Jamshed Wadia

Jamshed Wadia

Technology Marketer at Intel with over 13 years of varied sales and marketing job functions.

Singapore

Current
Past
Education
  • Institute for Technology and Management
  • Maharashtra Institute for Technology
  • St. Andrew's High School
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Jamshed Wadia’s Summary

My Work Philosophy
I believe that success is determined by the level of passion, commitment and innovation that an individual brings to the job. A task can either be easy or challenging but never impossible.

Summary of skills and experience
• Over a decade of sales, product & brand management experience in Information Technology and quasi-consumer durable industry both offline and online.
• Extensive Retail, Channel & OEM marketing experience for IT Products in Asia-Pacific Geo.
• Experienced in the field of Internet Marketing and Web 2.0
• Experienced in positively turning around overall business indicators for ‘Business units’ served.
• Highly customer oriented and possessing good analytical, communication and presentation skills.
• A free lance writer with over twenty published articles in established newspapers and journals. Wrote and published ‘Personal Quotations” in 2001.

Jamshed Wadia’s Specialties:

Brand, Product and Sales Management, Internet Marketing, Avid Blogger, Social Media Practitioner with great Professional Networking skills.


Jamshed Wadia’s Experience

  • Asia-Pacific Account & Co-marketing Manager, APAC Multinational Business

    Intel Technologies Asia Pte Ltd (Based in Singapore)

    (Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

    May 2009Present (7 months)

    Key Performance Areas
    • Responsible for overall account strategy, relationship and revenue for Japanese OEM’s in Asia Pacific.
    • Driving country alignment to account strategy, maintain in-country sales and marketing relationships both internal and external customers.
    • Co-develop innovative marketing & sales programs with the OEM's that meet mutual objective & priorities.
    • Owning the training and communications strategy to the OEM’s on products, programs and launches.
    • Owning the sales development cycle that facilitates development, tracking & closure of top deals and sales pipeline.
    • Driving regular business reviews with OEM customers and identifying opportunities, gaps that need to be addressed by a detailed action plan.

  • Online Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific Partner Marketing Group

    Intel Technologies Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore)

    (Semiconductors industry)

    April 2008May 2009 (1 year 2 months)

    Key Performance Areas
    • Develop and implement a Digital Strategy for ‘partner marketing group’ at Intel Asia Pacific.
    • Provide program support to regional and country OEM marketing managers on digital media for joint marketing program’s.
    • Provide strategic program support to innovative digital campaigns like Blogger seeding, social media, affiliate marketing and content syndication.
    • Manage and build relationships within Asia Pacific with digital media publishers and ad serving networks.
    • Have a integrated working relationship with Intel’s direct marketing and PR team in order to achieve synergies in the digital media.
    • Provide tools, reports and analysis to OEM marketing teams that help them to enable and implement co-marketing activities.

    Significant Achievements
    • Certified as Digital IQ ‘level 4’ which is highest level certification required for all digital marketing experts at Intel.
    • Certified official Social Media Practitioner (SMP) on behalf of Intel.
    • Was one of the key members of the team that launched the Dell/Intel Swarm pilot in Singapore.

  • Program Manager, Asia Pacific Retail & Channel Marketing Team

    Intel Technologies Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore)

    (Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

    January 2007May 2008 (1 year 5 months)

    Key Performance Areas
    • Responsible for overall planning and execution of all retail & channel training across ‘Asia Pacific’.
    • Responsible for managing the execution of all channel and retail trainings like Intel Channel Conference, Intel Solutions Summit and Retail sales person training.
    • Development, Production and deployment of sales tools used in Retail sales cycle.
    • Responsible for maintaining retail sales person advocacy for Intel Architecture products in the geo.

    Significant Achievements
    • High satisfaction scores given by sales team on training content and sales tool support.
    • Two Divisional recognition awards in this period.
    • Average of 90% RSP advocacy for IA products in Asia Pacific geo as measured by GFK.

  • Asia Pacific Channel Campaigns Manager

    Intel Technologies Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore)

    (Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

    November 2005December 2006 (1 year 2 months)

    Key Performance Areas
    •Plan and execute Consumer & Business Campaigns for Asia Pacific channel marketing and work with relevant sub task owners on program timeliness and country execution strategy.
    •Integrate Channel programs into over all corporate driven marketing campaigns executed in Asia Pacific.
    •Implementing programs that drive demand and consumption of consumer & business PC’s through all partners that are a part of the Intel Channel Membership program.
    •Responsible for planning and implementing Intel’s platformisation strategy within Asia Pacific channel.
    •Responsible for driving all pillars of Asia Pacific channel marketing like retail, infrastructure and business marketing teams within Campaign frame work to achieve business goals.

    Significant Achievements
    •Successful implementation of the 3 GHz & Core 2 Duo Campaign from Q106 to Q306.
    •Instrumental in creating competitive collaterals and sales tools for Asia Pacific region.

  • Product Manager - Reseller Channel Organisation

    Intel India Technologies Pvt Ltd (South Asia)

    (Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

    November 2003October 2005 (2 years )

    Key Performance Areas
    • Planning for and achieving revenue and market share growth for Intel server building blocks & white box IA based notebooks, overlooking supply & marketing for the same.
    • Conceptualizing and implementing region specific promotions, demand generation activities with Intel channel members & Intel authorized distributors.
    • Managing GAPP “Government Assisted PC Purchase” programs for South Asia in channel.
    • Worked on the SMB task force for India to deploy ‘go to market’ strategies.

