Ankur Sharma, Assistant Business Development Manager

Ankur Sharma

Assistant Business Development Manager

Purpletouch Advertising LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Marketing and HR
Experience
14 years, 11 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 11 months

Assistant Business Development Manager at Purpletouch Advertising LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2015

• Ensured continued business and profitability for the organization.
• Have worked directly with Prestigious Brands like L’Oreal Middle East and All Major Advertising Agencies for their Fabrication work.
• Explore and create new business opportunities by identifying new business prospects and pursuing to convert them into long lasting clients
• Effectively manage, all aspects of client communications for all advertising projects (mainly BTL)
• Ensure timely and successful delivery of assignments to expand and maintain client relationships.
• Develop the marketing strategy and plans for the company's products and services to achieve adequate market penetration/market share.
• Develop/Suggest solutions as per specific customer requirements by working closely with the client's team
• Manage relationships with vendors and suppliers to ensure profitability and timely delivery of projects
• Manage and engage the backend production teams to ensure they are in sync with project delivery schedules and accurate generation of Quotations and proposals
• To work with and understand Client's team for successful and rightful delivery of the assignments as per the customer requirement and satisfaction.

Sales and Marketing, Business Development, Key Account management at United Printing and Publishing LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 2014 to February 2015

• Managed a portfolio of all the government departments for their printing needs.
• Managed more than 5 different paper mills from Germany, Sweden and Italy for promoting them in advertising and corporate clients.
• Commit to sales targets; review own sales performance; adopt corrective and preventive actions accordingly
• Generating business from new and existing clients for uplifting the sales figures of the company.
• Documentation of the all the records of the sales transactions with the clients.
• Setting sales goals for next 2 years and acting upon them.
• Providing clients with right paper and printing needs with presentations.
• Successfully attended and completed training session on planning and organizing skills.
• Supporting sales executive of print sales department in closing deals by going with them to important sales calls.
• Generated 25000$ in first few days of joining
• Increased the sales revenue

sales and marketing manager at SONA COMMERCIAL LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2010 to February 2014

Business development from old and generating new client business, Client servicing of the old clients, developing new markets in Middle East, Sales Target.

• Developing New markets for expanding the horizon of SONA COMMERCIAL in MIDDLE EAST and ASIA.
• Creating formats & processes for smooth daily functioning
• Implementing Marketing Strategies for smooth business operations.
• Handled Corporate Event of Launching new papers
• Did corporate tie ups with leading Groups of UAE for their next two years requirements of paper and print

Sales Development manager at hdfclife
  • India - Gurgaon
  • April 2009 to March 2010

• Recruiting Sales representatives and Making a Team for Business Generation
• Sales forecasting, Target setting & Monitoring the same
• Team Co-ordination
• Performance Counseling
• Key Achievements
• Brand awareness and Marketing of the Brand.
• Achieved the monthly targets, along with a steady growth in sales

Education

Master's degree, Marketing and HR
  • at Indian Business Academy
  • April 2009

GPA was 7 and Logistics Head for the Corporate Relations & Delivery Team at Indian Business Academy, At IBA, I handled the demanding responsibilities of the Logistics Head for Corporate Relations & Delivery Team (CRDT), the Student- Corporate Interface facilitating Placements for the batch. Presentation Skills, Team Building, Working against Deadlines, People Management, Dealing with Stressful and Unexpected Situations are few of the skills I have imbibed from my previous experience

Specialties & Skills

Servicing
People Management
Logistics
Team Building
Corporate Relations
MS OFFICE
Client retention
Client Acquisition
Forecasting
Account Management

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Planning & Organizing Skills (Training)
Training Institute:
Spearhead Training
Date Attended:
May 2014
Duration:
16 hours

Hobbies

  • Playing Cricket, Watching Documentaries, Travelling