Sudev Surendranath, Manager, Sales & Marketing

Sudev Surendranath

Manager, Sales & Marketing

NTV Technologies LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

Share My Profile

Block User


Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Manager, Sales & Marketing at NTV Technologies LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • April 2015 to January 2016

NTV Technologies LLC, UAE- April 2015 - Present
Roles: Marketing and sales division head, marketing blue print, general administration, process mapping, documentations, system creation, team building, client handling, business development

Working out marketing strategies and a blue print for the organization
Recruitment, training & work allocation of sales team
Marketing collateral, documentation and systems
Advertisement agency and client handling
Sponsorship and time slot - sales management, new schemes
Conceiving and implementing innovative schemes
Content synchronization
Schedules and flow charts
Coordinate with content and technical team
General administration

Marketing and brand management at M M Publications Ltd
  • India
  • April 2008 to December 2014

Media Management and Brand communications
 Prepare branding and communication solutions for various brands including Vanitha, India's largest circulated magazine and 16 other products across print and digital.
 Preparing, planning and controlling of annual marketing plan & promotional budget for products.
 Coordination of on-field national and international marketing activities
 Conceptualizing and executing innovative schemes and contests for direct customers and agency networks
 Coordination of media plans, ATL, BTL and OOH activities for all products
 Conceiving, planning, launching monitoring and auditing promotions
 Media buying and agency handling
 Product strategies - positioning, segmentation, pricing and new product development
 Market Research, Data Analysis and feedback analysis
 Identifying schemes, contests, campaigns for promoting sales
 Consistent coordination with content teams for brand strategy alignment
Brand Communications
 Media (print, TV & radio) Planning :ATL, BTL and TTL promotional plans
 Conceptualizing and developing creative for TV, print advertisements, outdoor, sales brochures and event's collateral.
 B2B campaigns
 On-line advertisement campaigns for select products

Event Creation & Management
 Successfully conceived and implemented events some of the now-popular exhibitions in the region in segments like consumer, health and wellness, home and interior etc, including the biggest women’s consumer exhibition in India.
 Launched new series of events based on cookery, beauty, women safety etc.
 Initiated a host of seminars on topics ranging from career to gardening.
 Played a stellar role behind one of south India’s largest Film Awards ceremony
 Implemented India’s largest painting contest for kids and South India’s largest scholarship for kids.

Senior Terittory in Charge at Malayala Manorama Company Ltd
  • India
  • April 1997 to March 2008

Territory in Charge
Profile : Sales & Marketing in an assigned area.

Sales
 Leading a team of 12-15 field executives to achieve specified sales and revenue targets
 Marketing evaluation, vendor identification, logistics planning
 Organizing events and seminars
 Agency handling and network improvement
 Team building, mentoring and motivating
 Corporate sales
 Distribution mapping and improvements
 During the period conceived and implemented several key which are now common industry practices.
ISO standards implementation
 Played a pivotal role in implementing ISO 9001 standards for entire circulation division.
 Process mapping, documentation, accomplished ISO auditor
 Strong in documentation and process controls

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at National Institute of Business Management
  • March 2008

EMBA in Marketing

Bachelor's degree, Economics
  • at Mahatma Gandhi University
  • April 1996

Specialties & Skills

Media Strategy
Digital Marketing
Media Handling
Product Management
Brand communications
Digital Marketing
Computer skills - ms office and internet
Brand Management
Computer - MS office
Marketing
Business Development

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Expert

Training and Certifications

Media advertisement creation (Training)
Training Institute:
MICA
Digital Marketing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
Journalism (completed) (Training)
Training Institute:
Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan
Date Attended:
March 1997
Digital Marketing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2013

Hobbies

  • Reading
  • Travelling
    Member of Youth Hostel Association of India
  • Reading
    Have won numerous accolades for extempore speech, debates etc during school-college period
  • Reading and Cricket
  • Reading
  • Cricket
  • Trekking
    Member of Global Youth Hostel Association