India

Branding

Event Marketing

Guerilla Marketing

Growth Hacking

Sales

Business Development

Content Strategy

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

B.E.

High School

Sandeep John

Director of Marketing

Public Speaking

Problem-solving

Empathy

Leadership

Brand positioning

Brand strategy

Campaign execution & analysis

Event organisation

Marketing strategy

Canva

ChatGPT

HubSpot

Mailchimp

Notion

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Time management

Presentation skills

Blog writing

Negotiation

Content strategy

Email marketing

Email writing

Influencer marketing

Social media marketing

Sales plan and process

Relationship management

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

I lead marketing at Outplay. My role is to helping build and scale the demand generation engine.  This includes digital marketing, content, field marketing, product marketing, marketing operations and SDR.

As there was greater expansion of our sales teams in the India and South East Asia regions, there required greater focus from marketing for these regions. 

In my current role I head regional marketing initiative for Freshworks for the South East Asian market. This is across demand generation efforts and brand awareness.

I lead the regional marketing initiatives across the India and South East Asian markets. I was responsible for all GTM efforts, brand awareness and demand generation campaigns for the region.

To futher our efforts in the mid-market side of the business, Freshworks decided to setup a dedicated marketing team to drive campaign efforts for our global sales teams. 

I found this as a great opportunity to be extend my outbound sales development and my previous marketing experience to be part of this new team. My role was predominantly focused on working closely with our global regional field marketers and driving our online campaigns (be it digital, webinars, working with publishers, content syndication etc.) for the UK and MEA regions.

Given my successes in setting up the early SDR US outbound team, I was given the opportunity to lead our SDR outbound team globally. 

This was working across the US, UK, ANZ, Middle East and Africa and the Rest of Europe regions and working closely with our teams based out of London, San Franciso, Sydney and Berlin.

Give my experience across sales and marketing across and working across different size of companies, I was brought into Freshworks to help setup our SDR outbound engine to drive our mid-market business. This was first for the US market. This was also working closely with our sales leadership in the US. 

Some key initiatives while I lead the team included,
- Setting up a sales enablement repository and building out relevant material to enable the SDR team
- Setting up a internal mentor program to help the team get better through skill-sharing

Role expectations & responsibilities includes a direct involvement with:
•	Business Development & Relationships 
•	Pre-Sales & Solutions
•	Lead Project transitions
•	Establishing direct CXO level connects with clients / prospects
•	Lead sales efforts & teams across verticals & geographies.
•	Account management & Sales revenue generation for NEW accounts (NBD)
•	Handling of clients from multi-verticals and horizontal services.
•	Client interfacing & relationship building
•	Continuously identify and generate possibilities for additional sales – Go to market strategy, Account planning & strategy, Collaborations, pricing models, staffing estimations, contract negotiations, etc
•	Leveraging full life cycle exposure from past to provide consulting support for process re-engineering / analysis for further improvements
•	Responding with winning proposals for RFP's
•	Third party System Integrators/vendors coordination to design solutions.
•	Geographies: Prime focus on Australia; Previous experience also of having worked extensively in the United Kingdom

Head of Learning and Development
Key responsibilities include:
To create and deliver a leadership development programme that meets the current and future needs of the business
Working with the Head of Operations to identify and prioritise training needs and develop appropriate solutions to address these needs
Working with the Head of Operations to constantly evolve and improve the training and development offering
Ensure that training programmes are culturally aligned, customer centric, and deliver an appreciable contribution to the bottom line
Maintain an appropriate level of industry knowledge and ensure own learning and development expertise is kept up-to-date 
Select and manage appropriate external partners for to meet specialised training requirements

Helping firms across India with their marketing and sales initiatives. This included training and business development.

APE is an arts-based training company that uses theatre, film, dance and video gaming techniques. We have specialized programs for managers that focus on team leadership, first line manager development, ownership and assertiveness for managers.

APE helps companies with employee engagement, team building, new manager and new employee programs, goal setting, company corporate culture, selling attitude and the customer comes first mindset.

APE uses an interactive approach uses innovative drama techniques and simulation to produce highly experiential solutions that are relevant and focused. APE works with the HR department of companies and ensures that programs are readily retained and successfully applied. 

APE also includes voice-over services and digital marketing services.

I manage all sales and marketing initiatives at TaurusQuest. 
I also double up as a client relationship manager for select clients. 

Furthermore you could visit our website www.taurusquest.com for more information.

DataTracks (subsidiary of TaurusQuest) provides fully iXBRL managed tagging services for several of the top accounting firms and thousands of companies in the United Kingdom. (www.datatracks.co.uk)

One of his key assignments included setting up a sales ops for an India-based firm in the United Kingdom and developing a very successful B2B Ecommerce portal. This was worth a $1 million in it's first year of operation. 

Lead the project of creating two e-commerce websites for both the UK and India business.

Head of United Kingdom and Europe business development

Lead the online marketing team (SEO/Adwords) to ensure DataTracks appears in the top ranks of Google.

Lead a team to launch the company’s first XBRL tagging tool in India. 

Responsible for leading teams in achieve sales targets through effective business planning, creative sales techniques and innovative marketing.
 
Developed personnel, motivated staff to exceed goals, and improved production and sales.

I handle business development in legal services at TaurusQuest. Our clientele are law firms and corporate counsel based in the United States and United Kingdom. 

Our typical service portfolio for legal services include 1)Litigation support 2)Legal research 3)Contract drafting, review & management

 Furthermore you could visit our website www.taurusquest.com for more information

+  Ensure maximum output & optimum utilization from all machines at machine shop.
 + Manage shop-scheduling activities.
 + Motivate Process Engineering, Maintenance, Material, Tool Engineering & Purchasing to work as a team in order to solve daily product & quality problems.
  + Drive behavioral change to improve production efficiency, quality & safety.
  + Ensure alternate tools/machines are provided when needed.
  + Sketch out effective contingency management plans.
  + Develop and periodically update the skill-set matrix for operators.

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