CURRICULUM VITAE
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RAM SINGH
15/1 N S Road, New Delhi –
110 001.
Phone : 011-25252525 /
CellTel : 0-9876543210
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EXPERIENCE IN MARCOMM, BRAND PROMOTION, RESEARCH, RURAL
MARKETING, OOH ADVERTISING
CAREER
OBJECTIVE:
To obtain a
senior management position at a leading corporate entity that is challenging
and, offers good amount of opportunities to prove self’s aptitude; which in
turn would grow the self-bank of knowledge and help in placing myself at a good
level in every desired sphere.
Years
of Experience: over 11 years
Current
Location: Delhi
Location
Preference: Anywhere in India, South Africa,
Canada, China
EDUCATION:
a) 1992–1994; Berhampur University,
Berhampur, Orissa
Master in Business Administration
(specialization: Marketing)
Marketing & Advertising
Management, International Marketing, Brand Management, Marketing Research,
Sales management, Consumer Behavior, Financial Management, Rural Marketing,
Production Management, Business Policy, Business Environment & Laws, Small
Industry Management
b) 1986–1989; Utkal University,
Bhubaneswar, Orissa
B.Sc. (Chemistry Honours), Graduated in PCM stream
SUMMARY
OF SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Developed
Branding and integrated marketing communication strategies for several brands
across various industries (FMCG, White Goods, Automobile, Industrial inputs,
IT, Development sector, etc.), new business development and media
marketing.
- Hands on experience in many
brand building (rural, BTL / OOH) projects, with involvement from
conceptualization, logistics planning, execution and, post-campaign
analysis.
- Ideated, planned &
implemented over 250 integrated
marketing communication (OOH advertising, rural) projects for wide
category of products & brands.
- Worked for five well-known
brands out of India’s 10 most trusted brands (Times of India - Brand
Equity Survey: India’s Most Trusted Brands, 2002) on various brand-building
projects. They are DETTOL, BRITANNIA, COLGATE, PEPSI and
THUMS UP.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
March
1997 – Present; Video On Wheels, New Delhi
Sr.
Manager – Bus. Development & Client Servicing
Company Profile:
“Video On Wheels”
(Dr. Jain Video On Wheels Ltd., popularly known as VOW; a JAIN TV group
company) is a pioneer (in fact the concept creator) in rural marketing & below-the-line
publicity over a decade. Now it is an integrated communication solution
provider in rural as well as urban space, catering to a number of Indian
companies & MNCs of diverse product profile.
Job Profile:
Development and Implementation of
Integrated Marketing Communication program (Advertising, Direct Marketing,
Events, PR, Media strategy)
- Business
Development: Ideating, chalking out creative promotional strategies for
clients, developing presentation
- Client
servicing with all India branch co-ordination
- Active
participation in corporate strategy & business planning
- Pre-campaign
planning, Campaign monitoring & evaluation, Post-campaign feedback to
client
- MIS
transmission to various departments
- Data
management – Census & other market information
- Lending
intelligent support to marketing team at other branches for business
development
Core Competencies:
- Good
at strategy formulation, design, development and implementation of
monitoring & evaluation frameworks.
- Good
at logistics planning (for outdoor projects)
- Co-ordination
/ Networking
- Ability
to consolidate information from multiple sources.
- Ability
to design research studies & analysis.
Brands / Projects worked on:
Product
Launch exercises across India :–
- Launch of Intel P-III
processor in Mumbai (1998-99)
- Forhans’ FREEDOM toothbrush
in Delhi (1998)
- Nestlé’s MILO (MFD) in
few identified districts of AP (1998-99)
- MAGNET
computer magazine (India’s 1st Internet Magazine) in 5 major
cities of India (2000)
- E-commerce project of SKumars.Com
(franchisee invitation drive through event based publicity, for their
kiosk-networked business model) across 1028 identified towns of India
(2000).
Communication
campaigns for Social / Development sector :–
- Audio-visual awareness
generation campaign for Uttaranchal Health System Development Project
on ‘community mobilization against female
foeticide’ and ‘benefits of breast feeding to babies’ in selected
districts of Uttaranchal for three months consecutively during 2004-05.
- Audio-visual publicity
(awareness & education) for Rotary International on ‘Pulse
Polio Eradication’ in high-risk areas of India for 5 consecutive years,
from 2000 to 2005 (still going on).
- Educational workshops on
temporary Family Planning (child spacing) methods for SIFPSA (USAID
& Govt. of UP programme), to impart education to grassroot level
health service providers.
- Educational & awareness
generation campaign on behalf of UNICEF in Murshidabad district of
West Bengal on various health hazards arising from use of Arsenic
contaminated water (2000).
- Awareness generation campaign
of two insurance schemes (Rajrajeshwari & Bhageshwari) from General
Insurance Company (GIC) meant for empowerment of rural women &
girls, with special emphasis on roping women self-help-groups (SHG)
and administrative bodies at Panchayat level (1998).
