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Dr. Saurabh Pradhan

Dr. Saurabh Pradhan

Advisory Council Head

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Assistant Professor (Marketing) & Chairperson (Ph.D. Programme) in GITAM School Of Business (GSB), GITAM University, Visakhapatnam

  • Education

    • BIRLA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY (BIMTECH)

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      FPM Research Fellow

    • BIRLA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY (BIMTECH)

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      FPM

    • BIRLA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY (BIMTECH)

      2017 - 2022
      FPM (Ph.D. - Doctoral Degree) Marketing Analytics

    • BIRLA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY (BIMTECH)

      2015 - 2017
      PGDM (MBA Degree) Retail Management

      Activities and Societies: #Founder of the Chess Group – CHECKMATE for chess enthusiasts and pioneering the same in BIMTECH, Greater Noida; #Chief organizer of all Chess events in BIMTECH, Greater Noida for 2015-2017; #Team captain of winning team in Inter-department Chess competition in BIMTECH, Greater Noida; #Encouraging volunteer in Food waste competition held on the occasion of ‘War on Waste’ program in 2015 #“Lyceum 2016 – The Master Class” conducted on 8th October, 2016 for Retail Sector on the topic “CRM In Retail”#Awarded by “STRATX Simulations” in recognition of successful completion of “Markstrat – A Srategic Business Simulation” on 29th February, 2016#Case Analysis Competition, 2015 conducted by BIMTECH Centre For Case Development (BMCD)#1st rank in Bey-Brush - A Brushless Painting Competition held on the occasion of ‘War on Waste’ program in 2015#1st rank in Food waste… Show more #“Lyceum 2016 – The Master Class” conducted on 8th October, 2016 for Retail Sector on the topic “CRM In Retail”#Awarded by “STRATX Simulations” in recognition of successful completion of “Markstrat – A Srategic Business Simulation” on 29th February, 2016#Case Analysis Competition, 2015 conducted by BIMTECH Centre For Case Development (BMCD)#1st rank in Bey-Brush - A Brushless Painting Competition held on the occasion of ‘War on Waste’ program in 2015#1st rank in Food waste competition held on the occasion of ‘War on Waste’ program in 2015#1st rank in Poster making competition held on the occasion of ‘War on Waste’ program in 2016#Founder of the Chess Group – CHECKMATE for chess enthusiasts and pioneering the same bybeing Chief organizer of all Chess events in BIMTECH, Greater Noida for 2015-2017#Team captain of winning team in Inter-department Chess competition in BIMTECH, Greater Noida Show less

    • Hi-Tech College Of Engineering, Bhubaneswar (Odisha)

      2009 - 2013
      Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering

      Activities and Societies: Threatre Play #Final Project (Major and Minor) on “Controlling Multiple Devices Through Different Protocols” from Hi-Tech College Of Engineering, Bhubaneswar (Odisha) in 2013 under Biju Patnaik University Of Technology, Rourkela (Odisha)

    • G.H.S.S., Changlang (Arunachal Pradesh)

      2005 - 2007
      Sec.Education

      #Awarded and certified by ARUN JYOTI (VIVEKANANDA KENDRA, KANYAKUMARI) for securing 1st rank in English in the Changlang District (Arunachal Pradesh) in the 10TH standard C.B.S.E. Examination held in the year 2007

    • G.H.S.S., Mahadevpur (Arunachal Pradesh)

      2000 - 2005
      Primary Education

    • G.H.S.S., Mechuka (Arunachal Pradesh)

      1996 - 2000

      Primary education as a student

    • Kendriya Vidyalaya

      2007 - 2009
      Sr. Sec. Education

  • Experience

    • Depex Technologies

      Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
      Advisory Council Head

      # Business Analysis# Strategy Management# Business Development & Expansion# Marketing

    • Reliance Retail

      Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
      On The Job Training

      Store Operations, Inventory Management, Sales, Vendor management, Category management, Planogram management, CRM, Assisting roles to the store manager

    • Safexpress Private Limited

      Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
      Process Re-engineering (Successful implementation and roll-out of Barcoding Technology)

      #Regional Project head for Nagpur, Dhule and Panjim: Key Decision Person for three locations, #Managerial skills from leading and handling staff to motivating them,#Sales force automation and training & monitoring staff,#Optimizing Service level agreement,#Process optimization and modification by blending technique in entire touch points,#Entire process of logistics and its retail aspect,#Customer and vendor interaction, #Handling vendors and their challenging requests while negotiating the costs,#Customer and vendor relationship management,#Personal interaction with each and every key persons and locations assigned from ground level staff to managerial staff#Handling grievances and solving them,#Innovating the process by finding faults, #Cost optimization,#Brand equity management,#Inventory and resources management,#Materials handling,#Stock auditing,#Warehouse management system#Competitors’ study,#VMI. Show less

    • Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH)

      Aug 2017 - May 2022
      Ph.D. / FPM Research Scholar

    • GITAM Deemed University

      Jul 2022 - now

      Chairperson (Ph.D. Programme) in GITAM School Of Business (GSB), GITAM University, Visakhapatnam Assistant Professor in GITAM School Of Business (GSB), GITAM University, Visakhapatnam in Marketing

      • Chairperson (Ph.D. Programme)

        Nov 2023 - now

      • Assistant Professor

        Jul 2022 - now

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • "Loophole – Ethical Hacking Workshop"​ under the program “Chakravyuh - The Hunt for India’s Best IT Security Expert” powered by “Sandrock e-Securities” in association with “Kyrion Digital Securities”

      AIESEC IIT Kharagpur

    • Case Analysis Competition, 2015

    • Lyceum 2016 – The Master Class for Retail Sector on the topic “CRM In Retail"​

    • A Research paper titled “Using Predictive Analytics Modelling to Optimize Losses in Commercial Kitchen Operations” presented in International Conference on “Innovation, Market Competition and Economic Development”

      EmeraldPublishing

    • Markstrat – A Strategic Business Simulation

      StratX Simulations

    • Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra, 2012

      Microsoft

    • Certificate Course in MS-OFFICE under “Rashtriya Computer Saksharta Abhiyan Sanstha”

      ITCT Computer Education

    • 1st rank in English in the Changlang District (Arunachal Pradesh) by ARUN JYOTI

      Vivekananda Kendra, KanyaKumari

    • Faculty Development Program - FDP Certificate

      GITAM Deemed University
      Sept 2025
      View certificate certificate

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Waste Manager

      Issued by Birla Institute Of Management Technology, Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh)
      Birla Institute Of Management Technology, Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh)Associated with Dr. Saurabh Pradhan