CHIRAG BHANDARKAR
Contact: +91-96860 88220 Email: chiragbhandarkar@gmail.com
Seeking assignments in Sales & Marketing • Brand Management • Social-Media • Online Branding
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ORACLE DIRECT, BANGALORE MAR’09 – PRESENT
Business Development Consultant
• Responsible for identifying and generating new business through sales activities such as cold calls, prospecting, territory planning and building mainly from Corporate and Public Sector accounts in U.S.A
• Designing and implementing competent strategies to explore potential business avenues, penetrate new accounts and expand the existing clientele.
• Concentrating on existing customers to increase business volume.
• Presentations and demonstration of the product wherever it is required
• Co-ordinating and supporting sales team to enhance business from existing and new clients
• Achieving quarterly revenue targets for the assigned projects
Highlights:
• Successfully closed several deals involving Oracle Databases, Real Applications Testing, Oracle Data Integrator, Weblogic Suite.
• Achieved 60% growth in BDC closed revenue in a net new accounts for the state of Delaware and over 100% for D.C (products included database and weblogic suite)
• Achieved 30% growth on pipeline and 110% growth on revenue quarter on quarter with appropriate pipeline mix of Database and Middleware products.
• Independently managed and executed multiple deals simultaneously.
• Identified business prospects with the help of sales reports and sales intelligence tools.
JEET ADS & RESOURCE CENTRE OCT’04 – MAR’07
Event Manager
• Researching markets to identify opportunities for events.
• Liaising with clients to ascertain their precise event requirements; producing detailed proposals for events. (e.g. timelines, venues, suppliers, legal obligations, staffing and budgets)
• Coordinating venue management, caterers, stand designers, contractors and equipment hire.
• Planning room layouts and the entertainment programme, scheduling workshops and demonstrations.
• Liaising with PR colleagues & Live Innovation to promote the event.
• Liaising with clients and designers to create a brand for the event and organising the production of tickets, posters, catalogues and sales brochures.
• Coordinating suppliers, handling client queries and troubleshooting on the day of the event to ensure that all runs smoothly.
• Post-event evaluation (including data entry and analysis and producing reports for event stakeholders)
Highlights:
• Handled promotional projects for Lux & Iodex (Event Manager and Coordinator for Utsav Event Managers & Organizers
• Event Designer for Investor Mela 2005
• Organizing Digital Parties for Intel & HCL & Product advertisement for TATA INDICOM
INDUSTRY IMMERSION PROJECT: INDIABULLS SECURITIES LTD , Hyderabad Feb’08–May’08
Accountabilities:
• Conducting the market research study for buying behaviour of Customers.
• Identifying and proposing the areas of service differentiation
• Developing marketing strategy for approaching for the clients.
ACADEMIA & PROJECTS
• MBA (Marketing), 2009 IBS Hyderabad (CGPA of 6.3)
• B.E Mechanical, 2006 J.N.E.C, Aurangabad (First Div 65.4%)
PROJECT TITLE: PROFITABILITY CHECKS OF ULIP VS. TERM INSURANCE & MUTUAL FUNDS MAY’08–FEB’09
Area of Work: The layman is easily lured by the phenomenal returns the different financial instruments/investment options are giving, not knowing that there is a flipside attached to it as well. The purpose of this project work is to inform the investor about the various charges on the ULIP plans and compare the ULIP plan with combination of
Mutual Fund and Term Insurance. Hence illustrate and inform the prospective customers of Mutual Funds that
which of these two schemes is better.
MAJOR PROJECT: ANTI-SKID BREAKING SYSTEM B.E SEMESTER 8
Area of Work: This project mainly dealt with design and development of a breaking system which ensured safety of vehicles during breaking and preventing them from skidding, thereby ensuring safety of driver and passengers. The model was designed keeping in mind the cost and ease of manufacturing.
CONCEPT PROJECT HYBRID PNEUMATIC POWER VEHICLE B.E SEMESTER 7
Area of Work This project dealt with concept building and research on building up a Hybrid Pneumatic Powered Car, keeping in mind pollution and fuel conservation. This vehicle has its thermal efficiency increased up to 18%, thereby increasing the overall efficiency by 33%.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
• Completed a course on MS Office from NIIT
• Knowledge of programming language C & C++
Sales Training: Sandler’s Sales Technique by Mike Myers
EXTRA-CURRICULARS / ACHIEVEMENTS
• Member of organizing committee inter collegiate youth festival
• Represented school for inter school cricket tournaments
• Silver medal in district level swimming competition
• Won several awards in intercollegiate solo & group dance competition
• Represented college in intercollegiate cricket tournament
LEISURELY PURSUITS
Listening to music, Playing Cricket and Basketball, Dancing (Free style and Hip-Hop), Exploring Search Engines, Reading, Sketching.
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Date of Birth: 11th November 1984
Address: Address: Plot No. 42/43, Anand-Sneha, Devanagari, Shanurvadi, Aurangabad
Maharashtra - 431001
Linguistic Abilities: English, Hindi, Marathi
