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Anuj George

Chief Business Officer
Delhi
Anuj George

Summary

Successful sales leader offering 12+ years of experience delivering quality results and exceeding sales goals. Expertise in strategy planning, go-to-market plan execution, change management and business development. Excellent communication, networking and negotiation skills. Committed to achieving strategic goals and building loyalty and trust, both externally and internally.

Overview

15
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Solvei8

Chief Business Officer
04.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Implemented robust governance structures to reduce legal exposure while ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
  • Delivered customer-centric solutions that drove client satisfaction rates higher than industry benchmarks leading to increased customer retention and acquisition.
  • Collaborated with senior management to improve overall customer experience and increase profitability.
  • Developed talent pipeline through mentoring programs designed to identify high-potential employees for leadership roles within the organization.
  • Formulated and executed strategic initiatives to improve product offerings.

Zilingo

Head of SaaS
08.2021 - 12.2022

Job overview

  • Handled the overall SaaS P&L managing a comprehensive team of 70+ people spread across sales, delivery, customer success, and support functions.
  • Set up marketing team and helped generate 20% of leads required for business target achievements.
  • Set up partnership programs in 5 geographies to help expand business with minimum cost impact.
  • Improved sales, delivery, and customer success processes to achieve 2X growth in the first year at 35% conversion from first meeting to pilot and 95% from pilot to client.
  • Diversified product roadmap and executed vital projects that helped create a base for growth.
  • Led the team with respect, friendliness, and willingness to help teams where needed.

Zilingo

Head of Global Sales
12.2020 - 08.2021

Job overview

  • Set up new racing line sales process to break away from stagnation of SaaS business after COVID period by providing exceptional customer experience.
  • Set up reporting structures, relevant KPIs, and performance management for sales team.
  • Rolled out sales incentive plan that aligned with business objectives while motivating sales teams to overachieve their sales quota.
  • Collaborated with team to grow business by 50% in 6 months.
  • Worked within applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment

Coats Digital

Country Head - India
02.2019 - 12.2020

Job overview

  • Led CRM migration from Bitrix24 to Microsoft Dynamics after acquisition
  • Helped sales team transition from solution selling team to teaching sales team to help them sell complete suite of 6 products.
  • Helped in training global sales team on products native to ThreadSol.
  • Implemented sales strategies related to SPIN selling & Challenger selling to help improve conversion rate to 33%.
  • Collaborated with team members to consistently achieve sales quotas.

ThreadSol

Country Head - India
01.2018 - 01.2019

Job overview

  • Set up sales team for India by hiring & training new resources
  • Set up new partnerships in country to enable multiple channels for lead generation.
  • Executed four sales events (3 exhibitions, 1 internal) to help with branding and positioning as thought leader in industry.
  • Using sales telemetry improved sales training & decks to reduce the sales cycle by 27% and grow business by 3x and 2x in FY 2017 & FY 2018, respectively.
  • Collaborated with team members to achieve target results

ThreadSol

Regional Sales Manager - Bangladesh
02.2016 - 01.2017

Job overview

  • Set up sales processes and streamlined CRM processes to improve sales forecasts for all geographies.
  • Helped sales team identify right prospects for targeting and built healthy pipeline by ensuring 20 monthly meetings through multiple sales channels.
  • Built internal system to track sales velocity across all sales stages for overall sales organisation.

WFX - World Fashion Exchange

Implementation Consultant
11.2014 - 02.2016

Job overview

  • Trained 50+ users across 4 companies in 3 countries using specially designed training modules based on change management principles to ensure easy acceptance of product.
  • Conducted As-Is/To-Be analysis for various projects as initial step and presented business leaders with cost-benefit and return-on-investment estimations to drive project planning and execution.
  • Helped clients execute Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) using product by ensuring all resources were allocated and trained properly

Kurt Salmon Associates - Technopak Advisors

Consultant
01.2013 - 11.2014

Job overview

  • Led various factory performance improvement projects based on Lean and WCM principles across three countries as Lead Consultant.
  • Conducted industrial engineering trainings for 70+ trainees across multiple client sites.
  • Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination for all projects.

Kurt Salmon Associates - Technopak Advisors

Associate Consultant
09.2011 - 12.2013

Job overview

  • Helped lead consultants optimize efficiency of projects by conducting training sessions for industrial engineering, TPM, TQM, 5S.
  • Tracked and analyzed reports to determine where improvements in factory could be made for clients.
  • Created change ready culture during on-floor execution through change management principles.

