Rakesh Chauhan Email & Phone Number

Kuala Lumpur, My

Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Singapore

Business owner responsible for the loyalty solutions services, products, business development, and P&L across the South East Asia cluster of markets.

Singapore

Managed all account management and business development activities related to a group of key global banks across South East Asia cluster (6 countries) and AP Region.Main Responsibilities:- Owning and managing the profitability of assigned accounts across the respective region by designing and executing a combination of strategic and tactical plans.- Building and developing strong working relationships with key influencers within assigned accounts to understand needs and pain points and in turn translating them into opportunities for partnership.- Partnering with MasterCard's cross functional and country business teams to create and implement impactful card and payments programs that drive mutual benefit for both MasterCard and bank business.- Leveraging all MasterCard brand sponsorship properties, product/services to deliver exceptional customer value.

London, United Kingdom

Worked closely with Account Managers and Client Banks (Within the UK, RoI, and Nordics) to drive business development opportunities in the consumer credit card space.- Identified opportunities that leveraged MasterCard products and platforms to grow revenue for all parties.- Collaborated closely with MasterCard Product Development teams in order to highlight product innovation opportunities and also drive ‘fit for purpose’ delivery of new products/ platforms.- A key member of the project team that successfully delivered MasterCard World into the UK market.- Significant participation and contribution to a number of successful RFP presentations

London, United Kingdom

- One of the two Senior Product Managers in the team with direct line management responsibility- Developed and coordinated (led idea generation, gained executive buy-in, and drove through to implementation) a number of parameter maximization projects which contributed to £10m extra revenue for the business in 2004- Led the strategy/product development agenda for the ‘Super Prime’ product portfolio together with management of the NW Black Card P&L (circa 18,000 cards that generated £280m in billings and £7m in revenue)- The main point of contact for Payment Scheme / Regulatory issues, changes and New Product Development related ideas and issues.- Played a key role in developing the long term New Product Development roadmap from idea generation through to agreement of plans with executive stakeholders

Northampton, United Kingdom

- Drove identification of commercial opportunities to develop new products and services for Barclaycard UK through effective use of market data and customer & competitor insight.- Once identified led the delivery of new products involving: Defining the holistic proposition/customer experience, producing/developing the business case, gaining senior executive stakeholder management, and in turn demonstrating effective leadership of cross functional teams to ensure speed to market.- Developed and led the test launch of the innovative Repayment Rewards/Flexi-Rate product which gained significant positive PR coverage- Key member of the team that delivered the world’s first trial of on-line transaction authentication, using EMV chip credit cards and unconnected hand-held card readers.2000 - 2002 : Graduate ProgrammeTwo year program where I completed rotational attachments across the following business units:Company Barclaycard: Marketing Dept.– Corporate Card Marketing ManagerBarclaycard Merchant Services: Future Proposition Development Team– Proposition Development ManagerBarclaycard UK Fraud: E-commerce Fraud Team- Fraud Manager