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Naveen

Assistant Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

  • Driven professional with 10 years of experience in automotive aftermarket industry and broad experience in Sales and Product development & marketing from top pinnacle companies.
  • Dedicated Automotive professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices.
  • Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand & in coordination with global team.
  • A good technical & IT savvy with background of mechanical engineering academics.
  • An effective communicator possessing excellent presentation & soft skills with honed marketing & sales management, logical and problem-solving abilities.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Manager - Product Development & Sales

SEG Automotive Private Limited
Bengaluru
05.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for complete aftermarket activity (Domestic, Interplant & direct export).
  • Determine customers & market needs, prepare business cases to launch new product by benchmarking of competitor products (Domestic & Global).
  • Launch of new products for aftermarket timely (Time to Market).
  • Establishment of direct export dealers for aftermarket and increase the export sales.
  • Coordination with local business partner for increasing domestic sales by analyzing VIO (Gap analysis).
  • Preparation of Quotations for new aftermarket enquires.
  • Co-ordinate with other department for release of new products in IAM and PPAP Activities
  • Releasing of aftermarket catalogue and update time to time.
  • Revision of Prices half yearly based on changes in RM index.
  • Prepare and release Monthly IAM management summary.
  • Responsible for pricing statergies and maintain desired gross margin.

Division Trade Marketer

Valeo India Pvt Ltd
Channai
01.2022 - 05.2023
  • Determine customers & market needs and prepares Business cases to launch new products & segments.
  • Launch of new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs.
  • Responsible for repair, maintenance & crash product lines.
  • Deploy action plans for respective product lines, trade marketing action plans in order to deliver sales and margin objectives at regional level.
  • Responsible for developing product communications, contents to publish in sales force to do mega campaigns.
  • Identify key references and develop wish list from other Valeo sites (Asia, Europe, & ASEAN) and launch in Indian aftermarket.
  • Launched Horn range in portfolio (New segment to division).
  • Completed business case for brake pad project (New segment to division).
  • Launched 44 new Part numbers in Electrical segments (Time to Market).
  • Weekly review with global team on ongoing projects (China & Europe).
  • Responsible for product marketing arbitration in forecast tools for sales requirements for defined product lines.
  • Maintaining material master in SAP according to PLM cycle.
  • Responsible for content writing on products to publish in official company websites.
  • Responsible for creating paper & electronic Catalogues & cross lists
  • Demand Generation Campaigns - Develop and execute campaigns that successfully drive engagement and generate quality sales.
  • Manage Market Studies: Information gathering from sales team / External research projects / customer survey.
  • Market quantification and Competition analysis, including market watch and research.
  • Formulate range and pricing needs, based on market developments and competition analysis.
  • Key SAP user from product marketing department & played key role in deploying MRP Planning.
  • Monthly sales analysis, report and follow-up & MIS reporting to Management.
  • Day to day coordination / monitoring of monthly corrective action plans according to monthly results & follow up with sales.
  • Give support for product-technical questions to customers and customer service.
  • Work closely with sales teams to ensure all product management initiatives meet customer objectives.

Area Sales Manager

Valeo India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
08.2019 - 12.2021
  • Set and achieve sales targets for assigned region.
  • Responsible for Complete Sales Cycle by Managing 18 Distributors in south Karnataka region.
  • Analyzing sales data and keep up to date with market trends.
  • Make sure that customer will not miss TOD by analyzing sales vs Target.
  • Mapping fleet operators nearest distributors.
  • Formulate tactics and strategies to target new potential customers within prioritized markets.
  • Developed innovative marketing campaigns to increase engagement with target demographic and drive brand exposure.
  • Established strong relationships with major accounts and key decision-makers to increase sales in designated territory.
  • Built lasting relationships with clients through outstanding customer service interactions.
  • Weekly meetings with Sales reps to identify techniques to overcome sales obstacles.
  • Monitored customer buying trends, market conditions and competitor actions to adjust strategies and achieve sales goals.
  • Attracted new client and developed customer relationships by hosting product-focused events.

Territory Head- Karnataka (Sale & BD)

Samvardhana Motherson Auto System Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
04.2018 - 06.2019
  • Handled Primary and Secondary Sales all over Karnataka.
  • Business Expansion and implementation all over Karnataka
  • Increased sales volume by expanding product line to new retailers.
  • Exceeded regional annual sales target by 50%.
  • Weekly meetings with Sales reps to identify techniques to overcome sales obstacles.
  • Resolved customer issues quickly and managed accounts to increase sales and meet quotas.
  • Organize marketing campaigns to increase customer engagement with targeted demographic and drive brand visibility.
  • Helping business Partners to achieve their monthly target.
  • Identified opportunities for growth within Karnataka territory and collaborated with sales teams to reach sales goal.
  • Functional reporting to respective Zonal Manager and COO.

Missionary Sales Representative-Diesel Business

Bosch Limited ( A Consultant from Genius Consultancy)
Bengaluru
07.2015 - 04.2018
  • Handled 26 BDS and 5 ODP from SO Bangalore across South Karnataka.
  • Successfully implemented & Tracking of Loyalty program.
  • Performed immediate service support to customers for resolving their issues and complaints in compliance with company guidelines and rules.
  • Effective implementation and training on Bosch Service Portal in all BDS.
  • Established of Buyback Program in all BDS, ODP and NW.
  • Following BDS and ODP target every Bi-monthly, Quarterly & Half yearly.
  • Mapping of Neutral workshop across South Karnataka (130 NW) and implemented NW Hi-5 & Hi-10 Schemes.
  • Regularly conducting training for distributor sales team.
  • Functional reporting to respective Area manager and Zonal Manager.

Engineer ( Technical Illustrator)

Quest Informatics Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
09.2013 - 04.2015
  • Developed Parts illustrative designs using internal data base and company standards to produce results that meets customer parameters.
  • Parts Information processing & E- Catalogue creation.
  • Design change part information capturing and Part deviation fixing.
  • Part illustration creation and modification as per client requirements.
  • Project statistics and reporting.
  • Creating 2D Drawing using CorelDraw for Created BOM.
  • Updating illustration to respective catalogue.
  • Maintaining product data in PDM tools (KOLA, RUMBA, RAPID & LISA).

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Malnad Collage of Engineering
Hassan
09.2009 - 06.2013

Pre-university - Science

M. Krishna Pre- University Collage
Hassan
06.2007 - 06.2009

Skills

    Territory Management

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Software

Data Analysis

MS Office

SAP MM

Certification

Business Analytics & reporting

Interests

Cricket, Chess, Puzzle solving

Timeline

Assistant Manager - Product Development & Sales

SEG Automotive Private Limited
05.2023 - Current

Division Trade Marketer

Valeo India Pvt Ltd
01.2022 - 05.2023

Business Analytics & reporting

12-2020

Area Sales Manager

Valeo India Pvt Ltd
08.2019 - 12.2021

Territory Head- Karnataka (Sale & BD)

Samvardhana Motherson Auto System Pvt Ltd
04.2018 - 06.2019

Missionary Sales Representative-Diesel Business

Bosch Limited ( A Consultant from Genius Consultancy)
07.2015 - 04.2018

Engineer ( Technical Illustrator)

Quest Informatics Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 04.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Malnad Collage of Engineering
09.2009 - 06.2013

Pre-university - Science

M. Krishna Pre- University Collage
06.2007 - 06.2009
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