Aarna Clothing Pvt Ltd

Merchandiser
08.2010 - 08.2011

Job overview

  • Helped company to onboard and cater to fast fashion brand with strict 60 days lead time.
  • Improved product development process to ensure 25% reduction in lead time of company from 90 days to 60 days.
  • Proposed and executed solutions meet required lead time and costs without compromising on quality and design of product.
  • Successfully retained existing clients while adding 4 new clients to company's portfolio.

Education

National Institute Of Fashion Technology
India

Bachelor of Fashion Technology from Fashion Technology
07.2006 - 06.2010

University Overview

Passed with GPA of 7.8

Elected as President for CII-Yi (Young Indians) in 2009.

Elected as Finance head for CII-Yi in 2008.

Received scholarship for meritorious student in the State.

Skills

Strategy Planning

Timeline

Chief Business Officer

Solvei8
04.2023 - Current

Head of SaaS

Zilingo
08.2021 - 12.2022

Head of Global Sales

Zilingo
12.2020 - 08.2021

Country Head - India

Coats Digital
02.2019 - 12.2020

Country Head - India

ThreadSol
01.2018 - 01.2019

Regional Sales Manager - Bangladesh

ThreadSol
02.2016 - 01.2017

Implementation Consultant

WFX - World Fashion Exchange
11.2014 - 02.2016

Consultant

Kurt Salmon Associates - Technopak Advisors
01.2013 - 11.2014

Associate Consultant

Kurt Salmon Associates - Technopak Advisors
09.2011 - 12.2013

Merchandiser

Aarna Clothing Pvt Ltd
08.2010 - 08.2011

National Institute Of Fashion Technology

Bachelor of Fashion Technology from Fashion Technology
07.2006 - 06.2010

Recommendations

Manasij Ganguli - CEO (Reported Directly) - ThreadSol

Anuj's competence and dedication in his work can simply be understood by the fact that not only did he lead one of the toughest geographies, India, on the sales front, but he also delivered well. His methodical and analytical approach to problem-solving has been an asset to our company in terms of sales data structuring. His keen organizational skills and overall pragmatism have been indispensable in streamlining many of our core sales processes. And as practical as an individual, he is also an encouraging leader and mentor. It has been a pleasure knowing and working with someone as diligent as Anuj.

David Berry - Director (Reported Indirectly) - Coats Digital

I had the pleasure to work with Anuj during my time at Coats Digital where he was working as a country head for technology sales in the apparel industry. Anuj is a great sales leader and manages his team with strong collaborative decision-making skills. Anuj is a top analyst leveraging both technology and traditional commercial acumen. I highly recommend Anuj in a tech-based commercial role and hope I can work with him again in the future.

Nawaz Khan - BDM (Managed Directly) ThreadSol & Coats Digital

Anuj has been the key to the success for me and colleagues during my time in this company. He knows how to handle a situation, be it a customer or an employee. He assesses every individual and works together to bring the best out of everyone. Anuj is a manager who is not only interested in the company goals but also in his subordinates professional growth.

Recommendations

Manasij Ganguli - CEO (Reported Directly) - ThreadSol

Anuj's competence and dedication in his work can simply be understood by the fact that not only did he lead one of the toughest geographies, India, on the sales front, but he also delivered well. His methodical and analytical approach to problem-solving has been an asset to our company in terms of sales data structuring. His keen organizational skills and overall pragmatism have been indispensable in streamlining many of our core sales processes. And as practical as an individual, he is also an encouraging leader and mentor. It has been a pleasure knowing and working with someone as diligent as Anuj.

David Berry - Director (Reported Indirectly) - Coats Digital

I had the pleasure to work with Anuj during my time at Coats Digital where he was working as a country head for technology sales in the apparel industry. Anuj is a great sales leader and manages his team with strong collaborative decision-making skills. Anuj is a top analyst leveraging both technology and traditional commercial acumen. I highly recommend Anuj in a tech-based commercial role and hope I can work with him again in the future.

Nawaz Khan - BDM (Managed Directly) ThreadSol & Coats Digital

Anuj has been the key to the success for me and colleagues during my time in this company. He knows how to handle a situation, be it a customer or an employee. He assesses every individual and works together to bring the best out of everyone. Anuj is a manager who is not only interested in the company goals but also in his subordinates professional growth.

Anuj GeorgeChief Business Officer