Avantika Singh

Partnerships Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Led strategic partnerships with major banks and corporates.
  • Achieved high customer retention rates through effective team management.
  • Spearheaded new initiatives for accelerated business growth.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in business development and strategic partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic PartnershipsBusiness DevelopmentSales ManagementCustomer RetentionPartnership ManagementMarketing StrategyCorporate AlliancesEvent ManagementCategory ManagementSupplier ManagementClient Relationship Management

Other Skills

Account ManagementBusiness PlanningChannel PartnershipClient Relationships StrengtheningConsultingConsumer BehaviourCorporate EventsCorporate Sales ManagementCustomer AcquisitionDigital MarketingEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsEmployee TrainingEvent PlanningHRIS

About

An established leader and a startup veteran, with rich expertise in business establishments and growth, diverse team enablement, mentoring and coaching, Avantika Singh is currently the Director- New Initiatives at Jar, where she is invested in brainstorming both short-term and long-term milestones of the organization. Her extensive experience across diverse industries and ability to catalyse growth culture allows her to spearhead the organization's initiatives and keep them aligned with the company’s visions and missions. Prior to taking up the leadership position at Jar, Avantika was Head- Consumer Partnership, at Cleartax where she seamlessly led a team of 50+, managing alliances, and enterprise sales, for the three biggest verticals of ClearTax GST, Mutual funds and ITR Software & Compliance Services. Previously, she has been associated with Urban Company where she built a strong foundation around consumer dynamics and sourcing strategies. Her HR stint in Volvo, helped her understand the corporate culture and firming her belief in strong team synergies and bringing best out of each individual. Avantika is an empathetic and dynamic leader known for her strong business acumen and skills in business development, planning & executing business & brand strategies, developing new market channels, and building strong relationships with customers and industry leaders. Leveraging her rich experiences, she is adept in scouting growth opportunities and venturing new markets to provide an accelerated growth for her organization.

Experience

Jify

Director, Head-Partnerships and Sales

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India

Swish club

Director, Head-Business and Marketing

May 2024Oct 2024 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Jar

Director -New Initiatives

Jan 2023Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore · On-site

Cleartax india

4 roles

National Head-Strategic Partnerships.Heading BFSI, Corporates and Payroll

Promoted

Mar 2019Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Responsible for BFSI Partnerships and end to end execution of Consumer & GST Business @Cleartax. Partnered with 15 banks eg.HDFC, ICICI, Yes Bank, Axis Bank, IDBI, IDFC,RBL, Bajaj Allianz etc
  • Pan India Corporate partnerships for the Consumer Business. Have partnered with 2K +Corporates.
  • Handle a 50+ member team , Spread over Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Pune & Hyd.
  • Responsible for E-commerce partnership for Consumers & GST for Businesses.
  • Responsible for Account Management for 2k+ Accounts.
  • Conceptualize & Launch new initiatives for better traction & conversions , across all partnerships.
Partnership ManagementAccount ManagementTeam LeadershipBusiness DevelopmentStrategic Partnerships

Channel Partnership & Sales Head- GST, Mutual Fund & Marketplace

Promoted

Mar 2018Feb 2019 · 11 mos

  • Conceptualized and developed a new initiative of channel partnership team for Mutual Funds, which today contributes to 45% of assisted monthly sales.
  • Built a growth hack channel partner product through a partners to reach out to the market fast.
  • Worked with online marketing and product marketing teams to build top of the funnel for new leads and build engagement with existing leads.
  • Collaborated with operations to ensure investments from CA channel has lesser rejections and refunds.
  • Worked with senior management to define aggressive quarterly targets.
  • Built processes for channel enablement to increase seamless MF sales with minimal effort from channel managers.
  • Demonstrated expertise in conceptualizing, developing, launching, formalizing business development of mutual fund offerings.
Business DevelopmentChannel PartnershipSales StrategySales Management

Team Manager - GST Sales

Mar 2017Feb 2018 · 11 mos

  • Hired a 40+ sales members to launch GST software for CA and SME segment
  • Lead a 15 member Team of Business Development, Account Management and Channel Partnership.
  • Produced over 4000+ customer acquisition, with over 85% customer retention.
  • Consistent Top performing team across organization in the GST Project.
  • Driven the revenue of 1.5cr + with more than 30% growth MOM & 50 lacs+ through channel partnership & Enterprises.
  • Demonstrated commitment to after sales service levels with existing accounts via KAM.
  • Created training & development programs, leading to 50% reduction in incubation period.
  • Created Weekly MIS reports on team assessment and performance.
Sales ManagementCustomer AcquisitionTeam LeadershipCustomer Retention

