Gaurav Pethkar

Business Development Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India7 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in GTM strategy and sales acceleration.
  • Proven track record in driving demand generation.
  • Strong client engagement and relationship management skills.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales and business development expert.

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Skills

Core Skills

Gtm StrategySales AccelerationMarket IntelligenceBusiness DevelopmentSales

Other Skills

AI-driven market intelligenceAccount ManagementAccount PlanningAccount identificationBusiness StrategyClient RelationsCommunicationComplex SalesCross-SellingCustomer LoyaltyCustomer ServiceDemand generationDemoExecutive RelationshipsInbound Sales

About

How I Help: Unlock growth potential with our proprietary platforms: Knowledge Store – AI-powered intelligence mapping 30,000+ niche markets to uncover revenue shifts & new opportunities. SalesPlay – Demand generation tool that identifies high-intent accounts and accelerates deal closures. Key Focus Areas: Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy TAM Expansion & Opportunity Identification Market Share Gain & Competitive Benchmarking Sales Acceleration & Account Enablement Thought Leadership–Driven Demand Generation My role bridges the gap between insight and execution — helping companies navigate shifts, identify hotspots, and turn strategy into action. If you’re looking to sharpen decisions, empower your teams, and unlock new growth opportunities — let’s connect.

Experience

Marketsandmarkets™

Client Growth Partner

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • At MarketsandMarkets™, I work with business leaders across Sales, Marketing, Strategy, and Product teams to support data-driven decision-making and help them unlock sustainable revenue growth. I serve as a strategic partner for clients by aligning their business goals with actionable market intelligence.
  • 🔹 Key Responsibilities:
  • Collaborating with global clients to deliver insights that support GTM strategy, TAM expansion, market share gain, and account enablement.
  • Providing strategic demos and onboarding for MarketsandMarkets' proprietary platforms –
  • 🔸 Knowledge Store – an AI-driven market intelligence platform for ecosystem mapping and revenue-impact analysis
  • 🔸 Sales IQ – a tool that fuels demand generation and identifies high-intent accounts for sales acceleration
  • Supporting thought leadership-driven demand generation by helping clients leverage forward-looking insights for targeted content and campaigns
  • Partnering with key stakeholders to identify white spaces, innovation triggers, and strategic priorities across their ecosystem
  • Enabling sales and marketing teams with intelligence on market trends, competitor benchmarking, and future growth opportunities
  • 🔹 Key Outcomes:
  • Successfully delivered projects to support expansion in high-growth markets
  • Helped clients identify disruptive opportunities and align internal capabilities for faster go-to-market execution
  • Improved client engagement and adoption of Knowledge Store and Sales IQ platforms through customized walkthroughs and strategic alignment sessions
Account ManagementKey Account DevelopmentInbound SalesOutbound SalesGTM StrategySales Acceleration

Market research future® (mrfr)

Strategic Growth Manager

Nov 2023Apr 2024 · 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Marketsandmarkets™

2 roles

Associate Growth Partner

Apr 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Client RelationsExecutive RelationshipsBusiness DevelopmentPresentation SkillsUpsellingCross-Selling+7

Senior Business Development Executive

Dec 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • MarketsandMarkets™ is the world's largest revenue impact company, serving over 10,000 customers, including 80% of Forbes Global 2000 B2B companies in the industries that we track. In the face of constant technology innovation and market disruption, we help organizations plan & operationalize their future revenue mix decisions by identifying over 30,000 high-growth opportunities ranging from $1B to $500B. Our revenue impact methodology provides actionable & quantified insights on converged, granular, and networked market ecosystems that result from disruptive technologies and high-growth markets.
  • MarketsandMarkets™ brings exclusive high-growth markets intelligence generated by over 850 SMEs and analysts along with its proprietary Revenue Impact platform, Knowledge Store, to support decision making. Over 70% of our intelligence is exclusive and we advise our clients on areas such as - What revenues can you expect from newer innovations? Where are the explicit and latent opportunities, markets, technologies, products, and use cases? What is the opportunity for your client in $ terms by adopting your new products and offerings?
  • We work across all major B2B industries with the C-level executives in functions such as Strategy, Marketing, Sales, R&D, Product, M&A etc.
Client RelationsExecutive RelationshipsSalesPresentation SkillsCommunicationInbound Sales+7

