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BHAVESH M FULWANI

MUMBAI

Summary


  • Success-driven professional with nearly 14 years of experience in managing activities related to Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Key Account Management, Team Management & Leadership and so on across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and MP
  • Provided strategic and thought leadership; designed and implemented marketing solutions that made a positive impact.
  • Excellence in conceptualizing and executing innovative promotions to enhance brand visibility and conduct feasibility/ profitability analysis in coordination with the marketing team and external agencies
  • Skilled in maximizing revenue opportunities by achieving the set target through effective forecasting, pricing, rate management, optimal market business mix and distribution channel mix
  • Proficient in launching new products, tapping profitable business opportunities and positioning the products as per market needs
  • Steered operations with a view to achieve organizational objectives and ensured profitability; planned activities and developed GTM strategies to accomplish sales target through sales team
  • Proficient in managing the Liaison & Coordination with a large Sales Team and ensuring that the individual targets are achieved so that organizational and regional targets can be met
  • A keen planner with skills in devising and implementing strategies aimed at ensuring effectiveness of operations, realization of sales & business promotion targets with key focus on ROI
  • Proven skills in managing business operations with focus on top-line & bottom-line performance and skills in determining company’s mission & strategic direction as conveyed through policies & corporate objectives.
  • Motivational management style with a proven history of building, guiding and retaining high-performance teams to develop and implement strategies for accelerated growth.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Partner

AIDA PROMOTIONS
Mumbai
05.2022 - Current

Digital Marketing & Trade Marketing:

  • Ensuring the company website is completed & live within a time period.
  • Understanding the Affiliate Marketing within a span of 1month and successfully involved in the operations.
  • Interacting the Ad Agencies and publishers for making the offers live & running.
  • Involved in the entire process of hiring right from publishing of Job offers on social media , short listing of CV and interview schedules.
  • Understanding manufacturing process for paper based posm.
  • Co- ordination with different teams & suppliers,ensuring all the manufacturing process are followed.
  • Creation of data base & reaching out to customers for business development .
  • Successfully added Clients from different sectors.
  • Client Serving , interaction with the current clients , understanding the needs & ensuring smooth execution.

Regional Category Manager

Xiaomi Technology India Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
10.2018 - 05.2022
  • Spearheading the activities related to the Category Management of Mobile Accessories , Lifestyle and IoT Products category across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and MP with 150 cr + business annually.
  • Increasing market presence by implementing dealer engagement programs/ strategies related to the Category to improve the product awareness in markets regularly.
  • Acquiring customers and achieving sales targets as per plan in order to garner new customers; conducting business reviews to monitor the performance against the sales plans & targets for the Sales & Distribution operations.
  • Preparing quarterly and monthly reports and developing operational plan while guiding the team members for execution; submitting all appropriate reports on a timely basis and attending local new store Launches.
  • Steering business planning and performance management of channel partners, including development and execution of joint sales plans, local area marketing, staff coaching, recruitment, pipeline management and hosting constructive meetings.
  • Analyzing long-term plans/ annual plans/ forecasts of Category to ensure they are robust and attainable and ensuring the availability of the products accordingly.
  • Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
  • Successful in achieving market penetration and product expansion through strategic business planning which resulted in an increase in revenue and profitability.
  • Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.

Territory Sales Executive

Marico Industries Ltd
Mumbai
06.2017 - 09.2018
  • Managed a business of 2 crores pm, which includes hair oils, edible oils, youth category and foods
  • Maintained relationship with key o/ls which are enrolled for special schemes and contributed 60% of the business
  • Ensured proper distribution of the brands and right set of o/ls to ensure width & depth in o/ls
  • Engaged in stock planning, infra planning, competition information and budget analysis with Distributor every month, thus ensuring smooth operations
  • Recognized for achieving the growth of 15 % compared to last year till Feb'18.
  • Worked independently with minimal supervision.

