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Chandani Kathuria

Chandani Kathuria

A self motivated, charming individual, with great leadership and entrepreneurial / intrapreneurial qualities and excellent communication skills, with a zest to excel in various pursuits.

Gurgaon (122002) India
Employed Open to opportunities
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Current:
Marketing and Communications Head, India | OC

Prior Exp:
Consultant | Advisory Services | EY, Gurgaon (India).

Gold medallist, MBA, having graduated from ESC-Pau, France.
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Experiences

Marketing and Communication head, India

OC **(confidential, as the brand is yet to launch)
Since November 2016
  • To strategically launch and develop the French Luxury skin-care brand in India
    -Strategically Identifying potential clients for OC across Key markets in India (New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai etc..)
    -Client interaction and debriefing about OC
    -Client Relationship Management
    -Market Penetration and Expansion
    -Strategic sustainability and growth within the market.
    -Formulate Key Best Practices and Protocols.
    -Strategic Branding and creating Branding specific Best practices.
    -Creating relevant Marketing collateral for OC.
    -Help in Forecasting and Creating MIS: Projected vs Actual
    -Identify Key Lessons Learnt
  • Involved in the Registrations and complete Supply Chain operations and vendor finalisation
  • PR-Media coverage, Ad campaigns, Targeted Advertisement, Press release, Social events management
  • Social Media brand development and awareness (as per Indian requirements)
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  • Support various projects and initiatives focused on driving growth
    •Work with leadership team on implementation and execution of specific initiatives
    •Provide project management support on key projects such as new location set up, integration of acquisitions etc.
    •Independently work on driving execution and business as usual activities such as communication to stakeholders, customer engagement activities and other such activities
  • Serving a Media and Entertainment giant, (a G-360 account), over 14 months of Business Transformation project, enabled to a successful on-schedule Go-live.
  • Project plan creation and maintaining
  • Tracking, Monitoring and executing towards timely delivering respective planned activities.
  • Resource planning and management
  • Organising various events during the course of the project.
  • Communication spoc between the client and EY team.
  • Also practiced in enabling the Solution adoption, during the PGL period by helping the users understand the upgraded SAP interface. (as a Change Management consultant).
  • Collating & developing sector credentials (Healthcare, Life Sciences, Insurance, BCM, TMT, O&G, P&U ) across the Shared Services model of EY.
  • Developing the sector strategy and go-to-market agenda for Advisory services
  • Digital transformation trends in sectors
  • Competitor scan, POV's and Market analysis for Clients
  • Strategy designing
  • Pre-sales & Business developmet
  • Market Research & Analysis
  • Marketing & Client engagements
  • Target setting & tracking Operational excellence
  • Team management
  • Tracking the total Headcount & planning of New hires
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  • Lead Generation- Identifying interesting opportunities for Advisory services.
  • Pre-sales Marketing material
  • Pipeline tracking- Mapping of events for Advisory services
  • Sector analysis
  • Secondary/desk research
  • Improving Operational excellence (also created a flowchart explaining the business model)
  • Created the IT Advisory Operations manual.
  • Designing IT Infrastructure for Sector specific competencies (Healthcare/Retail..)
  • Helping attain the Competitive advantage
  • How to improve and expand the French-Indian corporate/industrial relationship
  • Intensive Primary and Secondary research.
  • Qualitative & Quantitative analysis.
  • Understanding, mapping and designing the Value chain and the Supply chain model, Tech tools (Business Intelligence, ERP, CRM..) for Sector specific bodies (Healthcare/ Retail..).
  • Propose the best practices to be adapted.
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  • IT Technical Support for Boeing & Spirit Aero systems in Wichita (Offsite)- an IBM client.
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  • Trainer for C++ & SQL programming languages
  • Conducted English & Personality development training.
  • Effective leadership and transfer of knowledge.
Interests

Lifestyle interests

  • Research and Discovering: Primary and Secondary resources, hence concluding my own perspective on topics of my interest like Digitization, new emerging market trends ..
  • Traveling and discovering new cultures
  • Mediation, Yoga, Reiki, Nutrition, Skin care and Wellness
  • DIY- Keen interest in skin care, hence create oils and natural, hand-made skin care products
Education

Master of Business Administration (Rank One-Gold medalist)

Grande Ecole de Commerce de Pau, FRANCE. (ESC- Pau)

September 2010 to January 2012
In Association with IBM, ESC-Pau, ‘Grande Ecole’, (accredited at the highest national level by the French Ministry of Education)

Highlights:
Multicultural Management, Strategic Management, Leadership and Decision Making, Global Branding, Managing Innovation, Managing Information Systems, Knowledge Management, Geopolitics, Entrepreneurship, Business Project with Ernst & Young.
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Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering

Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon, INDIA.

August 2004 to August 2008
Projects: Library Management (Visual basic 6.0-front end, MS Access-backend), Hospital Management (Visual Basic 6.0)

High School- Central Board of Secondary Education

G.D.Goenka Public School, (Vasant Kunj), New Delhi, INDIA

March 2002 to March 2004
Specialization: Science, Non-Medical
(Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computers, English)
Skills

Personal Skills, Competencies & Achievements

  • Analytic mind, rigorous, creative, leadership qualities, solution oriented, strong inter personal and communication skills, hard working and optimistic
  • Gold medalist (Rank One) in MBA.
  • Rewarded with Performance certificates in EY for two consecutive years for different engagements - EY Extra Miler, Direct Recognition (from Client)
  • Having been one of the youngest Trainers for EY Core Consulting training program.
  • Leadership qualities (Class representative throughout high school until post graduation) and demonstrating the same in professional pursuits
  • Certificate of participation, Aryabhatta competition (primary school), Certificate of achievement (award winner)- The National Science Olympiad (high school), Certificate of excellence in Computers- High school, active participant in sports and extracurricular activities and achieved various certificates in Racing, Basket Ball, Dancing, Singing competitions and Skits.

Project Management

  • Project Planning
    Good
  • End to End Project delivery
    Advanced
  • Team management and maintainig team motivation
    Good
  • Client communication and soft skills
    Advanced

Business Development

  • Market Analysis and Research (Primary and Secondary)
    Good
  • Marketing Communications and Strategy
    Good
  • Creating Business Proposals
    Good
  • Lead Generation
    Good
  • Client communication
    Good

Strategic Marketing & Global Branding

  • Brand management
    Good
  • STP , 4C's, 4P's
    Good
  • BOP (Base of Pyramid)
    Good
  • Multicultural Management
    Good
  • Knowledge Management
    Good

Tools

  • Microsoft Project
    Good
  • Microsoft Office
    Good
  • BMC Remedy
    Good

Functional Technical Skills

  • SAP ABAP
  • C++, SQL, Linux, HTML, VB, Java, .NET..
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