Strategic Partnership Manager

Oct 2016Feb 2017 · 4 mos

  • Established Partnership and Alliances with Accelerators, Incubators, Co-working spaces, e-cells, State Govt. and generated revenue of 3.5 M via start-ups .
  • Planning & Implementation of marketing and promotion campaigns with cost effective media mix.
  • Participated in various programs, exhibitions, conferences, meetups for developing business network.
  • Developed the product catalog,pricing & brand strategy that delivers consumer loyalty and up sell opportunities.
  • Have been among the panel members for various Startup programs on Compliance. To work with cross functional teams for service delivery & customer satisfaction.
  • List of Few Of the partnerships :
  • Co-working Spaces: 91Springboard, BHIVE, Awfis, Cowork India, Greenbubbles, Innov8, Ikeva, Instaspace.
  • Accelerators : NUMA, Target, Venture Factory,Ginserv,Headstart,, NASSCOM, Indian StartupNetwork
  • E-Cell : IIT-Delhi, Bombay,Chennai NSIT, JGI, IIM-Bangalore, Ahmedabad.
Partnership ManagementMarketing Strategy

Urbanclap

2 roles

Corporate Alliances

Jan 2016Apr 2016 · 3 mos

  • Corporate Alliance Manager -PAN India, responsible for corporate alliances,& BTL Activation.
  • Corporate Alliance with Snapdeal, Myntra, Zivame, Accenture, Inmobi, AOL and Ebay.
  • Organized Women's Day Event with 15+ corporates- PAN India, served 1200 customers in a day.
Corporate AlliancesEvent Management

Category Manager

Oct 2015Jan 2016 · 3 mos

  • Category Manager-Handling end to end Salon services.
  • Corporate Alliance Manager,responsible for corporate alliance, activation and Co-Branding.
  • Supplier Management- freelancers and aggregators acquisition& quality management
  • Process & application training, daily performance evaluation of providers to ensure quality and CSAT.
  • Inventory Management and stock control.
  • Payments& commissions management for Freelancers/aggregators.
  • Planning Marketing & penetration strategies for existing & upcoming markets.
  • Provide support in Branding, Advertising & BTL activation capturing potential customers.
  • Accomplishing business objectives by planning and analyzing trends of supplier services and CSAT.
Category ManagementSupplier Management

Morgenall mangement consultants

Business Development & Client Relationship Manager

Nov 2014Apr 2015 · 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Primarily responsible for client acquisition & retention for the recruitment business in the Middle East Market.
  • Utilizing business development, negotiation & networking strategies for comprehensive business planning
  • Developing & implementing comprehensive business plan to acquire a client.
  • Customer Journey Mapping, analysing touch points with the org. and maximising commercial opportunities.
  • Planning and delivering CRM strategies across the company encouraging customer retention and loyalty.
  • Monitor and maximize customer retention strategies and ensuring maximum profitability.
Business DevelopmentClient Relationship Management

Jobraiser software pvt. ltd.

Senior Manager-Business Services

Jul 2014Oct 2014 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked as Senior Manager-Business Development at JobRaiser Software.
  • Responsible for End-to-End Business Development, starting from Lead Generation through Web Search,social networks and references,meeting clients and demonstrating the software.
  • Submit commercial proposals to customer, handle negotiations and get the contract signed.
  • Coordinate with Delivery teams to ensure the software is delivered as per the customer.Follow up with customer on payment collection,Provide Software training to the end users and management team.
  • Ensuring the customer satisfaction and follow up regarding the service provides.
Business DevelopmentClient Relationship Management

Volvo business services

HR-Executive

Jun 2012May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

Club mahindra

Marketing Analyst.

Apr 2011Jun 2011 · 2 mos · Club Mahindra

  • I have done the marketing research to find out the new potential areas for marketing and have carried out events for potential lead generation.This was during the internship period of 2 months.

Freelancer-anchor

EMCEE

Mar 2008Jun 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Education

University of Cambridge

Executive Program in Strategic Digital Marketing — Digital Marketing

Jan 2019Jan 2019

MATS College of Managment and Enterprenuership

PGDM — Marketing and Strategy

Jan 2010Jan 2012

M.S.Ramaiah College

Bsc Biotechnology

Jan 2007Jan 2010

AMS Saharanpur

10th and 12th

Jan 2004Jan 2006

St.Mary's Academy

juniour secondary

Jan 1994Jan 2003

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