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SAKET VERMA

Summary

Goal-oriented professional offering 15+ years of experience in Business Transformation, Team Management and Business Development. A keen strategist with expertise in administering operations with key focus on top-line & bottom-line profitability by ensuring optimal utilization of resources. Own and define the standard for the assigned retail process (e.g., supply chain, merchandising, store operations). Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities using data and benchmarking. Benchmark against industry standards and lead root cause analysis and corrective actions. Proven experience in process ownership, transformation, and continuous improvement. Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Define and manage KPIs (e.g. Net Promoter Score, Pragati App, etc., conversion rates) to track and improve CX performance. Skilled in managing areas involving, security and safety with a proven record of unprecedented accomplishments. Driving marketing initiatives to achieve business goals & managing frontline sales team to achieve the same.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Zonal Manager

Lakme Lever Pvt. Ltd.
10.2017 - Current
  • Company Overview: Hindustan Unilever
  • Store Profitability - Ensured all LTL Stores were Operational on positive EBIT through rigorous cost control mechanisms, worked closely with team for cost optimization, Pragati App implementation, Quality of Service (NPS) and better format visibility
  • Training & Development - Conducted more than 40 batches for our CEMs & CCs and more than 60 batches for our salon team of IMPACT session, a dedicated program for our team.
  • People Management - Led hiring of 200+ experts, Managers, ABMs for FOFO & COCO model expansion, aligned trainings for Ops. and backstage team. Designed Analytical Reports for Daily Performance monitoring.
  • Expansion - Opened 23 new outlets in past 2yr post pandemic
  • Hindustan Unilever

Assistant Regional Manager

Café Coffee Day
09.2016 - 09.2017
  • Operations – Data Analysis and Format formulation for tracking revenues of various outlets in structured manner.
  • Customer Experience - Implementation of NPS and Customer Engagement Initiatives to deliver outstanding Customer experience
  • New Store Openings - Launched 12 New Stores across Bangalore

Manager - Retail Operations

Bata India Limited
12.2012 - 09.2016
  • Operations – Managed Daily Sales Plan, Customer Experience, Losses & Audits
  • B2B Sales – Launched aggressive Tie – Ups with prominent Educational Institutes and generated an additional sale of 40 Lacs annually
  • Profitability – Managed Turnaround of 5 Loss making Stores through Cost Reduction & Margins enhancements

Asst. Manager Operations

Star Bazaar, Tata Enterprises
12.2011 - 12.2012
  • Responsible for generating integrated analysis of segment dynamics, new product introductions and promotion effectiveness.
  • Understanding & interacting with the Customer and handling their requirements & Issues
  • Maintaining Inventory management, Planogram Implementations, Vendor management, Customer relationship management, formulating the target and Team management.

Department Manager

SPAR Hypermarket
12.2009 - 12.2011
  • Improvements, Strategic Marketing and Sales Initiatives
  • Found several new Vendors at Hyderabad location
  • Creating Planogram/Article location based on visibility and pattern to facilitate granular analysis for identifying the Target Consumer within a Demographic Segment.

Education

MBA -

IFIM Business School
Bangalore

Skills

  • Team Management
  • Business Development
  • Data Analytics
  • Risk Management
  • Innovation Management
  • Franchisee Management

Accomplishments

  • Awarded as best Zonal Manager for Lakme Lever in 2022.
  • Awarded as best Area Business Manager at Lakme Lever for the year 2018.
  • Runner-up for the best Area Business Manager of 'New Salon Opening' for the year 2018.

Timeline

Sr. Zonal Manager

Lakme Lever Pvt. Ltd.
10.2017 - Current

Assistant Regional Manager

Café Coffee Day
09.2016 - 09.2017

Manager - Retail Operations

Bata India Limited
12.2012 - 09.2016

Asst. Manager Operations

Star Bazaar, Tata Enterprises
12.2011 - 12.2012

Department Manager

SPAR Hypermarket
12.2009 - 12.2011

MBA -

IFIM Business School
SAKET VERMA