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Arpit Chaudhary ARPIT CHAUDHARY Date of Birth – 10 Mar 1993; Birth Place - Jaipur (Rajasthan) India M.Tech.(Rubber Technology); B.E. (Polymer Engineering); EPGM (IIM Calcutta) Mobile Number: +91 8983327512; Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks 2019 Executive Program in General IIM Calcutta 8 / 10 Management (EPGM) (West Bengal, India) 2018 M.Tech. – Rubber Technology IIT Kharagpur (West Bengal, India) 8.11 / 10 2015 B.E. – Polymer Engineering Maharashtra Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)Pune, 60.86% (*Now M.I.T - World Peace University) (First Class) Savitribai Phule Pune University 2010 All India Senior School Central Board of Secondary Education 67.40% Certificate Examination (K.V. 5 Jaipur, Rajasthan) 2008 All India Secondary School Examination Central Board of Secondary Education 73.60% (Air Force Station, Jamnagar, Gujarat) Present Job Profile ZEON India Pvt. Ltd. , (Gurgaon, Haryana, India) (Subsidiary of ZEON Corporation, Japan): (Listed on TYO stock exchange: 4205 as Zeon Corp) Working as Technical Researcher (Marketing & Sales) (April 2019 to Present) - Pragmatically involved into Techno Commercial Marketing & driving sales growth of Speciality Rubbers (Elastomers) as HNBR (Zetpol®), XNBR, NBR(Nipol®), ACM (HyTemp®), ECO (Hydrin®), NBRPVC & general- purpose commodity rubbers as SBR (e-SBR, S-SBR), BR and IR, C5-C9 polymer resins across Pan-India, which includes the development of new customers as well as managing existing customers by carrying out strategic plans to achieve long term growth to generate new & repeat sales to generate profits. - Achieved & completed target of USD 9.5 Million by budgetary & additional sales in FY20-21. - Tactfully managed to increase NBR (Nipol®) market share to double digits for present fiscal year in India. - Developing and managing relationships with all potential customers, major OEM’s, dealers & distributors. - Reaching out to new customers via close check on import statistics and end user applications. - Co-ordinating with other sales colleagues & technical customer service teams based in Japan, Singapore, USA & Europe for project approvals and submission activities. Thereby efficiently advising customers regarding technical properties of material & grade recommendation for particular application in market. - Uncovering new opportunities with customers by leveraging relationships, digital marketing, product promotions, event invitations, webinar programs, asking market-related questions & customer requirements, as to recommend our alternative products based on cost, availability or specifications. - Preparing price quotations & following strong negotiations with both new & existing customers while documenting this information for other team members. Along with contacting customers, following sales to ensure customer satisfaction & resolve any complaints with constructive feedback for improvement. - Educate customers, their purchase & supply chain team about technical terminology, features & benefits of products & grades of material in order to improve product related sales with customer satisfaction. - Working closely with team members and senior experts to recommend proactive & pragmatic solutions in order to resolve a customer’s technical or processing issues in a quick and effective manner. ZEON - Asia Technical Support Laboratory (ATSL), Singapore (May 2019- Nov 2019) - Inculcated and imbued knowledge in Singapore with precise learnings from ZEON’s ATSL for honing necessary technical skills to engage with customer support maintaining integrated international standards to technical demand in Asian emerging and existing market from Singapore, while concurrently contributing to the enhancement and development of the region's rubber processing industry. Previous Jobs Ralco Tyres Automotive tyres division of Ralson Tyres India, (Ludhiana, Punjab, India) Management Trainee (Research & Development) (Jun 2018- Mar 2019) - Held accountable for new product development (tyre, tube & allied compounds with rubber & elastomers like NR, SBR, SSBR, IIR, IR, BR, EPDM, NBR, Reclaim, Crumb rubber) with comprehensive understanding of individual components & materials within tyre construction, their cause and effects on handling, indoor integrity, reviewing and other performance aspects and keeping an eye on its economic viability. - Team working within R&D and Quality Dept. to ensure correct & precise circulation of information for project management and aim to identify opportunities for process improvements & economic sustainable optimization. Along with complying with new methodology as per internal or global procedures. - To manage material documentation like technical specifications, properties databases, allied legal conformities documents, data sheets, formulation/recipes, etc. - Also, I