Soumedhik Banerjee

Business Development Executive

Kolkata, West Bengal, India16 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in bridging digital solutions with business needs.
Proven track record in business development and UX analysis.
Skilled in managing complex projects and client relationships.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Digital Business Analyst with expertise in UX and business development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business AnalysisUser Experience (ux)Business Development

Other Skills

AnalysisBenefits NegotiationBiddingBusiness IntelligenceBusiness ManagementBusiness RequirementsCRMClient Relationship ManagementCost EstimatingCustomer RelationsEcommerceEffort EstimationElearningEnterprise PortalsFeasibility Studies

About

By profession I am a digital Business Analyst, always striving to add value by forming a bridge between the diverse world of Digital offerings and real world business cases to help clients digitally transform their businesses. I also handle business development for User Experience/Customer Experience focused digital engagements. Also a writer, amature photographer and video editor and in general a digger of all things creative.

Experience

Cognizant

UX & CX focussed Digital Business Analyst

Aug 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 7 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Hybrid

My contribution in Cognizant can be summarized into 3 aspects:
1. Business Development: Key Responsibilities include:
 Opportunity Management-
1) Gather relevant information from the respective teams and support business development in RFP responses
2) Gather information and data, as well as contribute to the creation of deal solutions
3) Gather requirements for delivery teams/ customers and support the delivery team with product/ functional area analysis
4) Understand the existing information on project capabilities – both functional & technical
5) Track and support bid management process (e.g. deal review, deal qualification etc.)
6) Track, maintain and report pre-sales support information (deal analytics, prospect list etc.)
7) Support compliance initiatives - strict adherence to Bid Management process in line with laid down procedures and approval matrices.
8) Plan for, schedule and attend inter/intra team meetings and discussions. Drive the discussion while capturing MoM and POA to further the pursuit process.
9) Be a Single Point of Contact for all activities forming part of a typical pursuit process - plan for and schedule Solution Storyboarding sessions, Leadership reviews, Client Orals, etc.
 Collateral Management
1) Create or assist in preparing presentations/ collaterals, White Papers, Case studies for sales support
2) Ensure usage of Cognizant brand guidelines.
2. Business Analysis:
 Working with the Onsite Business Analyst/Client to capture and document the functional and non-functional requirements.
 Work with the technology teams to provide KT for requirements and address their queries.
 Create project documentation.
 Participating in review meetings with key stakeholders.
3. User Experience (UX):
 Heuristic Analysis & Competitive bench-marking of web and mobile applications.
 Creation of low fidelity prototypes.
 Creation of domain and business requirement specific Design Point of view documents.

Business DevelopmentBusiness AnalysisUser Experience (UX)Requirements AnalysisProject Management

Maketick inc

Business Analyst

May 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

Solution scoping via legacy system analysis, focus group interviews, gap analysis, RFP analysis etc for gathering business system requirements and expected deliverable.
Identifying solution options and assessing them for both technical and business suitability.
Developing functional and technical specifications including BRD and FRS, procedural documents highlighting the deliverables.
for end to end turnkey solutions.
Effort estimation.
SRS and SOP development via preparation of use cases, flow and navigation diagrams etc after low level requirement analysis (business rules) during the development and deployment life cycle.

Solution ScopingFunctional SpecificationsEffort EstimationGap AnalysisBusiness Analysis

Max mobility

Manager - Project Sales

May 2010 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Primary Role: Business Analysis and Functional Consultancy.
Solution scoping via legacy system analysis, focus group interviews etc for gathering business requirements and expected deliverable including gap analysis.
Identifying solution options and assessing them for both technical and business suitability.
Developing solution literature highlighting the deliverables for an end to end solution via product customization or custom development service.
SRS development via preparation of use cases, flow and navigation diagrams etc after low level requirement analysis (business rules) during the development and deployment life cycle.
Secondary Role: Marketing and project co ordination.
Knowledge selling via client presentations.
Liaising with technical team for effort estimations.
Creating innovative sales proposals for service projects.
Co coordination between the client and Project Manager during the development phase till project closure, holding review meetings to address and resolve client's concerns to ensure full satisfaction.

Business AnalysisFunctional ConsultancySolution Literature Development

Isolution software systems pvt. ltd.

Business Developer

Feb 2009 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

Primary Role: Business Development focusing on turning single project prospects to key accounts.
Marketing activity via online portals (Elance, Guru, Scriptlance, Odesk) to identify opportunity and generate prospects
Interactive clarification and mapping of client's functional requirements and expected deliverable.
Identifying solution options and assessing them for both technical and business suitability.
Liaising with technical team for effort estimations.
Proposal drafting for bidding and subsequent financial negotiations concluding with deal closure including up selling and cross selling.
Identifying cultural influences for Relationship Management with Key Accounts for generation of repeat business.
Secondary Role: Project Co Ordination.
Project kickoff through a brainstorming session with the Project Manager.

Business DevelopmentProposal DraftingClient Relationship Management