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Soumya Garg

Partnerships & Strategic Alliances
Bengaluru

Summary

Over 9 years of result-oriented and value-driven experience in account management and revenue generation for startups via partnership and strategic alliance. A review of her credentials will confirm that she is capable of making effective contributions while serving as the catalyst for achieving revenue objectives.

At Razorpay, she built and fostered 100+ strategic partnerships across Banks & E-commerce players, VCs to drive organizational objectives of increasing the revenue and acquiring new users - that has collectively led to a significant increment of monthly revenue since last three months. Led Partner negotiations and liaised with cross-functional teams for maximizing growth opportunities.

At her previous organization, Reverie Language Technologies - she effectively built the Partnership function and owned the delivery and success with PwC, KPMG, Accenture, Microsoft, Niti Aayog, Umang to take products from R&D to the market at mass.

Also, established government sales vertical by market sizing and revenue projections to raise investments - today it is still the lead revenue generation vertical at Reverie contributing to more than 75% of the total revenue in mid 2019. Reverie got acquired by Reliance in Feb 2019.

She is naturally someone who can weave resources around to lead them to a tangible outcome.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Relationship Manager

Linkedin
8 2022 - Current
  • Working on strategic accounts for BFSI & IT&ITES at LinkedIn sales solutions
  • Acting as an AE & RM for acquiring new logos in Banking & Fintech Space and managing existing strategic relationships for the IT sector.
  • Responsible for Renewals, Add-on, Churn mitigation, Growth, and New Business Acquisition.
  • My key customers include Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, IDFC First Bank, YES Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Nuvama Wealth Management, and other key BFSI organizations in India.
  • Opened new logos - HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Ergo General Insurance, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Axis Bank, Edelweiss Wealth Management, and YES bank account.
  • Growth in IDFC First Bank, ICICI Bank, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, and ICICI Lombard General Insurance.
  • Conducted Round Tables for BFSI CEO, Startup Heads, NRI Heads for the leading Banks of India around LinkedIn Sales Solutions.



Partnership Manager

PayU India
05.2021 - 07.2022
  • Within 4 months at PayU she was able to take on the banking alliance for key banks like Indusind, Yes and regional banks like CSB increasing the GMV and lead contribution by 14% month on month.
  • She has also been instrumental in handling existing platform partner like Shopify and initiate new integration.
  • Implemented automation of commission calculation which will increase partner retention rate by 40%.
  • Working on increasing partner retention and partner experience by helping improve partner products and dashboard.

Strategic Alliances & Enterprise Partnerships

Razorpay
08.2019 - 05.2021

She played key role by being part of function that was contributing to about 10000+ Associations and 25% of overall merchant/customer base.

She was instrumental in getting onboard and managing prominent Global partners ranging from Zoho, Tally, PayPal, Shopify, and 100+ such other partnerships across the globe. She managed to support accelerated innovation through partnerships at Razorpay.

She was able to identify and structure alliances that were either non-existent in the ecosystem or were not structured earlier.

As part of the new initiatives, she also developed the following :

• Beta concept of the marketplace for Partners to offer their services and showcase the integration

• Building the Technical Service Provider network for Razorpay so that merchants also have a network of technical assistance for custom build on top of the existing Razorpay Integration.

• Built beta projects for Feet on Street partners enablement, Offline and retail market penetration via partners.

• Managed Checkout alliances for automating the internal processes.

Partner Management

Reverie Language Technologies
11.2015 - 07.2019

She built partner engagement function and defined types of engagement for Reverie's products and business. She was instrumental in leading strategic partnership discussions and projects with PwC, Microsoft, KPMG, Accenture and over saw the tech engagements for Voice bot with technical system integrators such as IMI mobile.

Her efforts in building partner relations with the System Integrators and Central & State Governments helped position Reverie as a Language Technology Leader in the market.

She helped set up the government vertical by working extensively on the market sizing and building pipeline of government initiatives. She also managed to bag a key project with the Government of Agriculture, India for eNAM (National Agriculture Marketplace) . eNAM was a 5 year long project and was the biggest win for Reverie for the FY 18-19.

Market Research Analyst

Flipkart
03.2014 - 11.2015

She was responsible for diverse set of Highly Dynamic, Multi-Dimensional, Data Driven Research Projects to Deliver Actionable Insights, Breakthrough Concepts, Highest Value Opportunities, Early Market Trends for improved performance of Key Stake Holders.

Key Projects She Worked on:


Product Assortment Benchmarking, Product Depth Benchmarking, Seller Landscape Study, Pre Launch Study, Promotional Intelligence, Competitor Intelligence, Social Media Promotions, URL Mapping/ Price Positioning, Mobile Application Enhancement/Revamp Study, Mystery Shopping, Market Operating Price Check, Market Buzz, Print Campaign Study, Secondary Research of Market Indicators, Category Tree Revamp, Content Listing, Event Calendars, Services Benchmarking, Product Attributes, Review & Ratings Density Benchmarking, Catalog Enhancement/Revamp, Seller Geo/Cluster Mapping, Large Supply Chain Externalization, Category Merchandising.

Education

Bachelors of Engineering - Biotechnology

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bengaluru
08.2008 - 2013.08

High School Diploma -

Notre Dame Academy
Patna
03.2006 - 2008.03

Skills

Customer Engagement

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Timeline

Partnership Manager

PayU India
05.2021 - 07.2022

Strategic Alliances & Enterprise Partnerships

Razorpay
08.2019 - 05.2021

Partner Management

Reverie Language Technologies
11.2015 - 07.2019

Market Research Analyst

Flipkart
03.2014 - 11.2015

Bachelors of Engineering - Biotechnology

Visvesvaraya Technological University
08.2008 - 2013.08

High School Diploma -

Notre Dame Academy
03.2006 - 2008.03

Relationship Manager

Linkedin
8 2022 - Current
Soumya GargPartnerships & Strategic Alliances