Strategic Understanding on Industrial and Warehousing Market in Ahmedabad along with Business Development

Abstract

I got selected for summer internship 2020 from my college to a real estate consultancy firm – Knight Frank India Pvt. Ltd. Which has its presence in 60 countries and employs more than 19,000 employees. The Internship started on 20th April,2020. I was assigned the department – Industrial and logistics. I was given E-commerce, 3PL and renewable energy based sectors to target during the internship. My reporting manager and mentor was Mr. Chirag Jain (Manager) and overall guide was Mr. Rumit Parikh (VP). The internship was on work from home bases due to the lockdown of COVID-19 and the interactions with the team at Knight Frank and clients was totally telephonic and Video conference based. The work I was assigned was completely related to Industrial warehouses and my main job was to generate the leads for the same. My day was used to start with calling prospect client from the list, provided by my manager. Later I used to find prospect clients on LinkedIn. Every day the target was to find around 20 contacts. Of these persons, I used to obtain their mail id as well as phone nos. Every day at around 4/5 PM we used to have a video conference of Ahmedabad team. In which we used to report to our managers and discuss that day’s activity and learnings. Later in the evening, I used to map warehouses in Ahmedabad and Surat area from google maps and from net. Which is known as supply stacking. Throughout my internship, I generated 10 leads. The final deal has not been completed yet for these leads. During my time at Knight Frank, I developed soft skills and learnt many things, which will be helpful in my career later.