Akash Vernekar

Channel Head – Retail Health & Life Business

• Promoted to Channel Head role based on consistent performance and channel growth.
• Built the channel from scratch by:
• Hiring and building a 13-member team

Defining roles and responsibilities across:

• Designed and implemented end-to-end process flows for partner onboarding, issuance, operations, and support.
• Scaled monthly channel business to ₹1.5–2 Cr consistently.
• Successfully onboarded 300+ active partners.
• Led partner engagement initiatives, including physical partner interactions, to strengthen relationships and improve productivity.
• Managed team performance, targets, and process adherence across all functions.

Channel Manager – Partner Channel
(Initial Role)

• First employee hired specifically for the Partner Channel.
• Took over an existing channel with ₹5L monthly business.
• Managed and grew the entire partner channel independently.
• Actively engaged with partners to:
• Understand their core business potential
• Drive sustainable and scalable business growth
• Increased average business to ₹50L per month within 12 months.
• Achieved ₹6–7 Cr total business volume within the first year.
• Strengthened partner relationships through regular communication and on-ground engagement.

Key Achievements

• Grew channel business from ₹5L monthly to ₹50L average within 12 months
• Generated ₹6–7 Cr business in under a year.
• Built and led a 13-member team across 4 core processes.
• Scaled monthly business to ₹1.5–2 Cr.
• Onboarded and managed 300+ partners
• Recognized with promotion to Channel Head role

Core Skills Channel & Partner Management:-

• Team Building & Leadership
• Retail Health & Life Insurance
• Business Development & Scaling
• Process Design & Implementation
• Partner Onboarding & Engagement
• Issuance, Operations & Escalation Handling

• Create reports for upper management.
• Creating the performance report of category and Measure, track and analyze Supplier account metrics.
• Sourcing the new Supplier based on demand required.
• Creating new strategy Increasing sale revenue.
• Played a vital role to achieve the business goals.
• Assign tasks to operational team.
• Applied excellent negotiation, upselling and sales techniques to maximize revenue.
• Retained and developed allotted significant supplier base by working with senior staff to create added value in customer experiences.
• Research key Demand wants and needs.
• Suggest solutions that answer Supplier needs and wants.
• Ensure the ordered products are Handover in a timely manner.
• India Bulls Private limited

• Focusing on 30 to 40 existing supplier accounts for growing and developing the business.
• Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results.
• Analyze Business growth and summarizing the status to supplier.
• Make vendors partners in driving disruptive changes for the category.
• Responsible for the development and achievement of sales through the direct sales channel.
• Gaining long term service commitments from assigned accounts.
• Analyze the demand side and sourcing the product from the supplier.
• Identifying new market opportunities and executing them accordingly as per the demands and need.
• Creating new strategy for meeting the business objectives and satisfying the clients.
• Played a vital role with handling team to achieve the business goals and ensuring work is done at the stipulated time.
• FashNear Technologies Pvt Ltd

• Flip kart seller support in Orders & logistics process.
• Assisting the team in resolving the queries based on the Policy and process.
• Communicating with the clients for service denial and exceptional cases.
• Perform tasks in an accurate and timely manner according to set standards.
• Flipkart