
Rajesh Awate
Vice President of Business Development @ Peora
About
With over a decade of experience in business development, I currently serve as Vice President of Business Development at Peora, where I focus on market research, client acquisition, and building strategic partnerships. My work is centered on identifying opportunities to expand product offerings, assessing deals, and implementing strategies that contribute to organizational growth. Throughout my career, I have emphasized delivering value by leading initiatives in pre-launch strategies, developer partnerships, and operational process optimization. I am committed to fostering growth while maintaining a strong focus on data security and confidentiality, ensuring that all processes align with organizational goals.
India
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Retail
Acquisition Targeting, New Leads, Office Procedures, Market Planning, Office Design, Redesigning, Commercial Negotiation, Real Estate Negotiating, Working with Relocation Buyers, IT Project & Program Management, P&L Management, Professional Networking, Demographics, Inventory Management, New Store Planning, Tracking Budget Expenses, Legal Document Preparation, Contact Lists, Account Executives, Market Data
Experience

Vice President of Business Development
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Conduct market research, assess deals, and expand product offerings for new locations. Drive new client acquisitions, collections, and strengthen developer partnerships. Oversee pre-launch and launch strategy execution. Uphold strict data security and confidentiality standards. Proposed optimized payroll structures for front-end staff, focusing on enhancing cost efficiency and aligning compensation with performance benchmarks to drive employee satisfaction and operational productivity. Initiated and developed an in-house men’s footwear line with competitive, affordable pricing to strategically capture market share and enhance brand positioning against key competitors. Led the restructuring of vacant front-end sales positions, optimizing team composition to enhance efficiency

General Manager Business Development
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Directed comprehensive market research, evaluated strategic deals, and launched new product lines to support growth targets. Achieved targets for acquisitions and collections, and managed key developer relations. Planned and executed pre-launch and launch strategies. Ensured data integrity and strict adherence to confidentiality protocols.

Business Development Manager
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
• Market Research & Analysis. • Evaluation of the proposed deal leads sent by Regional and City level Business Development team. • Achieving the budgeted volumes in terms of acquisition of new deals and collection • Development of Product Line with respect to Location. • Ensuring to maintain a healthy relation with the developer. • Strategy planning and implementation for Pre-launch and Launch Project • Ensuring continuous supply of property data and revalidation of the same. • Ensuring strict adherence to data security procedures and practice data confidentiality.

Executive Assistant To Chief Operating officer/ Business Development
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
• Generating leads for new business by running Promotional Mailers & Cold Callings etc. • Focusing mainly on cold calls to generate maximum leads. • Maintaining good rapo with Channel Partners and other local brokers for cross selling. • Keeping regular market update. • Ensuring to maintain healthy relation with existing clients to gain more business opportunity. • Have good knowledge about PAN India, worked across E.W.N.S region. • Demographic Survey & making the plan to open the store accordingly • Negotiate the commercials such as Rentals, fit out period & other amenities as per the set targets. • Ensure the negotiations are in best interest of the Company. • Coordinating with Legal team regarding papers of the proposed properties is up to expected norms of the Company. • Ensuring that store is operational within the given & set timelines. • Escalating with the property Landlords, if any issue arises from them. • Overviewing the Fit out plans of the stores.

Executive Assistant
Generated leads for new business by running promotional mailers and cold calling. Maintained good repo with the channel partners and other local brokers for cross selling. Ensured healthy relations with existing clients to gain more business opportunity. Conducted Demographic surveys and opening stores accordingly. Negotiated the commercials such as rentals, fit out period and other amenities as per the set targets. Coordinated with the legal team regarding papers of the proposed properties is up to the expected norms of the company. Overviewed the Fit out plans for the new and existing stores.

Executive Assistant to Executive Director
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
• Analyzing the various sales reports and preparation of bullet points. • Wetting the Sales targets and inventory Limits at the start of the financial year. • Reviewing and analyzing OTB report on weekly basis. • Assisting ED in preparation of the Business strategies. • Overviewing the Store and multiple Brand profitability on quarterly basis. • Recording the minutes of the meetings. • Strictly adhering to office policies and procedures, especially regarding confidentiality. • Acting as a point of contact for clients. • Tracking accounting information. • Assisting ED in preparation of Data required for Business Expansion

Accounts Department- Executive
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
• Collating and analyzing purchase data on a regular basis. • Responding to all vendor queries issues and requests. • Posting of invoices into financials. • Auditing & Releasing payments. • Preparation of the reports required for financial accounts. • Reconciliation of G/L accounts.

Inventory Department- Executive
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
• Inventory accounting. • Preparation of MIS reports for the Executives. • Planning and executing the store physical verifications. • Leading team for the physical verification of Store inventory. • Reporting the irregularities and malfunctions if any to the higher authorities. • Preparation of the purchase analysis report. • Preparation of the OTB reports. • Preparation of Markup statements.
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