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Svetlana Sharapova

Svetlana Sharapova

Sales Manager & Partnership Manager
Sochi

Summary

Results-oriented achiever with proven ability to exceed targets and drive success in fast-paced environments. Combines strategic thinking with hands-on experience to deliver impactful solutions and enhance organizational performance.


About Me Key Competencies:

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Sales Manager

SML Security LLC
02.2025 - Current
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
  • Cold outreach and acquisition of target clients and partners: building a contact database from scratch and actively developing it (including CISOs and IT directors of large companies), scheduling and conducting meetings with C-level executives.
  • Developing sales growth strategy: building long-term partner relationships, identifying key growth points, managing deals from first contact to contract signing.
  • Preparing commercial proposals: developing customized solutions for customer needs, including highly complex IT products (ASOC, target audience: DevSecOps engineers).
  • Negotiating cooperation terms: conducting negotiations and reaching mutually beneficial agreements with decision-makers, including CISOs, CIOs, CTOs.
  • Conducting joint demos with the technical team: product presentation, ability to translate technical language into business value, working in tandem with engineers and solution architects.
  • Launching pilot projects and monitoring results: guiding the client from the first demo meeting to license purchase.
  • Partner management and motivation: creating conditions for active sales through the channel, product training, support, and monitoring of key metrics.
  • Direct sales: closing deals with large customers, including in the banking and IT sectors.

Head of Partner Channel

JetLend
02.2023 - 02.2025
  • Company Overview: Financial and credit intermediation (exchange, brokerage, card issuance and servicing, risk assessment, currency exchange, lending agencies, cash collection, pawnshops, payment systems)
  • Attracting key partners through cold outreach (banks, fintech companies, high-traffic aggregators) and conducting negotiations with decision-makers (including CEOs and CTOs).
  • Overseeing API integrations with large partners: controlling launch and integration stability.
  • Participating in product development: generating ideas for improving API flow and partner lead logic, formalizing business requirements, and transferring them to development.
  • Partner onboarding: product training, conducting online presentations and demos, methodological support, creating procedures and scripts.
  • Managing a team of 4 managers.


Achievements:

  • Promoted from manager to department head within 6 months.
  • Attracted and successfully launched 11 banks; implemented API integrations with large banks.
  • Proposed changes to the partner lead flow that were implemented, leading to increased conversion and improved key metrics.


Senior Account Manager

ZOON
09.2022 - 02.2023
  • Supporting and retaining existing clients
  • Achieved 100% KPI for new client acquisitions.

Partnership Network Development Manager

Raiffeisenbank
08.2020 - 06.2022
  • Company Overview: Bank
  • Built an agent network in the region from scratch (110 active agents in portfolio).
  • Top 10 best managers in the Russian Federation for two consecutive years.

Deputy Director of the Operations Office

Bank VTB
12.2018 - 10.2019
  • Company Overview: Bank
  • Managed team work: task distribution, results control, employee development.
  • Ensured a high level of customer service and compliance with corporate standards.
  • Attracted key clients, conducted negotiations with company executives.


Achievements:

  • Built a stable client portfolio (salary projects, premium products).
  • Maintained full team retention — 0% staff turnover.

Senior Client Manager

Bank VTB
10.2013 - 12.2018
  • Active search and acquisition of new clients among small and medium business owners (cold calls, meetings, negotiations).
  • Selling comprehensive financial solutions: business development loans, deposits, salary projects, premium cards, acquiring.
  • Building long-term relationships with key decision-makers (business owners and decision-makers).


Achievements:

  • Maximum deal size - 400 million rubles.
  • Winner of the cross-selling competition for premium cards (2014).
  • Received "Functional Trainer" certificate (employee training and mentoring).

Head of Direct Sales Department

Bank "Otkritie"
04.2013 - 10.2013
  • Managing a team of managers for attracting clients to salary projects (3 people).
  • Achievement: increased loan disbursement 6 times in 5 months.

Senior Manager for Salary Projects

Bank VTB
02.2012 - 03.2013
  • Cold outreach and acquisition of companies for salary projects, negotiations with directors.
  • Supporting existing clients and cross-selling related services.
  • Achievements: connected 1500+ new employees to salary projects within 10 months (including large companies and government institutions).

Sales Officer

City Bank
09.2010 - 02.2012
  • Attracting corporate VIP clients.
  • Team leadership (10 people).

Education

Bachelor - Organization Management

Samara State Pedagogical University
Russia, Samara
04.2001 -

Skills

Negotiations with company executives

References

Natalia Tokareva
Ex Manager, JSC "Raiffeisenbank" 8 988 419 68 52

About me

  • Strategic Partnership Development
  • B2B Sales & Complex Sales
  • C-Level Negotiations
  • Cold Outreach & Lead Generation
  • Team Leadership & Coaching
  • Financial Products & IT Solutions
  • Client Onboarding & Retention

Timeline

Sales Manager

SML Security LLC
02.2025 - Current

Head of Partner Channel

JetLend
02.2023 - 02.2025

Senior Account Manager

ZOON
09.2022 - 02.2023

Partnership Network Development Manager

Raiffeisenbank
08.2020 - 06.2022

Deputy Director of the Operations Office

Bank VTB
12.2018 - 10.2019

Senior Client Manager

Bank VTB
10.2013 - 12.2018

Head of Direct Sales Department

Bank "Otkritie"
04.2013 - 10.2013

Senior Manager for Salary Projects

Bank VTB
02.2012 - 03.2013

Sales Officer

City Bank
09.2010 - 02.2012

Bachelor - Organization Management

Samara State Pedagogical University
04.2001 -
Svetlana SharapovaSales Manager & Partnership Manager