Sujit Patil

About Sujit Patil

Sujit is responsible for building and sustaining Godrej group’s reputation across diverse stakeholders. He is among the few IABC accredited business communicators in India and a three time winner of the IABC International Gold Quill award. He is the co-author of the best seller \'The Pursuit of Reputation\' that was published by Westland Business books. He has been listed as India’s top ten men in corporate communications by Reputation Today and featured on the PR Week Global Power Book, the definitive guide to PR industry’s most influential operators around the world. From 2018 onwards to most recently in 2023, Sujit has been consistently listed on the Holmes Report’s Influence 100 research and listing of the world’s most influential in-house marketing and communications professionals. He was awarded the corporate communications professional of the year at IPRCCA and featured on the exchange4media Top 100 Influential Game Changers list, 2019. In 2020, Sujit featured on Reputation Today’s list of top 100 influencers from the corporate communications and PR space in India and Godrej got listed amongst the Exchange4media Top 25 Brands with Best In-house Communications Professionals’, 2020. I Under his leadership, Godrej has won almost all prestigious industry awards for communications including the Diamond Sabre Award – Company of the year – Asia Pacific and South Asia. He has built a team that has been consecutively ranked number one among Reputation Today’s top 30 corporate communications team in India. In 2021-22, the team led by Sujit won the prestigious Asia Pacific\'s best PR Communications team award at the 20th PR Asia awards. Apart from being a speaker and jury at various national and international bodies such as the World Communication Forum, Davos, AMEC, ICCO, PR Newsweek Asia, Public Affairs Asia, etc, Sujit is a part of the prestigious Arthur W Page Society. He volunteers as a guest faculty at various B-Schools, is a weekend farmer, loves travelling, understanding cultures and experimenting with new cuisines. Sujit is a qualified Instrumentation engineer with MBA in marketing and a Diploma in advertising and PR. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with large global conglomerates with vast business portfolios and has had fruitful stints in sales, marketing, branding, strategy, corporate communications and PR. He has led some of the best Indian campaigns in the space of reputation management, global branding, M&A communications, sustainability, influencer engagement, Digital PR and Crisis management.

Experience

1. Vice President & Head - Corporate Brand and Communications

   Godrej Industries Group

   Jul 2013 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   A vast and exciting mandate that includes managing and building the Godrej Masterbrand and enhancing the Godrej group reputation across stakeholders. Today, we enjoy the patronage of 1.1 billion consumers globally across consumer goods, real estate, appliances, furniture, chemicals, security solutions, retail, agriculture and many other businesses. In fact, our geographical footprint extends beyond Earth, with our engines now powering many of India\'s space missions. Functionally, have established and led some of the best processes which have been recognised across global platforms. Icing on the cake has been the recognition as “Outstanding Godrej Ambassador” at the Godrej global awards! Few key processes that I am proud of and which have led us to be ranked number 1 in the Reputation Today list of Top 30 corporate communication teams in India consecutively for the last six years : • Creation of long term strategic communication plan in alignment with groups vision • Redefining and enhancing the role of PR for corporate and brand communications at Godrej • Institutionalizing a measurement focus across the group with monthly and quarterly insights based PR dashboards • Holistic content creation process for corporate story telling • Regional media meets branded as “Amitié” to build media relations • Contemporary crisis communication protocols and Online Reputation Management (ORM) system across the enterprise • Institutionalize Digital PR process across the organization • Structured training interventions for team to enhance competencies • Structured programs conducted for marketing and brand teams to raise their awareness on PR as a key component of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) • External outreach with academic circles and industry bodies to position Godrej thought leadership • Representing Godrej at national and international industry forums, advocacy and reputation building

Education

• B.Engineering - Inst, MBA - Mktg, Diploma - Advt. & PR

  Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation