Ritesh Pande, Business Development Manager

Ritesh Pande

Business Development Manager

Wadi.com

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
High school or equivalent, Marketing
Experience
11 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 4 Months

Business Development Manager at Wadi.com
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2017

 Developed the Lifestyle category through market study, competitor analysis, identifying and qualifying new clients.
 Contributed to Lifestyle categories thorough initiating and leading strategic partnerships/alliances.
 Own and manage integration of portfolio of sellers and help them become self-reliant
 Develop standard operating processes to scale the working of the organization
 Implement efficient and effective inbound marketing, advertising and promotional plans.
 Managing and driving the growth of the seller’s business: Build and execute on a strategic account plan that delivers on key business opportunities for the seller.
 Work with sellers to improve operational aspects of their business.
 Identify category gaps and bridge them.
 Focus on strategic partnerships to increase the depth of selection and to add credibility
 Contributed to Lifestyle category thorough initiating and leading strategic partnerships/alliances.
 On-boarded renowned international and local brands such as L'Oreal, Coty, Reckitt Benckiser & Strawberrynet among many others.

Key Account Manager at Souq.com
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2015 to April 2017

 Work as consultants with sellers to help them grow their business on souq.com.
 Responsible for Identifying and On-boarding of new sellers across all categories.
 Manage respective Seller account and ensure minimal drop-offs from the platform.
 Understand and resolve seller issues by working with internal and external teams.
 Managing seller quality, their defect rate and aiding in fulfillment of seller products
 Proactively engage with internal/external partners to improve seller tools which may include tracking bug, requirements analysis and project management.
 Support the launches of new programs, categories and features.
 Catalog Management and Content Enhancement.
 Coordinating with various teams like the technical team & content team to ensure the smooth running of all day to day operations for sellers.
 Monitoring the seller’s content to ensure that it is as per the site guidelines and coordinate with our content team to ensure the content is rightly marketed.

On-boarding Specialist at Amazon.com
  • India - Mumbai
  • September 2013 to May 2015

Understand Amazon Services products and services and articulate and guide sellers through
integration.
 Own and manage integration of a portfolio of sellers who want to list their products on
Amazon.in website.
 Handle a team of photographers & content associates, assign tasks, priorities requests from
vendors and follow SLA for the work performed.
 Populating/procuring content for the product catalogs on the Amazon Web Site;
 Identifying and correcting errors/complaints;
 Identifying possible improvements in the processes you work on and implementing the
needed changes, training and mentoring other Associates;
 Handle the day‐to‐day volumes of the assigned tasks and ensuring that the quality
standards are met;
 Track and report performance using appropriate metrics. Achieve productivity and seller
satisfaction targets.
 Identify areas of possible process improvements (enhancements and pain points);
 Support the launches of new programs, categories and features.

Web Designer at Aski Computers
  • India - Pune
  • June 2009 to February 2010

Responsible for overall Designing of Web pages.
 Intensive focus on Developing Web Pages.
 Monitoring overall Actives during Web Layout Designing.
 Providing problem solving techniques to key accounts.
Achievements
Was part of the core team that was instrumental in the launch & development of Amazon
Services in Pune
 The process involved training, mentoring and implementation of the standardized process.
 The newly inducted associates underwent classroom training and on-field training.
 It involved mock pitches, mock calls followed by real time integration of sellers onto the
platform.
 Own and develop the team of associates for a period of 3 months and further enable them
to integrate sellers in their home city.
 The program helped the city learn, replicate and reproduce the process which will help
many SMB retailers come online in the future.

Education

High school or equivalent, Marketing
  • at s Institute of ManagementUniversity of MumbaiShivaji University
  • January 2008

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High school or equivalent, Marketing
  • at s Institute of ManagementUniversity of MumbaiShivaji University
  • January 2008

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Specialties & Skills

Promotions
Onboarding
Key Account Management
Business Development
B2B eCommerce
ADVERTISING
CATALOGS
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DRIVING
FEATURES
MANAGEMENT

Languages

English
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