Praveen Chandra

Partnerships Manager

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India10 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering
  • Expert in Digital Payments and Strategic Partnerships
  • Proven track record in managing complex payment solutions
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on payment solutions and strategic partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales ManagementStrategic NegotiationsProject ManagementStrategic PartnershipsPartnership DevelopmentProgram ManagementBusiness StrategyLogistics Management

Other Skills

Account ManagementAutoCADBankingBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness PlanningCC++CATIACatiaConsultingConsumer LendingCore JavaCross-functional CollaborationsCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)

About

Experienced Payments partnerships professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Digital payments industry. Skilled in Strategic Alliances, Data Analysis, Negotiation, Cross functional collaboration, Quality and Portfolio Management. Gold Medalist in BE Mechanical Engineering from Sathyabama University, Chennai along with a PGDM focused in Finance from K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai.

Experience

Setu

Banking Partnerships

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Phicommerce

Vice President - TSP Sales

Dec 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Leading the TSP Sales charter focused on the modules in Omni channel Payments Acquiring stack
  • Drive the Orchestration & Tokenization product solutions across the different segments like Payment Aggregators, BFSI, Gaming, Retail etc.
Business PlanningStrategic NegotiationsSales ManagementProject Portfolio ManagementCross-functional Collaborations

Paytm

Senior Manager - Partnerships

Jul 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Managing the lending partnerships i.e. the NBFCs & Banks
  • Collaborating with the partners on designing the Go to Market strategy
  • Responsible for understanding partner requirements for business, risk, compliance, legal and product/technical teams and ensuring alignment accordingly
  • Project managing the integration process from product and technical perspective along with ensuring timelines alignment
  • Managing partner governance on an on-going basis to ensure seamless functioning
Project ManagementConsumer LendingStrategic Partnerships

Google

Partner Manager

Jul 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Build relationships & work on Partner Development to achieve Business goals
  • Understand partner business objectives and work with cross-functional teams to deliver maximum impact for the partner and Google Pay. For e.g. New Feature Roll outs & handling production queries
  • Worked closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Legal teams on new initiatives and key strategic relationships along with NPCI
  • Build process & collaborate with the Support team to handle the User Disputes in coordination with the partners & NPCI
Program ManagementPartnership DevelopmentStrategic Partnerships

Razorpay

Enterprise Sales

Jan 2021Jun 2021 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked on Payment solutions including Payment Gateway & the Payout solutions i.e RazorpayX
  • ☞ Working on acquisitions of Large relationships as per the Business goals defined
  • ☞ Customer service skills to initiate , nurture & grow a relationship with the client for the organization
  • ☞ Ensuring the activation of the relationships basis the payment solutions implemented as the requirements i.e increase in counter share , incremental volumes, strategic partnerships etc
  • ☞ Working at a broad with the senior management of both internal as well as external stakeholders in order to integrate & implement the various Payment solutions into their Business model as per the requirement
  • ☞ Working in collaboration of various Service teams involved for all the promoted products in order to resolve the queries & give the timely resolution to the clients
  • ☞ Working in collaboration with the cross functional stakeholders in order to have maximum Product penetration with the relationships involved
Business StrategyProject ManagementSales ManagementNegotiation

Hdfc bank

2 roles

Senior Manager - National Accounts

Jun 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Wholesale Digital Payment Solutions
  • Working on various Payment solutions including Payment Gateway, Point of Sales (PoS), Prepaid INR Cards & Commercial Payment ( Corporate Card solutions )
  • ☞ Customer service skills to initiate , nurture & grow a relationship with the client for the organization
  • ☞ Driving the increase in counter share, incremental volumes, card spends etc
  • ☞ Strategizing with the senior management of both internal as well as external stakeholders in order to implement the various Payment solutions
  • ☞ Working in collaboration with Service teams to resolve the queries & give the timely resolution to the merchants
  • ☞ Collaborating with the Product teams from the Bank in order to have maximum Product penetration with the merchants
  • ☞ Working on acquisitions of Large relationships as per the Business goals defined

Manager - Key Accounts

Feb 2016May 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Working on various Payment solutions including Payment Gateway, Point of Sales (PoS), Prepaid INR Cards & Commercial Payment ( Corporate Card solutions )
  • ☞ Customer service skills to initiate , nurture & grow a relationship with the client for the organization
  • ☞ Ensuring the activation of the relationships basis the payment solutions implemented as the requirements i.e increase in counter share , incremental volumes , card spends etc
  • ☞ Working at a broad with the senior management of both internal as well as external stakeholders in order to integrate & implement the various Payment solutions into their Business model as per the requirement
  • ☞ Working in collaboration of various Service teams involved for all the promoted products in order to resolve the queries & give the timely resolution to the clients
  • ☞ Working in collaboration with the other Product stakeholders from the Bank in order to have maximum Product penetration with the relationships involved
  • ☞ Working on acquisitions of Large relationships as per the Business goals defined

Future supply chain solutions limited

Assistant Manager

May 2015Jan 2016 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Special Projects - E-Commerce
  • Formulating the strategies for the “ Introducing Omni – channel operations in Big Bazaar stores “ project ( Pan India )
  • Coordinating with the System design team & Business team in order to develop new solutions
  • Formulating the Forecasted Cost Estimate in co-ordination with Business Heads
  • Creating the Business flows for new operations which would be considered as SOPs
  • Developing new processes and procedures based on which the productivity can be improved
Logistics ManagementProject Management

Deutsche bank

Summer Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Strategic Consulting - Corporate Restructuring
  • Worked with the team of – Strategy 2015 , which involved the project of "Corporate Restructuring"​
  • Involved analyzing the cost – benefit for some of the Businesses and giving a report on the same
  • Worked on the Strategic ways for re-designing the Organization structure in order to have the proposed hierarchy
  • Worked on “ Talent Management" as an additional project , where some additional training materials and presentations were prepared to be used for induction programs in the future
  • Worked on drafting the proposal to implement strategic changes for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Organization under – OpeX ( Operational Excellence )

Accenture

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2012Dec 2012 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Manual Software Testing
  • Done UAT for the Online Banking platform for the Ireland based client
  • Worked with the Error Application domain team in order to identify the errors in the platform developed
  • Worked on testing the platform by using HP Quality Centre ( QC )
  • Trained in working on automated Testing tools like QTP , Load Runner etc
  • Created Test Scripts & Test Cases for the client on various scenarios
  • Detected substantial defects for our client during the tests without any issue raised by the onsite team

Vedanta resources plc

Summer Trainee

May 2009May 2009 · 0 mo · Chittaurgarh Area, India

  • Work included studying the step by step process of Zinc production at one of the largest Zinc producing plants in the world
  • Studied the various issues faced by the different departments involved in the plant during the downtime as well as damages occurred during the operations
  • Worked with the maintenance team in order to understand the bottlenecks in operations
  • Worked on a report on improving the Performance levels for the different processes involved
  • Worked with the Six-Sigma team to understand and implement steps in the processes involving for continuously improving the operations and understanding Quality Management

Education

K . J . Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research , Mumbai

PGDM — Finance

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Sathyabama University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Sri Chaitanya Junior College , Visakhapatnam , India

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Little Angels School , Visakhapatnam , India

Jan 2005Jan 2006

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