Karan Chawla

Experience

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  Reliance Capital | Reliance Group

  Feb 2008 - Oct 2009

  Relationship Manager

  Retail Sale ofMutual FundsLife InsuranceGeneral InsurancePortfolio Management ServicesD-mat accounts

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  Shiksha.com

  Dec 2009 - Oct 2015

  Branch Sales Manager (Delhi/NCR)

  Rich and diverse experience in Ad Sales/ Corporate Sales/ Business Development in brands like Naukri.com & Shiksha.com with Info Edge India Limited.Experience in exploring and developing markets/ clients, thereby accelerating growth & achieving desired goals.Training and developing a team of executives and managers; and leading them to success.Maintaining and nurturing relationships with Ad Agencies.Proficient at analyzing market trends to provide critical inputs for business development initiatives and formulation of selling and marketing strategies.Competent in collecting market information to fine tune marketing strategies.Providing holistic integrated media solutions to clients, after understanding their needs in detail. Ideating new concepts which can be activated to co-create value for client requirements.Actively participated and contributed in building awareness about Shiksha.com through effective sales presentations.Contributed effectively in creating innovative integration to get new clients on board for tent poles and big ticket properties during the initial phase of launch.Suggested performance and branding solutions using cost per lead (CPL), cost per measure (CPM), cost per acquisition (CPA) and cost per click (CPC) methods to client and made sure that they get maximum ROI. Captured the interest of the client and professional audience with powerful presentation illustrating the benefit of Shiksha.com and finally converting them as key clients for the network.Target a broad market; meeting clients demand with great sales led activities.Supported innovative account retention programme to protect key clients from competition.Understanding client’s business, advertising needs, budgets and priorities then offering solutions accordingly. Market Intelligence- keeping a track of developments across competition. Show less

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  HT Media Group

  Nov 2015 - Aug 2016

  Regional Manager - Digital
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  Quikr

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  Zonal Sales Head - North

  Leading Goods, Home & Lifestyle and Education Verticals

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  CollegeDekho

  Mar 2018 - Sept 2021

  Responsible for annual resources and revenue planning through Sales and Customer Delivery for partners, also working closely with product and technology teams to ensure implementation of resources & processes is supported by technology thus creating a self sufficient ecosystem for partners that delivers admissions at higher educational institutions.I steered strategic alliances with Large Accounts that facilitates incremental growth over core business.Built high performance team in both sales and support functions to drive growth.Streamlined support mechanisms to reduce cost and improving partners’ experience. Show less

  • Head of Enterprise Sales & Revenue Assurance

    Oct 2020 - Sept 2021

  • Business Head - North

    Sept 2018 - Sept 2020

  • Regional Manager

    Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
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  Krishi Network

  Oct 2021 - Sept 2022

  Head Of Sales
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  Absolute

  Sept 2022 - now

  Defining and implementing platform strategy and roadmap. Ensuring platform scalability, security, and reliability.

  • Lead - Upaj Platform and Marketing

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Lead - Upaj Platform

    Sept 2022 - Mar 2023