Rakhi Raghavan, Global Marketing & PR Manager

Rakhi Raghavan

Global Marketing & PR Manager

Red Sea Housing Services

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, PGDM (Marketing & Systems)
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Global Marketing & PR Manager at Red Sea Housing Services
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2015

Red Sea Housing Services (RSHS) is a world market leader in providing high quality living and working environments for Industrial and Residential Communities. Responsibilities included successful execution of growth strategies along with an imperative to rebrand RSHS to create a unified global brand with consistent messaging. Create and launch new corporate website, corporate brochures, corporate video, 3D videos, develop go-to-market strategies, manage events, and execute campaign strategies in close interaction with a global sales organization (President - Americas, Africa, Middle East, Australasia), to improve RSHS’ ability to deliver high-value sales leads resulting in revenue growth.

Manager Marketing and Research at SFFECO GLOBAL
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2011 to April 2014

 Leading Marketing, Strategy and Research for SFFECO GLOBAL and its subsidiaries, which involves: Process Streamlining, Project and Team Management; Strategy : Market Analysis and Strategic Plans; Message: Content and Collateral Development; Marketing: Consultant/Analyst Relation Management, Regulatory Bodies and Industry Forums; Product: Applications / Solutions Development and Competitor Intelligence; Corporate Marketing
 Formed and presently heading Marketing, Strategy and Research department in SFFECO GLOBAL - which is a conglomerate of companies - SFFECO, LIFECO UK and Techniq International
 Adept in Team creation and development, Product positioning and marketing, Solution mapping to market/client requirement, Business writing (Published Writer), Market research, analysis and competitor intelligence, Analytical skills; Event management, Brand development.
 Proficient in MS Excel, Powerpoint, CRM and Process Improvisation (Certified Auditor)

Manager Strategic Initiatives, Marketing and Research at SFFECO GLOBAL
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2011 to April 2014

Project Management of SunTec’s 3 Year Strategic Initiative of SunTec: The project involved co-working with McKinsey and KPMG consultants to sit with all the department heads and the management team to arrive at a set of goals and track it to achieve the 3 year revenue for the company. The program was named Lakshya (meaning 'Goal'):
1. Assessing the Strategic Vision and 3 year business target for the company
2. Analyze the workflow in each department to derive tasks for each department that is necessary to achieve the 3 year target
3. Arrive at metrics of performance for each department required to accomplish successful completion of these tasks.
4. Allocate tasks for each department and track bi-weekly metrics from them
5. Perform extensive analysis in MS Excel of the metrics data across tasks (a 1000#s) and derive performance curves and meaningful graphs to help track the performance and achievement against of each department against the overall goal for the company
6. Present in bi-weekly meet to the Board of Directors, CEO and Top Management of the company

Product Marketing and Market Research Manager at SunTec Business Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • Other
  • April 2004 to September 2010

Team creation and development, Product positioning and marketing, Solution mapping to market/client requirement, Business writing (Published Writer), Market research, analysis and competitor intelligence, Analytical skills; Event management, Brand development.

Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives at SunTec Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  • India
  • April 2010 to September 2010

o Project Management of SunTec’s 3 Year Strategic Initiative of SunTec: The work involved working with all the department heads and the management team to arrive at a set of goals and track it to achieve the 3 year revenue for the company. The program was named Lakshya (meaning 'Goal'):
1. Assessing the Strategic Vision and 3 year business target for the company
2. Analyze the workflow in each department to derive tasks for each department that is necessary to achieve the 3 year target
3. Arrive at metrics of performance for each department required to accomplish successful completion of these tasks.
4. Allocate tasks for each department and track bi-weekly metrics from them
5. Perform extensive analysis in MS Excel of the metrics data across tasks (a 1000#s) and derive performance curves and meaningful graphs to help track the performance and achievement against of each department against the overall goal for the company
6. Present in bi-weekly meet to the Board of Directors, CEO and Top Management of the company

Education

Master's degree, PGDM (Marketing & Systems)
  • at Amrita School of Business
  • March 2004

1. Conducted workshop for 20+ people from industry on ‘Using Excel for Market and Data Analysis’ 2. Conjoint analysis to assess the feasibility for establishing a school in a village 3. Develop and design new product and 4Ps for Haldirams’. Won the award for the most feasible project, and also the best advertisement and packaging. 4. Developed a Rule Based Expert System in JESS that determines profitability of a company 5. Modeled an Online system for college - for registration, scheduling exams and publishing mark lists and query forum. RFP, SRS and UML Design were presented for the planning phase.

Bachelor's degree, B. Tech (Computer Science & Engineering)
  • at SCTCE, Kerala University
  • May 2002

1. Application of Artificial Neural Network in Bioinformatics for the predictive Localization of Proteins in a cell: C++ with VB front end. It was done for Regional Research Laboratory. 2. Software for St. Jude Blood Bank in C++ completely concentrating on the object oriented principles

High school or equivalent, ISC
  • at S.t. Thomas Residential School
  • March 1998

ISC from St. Thomas Residential School, Kerala. (Secured 83.5%)

High school or equivalent, ICSE
  • at S.t. Thomas Residential School
  • March 1996

ICSE from St. Thomas Residential School, Kerala. (Secured 86.5%)

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Specialties & Skills

Marketing Management
Marketing Strategy
Market Research
Analytics
Product Marketing
Market Research
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
Marketing Strategy
Management
Content Writing

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English
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Malayalam
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Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
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