    Significant Achievements
    • During my tenure as Server PM the Intel WB server business grew by 55% YTY.
    • Awarded By Asia Pacific RCO Director in 2004 for “Outstanding Server growth for H104 in India”

  • Regional Channel/ Product Manager

    Wipro Infotech Ltd

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WIT; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2000November 2003 (3 years )

    Key Performance Areas
    • Planning for and achieving revenue & growth for Wipro channel business for western India region.
    • Managing a sales team assigned to various partners in various geography’s in the region.
    • Managing relationships with channel business owners and developing business vision with them.
    • Planning for and achieving revenue and market share growth for Intel platform servers, Microsoft products and Wipro’s in-house storage products.
    • Managing alliances for Wipro with IBM, Microsoft, Stratus and Intel for Wipro Western India and using those relationships to work on region specific joint promotions.
    • Assisting the sales team & channel partners with product related training & pre-sales support..

    Significant Achievements
    • Achieved growth in Wipro’s Intel platform of 25%.
    • Awarded by Microsoft for the Best Enterprise Sales in western India region for year 02-03.

  • Asst. Product Manager

    H&R Johnson (India)

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Construction industry)

    April 2000December 2000 (9 months)

    Key Performance Areas
    • Planning for new products, pricing models and product launches at Johnson’s Pen Plant.
    • Setting up sales targets and marketing budgets & executions region wise for the sales force.
    • Executed a branding and a repositioning exercise for H&R Johnson’s brand ‘Marbonite’.

    Significant Achievements
    • Was instrumental in repositioning & renaming exercise of Brand ‘Granito’ to ‘Marbonite’, which improved product turnover from USD 5 Million to USD 50 Million.

  • Product Executive/ Asst. Store Manager

    Tangerine Informatique Ltd.

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Retail industry)

    September 1995June 1998 (2 years 10 months)

    Key Performance Areas
    • Managing Alliances with Compaq, IBM & Datamini for product, pricing and procurement.
    • Imparting pre-sales training on products the sales force.
    • Setting up operational PC showrooms at Fort and Chembur in city of Mumbai.
    • Overall operations of the showroom including from maintenance, marketing and selling.

    Significant Achievements
    • Was adjudged the ‘Best sales team member’ for Compaq home PC’s


Jamshed Wadia’s Education

  • Institute for Technology and Management

    M.B.A. , Marketing , 19982000

  • Maharashtra Institute for Technology

    BE , Mechanical , 19911995

  • St. Andrew's High School

    19791989


Additional Information

Jamshed Wadia’s Websites:

Jamshed Wadia’s Interests:

Teaching management, freelance writing, yoga, current affairs

Jamshed Wadia’s Groups:

• Was visiting faculty at Institute for Technology and Management, teaching Marketing to students of PGDBA course. Also was visiting faculty at V.J.T.I teaching Marketing management to BE Production students.
• Have been invited for guest topics at Symbiosis(Pune) and S.P.Jain(Singapore)
• Member of the LinkedIn Blogger forum.

  •    eOffice
  •    Executive Suite
  •    Helping Friends Career Network (LI2HF)
  •    Business Intelligence Group
  •    Global Worker
  •    ! Sales Best Practices
  •    Intel Alumni Association
  •    Innovative Sales & Selling Innovators Network
  •    Blog
  •    Internet Marketing
  •    LinkEds & writers
  •    Green Marketing
  •    Expat Network
  •    Sales & Marketing Community
  •    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
  •    Success Networking
  •    Technology Marketing Community
  •    Friends of Australia
  •    Friends of Japan / Nippon no Yuujin
  •    GroupLinked.com
  •    Friends of India
  •    Informed Ideas For Writers
  •    Mobile Content
  •    InvitesWelcome.com (Open Networkers)
  •    Social Media Today
  •    Institute for Technology and Management (ITM) Alumni
  •    SalesBlogcast.com
  •    Social Media Influence
  •    Supply Chain Optimization
  •    Internet 3.0 - (Web 1.0+ Web 2.0)
  •    Friends of China
  •    The Customer Collective
  •    Singapore Open Networkers
  •    Retail Industry Professionals Worldwide
  •    SINGAPORE Global
  •    ! NRI (NON RESIDENT INDIANs) - Largest and Earliest Platform to Reunite NRIs, PIOs, and OCIs
  •    Rotary International Club
  •    Well-Connected IT Professionals
  •    Swiss Business Club
  •    Apple fans
  •    SwissNet
  •    INDIAN IT CHANNEL ALLIANCE
  •    International Government Relations and Public Affairs
  •    Sales Connections
  •    Shoestring Marketing Group
  •    Success With Twitter
  •    Citynetevents.com/singapore
  •    MARKETERS @ SG
  •    TopLinked.com - Grow More Diverse, Valuable Networks

Jamshed Wadia’s Honors:

• Awarded ‘Best Out going Marketing student’ at Institute for Technology and Management for the academic years 1998-2000.
• Awarded the Samsika award for ‘Marketing Excellence in India’ in academics by senior panel of industry experts for the years 1998-2000.
• Awarded one of the ‘Best Writers for fall 2001 Writers contest’ for an e-publishing site from the US.
• Four Divisional and three Spontaneous recognition awards at Intel spanning sales and marketing excellence.


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