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Sahiba Singh

Vancouver,BC

Summary

Seasoned management professional with proven leadership and experience across diversified roles and industries. Built my own startup and made a successful exit after 7 years of running the business. Hard core B2B sales, E-Commerce, Marketplace, Subscription, Loyalty & Rewards experience. Always driven by the big picture and on a quest to take challenges head on and create something new.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Development Manager

Best Buy Canada
05.2021 - 02.2024
  • Responsible for building & executing long & short-term expansion plans for established & emerging online categories
  • Involved with various initiatives and third party partnerships to improve customer and seller journey experience
  • Built relationships while working closely with sellers towards optimizing performance, revenue growth and achieving aggressive growth and visibility targets
  • Signed two of the biggest accounts for Marketplace grossing over 5 million yearly
  • Got promoted to Senior Business Manager within one year of joining and managed team of research analysts
  • Leveraged data and analytics to create complex dashboards and presented actionable insights & recommendations to senior management, influencing key decisions on business strategy.
  • Enhanced Salesforce efficiencies by identifying and implementing process improvements.
  • Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements.

Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

City Surf Vouchers Pvt Ltd.
04.2013 - 04.2021
  • Founded startup, which provided end-to-end development, implementation & execution of value driven consumer reward programmes for clients through SaaS
  • Provided in depth data analytics to business clients on customer behavior & usage patterns
  • Independently drove business to the company from big corporate clients. Key clients - Citibank, MasterCard, American Express, Hyundai, Paytm etc
  • Clocked annual turnover of 500,000 CAD annually via B2B sales
  • Developed a mobile app (iOS & Android) for B2C audience and rolled out in 7 major metro cities in India. Over 100000 active subscribers via the mobile application.
  • Worked closely with investors and shareholders to track business performance, forecast revenue and brainstorm to pivot business as per changing competitive landscapes

Senior Management Associate

Dunia Finance LLC
04.2012 - 04.2013
  • Part of highly vigorous and elite rolling management programme, worked closely with senior management in every department from HR, Compliance, Sales, Marketing to understand business and develop strategy for growth
  • Closely worked towards career framework design including job evaluation, salary grading, career path design
  • Involved intensively with internal audit, central bank audit and PWC audit teams to ensure compliance
  • Responsible for providing and presenting key data (KRI, KPI) to the senior management & provide recommendations based on important data analysis and observations
  • Introduced key new initiatives and worked on various process and technology upgrades
  • Awarded the best performing associate for booking the highest sales and collections consistently for 5 months

Senior Associate

D E Shaw Pvt Ltd.
10.2008 - 04.2010
  • Involved in recruiting technical position for HQ in New York
  • Collaborated with key stakeholders and early talent hiring managers to develop and drive recruiting strategies and results
  • Partnering with hiring managers to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches.
  • Spearheaded process improvement initiatives and made systems that could self manage large load of campus recruitment

Education

MBA - Consulting

S P Jain School of Global Management
Singapore, Dubai
04.2012

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce
Pune, India
05.2008

Skills

  • Leadership & Business Strategy
  • Project Management
  • People & Team Management
  • Business Development & B2B Sales
  • Negotiation & Client Management
  • E-Commerce & Marketplace
  • Rewards & Loyalty
  • Subscription Services
  • Salesforce
  • Power BI & Google Analytics
  • SPSS Data Analytics

Certification

CPHR Member - Chartered Professionals in Human Resources of Bc & Yukon


Blue Ocean Strategy by Strat X

Additional Information

Project Officer, Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 - Worked passionately for 8 months in execution of the opening & closing ceremonies and training over 200 volunteers for the games. Served as a member of the Games Operation special cell to resolve game time critical issues. Spent 4 months in creating the Transfer of Knowledge & Legacy documents

Timeline

Senior Business Development Manager

Best Buy Canada
05.2021 - 02.2024

Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

City Surf Vouchers Pvt Ltd.
04.2013 - 04.2021

Senior Management Associate

Dunia Finance LLC
04.2012 - 04.2013

Senior Associate

D E Shaw Pvt Ltd.
10.2008 - 04.2010

MBA - Consulting

S P Jain School of Global Management

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce
Sahiba Singh