Grand view research, inc

Senior Business Development Executive

Mar 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Grand View Research is a market research and consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. It focuses on industry reports and business consultation spanning many industries and global regions. GVR publishes more than 1,000 research reports each year while helping leading global brands make informed and strategic business decisions.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Handling In-Bound sales.
  • Establish and sustain dialogues with key decision-makers including VP, SVP, Director, and CXO level executive in client organizations.
  • Apply critical thinking, creativity, and effective business communication skills to identify critical client needs and formulate appropriate solutions for clients.
  • Nurture and develop existing clients and generate incremental revenues within these accounts by selling additional products and services.
  • Establish new and improved existing processes to ensure significantly high levels of sales efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Generate intelligent analytics on the effectiveness of sales initiatives.
Client RelationsExecutive RelationshipsComplex SalesNew Business OpportunitiesBusiness Development

Stats and reports

2 roles

Senior Business Development Executive

Nov 2018Mar 2019 · 4 mos

Complex SalesNew Business Opportunities

Business Development Executive

Jul 2018Oct 2018 · 3 mos

  • Innovation has always been at the front line for Stats and Reports. We have improved businesses by delivering accurate industry research that has stood the test of time. We believe that delivering quality market research is what ultimately makes a meaningful difference to an enterprise and its customers.
  • While innovation at Stats and Reports means market research, it also means Market size and forecasts, business intelligence, market entry strategy, pricing structure, sustainability course, consumer insights, Technical extensions, Innovation tendencies, Distribution channel gauging. As we continue to invest in R&D, we are also focused on the key unmet needs of our clients. Beyond innovative market research, we offer innovative solutions and outcomes for our clients.
  • Key Responsibilities:-
  • Responsible for converting inbound leads for the Asia Pacific Region, Europe, and the US region.
  • Responsible for outbound sales. Sectors catered: IT, Energy, Heavy Machinery, Healthcare, and Automobile Manage the proposal development process.
  • Negotiate the terms of the agreement and close the sales.
  • Gather market and customer information.
Complex SalesNew Business Opportunities

Saint-gobain india private limited - glass business

Sales Trainee (Internship)

Jan 2018Jun 2018 · 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Saint-Gobain India Pvt Ltd - Glass Business is headquartered at Chennai. It caters to Retail, Glass Processors and Large Institutions through its wide product range — clear glass of different thickness, tinted glass, reflective glass, Interior range of glass, pattern glass, mirrors, high performance glass, fire safety glass, privalite glass, double glazed units and more several innovations which showcase Sustainable Environmental practices like Energy Efficiency. Be it energy efficiency, acoustics, safety/security, self-cleaning or solar control, the company has pioneered with an extensive range of high performance, quality products developed specifically for the ever-changing needs of markets.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Perform an audit report for the glass market in Pune and identify potential clients for direct billing with the company. (Data gathering done through face to face interview)
  • Identification and Conversion of Potential Customers to Dealers.
  • Conducting In-shop meets for current dealers, whole sellers.
  • Performing the Mr Build Campaign by giving presentations to Builders, Architects and Interior Designers.
  • Presenting coater range of products to builders, business entities.
  • Demonstrating benefits of coater range of products to fabricators and architects.
  • Demonstrating Glassmate range of products to retailers.

Magicworks it solutions private limited

Marketing Intern

Apr 2017May 2017 · 1 mo · Pune

  • MagicWorks IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a full-service digital solutions firm, specializing in creating high-impact business solutions for digital and social savvy public. The very versatile and dynamic portfolio of services include social media communication, website development, design, branding & services, performance marketing, staffing services, web hosting and 3D modeling.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Finding new potential market and lead generation in the micro and medium level enterprises in the selected market.
  • To study the UI and UX of websites and provide possible digital marketing solutions.
  • To identify and analyse as to how digital marketing will help an organisation grow.
  • A Data analysis to find out the preferred medium of marketing (digital/traditional).

Education

MIT School of Business

PGDM — Marketing

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Information Technology

Jan 2012Jan 2016

Modern Education Society's Nowrosjee Wadia College Arts, Science, Pune 01

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Nagarvala Day School

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