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CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

- Name: Devesh F Thakur

- DOB: 02nd Aug 1988

- Gender: Male

- Contact: +91 9757345014

- Email: deveshthakur88@gmail.com

- Address: Upasana, Flat No: 12, 3rd Floor, 11th Road, Khar

(W), Mumbai-52

- Languages: English, Hindi and Marathi

OBJECTIVES:

- To pursue challenging assignments

- Make significant contribution using my knowledge and skills with the aim of

development & growth of the Organization.

PERSONAL TRAITS:

- Personalities: Smart, dynamic, enthusiastic, hardworking, knowledgeable and creative

- Enhance own development by taking responsibility for staying informed and up to date

with industry knowledge

- Work closely with the affiliate team to develop new business proposals

- In respect to social media, I have the ability to lead a whole campaign from ideas,

planning, execution, result control and report

- Presentation Skills, Client Relationships, Emphasizing Excellence, Energy Level,

Negotiation, Prospecting Skills, Meeting Sales Goals, Creativity, Sales Planning,

- Independence, Motivation for Sales

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WORK EXPERIENCES:

Company: m-Ad Call Pvt Ltd

Designation: Sr. Sales Executive

Duration: July 2013 to present

Role & Responsibilities:

- Creating Plans & Selling solutions.

o Categorize business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating

their position in the industry, researching and analyzing sales options

o Work on identifying product improvements in respect to current industry

trends, and market activities. Communicate to client about the product

improvement, USP & its growth.

o Plan & formulate pitches, follow up for new business opportunities, set up

meetings and work on maintaining database

o Responsible to maintain professional & technical knowledge by attending

educational workshops, reviewing professional publications and

establishing personal networks.

o Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

o Make weekly/monthly/quarterly Sales report by collecting, analyzing, and

summarizing sales targets

- Client Support:

o Build a strong relationship with clients/publisher to ensure smooth

functioning of campaigns

o Work on client delight to ensure their spends are increased.

o Maintaining relationships with clients by providing support, information,

and guidance, researching and recommending new opportunities;

recommending profit and service improvements.

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- Campaign Management & Optimization:

o Thoroughly brief the team about the campaign. Co-ordinate and work

towards the campaign setup.

o Monitor and optimize the on-going campaigns to deliver as per the mandate

and meet the ROI goals. Provide constant feedback to the operation and tech

team on campaign performance for further optimization.

o Ensure that timely execution is done on monitoring a campaign as per

predefined specifications/guidelines. Need to ensure that all campaigns are

executed and all reports are delivered within the accepted timelines

Company: Gozoop Pvt Ltd

Designation: Brand Solution Manager

Duration: December 2013 to June 2013

Role & Responsibilities:

- Plan and formulate pitches for SMO, SEO, SEM and Website

- Follow up’s with new business opportunities and set up meetings

- Provide management with client’s feedback

- Work continuously to improve the current prospect database within specified

business sectors to generate effective leads and to

- Was responsible to plan and meet sales targets for the business

- Analyze prospects and accordingly pitch them for our first hand product called

Zozolo, a social commerce product

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Company: Yrals Digital India Pvt Ltd

Designation: Sr. Business Development Manager

Duration: January 2013 to November 2013

Role & Responsibilities:

- Leading Mumbai Sales Team, that made me responsible to monitor my teams effort

- In addition to SMO deals, have independently closed deals for SEM, SEO, apps and

microsites/website assignments

- My responsibility also included to maintain weekly and monthly Sales report

- Apart from the regular SME pitches, have worked on large pitches

- I was also responsible to draw and analyse monthly & quarterly sales reports across all

cities, which made me accountable to set targets for my team as well.

Company: Yrals Digital India Pvt Ltd

Designation: Business Development Manager

Duration: January 2012 to December 2012

Role & Responsibilities:

- Pursue new business opportunities and set up meetings

- Plan and formulate pitches

- Communicate about new product developments to prospective clients

- Provide the team with client’s feedback

- Maintaining relationship with client and monitoring overall account

- Created database within specified business sectors to generate effective leads

- Was responsible to exceed sales targets for the business

- In my first twelve months, I have closed approx. 20 SME brands for social media

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Company: Shorty Capone

Designation: Asst. Store Manager for 6 months

Duration: June 2011 to December 2011

Role & Responsibilities:

- Offer consultative sales and service

- Meet and exceed individual and team sales goals

- Execute the processes and procedures that ensure that the “back” of the store works as

well as the “front” from a customer perspective

- Cultivate long-term customer relationships

Company: Om Garments (part time)

Duration: May 2007 to Dec 2008

Designation: Sales Executive for 1.8 years

Role & Responsibilities:

- Meet sales targets

- Manage stock levels

- Analyze sales figures

- Deal with Purchase Orders

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Company: Streams

Designation: Call Executive

Duration: April 2006 to July 2006

Role & Responsibilities:

- Respond to customer inquires

- Handle and resolve customer complaints

- Provide customer with product and service information

- Identify and escalate priority issues

- Route calls to appropriate department

- Complete call logs and complete call report

EDUCATION

Year Percentage

BMS (MARKETING) April 2011 71%

H.S.C (COMMERCE) 2006 47%

S.S.C 2004 59%

SOFT SKILLS

- Good Communication Skill

- Problem Solving Skill

- Brainstorming Skill

- Planning and organizing Skill

- Time and work management.

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HARD SKILLS

1. Social Media

- Using or building Social Media Tool effectively and fluently.

- Experiences in creating content, developing campaign and user’s interactions to develop

social media channels.

- Analysing and controlling Social Media Index.

2. Computer skills:

- MS Office

- Internet

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

- Player of the year in cricket for the club United Youngsters Cricket Club in year 2009 and 2010.

- Under 16 MCA Camp in year 2004 and under 19 MCA Camp in year 2007.

- Won a Cricket Tournament in Kolhapur in year 2009 and Lonavala in year 2007-08.

- AIR-INDIA B DIVISION CRICKET PLAYER.

- Attended various seminars.

- Actively participated in cricket tournaments like Kanga League in 2009, 2010, Bombay Junior 2009, 2010 etc.

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