took part in internal audits & inculcating credible knowledge on ISO 9000:2015, CE certification, REACH compliance etc. and to had meetings & interactions with existing & new raw material manufacturers and suppliers for development of materials. Pidilite Industries Ltd. , (Mumbai, India): (Listed on NSE: PIDILITIND) Research Associate (Industry Academia-Research Project) (Jun 2017 - Mar 2018) Formulating Nitrile rubber (NBR) based adhesives mainly for low surface energy plastics bonding. - (Bonding plastics like LDPE, PP, HDPE) and allied applications. (First venture of Pidilite in this area) - With an intensive research on varied parameters like surface tension, solubility parameters, solvent boiling points, surface energy analysis by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), TEM, pH, viscosity, shelf life & other tests like tensile test on UTM, with ease of applicability procedures, project objective was successively accomplished. Mentor: Dr. Pradeep Gadekar, Vice President - R &D (Adhesives - FEVICOL), Pidilite Industries Ltd. Guide: Dr. Kinsuk Naskar, Professor, Rubber Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur Sunil Chemical Industries Product Manager - Eastern India Region (Kolkata, West Bengal, India) (Feb- May 2016) - Held accountable for technical marketing of Polypropylene (PP) fibres procured from ADFIL Construction Fibres (Low & Bonar Division UK) being used to reinforcing concrete structures for infrastructure projects. - Worked with team to tap dire requirements of market by doing market research of future projects to achieve short- and long-term goals of fibres usage in Indian small and large infrastructure projects. - Diligently managed synchronisation in team to interact, liaise, and communicate status and technology updates through development cycles with customers & managing their claims. - Meticulously coordinated operational activities with other managers and corporate positions to achieve win-win situation with common company goals and objectives. - Took opportunities to present seminars and held conferences in various companies for product application and its crucial use in modern infrastructure projects. Research Projects / Industry Apprenticeships 1. Thesis for Bachelor of Engineering: Project in MIT, University of Pune, India Reducing permeability of polymer films with addition of different fillers for packaging applications. Industries concerned with usage of polymer films for packaging industry. Guide: Prof. Kulkarni Deepali S., Assistant Professor, MIT Pune 2. Varroc Polymers : Industrial Training (Pune, India) Varroc group is a global automotive component manufacturer and supplier of exterior lighting systems, body chassis parts to leading passenger car and motorcycle segments worldwide. This industrial apprenticeship critically helped me in correlating academic knowledge with pragmatic real field exposure to understand plastic injection molding processes & operations with ranging from 160 to 2500 tonnage, mold maintenance, material handling of polymer assembly (polypropylene grade), two wheeler assembly productions, quality & inspection unit, PU foams production, learning testing of products at research & development wing for optimum quality of end use products. Memberships Student Member- Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE- Indian Chapter) Life Member- The Society for Polymer Science India (SPSI) Student Member - Indian Plastics Institute (IPI) Member – IIT’s Alumni Association Singapore (IITAAS) Practical learning / Training/ Ex-Cadet National Cadet Corps (NCC) India - Air Wing (2011-2013), Pune, Maharashtra - NCC was created under the Indian Defence Act 1917, to bridge the shortage of officers in Indian Armed Forces having motto of 'Unity & Discipline'. - The institutional training of NCC helped me to groom and inculcate qualities of leadership, commitment and brotherhood which bolstered confidence and responsibility in me, to enrich decision making skills accounting resource and time management to evolve as a competent leader in all walks of life. - It provided me with opportunities to enhance knowledge and awareness levels on life, imbuing ethical values, interpersonal skills for character building and my overall personality development. Achievements - Cracked GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) 2016 in Engineering Science discipline and stood in top 84.90 % percentile with an All India Rank of 464. - “A” (Aye) grade in ‘B” and "C" certificate of National Cadet Corps (NCC)- No.3 Maharashtra Air Squadron - under Ministry of Defence, India. Skills inculcated and Expertise Soft Skills: - Potent in strong communication with good interpersonal and analytical skills as to effectively and efficiently handle project management, team management and event
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