Ruchi Verma

CEO

Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden20 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in driving sales enablement and revenue growth.
  • Proven track record in global partnerships and IoT initiatives.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional and multicultural teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications and IoT expert with a focus on business development and strategic partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales ManagementCommercial StrategySales EnablementRevenue ModelsPartnershipsBusiness DevelopmentProduct Management

Other Skills

sales supportBusiness AnalysisStrategy

About

I'm a global ICT leader with strong business development, sales enablement and general management experience, an intrapreneur with experience of shaping products from conceptualization to commercialization state. In partnership with other ecosystem partners, telecom operators and high performing teams, I like to drive simplification for speedy execution in this Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world. I like to articulate value for the end customer, identify new revenue streams, simplify operations and shape the use cases to create exciting opportunities for business & society. My strengths is to bridge business with technology and drive speedy execution. I achieve this by navigating and adopting new technologies, understanding the latest industry dynamics, building strong relationships and preserving hard regardless of the odds faced. One constant in my career journey is that I strive to exceed expectation and adapt fast to constant change. I started my career as an software engineer but I soon discovered my passion for understanding, articulating and creating impact of technology on business & society. I believe in continuous learning both academically as well professionally. I have the privilege to work in multi-cultural environment, financial & telecom industries and global markets with incredibly talented professionals. As a leader I coach my team to strive to get the best out of themselves. I can bring a group of people together for a purpose without authority. I strive to go beyond expectations, obsessed about customer value creation. I am passionate about new technology, company transformation, team development and driven by new challenges and growth opportunities. Specialties: Global Sales Enablement Leadership| Revenue Models| Diversity & Inclusion| Cross-functional Team Leadership| Team Builder| Partnerships| Public Speaking| Building Win-Win Relationships| P&L Ownership| Effective Communicator| Digitization| Business development| Digitalization | Simplification | Value Argumentation

Experience

Iim bangalore alumni association (iimbaa)

IIMBAA Nordic Chapter Director

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Ericsson software

Head of Sales

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs · Stockholm · Hybrid

  • Leader's leader - Leading a team of seasoned sales professional spread across Sweden, India, UK, Spain, Ireland & Singapore supporting 7 BSEK business.
  • My charter is to evolve & grow an existing portfolio and introduce a new portfolio along with my team. It is about getting closer to customer needs, upselling, value argumentation, pricing, value capture, introducing a new offering.
  • Key deliverables:
  • User Forums
  • Introduce platform with right commercial model
  • Protect the prices of all commodity mix - Software, Services and Hardware for all products
  • Point of contact for commercial escalations
  • Execute commercial strategy
  • Customer visits & workshops
  • External insights & competitive intelligence
  • Funnel, financials and P&L
  • Representation in external events
  • Balance the customer needs with product development realities
sales supportSales ManagementCommercial Strategy

Ericsson

4 roles

Head of Sales Readiness

Mar 2020Mar 2023 · 3 yrs

  • Leading a cross cultural team of high performers based out of Germany, Sweden, Finland. My team works on enabling sales and identifying & realizing new streams of revenue. Few activities which I drive -
  • Value argumentation - How do we differentiate
  • Competitive Intelligence - Benchmarking against competition
  • Customer Success Management - Recurring revenue, software refresh
  • Sales Support in customer engagements
  • Sales Assets including commercial presentations, business guides, sales guide
  • Sales enablement including competence readiness
  • Analyst interactions
  • Mobile World Congress & demo development
  • Product Marketing

Director IoT Ecosystem & Partnerships

Promoted

Jan 2019Mar 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Director IoT Ecosystem & Partnerships, responsible for scouting, engaging and executing global partnerships. Handson experience of outcome (sales) based partnerships - OEM, Reselling and Coselling.
  • Experience with working with partners in IoT space including selection criteria, selection, creating joint value propositions (WHY-WHAT-HOW), developing business models, joint Go-To-Market Strategies, governance structure, product integration/ development, driving joint sales funnel, agreements/contracts and joint marketing messaging and execution.
  • Ability to handle multiple internal and external stakeholders. Some of the external companies which I have established relationship includes - IoT device manufactures (Spot Sensor, Xylem, Oizom, Smart Sense, Libelium, Oring etc.), Application enablement platform (PTC), application partners (3FS, DVM etc.), universities (KTH, Stockholm University), industry partners (Bosch), large world organizations (UNEP, CEO Water Mandate), System Integrators (TCS, Tech Mahindra, Wipro), cities authorities (Stockholm, Norway), Swedish utilities companies (Stockholm Vatten), urban planners (Sweco), consulting companies (ADL), Environmental departments & organizations such as (NILU, SLB-Analys, SIWI) etc.

Global IoT Product Manager, Smart Cities Business Development

Jan 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • IoT Product Management - Intrapreneurial experience of bringing the IoT offering from conceptualization stage to a sellable product in less than 6 months. Involved in product creation & management, marketing, and sales;
  • Role-specific: Market analysis, GTM, P&L of the solution, budget responsibility for R&D, CoS Solution Industrialization, Requirement Handling, Roadmap, Pitching for Investment, commercial pricing, launching product in large events such as MWC America, SIWI World Water Week
  • Smart Cities Business Development - Evangelist of using technology for Smart Cities.
  • Overall Smart Cities Program Management to refine the strategy for Ericsson in smart cities
  • Smart Sustainable Cities Consulting Sales & Pre-Sales, leading to multi-million worth engagements
  • Smart Sustainable Cities Business Development for Global market including participation in engagement with countries like Singapore, India, Africa (Blueprint), Sweden, Norway, Greece, Istanbul, and HongKong.
  • Some blogs & events -
  • https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2018/4/strengthening-infrastructure-resilience-with-iot
  • https://www.smartcitypdx.com/events/2018/10/23/airquality-webinar
  • https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2017/10/can-iot-save-peoples-lives

Excellerate Leadership Program

Jun 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Scope: Global Leadership Program
  • Job rotation in three different functions (Strategy, Sourcing & Business Development) and locations ( Sweden, India, and the US)
  • International Exposure with peers from 20+ countries
  • Additionally took Advisory board role -
  • Advisor to leadership team as part of first Advisory Board
  • In Parallel, Evangelized & Ideated Advisory Board for 20000+ people organization

Infosys

2 roles

Senior Consulting Manager

Apr 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Scope: Manager, Market Insights, Strategic Analysis, Strategy, Consulting, Financial Services, IT
  • Led team for consulting, market insights, strategic analysis, business research for Infosys CXO’s
  • Organizational development – Built team from scratch to 20+ member
  • Pre Sales

Consultant

Mar 2004Mar 2011 · 7 yrs · Bangalore

  • Scope: Program & Partner Management, Consulting, Strategy, Business Analysis, Financial Services, IT
  • Lead a team of business analyst and consultants for several IT projects leading to successful project delivery; new product introduction, dashboard, platform transformation, post-merger IT integration.
  • Managed several partners including SunGard, Reuters, Morningstar, and Thompson
  • Domain expert for Presales leading to winning of new client; deal size $25M
  • Evangelized and executed a plan to build a consulting organization of 200+ people
  • Led an organization-wide change program to bridge competence gap for domain experts leading to increased Customer Satisfaction Index score

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Northeastern University

Excelerate Program — Management

National University of Singapore

Columbia Business School

Driving Strategic Impact I and II

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science (MS) — Consultancy Management

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Welingkar Institute of Management

Certificate Program in Management

Jan 2011Jan 2012

Jabalpur Engineering College

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

London Business School

KAM Executive Program — Customer Experience

Sep 2024Oct 2024

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