Praveen Chandrasekharan, E-commerce Manager

Praveen Chandrasekharan

E-commerce Manager

Viva Entertainment

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
20 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 8 Months

E-commerce Manager at Viva Entertainment
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2011

 Responsible for the launch of Aido.com (Online Shopping Portal)
 Handling a team of 18 people who takes care of Categories, product uploading, customer service, web designing and operations
 Ensure training and support are provided for the back end functionalities to the team members
 Responsible for the overall sales of the portal
 Tying up with major payment gateways including integrating it with our website by coordinating with our service provider
 Handling all business related tie ups with various other companies for loyalty programs and promotions
 Handling all Digital Marketing activities including E-Mailers, Blogs, SEO, SMO, Facebook Ads, Google Adwords, Affiliate Ads, Banner Ads, etc. and also Offline Marketing activities like Radio presence, Leaflets Distribution, etc.
 Ensuring the monthly targets are achieved through various Marketing activities and keeping track on the day to day marketing budget and conversions happening through various activities
 Providing the back end specifications to our service provider for building a strong CMS with daily follow up’s and updates given to our Management
 Strong knowledge on Google Analytics and providing daily updates to the category managers.
 Ensuring the SEO and SMO activities are done for the portal by coordinating with our service providers. Targets are provided to the team and ensuring to get an update every week on the progress.
 Handling the customer data and profiling it accordingly for marketing purposes
 Ensuring wireframes are made and shared with our service provider for any new functionality to be implemented in the website. One point contact for testing and providing approvals for moving it to live website.
 Ensuring to deliver the products on time to the end users by coordinating with the operations and customer service team
 Handling the P&L Activity of the portal

E-commerce Specialist at Bhatia Brothers LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2013 to December 2013

1. Handling a team of 4 people who takes care of product uploading, Customer Service and Web Designing
2. Responsible for the launch and handling of 4 B2B portals and 1 B2C portal
3. Tracking all enquiries happening for www.gulfdtn.com, www.iteme.com, www.pro.vvsons.com, www.sgtcpro.com and www.bbkent.com
4. Coordinating with the respective divisions to ensure that the enquiries are converted to sales
5. Handling the P&L Activities for the portals
6. Providing inputs to the Designing team to create banners, web pages for the portals
7. Providing the back end specifications to our service provider to build a strong CMS
8. Handling all the Marketing activities including SEO, SMO, SEM & E-mails
9. Tracking the daily visits using Google Analytics and providing valuable insights to the management

Manager E-commerce at Puma Sports India Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • July 2011 to December 2011

• Responsible for the launch of www.pumashop.in
• Handling the Operation and customer care executives.
• Responsible for the overall sales of the portal
• Ensuring all stock updations are done on a daily basis.
• Tying up with major payment gateways in India
• Handling all business related tie ups with various other portals to showcase our products.
• Tying up with major courier services and ensuring the dispatches are done on time to the customers
• Ensuring the monthly targets are achieved through various Marketing activities
• Providing the specifications for building a strong CMS and ensuring the back end panel is search and user friendly
• Daily follow up done with our service provider to ensure the given tasks are completed within the allocated time
• New initiatives are provided for increasing sales in the portal
• Ensuring the customer tracking is implemented to have an in depth knowledge of products visited by customers in the website, etc.

Assistant General Manager - Operations at Odyssey India Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2010 to July 2011

• Responsible for the overall re launch of www.Odyssey360.com
• Handling the Operation Executives, Sourcing team and customer care executives.
• Responsible for the overall sales and the promotional activities of the portal
• Ensuring all new products are uploaded and showcased in their respective categories
• Handling the Books, Movies and other categories of the portal.
• Tying up with major payment gateways in India
• Screening all orders with latest fraud checking tools
• Handling all tie ups with various other portals to showcase our products.
• Tying up with major courier services and ensuring smooth deliveries to the customers
• Tying up with major vendors for showcasing various products in the portal
• Ensuring a strong back end is built to handle the books category which should contain meta name, keywords, etc. for individual titles
• Handling the social media of the website through Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Ensuring the targets are achieved on a monthly basis

Manager - Vendor Development at NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2008 to June 2010

• Responsible for the overall re launch of www.indiavarta.com
• Handling a team of 8 people who takes care of the operations, web designing and customer servicing part
• Responsible for the overall sales generated through the online portal
• Managing all the promotional activities of the portal and ensuring the targets are achieved on a monthly basis
• Introducing New Vendors into the portal
• Handling the Electronics, Apparels, Flowers, Jewellery and other major categories of the portal.
• Tying up with major brands in Electronics, Flowers, Jewellery, Apparels, etc.
• Managing more than 100 Vendors and stock updates on a regular basis
• Implementation of new Payment Gateways with close relationship with the banks
• Implementation of new ideas to increase the sales and number of visitors in the site
• Retaining customers by providing best possible service
• Managing Customer care team and Regional Co-coordinators
• Maintaining timely reports and verifying the fraudulent transactions through various Risk Analysis tools.

Senior Executive - Payment Processing at REDIFF.COM India Limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • June 2007 to June 2008

• Risk Analyst - Analyze risks to identify & take actions against the fraudulent transactions through various risk analysis tools.

• Instrumental in streamlining & processing the Cheque payment mode.

• Handling the Cheque bounces and gathering the money from the customers whose cheques has bounced

• Implementation of new Payment gateways with close relationships with the banks.

• Recognized for implementing new techniques & ideas to increase the sales in Rediff Shopping by increasing the number of visitors & repeated business.
• Interaction with the vendors for speeding up the dispatch of the products to the customers.

• Retain customers by providing best possible service in terms of immediate response to enquiries, quick execution of orders & by keeping the customer updated with the status of their order.

Executive - Order Processing at SIFY Limited
  • India - Chennai
  • September 2003 to June 2007

• Managing the validation and fulfillment of all Online
Banking payment gateways, Demand drafts and Cash on Delivery orders on Sifymall (www.sifymall.com), Samachargifts (www.samachargifts.com), India today shopping (www.shopping.indiatoday.com) and Telegraph Store (www.thetelegraphstore.com)

• Risk Analyst - Accredited for identifying the fraudulent transactions on Sifymall through various tools of Risk Analysis.

• Maintain timely MIS & database reflecting the trends & developments of the company regarding customer data for budgetary and strategic review to enhance the business of the company.

• Assessed & analyzed various counter strategies to increase the market share of the company

• Customer queries resolution and management relating to all of the above in association with customer care team and regional Co-ordinators.

• Maintaining the Stocks & fulfillment of Gift Vouchers like Shoppers Stop, Sodexho, Titan, Tanishq, West side, Globus, etc

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at Arts and Science College
  • August 2003

Qualification Year of Passing College / School M.Sc Computer Science 2003 S.R.M. Arts and Science College, Chennai

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Arts and Science College
  • June 2001

B.Sc Computer Science 2001 S.R.M. Arts and Science College, Chennai

Specialties & Skills

Back Office
Digital Marketing
operations
E commerce
Website Support
OPERATIONS
RISK ANALYSIS
Marketing
Business Development
E-commerce

Languages

Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Expert
English
Expert
Tamil
Expert

Hobbies

  • Browsing, Listening to Music, Cricket