Mukesh Kandhol

Partnerships Manager

Gurgaon, Haryana, India15 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led digital transformation for over 60,000 merchants.
  • Expert in driving B2B business growth for MSMEs.
  • Proven track record in managing high-margin revenue streams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on B2B business growth and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategySalesBusiness GrowthDigital TransformationBusiness DevelopmentSales ManagementStrategic RelationshipsRelationship Management

Other Skills

StrategyBusiness AnalysisCoachingDigital SalesBusiness MetricsLeadershipCross-SellingPayment SolutionsHappay TravelHappay ExpenseTechnical UnderstandingCommerceCustomer AcquisitionNew Business OpportunitiesNew Business Development

About

Our team at Tide focuses on harnessing the power of partnerships to drive innovation and strategic growth. With a background as Business Head at DotPe, I've honed a keen acumen for digital sales and business metrics, specifically in the fintech and food tech industries. Steering DotPe's enterprise and SMB division, we've achieved significant milestones, including the onboarding of over 60,000 merchants.

Experience

Tide

2 roles

Director of Partnerships at Tide

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos · India · On-site

Head of Partnerships at Tide

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

  • As the Head of Partnerships at Tide India, I lead the B2B business for MSMEs, focusing on empowering small and medium-sized enterprises with innovative solutions for expense management and payroll. My role encompasses end-to-end leadership, from product ideation and development to market identification and business model formulation.
  • Key responsibilities include:
  • Product Ideation and Development: Spearheading the creation of solutions tailored to the unique needs of MSMEs, ensuring they are scalable and impactful.
  • Market Identification and Segmentation: Analyzing and identifying key target markets to drive business growth.
  • Business Model Development: Defining and finalizing the revenue and pricing strategies that align with both market demand and business goals.
  • Key Metrics and GTM Strategy: Establishing clear KPIs, designing a go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and driving effective execution.

Dotpe

3 roles

Vice President & Business Head

Sep 2023May 2024 · 8 mos

StrategySalesBusiness Strategy

Senior Director and Business Head-Enterprise & SMB Business

Jan 2022May 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • I led the digital transformation of both Enterprise and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the F&B sector across India, helping them transition from offline to digital. Our solutions cover end-to-end needs, including Front-end Commerce, Payment and Offers Integrations, Digital Catalogs, and Back-end Management with POS systems, Billing, Inventory Management, CRM, Loyalty Programs, and Delivery Integrations.
  • In my role, I am responsible for driving business growth, strategy, and management for both Enterprise and Long-tail merchants. I oversee a large team focused on cross-selling, upselling, merchant success, and expanding Dotpe's presence across 60,000+ merchants on our platform.
  • I directly manage revenue generation and am accountable for the P&L across multiple business categories. I also lead a dynamic organization structure, overseeing Regional and City Heads, Account Managers, Customer Success, Business Operations (both digital and on-ground), Product Development, Finance, Marketing, and POS implementation teams, ensuring alignment with company objectives and seamless execution across all verticals.
Business AnalysisCoachingBusiness GrowthDigital Transformation

Business Head - Enterprise Business

Oct 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

StrategySalesBusiness Development

Payu

Regional Head Enterprise Business

Aug 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • I joined PayU Payments as the Regional Head for North and East, and within six months, expanded my responsibilities to manage the North, East, and West regions for the Enterprise Business. In this role, I successfully managed large, strategic relationships across a wide range of industries, including:
  • Education: NCERT, DPS, SRM University
  • Telecom: Airtel, Vodafone
  • Retail Aggregators: Amazon, Flipkart, Ajio, Nykaa, Myntra, Tata
  • Insurance: Go Digit, PolicyBazaar, Apollo Munich, HDFC Ergo, Bajaj Allianz, ICICI Pru, Bharti AXA, Max Life Insurance, Tata AIG
  • Food Aggregators: Zomato, Swiggy
  • Government: CSC, Delhi Jal Board, various government treasuries
  • Travel Aggregators: MakeMyTrip, GoIbibo, Cleartrip, Yatra, EaseMyTrip, Oyo Rooms, Fab Hotels
  • Grocery Tech: BigBasket, Nature’s Basket
  • EdTech: Byju’s, Vedantu, White Hat Junior
  • I led the cross-selling of diverse payment solutions across the Indian payments landscape, including EMIs, No-Cost EMIs, Pay Later products, and various payment methods such as debit and credit cards, as well as international card transactions. I also drove product innovation and ideation, leading the launch and implementation of Merchant Lending solutions on the PayU platform.
  • With my team, I directly managed a monthly GMV of over ₹4,000 crore across some of India's largest enterprise merchants. In addition to achieving business KPIs, I was responsible for driving high-margin revenue streams, such as international card MCP and MCC transactions, as well as Merchants' Cash Advances.
SalesLeadershipSales ManagementStrategic Relationships

Hdfc bank

2 roles

Relationship Banking Head

Dec 2015Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Started my career with HDFC Bank in 2010 as Preferred relationship Manager and rose through the ranks to Relationship Banking head Managing Imperia Relationship banking in between that. I started with individual role and started handling team in 2015. In my last assignment as Banking professional I was responsible for managing a large team of Wealth managers with Managing deposits, Loans and investment AUM of around 1500+ cr as a team. I was driving Gross Income of around 20 crores per Annum through my team across products.
SalesCross-SellingRelationship Management

Relationship Manager ( preferred and Imperia )

May 2010Nov 2015 · 5 yrs 6 mos

SalesCross-SellingRelationship Management

Education

ICFAI Business School

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Marketing

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Guru Jambheshwar University

COMOUTER SCIENCE

Jan 2004Jan 2008

MNSS Rai

NON MEDICAL

Jan 1996Jan 2002

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