Final Placement Report - 2014

The Faculty of Management Studies has had a legacy of securing stellar

placements, The Faculty of Management Studies has had a legacy of

securing stellar placements, both in terms of the compensation and the wide variety

of profiles on offer. This year’s placement season has continued this legacy, securing

212 offers for a batch where 205 students participated in the placement process,

ensuring 100% placements. 37 first-time recruiters visited the campus this season.

Number of companies participating 107

Total number of students in the batch (across courses) 217

No of People Opting out for pursuing Entrepreneurial Ventures 4

Number of Pre Placement Offers made 38

Average salary of total offers (INR Lakhs per annum) 16.18 LPA

Average salary of Top 50% offers made 19 LPA

Among the students opting out of placements, 4 of them chose to pursue

entrepreneurial ventures. One such venture, Commerce Labs LLC, develops software

plugins for e-commerce websites, while another deals with the procurement and sale

of sporting goods. The rest of the students who opted out of the placement process

chose to pursue their careers in civil services and other alternatives.

While retaining its reputation as the marketing campus of the country, this year’s

placement process witnessed healthy participation across all domains, ensuring

plenty of choice for the candidates to pursue careers in the field of their preference.

Consulting and General Management have continued to gain ground as they

collectively comprise a third of the total number of offers. The lateral placement

process received healthy participation from our recruiters resulting in an

unprecedented 62 offers being made, doubling in number compared to last year.

Batch Snapshot

45%55%

Candidate Split

Lateral

Finals

30%

50%

20%

Processwise Split (Offers)

Laterals

Finals

PPOs

Final Placement Report - 2014

The Faculty of Management Studies has had a legacy of securing stellar placements,

both in terms of the compensation and the wide variety of profiles on offer. This

year’s placement season has continued this legacy, securing 212 offers for a batch

where 205 students participated in the placement process, ensuring 100%

placements. 37 first-time recruiters visited the campus this season.

Number of companies participating 107

Total number of students in the batch (across courses) 217

No of People Opting out for pursuing Entrepreneurial Ventures 4

Number of Pre Placement Offers made 38

Average salary of total offers (INR Lakhs per annum) 16.18 LPA

Average salary of Top 50% offers made 19 LPA

Among the students opting out of placements, 4 of them chose to pursue

entrepreneurial ventures. One such venture, Commerce Labs LLC, develops software

plugins for e-commerce websites, while another deals with the procurement and sale

of sporting goods. The rest of the students who opted out of the placement process

chose to pursue their careers in civil services and other alternatives.

While retaining its reputation as the marketing campus of the country, this year’s

placement process witnessed healthy participation across all domains, ensuring

plenty of choice for the candidates to pursue careers in the field of their preference.

Consulting and General Management have continued to gain ground as they

collectively comprise a third of the total number of offers. The lateral placement

process received healthy participation from our recruiters resulting in an

unprecedented 62 offers being made, doubling in number compared to last year.

Batch Snapshot

45%55%

Candidate Split

Lateral

Finals

30%

50%

20%

Processwise Split (Offers)

Laterals

Finals

PPOs

Final Placement Report - 2014

45% of the candidates participating in the process had greater than 18 months of

work-experience and were part of the lateral placement process. PPOs accounted for

a fifth of the offers made.

BFSI23%

Consulting16%

FMCG16%

IT21%

Media & Entertainment

4%

Others5%

Manufacturing6%

Healthcare4%

Telecom/ Technology

5%

Sectorwise Split (Companies)

Consulting18%

General Management

13%

Finance20%

IT12%

Operations4%

Sales and Marketing

33%

Domainwise Split

Final Placement Report - 2014

Consulting/ General Management

Students of the campus secured placements from McKinsey and Co. and BCG,

testifying the campus’ calibre in this domain. Deloitte USI and Deloitte India made 12

offers at FMS, collectively making them the largest recruiters in this year’s process.

Cognizant Business Consulting and Infosys Management Consulting visited the

campus for the first time while Avalon Consulting offered the students a role in front-

end strategy consulting.

In the domain of General Management, numerous offers were made in a variety of

sectors with Reliance Industries Limited being the largest recruiter. Niche profiles in

this domain include the position of Deputy General Manager, Strategy offered by

Videocon.

