Success-driven professional with nearly 14years 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 accessoriescategory 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 ZoneOutlets 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
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