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~Responsible for developing comprehensive project plans, including defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.~Collaborate with the Product Owner to manage the product backlog, prioritize user stories, and ensure clear and well-defined requirements.~Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives, ensuring their effectiveness and adherence to Agile principles.~Working… Show more ~Responsible for developing comprehensive project plans, including defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.~Collaborate with the Product Owner to manage the product backlog, prioritize user stories, and ensure clear and well-defined requirements.~Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives, ensuring their effectiveness and adherence to Agile principles.~Working closely with cross-functional teams, aligning IT initiatives with business goals, removing obstacles and roadblocks that may impede team’s progress. ~Develop and present materials to communicate delivery plans, change scope, timelines, impacts of change and related risks.~Managing project teams, proficient at risk management and problem -solving by navigating challenges to keep projects on track and deliver exceptional results. ~Utilize WBS structure to ensure appropriate allocation of resource based on effort estimation and develop manageable scheduling of completion of deliverables. Show less

~Owing and delivering various market insights, competitor insights projects to the stakeholders within varied different end use sectors/industries~Project lifecycle – Scoping, Problem structuring/hypothesis definition, research and analysis, storyboarding, presentation and recommendations and project closure~Manage relevant stakeholder relationships independent including Global & regional industry opportunity evaluation

~Conducting & furnishing strategic Competitive Intelligence reports by research and analyses of their Solution Strategy, Financial performance, Domain expertise and technology investments to support Cognizant’s Management decisions to take companywide initiatives.~Profiling companies with Intelligence Reports by identifying business opportunities & pain points from company’s Annual Reports, earning calls and CXO’s published interviews.~Prospect profiling, providing… Show more ~Conducting & furnishing strategic Competitive Intelligence reports by research and analyses of their Solution Strategy, Financial performance, Domain expertise and technology investments to support Cognizant’s Management decisions to take companywide initiatives.~Profiling companies with Intelligence Reports by identifying business opportunities & pain points from company’s Annual Reports, earning calls and CXO’s published interviews.~Prospect profiling, providing SWOT & Financial analysis and sharing inside scoops through the channel of Market Research from various secondary sources including subscribed databases. ~Evolve the sales go-to-market and sales motions to capture growth opportunities. Show less

~ End to end bid management from RFI to BAFO stage which includes – Insuring smooth running of the Bid by interfacing with Cross-functional teams across Sales, Practice, Marketing, Delivery, Finance and Legal within the defined timelines.~ Putting together business cases for the sales teams to support their proposals.~ Conducting analysis on competitive landscapes through primary & secondary research based on industries, regional presence and services (competency) ~… Show more ~ End to end bid management from RFI to BAFO stage which includes – Insuring smooth running of the Bid by interfacing with Cross-functional teams across Sales, Practice, Marketing, Delivery, Finance and Legal within the defined timelines.~ Putting together business cases for the sales teams to support their proposals.~ Conducting analysis on competitive landscapes through primary & secondary research based on industries, regional presence and services (competency) ~ Forecasting the quarterly business generated by the expected closures in the next financial year~ Understanding & responding to the clients requirements in a proposal and providing solutions integrated with pricing Show less

I completed my Masters in Business Administration in Marketing (Majors) and IT (Minors) from IBS Hyderabad with an aggregate CGPA of 7.76. During the course, I developed an interest in Market Research and Analytics and perused a in house project to understand the Customer Perception towards Fast Food Retail based on the parameters such as Customer Perceived Value, Loyalty and Satisfaction.

Project Title : Marketing Research on Consumer Perception of Pantaloons and Brand Positioning of Major Players in RetailObjectives : •Understanding the integration of various verticals of marketing such as ATL & BTL activities, Social/Digital advertising and Customer Relation Management.•Analyzing the attributes of re-purchase intentions of Pantaloons Customers.•Analyzing the dependency on perception of the consumers from different demographics on fashion attributes

My work profile included both designing and commissioning of the safety and security systems offered by Honeywell Building Solutions.• Preparation of Estimation Review Sheet. • Performing detail engineering by preparing Engineering Bill of Quantities (EBOQ) on the basis of Bill of Quantities Effective designing of the layout/shop drawings thus improving the cost efficiency. • Integrating the installed systems in accordance to the client specifications

Experience of the Air Traffic Services in India operates and studing the main functionality that is Communication Navigation Surveillance (CNS). Operations of RADAR and VHF was included in my indepth study.