Ankit Misra

Business Development Executive

Delhi, India12 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 12 years of experience in consultative sales.
  • Strong background in enterprise sales for major software products.
  • Expertise in partner enablement and relationship management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B SaaS sales expert with a focus on partner management and strategic alliances.

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Skills

Core Skills

Partner EnablementChannel Partner DevelopmentChannel SalesPartner Account ManagementPublic Policy AdvocacyBusiness StrategyPartner Sales ManagementChannel Development

Other Skills

Channel PartnersPartner alliancesStrategic PartnershipsSalesAnalyticsIT ConsultingPublic PolicyStrategyVigilanceOracle salesDistribution StrategiesAccount ManagementPartner managementConsultative SalesNew Business Development

About

With over 12+ years of holistic experience in consultative sales, partner sales, public policy advocacy, and business strategy, I am a dynamic and versatile professional who can deliver value to diverse clients and stakeholders across various sectors and segments. I have a strong background in enterprise sales for products like Oracle Cloud, Oracle Software, Autodesk Cloud, Qlik and analytics applications, Arcserve Storage & SaaS Backup, as well as a certification in digital marketing and analytics from the Indian School of Business. As a Partner Alliances / Strategy/ Channel reps, I am responsible for developing and expanding relationships with my assigned solution providers, to drive revenue, both resell and/or influence, across all market segments. I manage every aspect of the partner experience and relationship across the customer lifecycle, spanning demand generation, land, adopt, expand, and renew phases. I also coordinate the engagement between the partner and OEM sales resources to increase and drive sales opportunities, and ensure compliance and alignment with internal and external stakeholders. My mission is to effectively leverage my practical knowledge, domain expertise, and collaborative skills to make a positive contribution to organisation and its partners, and achieve professional excellence and growth.

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Arcserve

Senior Partner Specialist - Global (Channels & Enablement)

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Hybrid

  • Proactively engage with appropriate partner sales and delivery management and partner program teams to identify, prioritize, develop, and execute successful enablement plans, content, and programs.
  • Effectively collaborating planning process with the partner, including formal business reviews to drive accountability and mutual performance.
  • Identifying , recruiting and on-boarding partners to ensure that there is sufficient coverage for business success.
  • Develop programs that always think about Partners and how they can be enabled to be an extension of Arcserve team
  • Identify gaps in knowledge and processes - and work with all levels of leadership (internal and external) to ensure rapid deployment of training and tools needed to address those gaps
  • Build enablement relationships with strategic partners and create joint partner enablement plans in collaboration with Partner counterparts
  • Engage regularly with key partners to monitor the enablement process, new requirements, and future goals
  • Provide regular updates to partner management on the status of each partner's enablement
  • Build comprehensive knowledge of Partner training programs, Training and certification offerings, course roadmap, Partner programs, and course objectives/overview to be a trusted advisor to partners
  • Produce metrics reporting – and provide insight and impact of initiatives.
  • Take part in the organization and delivery of virtual and on-demand enablement.
  • Co-create and maintain a local training calendar
  • Analytical capability to understand key trends in the region across the channel partner community, and work with the partner leaders in the region to establish training plans and curriculum that will help drive partner revenue
Channel PartnersChannel Partner DevelopmentPartner alliancesStrategic PartnershipsPartner Enablement

Qlik

Partner Account Manager - India and SAARC

Jun 2022Mar 2023 · 9 mos · Noida · Hybrid

  • Responsible for developing and expanding relationships with their assigned solution providers, to drive Qlik revenue, both resell and/or influence, across all market segments.
  • Managing every aspect of the partner experience and relationship with Qlik across the customer lifecycle, spanning demand generation, land, adopt, expand and renew phases.
  • Driving Qlik engagement approaches and strategies across territories comprising of partners with differing levels of experience, capability and potential.
  • Co-ordinating the engagement between the partner and Qlik sales resources to increase and drive sales opportunities.
  • Effectively collaborating planning process with the partner, including formal business reviews to drive accountability and mutual performance.
  • Identifying , recruiting and on-boarding partners to ensure that there is sufficient coverage for business success.
  • Effectively leading the enablement of partners on Qlik products, processes and methodologies with the purpose of increasing the self-sufficiency of the partner.
  • Working with Qlik Partner Marketing Managers (PMMs), supporting and motivating the partner to accelerate pipeline growth and consistently improve quality and conversion rates.
  • Maintaining and nurture reactive partners via regular partner communications, educate partner community on program/policy updates.
  • Responsible for partner recruitment, onboarding, activation and development to ensure sufficient and suitably qualified and focused partner coverage.
  • Developing and executing collaborative Partner Business Plans (PBP) to achieve mutual
  • goals.Conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with focus partners to review performance and course correct as necessary.
  • Establishing , maintaining and orchestrate the Executive/Owner relationship with partner.
  • Managing disruptions, escalate risks and coordinate resources in achievement of business goals, managing conflict where necessary.
Channel SalesSalesChannel Partner DevelopmentAnalyticsStrategic PartnershipsPartner Account Management

