PRIYA G. POTDAR

Specializing in Hair, Skin, Soft Skills, and Business Development Led New Product Development (NPD) and R&D for salon professionals and retail, creating innovative offerings such as bath salts, spiritual bath bombs, body care products, and facial kits. Designed and delivered customized training programs, including hands-on workshops on advanced hair and skin treatments, Korean Hair Spa techniques, and traditional Ayurvedic therapies. Additionally, implemented business development strategies to enhance service delivery, motivate teams, and drive retail sales growth across salons.

• Led the successful closure of multiple key and corporate account deals while managing Pan-India client relationships.
• Played a pivotal role in executing the complete training calendar by delivering impactful sessions on soft skills, sales strategies, and technical education-especially in curly and wavy hair care.
• Additionally, conducted seminars, workshops, and performance evaluations to drive salon team development and business growth.

• Conducted hands-on and theoretical skin training sessions while ensuring the successful rollout of the full training calendar.
• Delivered behavioural, soft skills, and sales training to salon professionals, supporting overall business growth.
• Also organized seminars and workshops to enhance team skills and service standards in salons.
• Apart from training, helped open new counter in different location of North India.

• Facilitated hands-on and theoretical training sessions for skin and hair, contributing to the successful 100% rollout of the planned training calendar.
• Delivered impactful behavioural and soft skills sessions tailored for salon professionals, along with sales training to support business growth.
• Ensured effective implementation of evaluation frameworks to measure training outcomes and drive continuous improvement.
• Apart from training, helped open new counter in different location of North India.

• Conducted comprehensive hands-on and theoretical training sessions for skin and hair, while supporting the successful rollout of the complete training calendar.
• Delivered targeted behavioural, soft skills, and sales training to salon professionals, ensuring measurable impact through a structured evaluation framework.
• Additionally, contributed to business development, sales, and marketing initiatives to drive overall company growth.
• Achieved sales targets every month.

• Led hands-on training across hair, skin, nails (including nail extensions and nail art), and spa services, while managing a team of 120 professionals.
• Ensured seamless execution of the complete training calendar and delivered high-impact behavioural, soft skills, and sales sessions across VLCC, Vanity Cube, and institutional setups.
• Also played a key role in implementing training evaluation frameworks and supporting recruitment for Vanity Cube.
• In the first month of Joining hired team for Pune, Gurgaon and Bangalore, and business achieved average 60% of Sales Growth in the participants' performance.

• Led business development, sales, and marketing initiatives across PAN India, successfully launching new franchise outlets while ensuring brand compliance and operational efficiency.
• Played a key role in identifying franchise partners, closing deals, and developing tailored business models for metro, Tier-2, and Tier-3 cities.
• Managed a team of 110 members and conducted hands-on Training of Trainers (TOT) programs in hair and skin to support scalable franchise growth.
• Closed 4 franchises deals.
• Achieved sales targets every month.

• Delivered hands-on training in hair and skin, along with behavioural and soft skills sessions across centres and institutes, while ensuring 100% rollout of the planned training calendar.
• Led PAN India business development, sales, and marketing efforts-successfully launching new franchise outlets, identifying potential partners, and developing tailored business models for hotel salons and spas across metro, Tier-2, and Tier-3 cities.
• Additionally, contributed to scalable franchise expansion strategies and supported the R&D team in new product and service launches.
• Provided Beauty, Hair and Spa training to 300 students of Bhutan.

• Company Overview: A Kiran Bawa & Shilpa Shetty Kundra Joint venture
• Conduct Training for Nails (nail extension, Nail art) and new set ups of Nail Bar.
• Business development, sales and marketing for centres.
• Business development, sales and marketing for PAN India centres.
• Developed expansion roadmaps and territory plan to support scalable and sustainable franchise growth.
• A Kiran Bawa & Shilpa Shetty Kundra Joint venture

• Conducted hands-on training in skin, hair, and nails, while ensuring seamless execution of the full training calendar.
• Delivered impactful behavioural and soft skills sessions to students at the institute.
• Also implemented evaluation frameworks to effectively measure training outcomes and enhance learning impact.