Saba Shariff, Business Development Manager - Market Research

Saba Shariff

Business Development Manager - Market Research

Training Tree

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
14 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months

Business Development Manager - Market Research at Training Tree
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since February 2015

Researching and contacting corporate/companies. Talking to the training & development or HR team of the companies about their requirement either on email or directly.
Communicate to them details about our courses and understand their requirements.
Meeting the corporate and discussing their requirement and presenting our company to them.
Communicate the same to our team and trainers.
Conduct thorough research on the firms before talking directly to them.
Providing highly reliable information for management to make effective decisions on training's to be conducted and pricing.
Defining target markets and opportunities within them. Making proposals and sending to the clients with the details of the courses offered
Processing and analyzing raw data into reports for senior managers.
Making sure that methods of data collection are effective and accurate.

Business Development Manager - Market Research at Creative IT India Pvt Ltd.
  • India - Mumbai
  • October 2009 to January 2012

 As a Business Development Manager - Market Research:
 Researching and contacting retail industries. Talking to head of the companies about their requirement either on email or directly.
 Communicate to them details about our product and understand their requirements. Communicate the same to our business development head and let them provide a technical demo for the same.
 Conduct thorough research on the firms before talking directly to them.
 Create and produce market research reports on top solution retailers in the Indian market.
 Providing highly reliable information for management to make effective decisions on the promotion, distribution, design, and pricing of products and services.
 Defining target markets and opportunities within them.
 Conducting research on US retail federation UK retail Federation and Indian Retail Federation on probable customers who can be contacted by the company for generating business.
 Processing and analyzing raw data into reports for senior managers.
 Making sure that methods of data collection are effective and accurate.
 Prepare reports, coordinate and organize a focused team in the market sector, merge the data's gathered and analyze the result output.

 As a Finance Executive:-
 RBI Compliance, STPI Compliance
 Timesheet Planning& Invoice preparation,
 Income tax Assessment,
 Maintaining weekly and monthly reports for finance for audits, VAT, income tax & financials,
 Preparation of corporate affairs and acknowledgment letters.

Senior Research Analyst at Thomson Financials
  • India - Bengaluru
  • November 2005 to December 2007

As a Senior Research Analyst:
To think and bring about valuable process initiative measures, so as to increase productivity and reduce the problem faced by the analyst.
Responsible for process improvement plans and knowledge transfer in the research group.
Help in project-related work.
Act as a back-up for the Quality Control Coordinator and help the analyst in their day-to-day queries and escalations.
Drive Process related points in terms of Documentation, Projects, timely escalation of issues, Act as a back-up to TL, Identify process improvements.
Drive to deliver productivity & quality.
Train new employees in the research process and quality front in order to bring the team on par in terms of process knowledge.
Conduct relevant refresher trainings and act as a buddy-support to the new analysts
Supervising and guiding analysts on quick and effective resolution of queries raised by internal/external corporate clients to ensure timely and accurate fulfillment of their queries.
Holding presentations to the analysts in relation to their work.

Financial Consultant at IDBI Bank
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2005 to November 2005

To deal with customer queries and resolve them with the best of my abilities,
To suggest to clients the best possible way to go for the loan,
Handle walk-in customers along with the existing ones, those who would need further assistance,
Take care of the I-net banking and the phone banking queries on Home Loans.
Make marketing calls and pitch the sale.
Study the home loan market daily in order to keep the client updated with latest.

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at Manipal Institute Of Management.
  • May 2005
Master's degree, Finance
  • at Manipal Institute Of Management
  • May 2005
Bachelor's degree,
  • at Mangalore University
  • January 2003

➢ Bachelor of Commerce from Poornaprajna College, Manipal, Mangalore University. (2000-2003) - 60%

High school or equivalent,
  • at Poornaprajna College
  • January 2000

➢ PUC (10+2) from, Poornaprajna College, Manipal, Karnataka Board (1998 - 2000) - 74%

High school or equivalent,
  • at St. Joseph High School

➢ SSC, St. Joseph High School, Maharashtra Board - 60%

Specialties & Skills

Driving
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CLIENTS
COLLECTION
CONDUCTING SURVEYS
CONFIDENT
DATA COLLECTION
DOCUMENTATION
FINANCE

Languages

Hindi
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