Meher Merchant

Affiliate Relationship Lead at GlobalData

Location: Hyderabad Area, India
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Meher Merchant's Overview

Current

Affiliate Relationship Lead at GlobalData

Past

Senior Officer- Response at Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group)
Business Development Manager at Goose Technologies
Event Manager at Tantraa Eventainers Pvt Ltd

Education

ICFAI
St. Francis
National Institute Of Event Management

St. Francis
Fort Convent

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I presently work with GlobalData and act as an mediator between the company and the channel partners. My role is to deal with the Resellers or Affiliates in Industry Verticals like - Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Alternative Energy, Clean Technology, Power, Nuclear, Smart Grid, Mining etc.I deal wiith the Online Media Distribution Sales.
Providing valuable contribution to the account planning process by identifying target accounts/ events/ conferences and ensure successful development of clients.

-Developing business to create and pursue new business opportunities.

- Conducting sales presentations and demonstrations for the prospective partners.

- Achieving revenue growth goals and maintaining a healthy and active pipeline.

- Formulation of market development plan and creatively finding new ways of working to drive maximum use of available resources to drive growth.

Specialties

Online Sales, Key Account Management, Client Servicing, brand management, business development, customer relations, market development, market planning, marketing, relationship management, Channel Sales.

Affiliate Relationship Lead

GlobalData

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Services industry

September 2012 – Present (10 months) Hyderabad Area, India

Key Responsibilities

To map industrial conference and event companies globally.
To introduce them to the concept of Affiliate Business and open new doors of revenues for the Partner.
To pitch reports and promotions according to the Partners audience.

Senior Officer- Response

Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group)

Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Newspapers industry

November 2010 – September 2012 (1 year 11 months) Hyderabad Area, India

Key Responsibilities :

To Map accounts and clients
Understand their market position
Understand the need of the advertiser and provide branding solutions to them.

Key accomplishments:

Helped strengthen the Shopping Festival concept and took it to a new height.
Got 15 new and first time advertisers, introduced them to the world of Branding.
Created a personal connect for the end user towards the brand Times Classifieds.
Handled a Team and created new concepts and platforms for advertisers.

Business Development Manager

Goose Technologies

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2010 – November 2010 (9 months)

Key Responsibilities :

To track big Pharmaceutical companies and their technological requirements.
To understand the pain areas of the R & D and other departments in the Pharma sector.
To promote the idea of a software by designing one around the client needs.

Key accomplishments:

Opened doors for discussion in big Pharmaceutical companies at Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Chennai.
Understood what the competitor offers and have implemented changes accordingly in the existing software.
Created a pipeline of small and big clients and left the company with serious prospects.

Event Manager

Tantraa Eventainers Pvt Ltd

March 2009 – June 2009 (4 months)

as an Event Co-ordinater for a duration of three months.

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Chairmans Award of Excellence

The Times Of India
- July 2012
This award is given to those who come with creative thoughts and new ways of revenue generation. I was awarded this for the Shopping Festival concept as this was the only platform that made the non-advertisers come on board.