Bhavesh Negandhi

When did you join Matrix?
July 2007

Job title:
Direct Marketing Services Manager

What does your job involve?
I am responsible for managing customer campaigns, (offline/online) and direct response activity in line with customer acquisition goals. My task is to ensure that all activity is carried out on time, within budget, delivering against target and to agreed standards. I also manage and co-ordinate with external suppliers contracted out for work.

What do you most enjoy about your job?
The best thing about my job is quite simply the people, both my customers who I have built great working relationship with and those that I work with. I’m lucky to work with people who are very passionate about what they do, and it’s this passion which drives me to do the best I can on a day-to-day basis.

What is the most challenging aspect of it?
Managing multiple high-priority campaigns, responding to business imperatives and satisfying the multiple clients' requirements with limited resources. But this is a positive, forcing us to become more efficient in how we execute tasks, but more importantly, how effectively we plan and schedule resources.

Describe yourself in 3 words:
Positive, adventurous, resourceful

What's the best journey you've taken?
2003 North India driving from Shimla (altitude of 7,000 feet) to Ladakh (20,000 feet) - beautiful ancient Buddhist monasteries on hill tops and their resident (monks) chanting prayers - adding further to its breathtaking landscapes.

What un-invented gadget does the world need?
Something like a self-decrypting pen which makes Corrupt Politicians disappear forever.

Favourite Quotation:
"Australianism - means single-minded determination to win - to win within the laws but, if necessary, to the last limit within them. It means where the 'impossible' is within the realm of what the human body can do, there are Australians who believe that they can do it - and who have succeeded often enough to make us wonder if anything is impossible to them. It means they have never lost a match - particularly a Test match - until the last run is scored or their last wicket down." John Arlott, 1948