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Ankush Bhandari

Regional Manager

Danaher Sensors & Control

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Brief description about me

My name is
Ankush Bhandari, and I work as Regional Manager with a US based multinational
company engaged in manufacturing of control and automation products. I am an
electronics engineer by chance, a product marketer by accidental profession, a
computer geek by curiosity, a good cook by choice, a blogger by interest, a bit
poetic at heart and a creative writer in wishlist.

Brief description about me

My name is Ankush Bhandari, and I work as Regional Manager with a US based multinational company engaged in manufacturing of control and automation products. I am an electronics engineer by chance, a product marketer by accidental profession, a computer geek by curiosity, a good cook by choice, a blogger by interest, a bit poetic at heart and a creative writer in wishlist.

Important career decision

When you talk about decisions, bad or good, they come along with lot of learning, and mine was no different. I entered into engineering studies, just to figure out that it is something which is not my cup of tea. But since I had already taken admission, and there was no choice left, I completed my studies and started working for a medium sized company in quality department.The important decision was to then figure out my area of interest, and I started falling in love with departments like, sales, marketing communication, strategic marketing.Soon I got opportunity to get shifted to marketing communication, and then the journey started which is going on till now, connecting different organizational experience and involving different management assignments exposure over a period of 7 years now. But that was not all.
Being the only son in my whole family (that includes my paternal uncles also) made me too much inclined to my hometown Udaipur. Udaipur still is my first love. I was having a pretty good job at Udaipur and I was earning well there too. But somehow I was continuously feeling that I am underestimating my capacity and growth prospects in long term were limited. So I took a hard decision to leave my hometown at a young age for better career options, and it made my life twist for 360 degree, and today I feel that it was the right decision made at right time which made me what I am today.

Degree that matters

Apart from the formal engineering degree which you require to enter into this field, I think the only other certification required is the self-certification of being innovative in approach, positive attributes, professional attitude and an out of the box creative thinker.

Prospective towards Frashers

FRESHER, the word itself indicates why a company should take a risk on them. With a fresher come fresh idea, fresh mind, and fresh attitude. Everything in world needs to get changed by the time and for the time, a fresher if is innovator would bring that required change with him through his nobility and if is not an innovator but a follower, then he will be more adaptable to that change which has to happen in the organization through someone else. It’s easy to mould a fresher in organization because they have zero reservations in their mind and his aspiration to prove himself as an asset to organization makes him to perform in the ways in which even sky also is not the limit of commitment.

My strongest attributes

If I trust about my peer group acknowledgements and past 7 years of professional assessments thru various leaders with whom I have either worked or compete. Working and delivering under pressure is the strongest skill which I possess.
Personally speaking, I never knew that my efficiency increases under pressure, but over a period of time people have made me believe that, and now I work only under pressure, kidding

My role model

Well a lot of people will agree and lot will disagree with him but I personally aspire “ChetanBhagat” a lot. His books may or may not appeal to you, but the fact that an ultimate dream class business school passout student, working in a world class bank, could listen to his heart and switched his career at its peakfor his passion; it appeals a lot to me. He did what he wanted in his professional life, he did what he wished in his personal life, I am inspired not because of his books, but his attitude towards life which enables him to live life on his own terms.
Other than him, I am inspired by my father as everything I am today, my values, my beliefs, and my work ethic; all are based on how I was raised. I continue to strive to be a better person and more like my father. My professional (and some personal) goals are strongly influenced by my father and the examples he set when I was growing up. And now that I'm a professional, he is one of the first people I turn to when I have questions or need advice.

Upcoming Trends

When I talk about control and automation industry, over a period it has become highly competitive, cut throat market. Your end-customers fix the budget of package, and you have to manage to complete the project with the latest technologies in the allotted budget.
In my views, building profit margin, which in earlier years used to be a function of sales & marketing department, is slowly shifting to procurement department now a days.
Technological advancement, of-course is also one of the trends, which again is dominating factor; customers are shifting from traditional automation systems to wireless, diagnostic, increased simulation and cloud. After all customers now want to run an automated plant like playing a video game.
And that’s where the function of Product Marketing Management and Product Management is becoming very vital, which will be game changing in next couple of years.

My goals

I would stick to my promise to one of my very close friend, that he would be able to buy a book written by me and getting sold at crosswords within next 5 years, apart from that I would continue writing my poems, till it’s tolerable.
Since this control and automation industry has given me so much in my life, I would stick to it and would keep continuing the growth track in my professional career and achieve few more promotions in my assignments, but that’s something which is a requirement and not my goal and ambitions.
I don’t know about the timeline for this right now, but over a period of time I have developed passion towards teaching, and one day I would surely get associated with it.

Family background

We are a close knit family; my father (money maker) is retired from Indian Army and works with J K Cement Ltd as Academic Head, that’s how we have grown up under strict army disciplines. My mother (home-maker) is religious, my sister (dream maker) and her husband both works with State Bank of India.

Advice from elders

Well, at times tech-job makes you frustrated and you yearn for something which, for the time being, looks more suitable. A piece of advice that I got from my father once was “never say NO to any challenge” and “never ask for anything” if you follow both these principal, you will get everything in your life.
After a few years of my professional career, one day I was feeling bored and bunked office, and my father told, you will succeed only till you are on the asset side of balance sheet of the company and not on the liability side. Just because you are necessary doesn’t mean you are important.

My achievements

Frankly speaking, I really don’t think that I have achieved anything big in my life till now which makes me real proud, I aspire to achieve some dreams which would definitely make me and my family real proud, but those achievements are really far right now.

Advice to young generation

I would replicate the same which I said before “never say NO to any challenge” and “never ask for anything”.

My point of view

We as a country has always tried to look for the shortest way to success, frankly speaking I am no different. Yes, I agree we have much technical talent in India, but that’s on paper, today when I interact with people outside my peer group, a majority of young engineers in the age group of 21 to 28 are either unemployed or are not satisfied with their current assignments. On the other hand, when I interact with people connected with talent acquisition and recruitments for fresher, junior and middle management, they are having hard time finding talented engineers. Imagining both the situations together, I can just imagine a large chunk of engineers having qualified degree but not qualified for jobs.
The way professional education system in India; be it engineering or management; has headed its way in last decade, it’s really scary to imagine what will happen in next few years.
We have real excellent leaders at senior positions, but we really lack at skilled manpower, junior and middle management level. A leader can ideate, but when it comes to execution, we just don’t have the right people or the right people are not at the right place.
A highly talented and technical thorough engineer is ready to sit on benches for years and years in a IT company, but will never get ready to start teaching in an engineering college; even at double the salary, for the simple reasons of getting fascinated with words like showstopper, deadlines, version-controls etc, for the simple reason of having a very nice cafeteria inside office, for the simple reason that their neighbours have heard the name of company.
To summarize, I would say till we don’t have a real good professional education system; comprising of world class infrastructure, comprising of world class faculties, comprising of policy stating no-compromise with quality of education, we would still be called as under-develop nation in field of technology, and would be proud on made outside India tech-products only.