Executive

You should go ahead and take it up. If you work for 2 years in the sales profile you will get practical exposure of the retail banking products of ICICI bank. After getting this exposure you can study something known as business analytics. After acquiring the knowledge of sales domain, you can learn analytical tools based on statistics like R programming language, SAS, Tableau and plan your career ahead as a data analyst in sales domain. In order to grow, you need to become an expert in sales, first.

There are some special courses available in India like from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and other top business schools offering international trade as a specialization. Later you can join with the export and import organisations as export market executive.

All experience will be valid and won't have any impact, you just need to know best kf your work experiences and profiles. Kindly visit below link for details:
https://www.shiksha.com/mba/course/post-graduate-program-management-indian-institute-management-iim-a/1653

It is totally worth from brands like IIM, Kozhikode where you can get senior management roles with hefty salaries at good companies. The ROI is very good and you only need one year for the course.

You must aim for Top Indian Conglomerate like Reliance, Vedanta, Aditya Birla, Tata Group for good growth into roles like operations. You can aim for an industry like Oil & Gas and Metals & Mining for great opportunities.

Can you reframe your question? Are you confused between Ph.D and M.Phil?

Yes, WLCI conducts AICET exam for admission to its courses.The admission process includes an interview as well.