Asst Manager - Prepaid Sales

Bharti Airtel Ltd
Mumbai
03.2016 - 05.2017
  • Ensured effective management of distribution network, the number of value R/c & sim selling o/ls are increased through deeper penetration in the market
  • Formulated stringent measures to ensure growth is higher than the industry and competitors’ pace thus increasing in customer market share
  • Maintained & ensured revenue is increased every quarter; drove geographical based products to increase revenue
  • Managed availability and execution of proper visibility solution in the market; coordinated with the network team for solving issues and gaps in the market
  • Engaged in stock planning, infra planning, competition information and budget analysis; conducted job training for promoters

Area Executive (HS2)

ITC Ltd
Mumbai
07.2007 - 03.2014

Engaged in Retail Space Development (Trade Marketing )

  • Liaised with vendors, external agencies & sales team for in-shop visibility & merchandising solutions
  • Provided branding and visibility solutions to the sales team; ensured proper stock control for merchandising materials
  • Ensured optimum utilization of budgeted amount in effective manner; planned merchandising elements and ensuring execution during product launches
  • Reconciled budgets/ invoices and merchandising cost, with coordination from ITC Finance Team

· Managed HoReCa Portfolio comprising:

  • Achievement of more share than market Share.
  • Maximum visibility and branding in the HoReCa outlet.
  • Maintaining & building brand image through timely promotional activities like creating a property and doing an event with high quality execution of all brand related activities at the outlet.
  • Distributors and sales team management for ensuring proper distribution & freshness at the outlet.
  • Coordination with the AD agencies for timely MR activities & events.
  • Providing thorough training to bar tenders and certifying them in regard to Cigars.

· Food Portfolio:

  • Achieved agreed sales target for the section; prepare and implement section S & D plan for FMCG products.
  • Generated & analyzed various excel(MIS) reports from SIFY & SAP for different purposes.
  • Assisted to smooth WD operations through ensuring implementation of all information related systems-records/reports.

Education

BMS -

Mumbai University
Mumbai, India
04.2004 - 06.2007

Skills

    Statregic Planning & Execution

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Accomplishments

  • Successfully increased the turnover of the business from 2 crores to more than 15 crores + and managed the distribution partners from 12 to 95+ in numbers
  • Started the journey within the organization when there was only mobile accessories category and now we are managing the IoT products, Personal grooming , Lifetysle & Small appliances.
  • Played an important role in launching the water purifier
  • Maintained and strengthened the relationships with customers through regular meetings, identified and obtained further sales and business development opportunities, increased HoReCa base from 50 Stores to 350 serviceable stores in a span of 1 year, thereby helping achieving the sales from INR 30 lacs turnover to 1 crore
  • Liaised and coordinated with the Sales Team; expanded the Retail Architecture Presence from 100 in Central & Navi Mumbai Zone Outlets to 1000 o/ls in a years’ time and reduced cost by 30%
  • Successful in execution of bio-metric activation process to the retail in current job profile; planned, executed and played an important role in launching India’s First Digital Payment Bank
  • Recognized for planning, executing and playing an important role in launching Saffola Soups, SW Blast Deo in wholesale channel and thus increasing the volume & passive distribution
  • Spearheaded activities related to launching of products like bingo, personal care products, tobacco & non-tobacco products, vivel range of soaps, shampoos & face washes, noodles, instant foods, aashirvaad atta
  • Played a key role in launching a new category called Hand Rolled Cigars; launched a creative interactive website named lifesaparty.in
  • Introduced Bar Tender Contest, which ensured, upselling of new brands, the contest was replicated nationally
  • Executed the Retail Architecture for Cig Brand, which was adopted PAN India; successfully launched Bingo in HoReCa o/ls, and clocked 3 tons

Timeline

Partner

AIDA PROMOTIONS
05.2022 - Current

Regional Category Manager

Xiaomi Technology India Pvt Ltd
10.2018 - 05.2022

Territory Sales Executive

Marico Industries Ltd
06.2017 - 09.2018

Asst Manager - Prepaid Sales

Bharti Airtel Ltd
03.2016 - 05.2017

Area Executive (HS2)

ITC Ltd
07.2007 - 03.2014

BMS -

Mumbai University
04.2004 - 06.2007
BHAVESH M FULWANI