Budgeting
  • Sales
  • Market Research
  • Data Analysis
  • Strategic Development
  • Prospecting Clients
  • Spreadsheets

Accomplishments

    Awarded top performer for year 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012

    Awarded best manager award in 2014

    Internal Auditor for ISO 9000

    Diversity & Inclusion: Cultivating Cultural Competence in The Workplace

    How to Develop a Successful Business Continuity Audit Program using ISO 22301

    Business Breakthrough workshop

    Extensive knowledge on Incident Management, TPRM, Vendor Management, ERM, Contract Management

Timeline

Director of Sales

Atlas Systems
01.2023 - Current

Freelance Business Consultant

Self-Employed
08.2021 - 12.2022

Co-Founder Partner

Ralvin Foods LLP
10.2019 - Current

Founder/Director

Attainment Solutions Pvt. Ltd
06.2016 - 07.2021

Associate Director - BD

Atlas Systems
03.2015 - 05.2016

Manager Sales & BD

Metricstream Inc.
01.2014 - 03.2015

Branch Manager

Precision Infomatic
02.2013 - 01.2014

LE Vertical Head

New Wave Computing
03.2011 - 02.2013

Manager BD

MFG Sourcing India Private Ltd
07.2010 - 12.2010

Asst. Manager - BD

MetricStream Inc
03.2007 - 06.2010

Sales Accounts Officer

Andale Information Technologies
08.2006 - 02.2007

Sr. Customer Support Executive

ICICI One Source
12.2003 - 02.2006

Executive

Shrimali Fixtures
09.1998 - 10.2003

Bachelor of Commerce -

Pondicherry University DDE
RAJESH SHARMA