Abhishek Lodha

Business Development Manager

Gurgaon, Haryana, India17 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in scaling businesses.
  • Expertise in managing large teams and driving sales.
  • Strong background in strategic partnerships and alliances.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce business development expert with extensive experience in sales and strategic partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business DevelopmentSales

Other Skills

MarketingOperationsTeam ManagementStrategic AlliancesOnline AdvertisingMarket ResearchMarketing StrategyManagementCompetitive AnalysisBusiness StrategyStrategyMarketing CommunicationsMarketing ManagementBrand Management

About

Business leader aka (Sales Boy) with 14+ years of experience having start-up flavor across industries including e-commerce, digital payments - wallet & advertisement. I have extensive exposure across a gamut of business areas including Ad Sales, Couponing, Strategic Alliances, Market place Merchant On-boarding, Wallet Integration for Merchant, Cab & OMC. I have been part of founding team members of Snapdeal and have closely worked and mentored by founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal. I have proven my competence in setting & scaling up business and turning them into sustainable & profitable center. I have expertise in managing large team size and drive sales through in-house team and outsourced channel partners. I am adept in driving diverse stakeholders including founders, senior leadership, vendors, customers, direct teams and cross-functional resources. I am focused to build a career that helps me grow professionally while being resourceful, innovative, stable and flexible.

Experience

17 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Family business – start up medical centers

Head of Business Development

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Rajasthan, India · On-site

  • Currently I am handling Business Development, marketing and day to day Operations for 3 Sonology centers run by our family. Now since things are set up on our start up, would like to wear my boots to enter into corporate sector back again.
Business DevelopmentMarketingOperations

Freecharge

Director - Business Development / Alliances

Dec 2016Jul 2022 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Gurgaon

  • Spearheading Offline Merchant On-boarding, Reward and Paid Coupon Partnerships vertical nationally.
  • Preparing and implementing the quarterly business plans - Budgeting, Hiring, Demographic Spread (team & cities), Team Training, Process set up, Drive Sales, brand alliances.
  • Responsible for on-boarding Merchants in categories such as Retail, Car / Taxi, Petrol Stations, Restaurant, Spa / Salon, Hotels, Travel Online shopping & Entertainment on Freecharge platform.
  • Front-leading a team of around 70 members Recruited and over 2000 indirect team members.
  • Scaled up Freecharge on ground presence to 15 cities across zones.
  • Track and report performance using appropriate KPIs. Achieve productivity and other key metrics.
  • Designing & implementing the strategies which has an overall impact on company key goals of Acquiring new customer, Increasing monthly active users and overall transaction.
Business DevelopmentSalesTeam ManagementStrategic Alliances

Snapdeal

6 roles

Director - Seller Acquisition - Online C2C Market Place - Shopo

Mar 2016Nov 2016 · 8 mos

  • Served as business head for C2C platform of Jasper ” Shopo “
  • Responsible for drafting Annual operating plan, budgeting, hiring and drive business development.
  • Reached milestone of 2 Lakh sellers with around 600 team members in calling and field sales.
  • Partnered with various channel partners for Merchant on boarding.
  • Strategized and implemented various initiatives to increase booked and confirmed order goals aside Seller on-boarding
Business DevelopmentSalesTeam Management

Associate Director - Seller Business Development - Online Market Place

Promoted

Apr 2015Feb 2016 · 10 mos

  • Served as business head for B2C platform of Jasper ” Snapdeal “.
  • Planned, drove hiring and merchant acquisition across categories.
  • Launched and Managed 33 cities across regions with in-house field team size of 235 team members
  • Played a key role in onboarding 3 Lakh plus seller including brands, retailers, manufacturers, dealers across categories.
  • Spearheaded top line GMV by increasing Product order group listings ensuring the optimal product category mix & volumes.
  • Enhancing customer experience by identifying and fulfilling product assortment gap across categories, ensuring inventory is maintained hence ensuring product availability.
  • Identifying bottlenecks areas specifically in seller onboarding process, finding and implementing optimal solution
Business DevelopmentSalesTeam Management

Zonal Head - Seller Business Development - Online Market Place

Apr 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Regional Head - Business Development - Online Couponing Deals Business

Apr 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

Regional Manager - Business Development - Online Couponing Deals Business

Promoted

Apr 2010Mar 2011 · 11 mos

  • Launched online deals vertical of Jasper, “ Snapdeal”.
  • Managed North India territory, driving Merchant on boarding in service (Restaurant, Salons, Entertainment etc.) segment.
  • Was responsible for training of teams with reference to type and kind of deals to be onboarded.
  • Did deal soft launch in cities across India.
Business DevelopmentSales

Associate - Business Development - Online Couponing Deals Business

May 2008Mar 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Responsible for Merchant on boarding in service (Restaurant, Salons, Travel, Entertainment etc.) segment for Jasper’s Offline Coupon business “ Moneysaver ”.
  • Was also part of Add sales team for offline direct targeted mailer portfolio “ Easyshopper ” of Jasper.
  • In Parallel was also responsible for Merchant Partnerships for various strategic tie up of Jasper with other corporate's for their “ Reward programs
Business DevelopmentSales

Apple

Management Trainee

Sep 2007Oct 2007 · 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

  • Project: Soft Sale Program
  • Summary: Promotion of APPLE Laptops and iMac across regions in India level by way of Presentation and
  • demonstrations.
Business DevelopmentSales

Pantaloon retail india ltd

Management Trainee

May 2007Jun 2007 · 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

  • Project: Catchment Analysis
  • Summary: Did market research on consumer behavior in north, west, central areas in Delhi for BIG BAZAAR Inderlok, then putting them in retain, focus, later and leave category, and finally suggesting action plan for the areas to be retained and focused.

Education

Institute Of Marketing and Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Marketing

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Saint Paul's School

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