"Always behave your next level," believes Rajat Jain, MD, Xerox India Limited

Rajat K. Jain has been Managing Director of Xerox India Limited since February 20, 2012. He is responsible for leading Xerox India's strategy implementation and business operations, including sales of products and services, marketing, brand recognition, and customer service operations for Xerox India. He focusses on expanding Xerox's channel presence and further strengthening its partner relationships across India...

He has been Managing Director of Indian Operations at Xerox Corp. since 2012. Rajat Jain has over two decades of experience across Consumer, Telecom and Media sectors. His key areas of expertise include understanding consumers across segments, building and working with high performance teams and growing businesses that revolve around brands.

He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Mobile2win India Pvt. Ltd. He served as a Vice President and Managing Director of The Walt Disney Company (India) Pvt. Ltd. and Walt Disney Television International (India) since June 2004. He was responsible for coordinating and overseeing growth opportunities, targeting new businesses, expanding and increasing penetration of the existing ones and leading the development of business operations across the country. He served as the Managing Director of Disney (India) and successfully launched the leading kids TV network in India. Rajat Jain launched Sony SET MAX. He served at Essel Group, Telstra, Benckiser and Hindustan Lever. He served as the Chairman of Mobile2win India Pvt. Ltd. since January 1, 2010. He holds a Postgraduate degree from IIM, Ahmedabad and is an Engineering Graduate from IIT, Delhi.

Legal Era (LE): Share with us your previous job experiences and how it has helped you to reach at this position?

Rajat Jain (RJ): It has been decades now, but I still remember the first few years of exposure and learning very distinctly. It was an exciting experience-from making cold calls, suspecting and identifying prospects. I think I was lucky to be working in an environment where responsibility and work were assigned to a new comer like me, as long as I was willing to take the initiative- to learn with a right attitude. This experience helped me in building a strong foundation and embedded a set of professional benchmarks, routine and discipline in me, which helped me to succeed in life& share my experience with the budding new generation.