Delhi development authority

Assistant Director - Government

Feb 2019Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Delhi, India

  • Dynamic professional with around 9 years of holistic experience in consultative sales, public policy advocacy and implementation of business strategy. Experienced in corporate as well as government sector in various verticals like sales, strategy, consulting, vendor management, marketing, team building, Implementing policy decisions, business analysis, enhancing business volumes and customer growth.
  • Secured All India Rank 11 out of 65,000 appeared candidates for selection in DDA.
  • Implemented policies decisions in consultative environment with different departments to ensure effective
  • governance across DDA.
  • Conducted research, scrutinized reports and sheets to underline the issues and areas of improvement.
  • Formulated smooth transition as per strategic roadmap for improving IT architecture and enhancing existing
  • applications for insightful reports in vigilance department.
  • Experienced in policy-making and implementation from government perspective.
  • Co-ordinated events like Vigilance awareness week for promotion of ‘Vigilant India, Prosperous India’ initiative.
IT ConsultingPublic PolicyStrategyVigilancePublic Policy AdvocacyBusiness Strategy

Redington india ltd

Partner Sales Manager - North

Jan 2017Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

  • Managing and developing effective relationship from channel perspective with vendor and partner’s in the assigned territory to maintain overall profitability and revenue.
  • Developing new partners and ensuring successful partner on-boarding.
  • Planning process to drive channel expansion and development.
  • Ensuring compliance by managing conflict in channel by streamlining internal and external stakeholders.
  • Responsible for monthly, quarterly and annual targets to maintain top-line and bottom-line.
  • Managing partner engagement and training programs to enhance the reach of partners in identifying new opportunities.
Oracle salesDistribution StrategiesAccount ManagementChannel SalesPartner managementPartner Sales Management+1

Hcl technologies (infrastructure services division)

Account Manager Enterprise Sales

May 2016Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Managing Account(Client) from a sales relationship perspective and be responsible for end-to-end sales cycle.
  • Supporting in generating sales for a portfolio of accounts and to reach the Account's targets.
  • Drive commercial excellence within the Account/s; monitor & control P&L
  • Ensure Contract Governance & compliance
  • Own and manage all Order to collections related activities for the account.
  • Engaged & coordinated with multiple internal and customer teams viz. Finance, project managers, resourcing, delivery, Accounts payable etc.
  • Market, Industry Segment, Account specific research and analysis.

Neilsoft ltd.

Business Development

Dec 2013May 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Neilsoft Ltd. is a specialist engineering solutions & services company servicing clients across a range of engineering segments helping improve their engineering efficiency, support their global footprint and improve their competitiveness. Leveraging technology, domain knowledge, & our robust work planning methodology to ensure an effective global delivery model for engineering services projects, we have emerged as a partner-of-choice for leading international companies.
  • My Role Involved :
  • Pitching mutli-product solutions and services in AEC domain in Delhi NCR.
  • Research and analysis of domain for identifying market opportunities or prospective clients in
  • “B to C“ segment.
  • Developing market and competitive intelligence by analysis of domain and assessing the competitor on various strategic and tactical attributes.
  • Assisting in developing solutions and strategy for meeting company revenue goals in Northern India.
  • Liaising with key decision makers in corporate (CXO’s,VP’s , senior management).
  • Involved in creation of proposal and presentation and thought leadership activities.
  • Provide timely and accurate sales forecasts and account plans on an ongoing basis.
  • Taking timely follow ups with the customers for closure.
  • Trained interns and trainees in client facing skills, sales collateral and marketing initiatives.
  • Organizing events, conferences and go to market strategies using creative and innovative approach for market development, lead generation for existing and new solutions and services

Oyster learning

Senior Sales Associate

Jun 2012Mar 2013 · 9 mos · Noida Area, India

  • To create tie-ups with Educational Institutions to sell the annual subscription of oysterconnect.com.
  • To make presentations and establish contacts with key stakeholders to ensure high level adoption of products and services within key Institutional accounts.
  • To negotiate with clients and drive sales closures by ensuring bookings and collections.
  • To work closely with delivery team to ensure order management.
  • Validate current product pricing and plug any gaps with changes to the product - price mix
  • Contribute to new product innovation by analyzing trends in the market
  • Ensure market competitiveness of our products and services with innovative solution selling

Barista coffee company limited

Management Trainee(Summer Internship)

Jun 2011Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Noida , UP, India

  • Did Project on Competitive Analysis of Various Coffee Cafes Across India.
  • Brand Valuation of Barista Lavazza
  • Analysing various brands , promotional strategies, tie ups with other brands.

Flexlink

Managment Trainee(Winter Internship)

Dec 2010Jan 2011 · 1 mo · Gurgoan , India

  • Was Involved with Sales and Marketing Team for providing Automation Solution to customers in Northern Region.

Mtnl

Summer Intern

Jun 2007Jul 2007 · 1 mo · New Delhi

  • Project on Lucent Technologies in Switch Room

Education

Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Marketing and Supply Chain Management

Aug 2010Jun 2012

Indian School of Business

Certification in Digital Marketing and Analytics — Digital Marketing and Analytics

Oct 2021Jan 2022

Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Aug 2005Jun 2009

Manav Sthali School - India

Jan 1992Mar 2005

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