RISHABH GARG
Business development and salesforce leader who built a 100+ advisor team for LIC in rural western Uttar Pradesh, earning trust in a relationship-led business and delivering business of over INR 5 crore. Diagnosed why traditional prospecting capped growth, then taught myself digital advertising and built an Excel lead-tracking system to reach prospects traditional channels couldn't. Outside work, an amateur standup comic, avid traveller, and film enthusiast.
Work Experience:
5.9 Years
Industry:
BFSI | Government & PSUs
Function:
Business Development | Marketing
Life Insurance Corporation of India (Fortune 500 state-owned life insurance company) | Bulandshahr
Development Officer
- Built and led the branch's largest advisor network by recruiting, training and mentoring 100+ insurance advisors, ranking among the highest recruiters in the division
- Delivered over INR 5 crore in business across tenure while maintaining the branch's lowest policy lapsation ratio at under 0.1%, protecting long-term persistency income
- Achieved every annual performance target across all years of service, including through both COVID waves, ranking among the top 5 Development Officers in the branch
- Diagnosed that referral-based prospecting was capping advisor productivity, then self-taught and deployed Meta and Google Ads campaigns, becoming the only Development Officer in division to generate leads digitally across urban and rural markets
- Built an Excel-based lead management system to track lead progress and advisor productivity, and mentored advisors across end-to-end policy servicing including claims, endorsements and renewals
Probationary Development Officer
- Achieved all new-business targets through the COVID-19 first wave despite field restrictions on in-person sales, earning confirmation as Development Officer on schedule
- Contributed business critical to the branch achieving all 5 annual performance pillars for the first time in over a decade, and the satellite office achieving all 5 for the first time ever (FY2020-21)
Apprentice Development Officer
- Completed a two-month structured apprentice training programme, covering insurance products, distribution mechanics, and field sales fundamentals, prior to probationary appointment
- Shadowed senior Development Officers on field calls to learn advisor recruitment, client needs assessment, and the branch's sales processes
- Built and led LIC branch's largest advisor network, recruiting and training 100+ advisors as the highest recruiter in the division throughout tenure
- Delivered over INR 5 crore in business across six years while maintaining the branch's lowest policy lapsation ratio at under 0.1%
- Ranked among the top 5 Development Officers in the branch to achieve every performance target in all six years of service, including through both COVID waves
- Won 50+ internal contests at LIC, earning 10+ trophies and cash prizes for advisor recruitment, activation, and target achievement
- Contributed business critical to the branch achieving all 5 annual performance pillars for the first time in over a decade, and the satellite office achieving them for the first time ever (FY2020-21)
- First Development Officer in Division to run digital lead generation, self-teaching Meta and Google Ads to reach customers traditional channels couldn't
- Earned Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification from KPMG India Services LLP
- Secured 2nd position at the University level in the Swachh Bharat Summer Internship 2018, conducted by MHRD
- Presented a research paper on Structural Analysis of Functionally Gradient Material Plates using COMSOL Multiphysics at ICAREMIT 2019, an international conference
- Created 3 COMSOL Multiphysics tutorial videos that together crossed 10,000+ views on Youtube
- B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Budh Nagar
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG India Services LLP
- Excel Skills for Business: Advanced, Macquarie University
- Enterprise Risk Management, LIC Gyanpeeth
- New Business: KYC-AML, LIC Gyanpeeth
- Claims: Non-Early Death Claim, LIC Gyanpeeth
- Right to Information, LIC Gyanpeeth
- Pre-MBA Statistics, IIM Ahmedabad
- Member, Profile Committee, IIM Ahmedabad: Vetted CVs and profile data for the PGPX batch within stipulated deadlines, coordinating across the cohort and resolving individual queries under tight timelines
- Co-founded the Go Green Club at Shiv Nadar University and served as Secretary, leading campus sustainability initiatives including tree plantation drives, awareness events, and environmental quizzes
- Organised the 'Message Missile' event under Go Green during BREEZE 2019, the university festival
- Created 3 tutorial videos on COMSOL Multiphysics software that together crossed 10,000+ views
- Volunteered with Project Prakash Charitable Trust, New Delhi, educating visually impaired children and conducting awareness sessions on primary education and physical well-being
- Volunteered with Enlightening Future Foundation, Nuh, across education for school-dropout children, community plantation, hospital support for senior citizens, blood-donation drives, and children's eye-checkup camps
- Volunteered with Udaar Foundation, Noida, supporting underprivileged students and recognised by the foundation for honesty, dedication, and timely delivery of assigned tasks