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Pradhan Poonacha

Business Development Executive

Dubai, United Arab Emirates13 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in sales and account management.
  • Expert in driving digital transformation for midmarket customers.
  • SPIN certified with a strong marketing background.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales expert focused on digital transformation and account management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Account ManagementSalesMarketingLead Generation

Other Skills

Cloud ApplicationDemand GenerationCollaborationSocial SellingDigital Sales TechniquesValue SellingGo-to-Market StrategyCampaign ManagementDigital SellingTeam LeadershipTeam ManagementBusiness DevelopmentManagementVendor ManagementNew Business Development

About

As an Account Director at SAP, I have over 13+ years of experience in sales, Account management, demand generation, and cloud-based solution selling. having hands on experience in managing large customers market cap worth 600 million USD. I am SPIN certified and have a strong background in marketing, having completed my MBA and BBM in this field. My mission is to help midmarket customers in Southern India with their digital transformation journey, by understanding their needs and challenges and offering them the right SAP solution. I collaborate with account managers, marketing, sales, and SAP partners to drive campaigns and engage with CXOs and decision makers. I also leverage social selling tools to reach potential accounts and audiences. I am passionate about innovation and have received multiple honors for my ideas and performance.

Experience

13 yrs
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Current Experience

Körber stellium

Regional Sales Lead

Apr 2026Present · 2 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Sap

5 roles

Account Director

Promoted

Oct 2022Apr 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos

SMB- Sales Midmarket

Promoted

Dec 2019Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

SAP Sales Academy

Apr 2018Sep 2018 · 5 mos

  • Completed 6 months accelerated onboarding and training program to drive sales in the Mid-Size Market segment. Learnt and practiced our innovative digital sales techniques: social selling, executive prospecting, whiteboard selling, value selling; and fully leverage SAP tools, Virtual Studios, and resources to prepare and execute a winning deal strategy in today’s competitive digital world.
  • Throughout this Global program, i was able learn, articulate and present the SAP Go-to-Market Strategy and innovations that accelerate our customer’s digital transformation strategy while becoming Digital Sales Professionals.
  • Also enjoyed working with colleagues all around globe and making friends.
Digital Sales TechniquesValue SellingGo-to-Market StrategySalesMarketing

Sales Development- Mid Market South

Promoted

May 2017Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Currently working for Southern India covering Mid size market, helping customer with Cloud Application and LOB based solution.
  • Working along with Account Managers to help them with demand generation and progression activities.
  • Responsible to meet closure targets.
  • Collaboration with Marketing. sales and SAP Partners in driving campaigns.
  • Engaging with CXO's , Decision makers of the company to uncover their challenges and to help them SAP solution offering.
  • Active usage of social selling tools to reach potential accounts and right audience.
Cloud ApplicationDemand GenerationCollaborationSocial SellingAccount ManagementSales

Inside Marketing

Jun 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • In this role i was responsible for Lead Generation and Qualification for Application and Analytics front
  • covering Pan India.
  • Looking after Inbound leads activity and handover the respective Business Manager
  • Part of one the successful campaign "Coffee with Dell" as out some of 140k €
  • Worked with 6 SAP partners closely for a Application based campaign and was responsible for qualifying
  • HQL Leads and routing them to respective Account Managers
  • Part of pilot Digital selling team using Sales Navigator major platform
  • Was a part of SAP's one of the Successful campaign "Business Intelligence BI Day" which did help in
  • building healthy pipeline
Lead GenerationCampaign ManagementDigital SellingSales

Metricstream

Inside Sales Consultant

May 2014Dec 2014 · 7 mos · Bangalore

  • MetricStream is a market leader in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions for global corporations. MetricStream solutions are used by leading corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, American Airlines, NASDAQ, SanDisk, BP, Entergy, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and Taylor Made-Adidas Golf in diverse industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, High Tech Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Energy and Financial Services to manage their quality processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives, as well as by over a million compliance professionals worldwide via the ComplianceOnline.com portal.
  • Target market is North America, focusing Medial devise and Pharma industries.
  • Transfer qualified leads to the appropriate Global Sales Executive for an Executive Overview and formal sales presentation
  • Build and maintain strong relationship with sales team through clear communication and follow-up
  • Maintain up-to-date and extensive knowledge of all product offerings
  • Stay current on industry trends and maintain extensive knowledge of competitor’s product offerings
  • Achieve monthly pipeline goals set by sales management

Simplilearn

Inside Sales Representative

Oct 2012Apr 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Simplilearn is the industry leader in online education and training for professional certification courses. With study centers across the globe, Simplilearn offers over 50 certification courses in Project Management, IT Services Management, IT Security Management, Quality Management, Financial Management, and Technology Certification.
  • My key roles-
  • New Customer Acquisition - Conversion of leads received through various marketing channels
  • Preparing short-term and long-term sales plan towards reaching the assigned goals
  • Consistently achieve revenue targets in line with team/organizational objectives
  • Proactively identifying cross-selling/up-selling opportunities with the existing customers
  • Identifying references through the existing customer base to increase the sales pipeline
  • Customer Relationship Management- Understand the customer requirement and pass on the insights towards the product portfolio improvement based on the customer interaction / feedback .
  • Conversion of leads received through various marketing channels
  • Preparing short-term and long-term sales plan towards reaching the assigned goals
  • Consistently achieve revenue targets in line with team/organizational objectives
  • Proactively identifying cross-selling/up-selling opportunities with the existing customers
  • Identifying references through the existing customer base to increase the sales pipeline
  • Understand the customer requirement and pass on the insights towards the product portfolio improvement based on the customer interaction / feedback

Education

Global Academy Of Technology

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

Jan 2010Jan 2012

St.Philomena's College

BBM

Jan 2007Jan 2010

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