Jaygopal Raghavan, Head - Marketing

Jaygopal Raghavan

Head - Marketing

Beyond the Line Initiative (formerly BTL)

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
24 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 9 Months

Head - Marketing at Beyond the Line Initiative (formerly BTL)
  • India - Chennai
  • My current job since April 2015

Branding, Marketing & Strategy, Budgeting, Business Dev., Ideation, media management

Sr. Consultant at BTL Solutions
  • India - Chennai
  • December 2013 to March 2015

Consulting, Strategy, Marketing, Business Development, Branding, Operations

Regional Marketing Manager at Landmark Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2008 to September 2012

Job Profile:

• Implement corporate branding activities
• Corporate re-branding at the regional level
• Creative and strategic presentations to concept heads
• Co-ordinate with internal divisions
• Annual Budgeting and Plan forecasting for the region
• Plan and execute regional marcom
• Annual Marketing calendar - timely roll outs
• Periodic marketing budget review for the different brands
• Supervise the loyalty programme for the region
• Sponsorships and barter deals for the loyalty program
• Edit in-house newsletter and Loyalty news
• Oversee and guide the implementation of show windows and in- store displays
• Motivate and Handle a team of VM’s / graphic designers
• MIS overlook
• Vendor Management

Group Account Director at Percept Gulf Llc
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2007 to October 2008

Handle a portfolio of clients and the team responsible for it. Speculative business pitch, budgeting, advertising management, creative supervision and strategy for clients.

Account Director - South at Samsung India (Cheil Communications)
  • India
  • May 2005 to March 2007

Discuss strategy with product managers
Undertake marcom activity for the brand
Roll out BTL activities
Market research with respect to competition
In shop branding and displays
Manage in shop demonstrators
Roll out advertising strategy

Marketing Head at C2E Event Management
  • India - Chennai
  • January 2002 to March 2004

Business Development, Ideation, Operations, Custom events, Branding & Promotion. Trade shows

Manager - Marketing & Communications at Indian Institute of Sales Technology
  • India - Chennai
  • November 1999 to December 2001

Branding, Advertising, Printing, Marketing of customised coaching programmes

Account Executive/ Manager at RK Swamy / BBDO
  • India - Chennai
  • May 1997 to October 1999

New business pitch, Market research, media planning, Client servicing, Public relations

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Lancaster University, UK
  • September 2013

Specialties & Skills

Management
Marketing
Branding
Strategy Development
Sales and business promotion
Corel Draw
Adobe Photoshop
MS Office
Marketing
Branding

Languages

English
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Hindi
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Hindi
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Bengali
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Tamil
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Malayalam
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Hobbies

  • Trekking, outdoor sports, reading, travelling and cooking
    Avid trekker and voracious reader spanning several genres from autobiographies, business stories to thrillers.