Abhishek Kukreti
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Summary:
Motivated achiever with 7+ years of significant progressive experience in Pre-sales, Business Analysis and Account Management
Excellent business writing skills in writing Business requirements document
Exposure to International markets like US, EMEA & APAC
Experience in Product & Services selling across multiple domains like IT Products, Consulting Services and Procurement & Supply chain consultancy
Experience in working with geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups
Ability to prioritize and schedule multiple tasks on day-to-day basis
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Good communications skills, including the ability to deal with people with conflicting needs
Professional Experience
Employer : International Systems Technologies ( http://www.intsystech.com )
Date of employment : Dec 2012 – Till Date
Role : BA & Account Management
Responsibilities:
Manage account & upsell
Review & draft proposals
Work closely with client to scope out upcoming opportunities & pitch for services accordingly
Solution presentation
Work as BA to analyze user needs and chart down development plan
Coordinating with the offshore team on tasks to ensure the timely and quality delivery of tasks
Understanding the business process and its complexity and providing timely and desired solutions to the business
Employer : Global eProcure -GEP (www.gep.com)
Date of employment : March 2010 – Nov 2012
Role : Associate Consultant Presales
Responsibilities:
Responsible for creating proposals & designing solution based on the requirements highlighted by the client
Product Demonstration
Business case building (SDA – spend data audit & ODA- opportunity data assessment) /& proof of concepts
Assisting in bid/no bid decisions, developing kick-off meeting packages
Worked closely with product management group to:
oDevelop product strategy & road-map for key modules
oActively solicit, analyze, and negotiate customer requirements
oIdentify requirements / process gap analysis in product
oAbility to review technical requirements and translate to business language
oGuide, assist, and coordinate complex problem solving discussions across multiple business areas
oDefine specifications for enhancements by using existing legacy system documentation and procedures
oAnalyzed and synthesized results from Joint Application Development (JAD)
oWorked closely with development team on various Software developments life cycle (SDLC) aspects such as Requirement Analysis, Design, Testing & Deployment
Assisted sales teams in preparing presentations
Assisted Marketing team in creating presentations for market positioning and discussions with analyst and advisory firms like Forrester, Gartner, IDC, Archstone, Everest, EquaTerra etc.
Content contribution towards white papers related to strategic sourcing, market intelligence and procurement outsourcing
Employer : GridLogics Tech Pvt. LTD (www.gridlogics.com )
Date of employment : Aug 2008 – March 2010
Role : Associate Presales & Business Development
Responsibilities:
Responding to (RFP/RFI/RFQ)
Product Demonstration & trial management
Acted as a mediator between client & technical team
Worked closely with the development teams to ensure timely delivery of key features
Up-selling & post-delivery Account Management
Point Of Contact (POC): Acted as point of contact for external teams regarding queries and advice related to product & services
Change request management & tracking
Quarterly Competitor analysis reporting– product features & updates
Worked closely with business & development teams:
oFacilitated JAD sessions to collect requirements from users and prepared business requirement that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team
oFollowed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and information needs, and ensure that critical requirements are not missed
oParticipated in Risk, Issue and Change Management processes meetings
oAssisted the customer in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs
oAssembled and validated business requirement documents (BRD) and the technical specifications as per user requirements
Employer : Better Inc. ( http://www.nurturehq.com )
Date of employment : Dec 2007 – Aug 2008
Role : Analyst
Responsibilities:
Managed RFI’s and inbound client leads for US & EMEA region for e-Marketing tool
Sales cycle management: qualifying, solutions identification, recommendation, trial management, deployment & training
Price, cost analysis and negotiations for sales initiatives
Acted as the main liaison for interactions between client and delivery teams
Managed service enhancements
Scope out Up-selling opportunities in existing accounts
Computer Proficiency
Operating Systems: Windows 98/XP/windows 7, LINUX, VISTA.
Tools & Packages: Working knowledge of tools and packages such as MS Office, Webex, Gotoassist, gotomeeting, Salesforce (CRM), IP analysis tools and databases.
Extra-Curricular Activities
Presented at SIS 2009: Conference on recent trends in Patinformatics (NCL Pune, India)
Represented college basketball and volleyball teams at inter-university level
Education
B.E computers