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Akanksha Mishra

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Assistant Manager Business Development at PeopleStrong
📍 Gurugram, Haryana, India

Akanksha is a dynamic business development professional with over five years of experience driving sales across India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Specializing in consultative selling and CXO engagement, she holds an MBA from ICFAI Business School. Colleagues describe her as dedicated, resourceful, and a brilliant business thinker.

During her university years, she was actively involved in various co-curricular activities and student clubs, demonstrating early leadership and enthusiasm. She recently took a trip to Dubai, one of her sales territories, to pause and reset, finding that the experience unexpectedly shifted her professional perspective.

Unique fact: A post about her work reflects that adaptability isnt just a skill in business development—it’s the entire game for her.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Assistant Manager Business Development
Job Level
Middle
Location
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Adaptability in Sales
She wrote about her challenging but successful transition from a sales role in finance to the IT industry, highlighting the need to create new strategies for different markets.
HR Technology
Her current role at PeopleStrong and previous position at Darwinbox, both leaders in the HRMS space, indicate a strong focus on this sector.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Assistant Manager Business Development
PeopleStrong
6-2024 - 12-2025
Senior Sales Development Representative Channel and Alliances
Darwinbox
11-2023 - 5-2024
Assistant Manager Business Development and Partnership
proMX
3-2022 - 10-2023
Senior Business Development Executive
Zycus
4-2021 - 2-2022
Sales Manager
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited
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Education
2018 - 2020
Master of Business Administration - MBA
ICFAI Business School
2015 - 2018
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom
Delhi University
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