McKinsey & Co. Boston Consulting Group Deloitte

Accenture Strategy Tata Administrative Services Capgemini Consulting

Trident Reliance Industries Limited Bain Capability Centre

Cipla Infosys Management Consulting Ranbaxy

Avalon Consulting Cognizant Business Consulting Mindtree

Airtel Mahindra and Mahindra Larsen and Toubro

Videocon Jindal Steel Private Limited

Marketing

FMS continued to maintain its position as a stronghold for the domain of Sales and

Marketing. This year’s process saw the offers in the Marketing domain spread across

a variety of sectors. MH Alshaya and Tata Elxsi were first time recruiters who offered

the students positions with international postings. FMS also received healthy

participation from legacy recruiters in the FMCG sector such as HUL, P&G, ITC,

Johnson & Johnson, Asian Paints, Dabur, Godrej and GSK.

HT Media, Times OOH, Sony Entertainment Television and Star represented the

Media and Entertainment sector while Samsung, Microsoft and Vodafone were

companies from the Telecom and Technology sector. FMS students emerged as the

national winners of the BIAC competition and secured offers from PepsiCo.

Final Placement Report - 2014

Consumer banking profiles were offered by Standard Chartered, Citibank, HSBC and

Axis Bank.

HUL P&G Nestle ITC

J&J Consumer Asian Paints GSK Godrej

Perfetti PepsiCo Dabur Mars

Adidas L’Oreal Vodafone Times OOH

Zee Hindustan Times SET Star

American Express Standard Chartered Citibank HSBC

Maruti Coca Cola Beverages Titan Wipro

Microsoft Google Samsung

International Offers

MH Alshaya Tata Elxsi

Finance

The BFSI sector accounted for nearly one-fourth of all companies participating in the

process this year. An impressive array of international banks visited the campus. The

Faculty also witnessed healthy participation from Indian Banks and a lot of niche

profiles were on offer during this year’s process such as roles in front end investment

banking and financial markets.

FMS secured the participation of Indus Balaji, a private equity firm. Corporate finance

profiles were offered by Coca-Cola, Nestle and Matrimony.com, ensuring that the

students had sufficient breadth in terms of sector as well as profiles in choosing to

pursue their careers in the financial domain.

Deutsche Bank JP Morgan Chase Citibank HSBC

Bank of America Nomura Royal Bank of Scotland AC Nielsen

Axis Bank ICICI Bank HDFC Bank IndusInd Bank

Indus Balaji SBI Capital Markets Coca-Cola Matrimony.com

Nestle ING Vysya

Final Placement Report - 2014

Operations/ IT

Operations and IT accounted for a fifth of all the jobs offered at FMS. Zomato offered

the campus the position of Assistant Vice President, Operations. Prosegur, a

multinational that deals in security of financial services offered the students an

operations profile with an international stint. The other profiles offered spanned

across a wide variety of roles including supply chain, procurement and logistics.

In the IT domain, FMS secured the participation of new recruiters who were emerging

leaders in their field such as Jabong and Flipkart. Students of the campus secured

placements in General Electric’s coveted IT Leadership programme. Google, visiting

the campus for the first time, was joined by Infosys BD and Matrimony.com in

offering marketing roles from the IT sector. Microsoft also offered its coveted

Program Manager role for its India Development Centre, while HCL offered its

international position of Global Engagement Manager for the second consecutive

year. Other profiles offered were the roles of product management, business

analytics and IT consulting.

Flipkart Coca-Cola GE Prosegur

Microsoft Citibank Google HCL

Infosys BD Genpact InfoEdge Mindtree

TCS Jabong Aricent Wipro

Placement Convenor’s Message:

The successful completion of a placement process testifies the quality of students

graduating from the institute and the relevance of our curriculum to the world of

business. The wide variety of profiles offered across domains is a reflection of the

diversity of the student pool. This variety ensured that students had ample

opportunity to pursue their careers in a domain and organisation of their choice and

contribute to nation building in several ways.

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all the recruiters who participated in

this process and showed their faith in the talent that FMS has to offer. We would also

like to express our gratitude towards our esteemed fellow faculty members and the

illustrious alumni that this institute has produced over the years for their invaluable

support in the successful conduct of this placement process.

- Dr. Mala Sinha & Dr. Anjala Kalsie