Rakesh Poddar
Business Growth Strategist | Techno-commercial | Sales & Marketing Head – India | Specialist in Steel Metallurgy, Product Launches & Market Expansion
- Role
- Head of Sales Marketing at Affival Asia
- Location
- Raipur, CG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rakesh Poddar
Sales & Marketing leader with 13+ years in the steel and metallurgical industry, blending…
Experience
Head of Sales Marketing
Jun 2023 — Present · Raipur, IN
Leading India’s sales & marketing strategy for metallurgical products and services- Built a techno-commercial sales team, launched new products with targeted go-to-market plans, and drove customer/vendor development with global collaboration- Delivered consistent sales growth through market research, competitive analysis, and customer-focused solutions.
Education
SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing
2017 — 2019
OP Jindal University
BE (Hons.) Metallurgical Engineer, Metallurgical Engineering & materials
2009 — 2013
TRINITY INSITUTE OF NDT TECHNOLOGY, BANGALURU
Certification, UT, MT, PT, RT
2014 — 2014
D.A.V Public School, Sonadih Raipur (C.G)
10+2, Science
2007 — 2009
Skills
- Steel
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Microsoft Office
- Fortran
- Materials
- Lean Six Sigma
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
- Quality Control
- Alloys
- Welding
- Factory
- Iron Ore
- Metals
- Engineering
- Heat Treatment
- Customer Development
- Fmea
- Rolling
- Mechanical Testing
- Metallography
- Complaint Investigations
- Mining
- Metallurgy
- Root Cause Analysis
- Material Selection
- Optical Microscopy
- Manufacturing
- Minerals
- Corrosion
- Apqp
- Materials Science
- Failure Analysis
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