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Sudeep Kumar Rana

Maidenhead,United Kingdom

Summary

13+ years of global experience in selling enterprise IT solutions to Banks, Financial Services and Telecom clients.

I believe in result-driven approach to deliver stellar numbers by developing and managing relationships with technology and domain partners. This will ensure clients have the right solutions to enable business agility and transformation requirement across the value chain. It is backed by market research, competition analysis, and with strategies aligning to accelerate sales and organizational growth.

Strong business development skills in full partner lifecycle management, GTM/RTM strategy, account management, and solution selling. Proven success in creating innovative partner program models across geographies and work to provide operational support across functional teams, joint marketing initiatives and lead management Skilled individual focused on obtaining experience in commercial management field. Ready to analyze data and evaluate growth for company. Flexible, reliable and excellent in multi-tasking.

Overview

14
years of professional experience
1
Certificate

Work History

Tata Consultancy Services
London, United Kingdom

Business Development– Ecosystem Partnership& Sales
02.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Responsible for business unit growth, revenue maximization and cost optimization
  • Managed sales origination of 296 new deals add-up to 565 Mn TCV & closed 97 deals worth 128 Mn TCV across banking & financial services clients
  • Developed and manages alliance partnerships with FinTech's in capital markets, payments, financial crime (including KYC, AML, regulatory reporting), reconciliation, insurance (including actuarial), core Banking, commercial lending and ESG domain
  • Identification of leads through various channels such as networking, referrals, cold calling, and attending industry events
  • Formulated strategies with domain partners includes Finastra, Nice Actimize, Nasdaq (Calypso and Axiom), FICO, SymphonyAI, Quantexa, Fenergo, Avaloq, SimCorp, Regnology, Earnix, Kyriba, Orchestrade, MongoDB, EDB etc.
  • Broad-based growth of strategic focus accounts with multiple service lines and position new solutions having compelling value propositions
  • Develop business plan and execute alliance strategy across client base in BFS vertical
  • Coordinated jointly sponsored events, increasing company visibility.
  • Presented partnership proposals to executive team, gaining approval for key collaborations.
  • Facilitated strategic decision-making, performing thorough market research to identify and quantify opportunities and threats.

Tata Consultancy Services
Delhi, India

Business Development Manager – Industry Advisory Group (CMI BU)
07.2018 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • Supported account teams ranging from $2 million to $250+ million for alliance support in project management and implementation
  • Managed sales pipeline, sourcing and developing new business opportunities across EMEA and achieved $34 Mn+ services revenue YOY by working with partners
  • Developed strategic partnerships for sustained growth in networks, security, OSS, BSS, unified communication, PaaS and IaaS technologies with Nokia, NEC, Innoveo, Unqork, Comarch, Ciena, Matrixx, CSGi, Arista, F5, TCTS, Telstra, Experian, Verizon, Oracle, Juniper etc.
  • Collaborate with account teams to identify areas of cross sell and upsell
  • Proactively hunt for new business opportunities and socialize partner solutions through joint workshops
  • Manage program performances across all key metrics including data analysis & visualization, C-Suite level reporting, and senior executive meetings

Tata Consultancy Services
Tokyo, Japan

Senior Test Consultant – Large Bank In Japan
09.2015 - 03.2017

Job overview

  • Client facing role to ensure timely delivery of project milestones
  • Achieved CSS of 99%
  • Collaboration with credit analysts, product specialists, operations, and other internal stakeholders to ensure seamless delivery of products and services to clients
  • Build and maintain healthy business relations with clients, and ensuring maximum customer satisfaction
  • Created scope management (test planning, estimation, & reporting),testing framework, project test plan and validation strategy document
  • Track delivery progress, collect metrics and send status reports to key stakeholders
  • Ensure timely delivery of test plan, test scripts, RACI matrix, GAP analysis, RAID report, traceability matrix and test completion report and quality management
  • Status reporting for steering committee, monthly & weekly reviews

Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai & Delhi, India

Project Lead – Large Indian Bank
12.2010 - 08.2015

Job overview

Implementation and development of kiosk banking solution(KBS) for multiple banks in India for financial inclusion(FI) project in rural banking domain

  • E2E project management of server-side deployment and application side changes
  • 24*7 availability of production region
  • On-time delivery of project and meet cost, quality and delivery targets
  • Integration of e-KYC & aadhar enabled payment system (AEPS) integration for onus/off-us transactions, HSM configuration and BFD testing
  • Asset management and status reporting via MIS reports
  • Database backup policy creation, server changeover during DR drills, GAP analysis
  • Devised full-scale technical plans to inform team members of project specifications, milestones and gateways
  • Established key performance indicators for better performance tracking and evaluation

Education

Kurukshetra University, Haryana
India

B. TECH from Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE)
06.2006 - 06/2010

University Overview

Marks: 67%

International Management Institute(IMI), New Delhi
India

PGDM (MBA) from Marketing & IT
03.2017 - 07/2018

University Overview

Marks: 80.2%

Skills

  • Sales and market development
  • Cross-Selling techniques
  • Sales leadership
  • Up-Selling techniques
  • Technical sales understanding
  • Partner program management
  • Key Account Planning
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Relationship management
  • Contract and agreement negotiation

Certification

  • TCS Ambassador Corps- Global Sales Program certified
  • TCS Leadership Training Program – Know your Everest
  • TCS Ascent Leadership course certificate
  • SAP University Alliance Certification (Enterprise Resource Planning)
  • TCS Design Thinking- Advance Level certification
  • SAP University Alliance Certification (Data Ware House & Business Intelligence)
  • TCS Business Domain Academy - Certificate in Business Skills
  • TCS Training Program -'Silver Certified Mentor'
  • Udemy – 5G Architecture & Key Principles
  • TCS Business Domain Academy - Certificate in Telecom

Timeline

Business Development– Ecosystem Partnership& Sales

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2022 - Current

Business Development Manager – Industry Advisory Group (CMI BU)

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2018 - 01.2022

International Management Institute(IMI), New Delhi

PGDM (MBA) from Marketing & IT
03.2017 - 07/2018

Senior Test Consultant – Large Bank In Japan

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2015 - 03.2017

Project Lead – Large Indian Bank

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2010 - 08.2015

Kurukshetra University, Haryana

B. TECH from Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE)
06.2006 - 06/2010

Affiliations

  • Travelling
  • Cooking
Sudeep Kumar Rana