Karishma Kapoor

Business Development Executive

New Delhi, Delhi, India10 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in hospitality sales.
  • Proven track record in developing sales strategies.
  • Strong client relationship management skills.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Sales Leader in the Hospitality industry with expertise in client engagement and business development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales ManagementBusiness DevelopmentClient Relationship ManagementClient EngagementCustomer EngagementEvent Planning

Other Skills

Sales and MarketingMarket ResearchTeam ManagementPublic RelationsNegotiationsBusiness ProposalsRevenue AnalysisCustomer Relationship ManagementSales PlanningEvent ManagementDirect MarketingEmployee EngagementTalent AcquisitionHiringTeamwork

About

An Experienced Sales Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the hospitality industry for over a dozen years. Highly Skilled in Market Research, Management, Sales and Marketing, Business Development and Direct marketing. Karishma has excellent communication and interpersonal skills which are brought to the fore in her professional negotiations. She is a Sales Professional with a Post Graduate Programming in Planning and Entrepreneurship focused in MBA from Indian Institute of Planning and Management. Her motto in life is, “in order to succeed, we must believe that we can.”

Experience

10 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Newby teas

National Sales Head

Dec 2021Nov 2022 · 11 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Role and Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement sales strategies
  • Build strong relationships with key accounts
  • Identify and acquire new accounts
  • Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual sales forecast
  • Analyse actual sales vs forecast
  • Prepare marketing action plans
  • Monitor sales targets and performance of the sales team
Sales and MarketingMarket ResearchSales ManagementTeam ManagementBusiness Development

Signum hotels and resorts

Brand Development

Dec 2020Nov 2021 · 11 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Role and Responsibilities:
  • Identify, qualify and seek new opportunities for growth in the market
  • Monitor the market situation
  • Monitor the competition
  • Staying knowledgeable about the current market in order to effectively target business opportunities for growth
  • Arrange business meetings with prospective clients
  • Maintain long lasting relationships with existing and future clients
  • Increase client database
  • Writing business proposals
  • Negotiations with Hotel owners
  • Draft and review contracts
  • Attend Networking events
  • Monitor the Website
Market ResearchPublic RelationsNegotiationsBusiness ProposalsBusiness DevelopmentClient Relationship Management

One pacific group

Regional Sales Manager - India

Apr 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • One Pacific Group is the only company that has the distributorship of L’Occitane bath amenities for all the Luxury Properties in India.
  • Role and Responsibilities:
  • To ensure proper presentation and promotion of L’Occitane on behalf of the company
  • To meet with clients in person and follow up on their requirements
  • Weekly reports to Head Office in Hong Kong – Visit reports, sales report, work in progress or any other reports required by the company
  • To ensure to have weekly calls with the Sales Director for a discussion of planning and future developments
  • Identify and develop revenue resources for follow-on business opportunities and close the deal
Sales ManagementClient Relationship ManagementRevenue AnalysisClient Engagement

Oracle hospitality

Sales Account Manager

Jun 2013Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Role and Responsibilities:
  • Serve as a point of contact for assigned customers and act as an Escalation point to resolve customer issues and complaints internally within the ORACLE’s various departments: Sales, Finance, Operations and Support
  • Foster relationships with existing customers to ensure customer satisfaction and continued sales opportunities
  • Communicate ORACLE information, changes and policies to our customers
  • Communicate customer activities, plans, concerns and requests to other ORACLE departments
  • Participate in sales planning meetings and work in collaboration with the Sales team
  • Identify and develop revenue resources for follow-on business opportunities and close the deal
  • Stimulate sales through activities such as customer mailings, brochure drops and attending Industry forums/ meetings
  • Ensure that ORACLE observes its contractual obligations to its customers
  • Manage and exceed customers’ service expectations
  • Conference calling / Video conferencing to attend status meetings and document customer issues/ problems
  • Work with the finance team to ensure the customers are billed correctly, and that customers who are in default are handled in accordance with our debt collection procedures
  • Maintain current customer contact information in the CRM system i.e. OPERA
  • Serve as an example of professionalism and excellence to our customers and within ORACLE
  • Provide weekly reporting on target performance to management
Customer Relationship ManagementSales PlanningPublic RelationsCustomer EngagementSales Management

The leela palaces, hotels and resorts

Assistant Manager - Catering Sales

Mar 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chanakyapuri | New Delhi | India

  • Role and Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for achieving Revenue targets for Banquets
  • Plan and implement all events for the department
  • Build an accurate and effective database of current and potential guests/account’s
  • Maintain accurate and up to date information on competition
  • Responsible for the efficient running of the department whilst meeting employee, guest expectations
  • Maintain excellent Public Relations with corporate houses to ensure repeated business
  • Serve as a Guest’s primary contact in planning catered events, including developing menus, room decoration, procuring of rentals, and staffing
  • Ensure that security, safety, and health standards are being adhered to
  • Maintain monthly budgets and performance tracking and assisted in developing the department's annual budget
  • Generate more leads and business, meeting the In-house Guests and taking the leads and Information from them
Event ManagementPublic RelationsRevenue AnalysisSales ManagementEvent Planning

Itc sheraton new delhi

Banquet Sales Executive

Jun 2009Feb 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos · New Delhi | India

  • Role and Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for achieving Revenue targets for Banquets
  • One point contact for all social and corporate bookings
  • Maintain excellent Public Relations with corporate houses to ensure repeated business
  • Planning liaison with event management companies and wedding planners for social function events and product launches
  • Up selling menus to increase revenue per hall.
  • Collect feedback and communicate the same to the relevant departments
Event ManagementPublic RelationsSales ManagementClient Engagement

Education

Indian Institute of Planning and Management

Post Graduate Programming in Planning and Entrepreneurship — MBA

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Amity University

Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) — Human Resorce Management and Sales and Marketing

Jan 2004Jan 2007

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