Mehul Gadkari

As an enterprising marketing professional working towards achieving and fulfilling all Branding, Marketing and communication requirements of the organization.

Background includes attending and surpassing corporate goals by developing a strategy that coordinates clients need with established sales objective. Excels at establishing and growing a customer base through creative use of marketing tools and media. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Manager – Business Development - The Times of India Group- Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd.

(2007-09)

Media & Publishing services. Understanding and creating marketing strategy for clients and providing best suitable solutions for their business needs.

• To understand and create the marketing strategy for the client and to give them the best suitable solution for their business needs.
• To develop goals and objectives for the branch
• To develop and maintain relationships with key people in various media formats, including TV, Radio, Newspaper and others towards opportunities for getting better visibility and enhancing customer reputation
• Maintain and develop brand development calendar
• New media initiative
• Deliver all communication tools effectively & efficiently
• Select and build team members
• Train and upgrade team in new technologies and processes
• Motivate team for better productivity and retention
• To put in place systems and processes to achieve 'customer centricity'

Executive – Space Marketing - INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS (M) LTD.

(2006-11 - 2007-09)

National English Daily Newspaper. Client servicing and media relations.

• Taking care of Client Servicing Role
• Taking care of Media Relations
• Writing press releases
• Strong communication skills
• To develop mechanisms for review, feedback and evaluation of customer attracting strategy, while ensuring continuous improvement
• Write, edit and develop communications to support local events and activities.
• Ability to deliver well organized data analysis through reporting, dashboards, modelling and trends
• Conduct benchmarking, best practices and other competitor assessment studies

Research Associate, in R&D dept - INDIAN DIAMOND INSTITUTE (IDI)

(2006-03 - 2006-11)

R&D and Certification on Diamonds and Gemstones. Institutional activities carrying out different courses related to study of diamond, gem stones and Jewellery design and manufacturing.

• Working with advance technology lab instruments.
• Detailing students about the process and development in the field of diamond and gemstones.
• Organizing the seminars and making the students understand latest trends of diamond industry.
• Analysing the key business problems, interpret results, generate insight and recommend strategies to the clients (Jewellers and diamond manufacturing unit)

Junior Scientist - Gemstar, Surat

(2004-05 - 2006-02)

Research work in the field of diamond and dealing with the High pressure and High temperature treated diamonds.

• Understanding the requirements of the market and selling the color diamonds.
• Characterizing diamonds on the basis of their types and selecting the typical samples for Hp-Ht treatment and studying their results.
• Studying the pre and post Hp-Ht treatment results and to observe the difference in both the spectra's and confirm the best result.
• Planning for the production of diamonds as per the requirement of clients.

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration - Marketing Management - Symbiosis Centre of Distance Learning, Pune (2011-12)

Masters of Science - Physics - Sardar Patel University, V.V. Nagar, Gujarat, India (2002-06 - 2004-07)

Bachelor of Science - Physics - Sardar Patel University, V.V. Nagar, Gujarat, India (1999-06 - 2002-04)