Marketing
Research projects :–
- Rural Consumer Behavior &
usage pattern w.r.t. tea consumption, for two tea brands of HLL (formerly
BBLIL) – Taaza & A1 (1997).
- Acceptability &
anticipation of rural people w.r.t. then newly introduced insurance
schemes, for General Insurance Co. (1998).
- Survey on Farmers buying habits
& preferences w.r.t Tractor & related mechanical agri-inputs in
the selected region of Punjab & Haryana for Mahindra Tracor (1998-99).
- Survey on Farmers buying habits
& preferences w.r.t Pesticides & Herbicides in the selected region
of Punjab, Haryana & Uttar Pradesh for Monsanto India Limited (1999-2000).
- Survey on market demand, sales
channel & after sales factors for Cummins’ High-end Generator
(2000-01).
Other major
projects :–
- Countrywide demo based
publicity of USHA range of home Appliances through customized mobile
outlet.
- Road show for CUMMINS
heavy-duty noiseless generator (for industrial & large organization
purpose) through open display float (a customized LCV on which the product
was mounted).
- Mobile display van based
publicity of BAJAJ AUTO for their various ranges of two wheelers (bikes:
Boxer, Pulsar, CT100, Wind125; scooter: Chetak 4stroke) in MP,
Chhattisgarh, Haryana & Delhi since last three years.
- Extensive rural campaigns for
FMCG blue chips like HLL (tea division & personal/oral care brands),
SBCH, Colgate, Amrit Banaspati (flagship brand –Gagan), Tata Tea, Reckitt,
etc.
- Educational campaign for public
transport drivers to communicate the technicalities of CNG operated
vehicles and safety aspects involved, in capital region of Delhi on behalf
of ‘Indraprastha Gas Limited’.
Jun
1995 – Feb 1997; Desk to Desk Courier & Cargo Ltd., New Delhi
Sr.
Marketing Executive
- Developed major clients like,
Woodland, Tata Libert, Shaw Wallace, Union Bank of India, Kopran, etc.,
Have consolidated many irregular clients to loyal customers.
- Was servicing more than 50
clients in large territory of central Delhi.
- Secured 2nd position in overall
servicing & sales realizations. Given certificate of excellence in
Sales training course.
Jun
1989 – July 1990; Pragativadi Publications, Bhubaneswar
Executive
– Ad Sales
- Responsible for space marketing
(for the news-daily Pragativadi
which is Orissa’s 5th largest circulated), with special assignment of
handling the government clients.
- Also in charge of promotional
& circulation support activities for the brand. Executed various
promotional activities that helped in increasing the circulation.
COMPUTER
SKILLS:
- Operating
Systems : DOS 6.2, Windows ’9X, Me & XP (have knowledge of MAC PC)
- Tools
/ Packages : MS-Office 2000,
Harvard Graphics, FoxPro, Photoshop, etc.
LANGUAGE
PROFICIENCY:
Fluent in English, Hindi, Oriya and,
have workable knowledge in Bengali.
HOBBIES
& INTERESTS:
Listening to Music, Web Surfing,
Photography, Creative Writing, Reading Mags & Newspapers, Painting
PERSONAL
INFORMATION:
Father’s Name :
Mr. Amit Singh
Mother’s Name :
Smt. Sita Singh
Native Place : Nabarangpur
(Orissa)
Date of Birth :
07-January-1990
PPROFESSIONAL
TIPS:
Self
is fortunate to have worked upon many brands for their rural marketing &
outdoor advertising initiatives. I have association with many brands from
diverse industries, be it FMCG, white goods, pharma, agricultural sector,
government, social & developmental sector, etc. In short, my professional
experience with respect to rural marketing / BTL advertising can be presented
this way. In my job tenure in present organization, I have worked for some reputed brands of India (top 10 brands; those were
rated in two well regarded surveys - A&M
Top Brands survey, 2002 and, TOI - Brand Equity Survey of ‘India’s Most Trusted
Brands, 2002) on various promotional projects till date.
The
prominent brands for which I have worked include Colgate, Bata, Dettol,
Pepsi, Britannia, Dabur & Thums Up, etc. to name a few. A major
professional achievement is - I have association with around 25 brands out of
101 brands who are in the league of “Super
Brands of India 2003-05”.
Associated
with over 250 promotional campaigns. Contributed at various stages from their
conceptualization to execution and post-campaign analysis. Executed many
campaign for who’s-who of corporate world (ranging from FMCG to concepts).
Looks after other key activities like route planning, research assignments and
support services, etc.
Was
responsible for (heading a profit center) US Agro major Monsanto’s direct mailing exercise to contact over
20,000 farmers of North India – database management, mailer execution, resource
mobilization, etc.
ACHIEVEMENT:
- Self
has proud association with about 25 brands of repute those are
figured in the league of ‘SuperBrands of India 2003-05’.
- Planned, executed & supervised over 250 integrated
marketing communication projects for wide categories of products.
CAREER
AMBITION:
To
build at least one brand that stands test of time, which I can relish during my
old days.
(RAM
SINGH)
New Delhi
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