Sagar Gohil, Senior Research Consultant and Business Development Manager

Sagar Gohil

Senior Research Consultant and Business Development Manager

Arcane Marketing Consultants

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, marketing
Experience
20 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 0 Months

Senior Research Consultant and Business Development Manager at Arcane Marketing Consultants
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2012

1. Developing new business avenues for the company.
2. Handling the two business units both in terms of operations and Finance
3. Coordinating with the Board members to standardize the work flow and operation structure.
4. Handling the Automotive and Hospitality industry for consultant division by providing end solutions to clients.
5. Representing the organization at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations for new business opportunities.
6. Handling Day-to-Day operations and client servicing.
7. Training corporate clients on the standards of Hotel as per Dubai Commerce for Travel and Tourism.
8. Providing analysis and presentation to clients on findings and analysis.
9. Creating proposals for end clients with detailed methodology of research approach. Focused on hospitality & Automotive sector, few of my personal clientele include Hilton group UAE, RMAL Hospitality, RSA Insurance, AXA Insurance, Audi, Toyota & Honda Middle east etc…

Business Development Manager at Dimensions Marketing Consultants
  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2009 to January 2012

1. Hunting of New Clients for new projects.
2. Developing new business avenues for the company.
3. Regular client liaison via meetings, email and the telephone.
4. Build customer’s interest in the services offered by the company.
5. Visiting potential customers to prospect for new business.
6. Representing the organization at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations for new business opportunities.
7. Gathering market and customer information.
8. Introduce the company profile to prospective clients.
9. Have executed field work as part of the group to
execute and handle studies which included Mystery shopping for spare parts of the automobile sector, Mystery sopping for car prices in the UAE, CLT for FMCG clients, Observation studies for tires and segmentation of the same for a MNE company etc…
Have got in clients for the company like PEPSI, ETISALAT, NFPC (Lacnor, Milco & Oasis Water), RSA Insurance etc…

Research Executive at REACH MASS
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2008 to August 2009

Worked as a Research Executive and consultant which included job description as follows:
1. Tabulate the researched results in terms of graphs and analysis.
2. Preparing Client Presentation of results and consulting them in the same regards by providing strategic values and figures for proving results.
3. Preparing RFP’s for various clients in a much explained manner by providing perfect solutions to their queries.
4. Conduction of focus groups as a moderator to provide insights to the client’s so that they understand the consumer understanding.
5. Few of my personally esteemed clientele include
P&G, Showtime Arabia, Riyad Bank KSA etc…

Senior Media Field Executive at IPSOS STAT Emirates
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2004 to August 2008

Media Field Research which include few of the Following
Projects
a. INTAGE 2004 & 2005 (Car Satisfaction Survey Face to Face)
b. GBHT 2004 & 2005(Credit Card Satisfaction Survey Face To Face)
c. Media Statistical Survey 2005 till 2006 present(Viewership Ratings and Time Slot On Phone)
d. Sports 100 2005 ( Media Newspaper Consumer Satisfaction Survey)
e. NMA 2005 & 2006 (Outdoor Door to Door Media Consumption Survey Face to Face)-\[2005 Interviewer 2006
SUPERVISOR\]
f. Media And Marketing Show 2006 & 2007 Trade Center(Field Supervisor)
g. Promoted to Senior field executive for media related studies. Main Job to handle all studies and divide the quota to the team. I had to keep regular check outs on the achievement of the study on time and submitting it to the client on date.
h. Conducted various Mystery shopping visits for clients like Emirates Bank, Burger King, Pizza Hut etc…
i. In all as of date I have handled projects of all MNE’s some of which include ART, CISCO, Arabian Media Group
(AMG) etc….

Education

Bachelor's degree, marketing
  • at Preston University
  • March 2015
High school or equivalent, marketing
  • at The Indian High School Dubai
  • March 2004

High School Certificate CBSE,

Specialties & Skills

Client Service
Field Sampling
Training
Marketing Research
Microsoft Office
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
MARKETING
RESEARCH
TELEPHONE SKILLS

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Punjabi
Expert

Hobbies

  • Event Associate
    1.Captain of university basketball and bowling team- Won twice the trophy in basketball and medals for 2nd runner-ups in Dubai Thunder bowl challenge. 2.University representative for all events in the university and was the head coordinator for all parties and events in the university. 3.Member of the University Debate Club and Drama Club, Am still the trainer for debate events till date.