A WE School student becomes Brand ambassador for the Japanese Multinational NISSAN
Nikhil Ghare, MMS 2010-12 batch has been selected as the Nissan Student Brand Manager for the year 2011. He is one of the eighteen students who have been selected as the winners across India. The judges comprised of the eminent Adman Prahlad Kakkar, Mini Menon from UTV, Harish Bijoor of Bijoor Consultants, Hormazd Sorabjee -Chief Editor of Autocar India and Dinesh Jain, CEO of Nissan India.
Around 2000 students who had applied for the first round were expected to present innovative yet feasible ideas to promote Nissan and its products. A group of 25-30 students were shortlisted from the western region, subsequently around 7-10 students from each zone were shortlisted for the Grand Finale. Apart from Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, IIM Kozhikode, JBIMS, IIT B, NMIMS, NITIE, Sydenham also participated.
In the Grand Finale the contestants were expected to give the solution to a case study provided to them by the Jury
And then came the big moment…
Nikhil was one of the top 18 students selected to be the brand ambassadors of NISSAN. He gets an opportunity to work with the multinational for a year for which he will be paid a stipend and also be sanctioned a budget for putting his ideas in practice. He will also be trained under the NISSAN corporate trainer and an opportunity to be hired after the year is over.
Nikhil Ghare (MMS 10-12) has also won:
- 1st prize in Budget Allocation for Nissan 360 Degree contest to promote the Brand NISSAN
- 1st prize in SIBM Callidus Marketing and HR competition for designing and sales pitch of a T&D module
- 1st prize in SIBM Colossus AdMad competition for whacky product ideas
- Winner of the Accenture Unique Talent competition across 6 locations of Accenture in Bengaluru
