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SARATH KUMAR

SARATH KUMAR

Chennai

Summary

Performance-oriented Sales Leader offering exceptional record of achievement over 10-year career. Tenacious manager with strategic and analytical approach to solving problems, bringing in customers and accomplishing profit targets. Talented in identifying and capitalizing on emerging market trends and revenue opportunities.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Enterprise Sales Manager - Mid Market

Paytm
11.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: Paytm is a leading digital payment platform
  • Contributed to Payments volume amounting to an annual throughput of 600 Crore by strategically identifying and acquiring new accounts for Paytm Payments
  • Maintained a Portfolio merchant engagement activation rate of more than 85% and a merchant retention rate exceeding 90%
  • Addressed and resolved merchant concerns promptly post-live
  • Managed Paytm Lending Direct referral business for 3 months and passed Secured and unsecured loan leads to partner banks
  • Upsold Value-Added Services (VAS) such as Multi Bank Credit card EMI, Debit card EMI, No-Cost EMI, and Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) to clients
  • Facilitated CXO level interactions to understand client needs
  • Paytm is a leading digital payment platform

Deputy Manager - HoReCa

Reliance Retail Ltd - Jiomart
10.2021 - 11.2023
  • Company Overview: Reliance Retail is a part of Reliance Industries dealing in various products
  • Maintained data management, forecasting, opportunities, dashboards, and reports
  • Increased customer base from 450 to 5000, maintaining a 75% regular billing rate
  • Drove the launch of Reliance Retail consumer brand across all channels
  • Provided insights to management through data analytics using Tableau
  • Coordinated with logistics team for delivery and operations
  • Reliance Retail is a part of Reliance Industries dealing in various products

Growth - Sales Manager

Supr Daily (Swiggy)
05.2019 - 09.2021
  • Handled a 10-member business development team for the territory. Hired and trained a highly motivated sales team
  • Responsible for overall Territory growth. Consistently achieved cites customer acquisition, retention, order growth, delivery compliance targets MoM
  • Promoted Supr daily through several BTL activities to make the product reach out to the masses. Which also resulted in 2x increase in overall new customer acquisition without shooting up the CAC(Customer Acquisition Cost)
  • Coordinating with cross functional teams and stakeholders for business alignment. Daily huddle with operations and warehouse teams to control anything impacting CX. Coordinating with product teams for rolling out new features in app


Manager - Category Buy


  • Handling national brands across FMCG for Supr Daily
  • Driving brand and category growth through brand offers & promos - Brand ads & sampling campaigns.
  • Ensured investing brands are growing MoM in the platform.
  • Consistently working on SKU assortment and selection gap to grow the category.
  • Ensured high supply & fill-rate from brands. Maintained a fill rate of 95%

Relationship Manager

Zopper.Com
09.2016 - 05.2019
  • Company Overview: Zopper is a hyper-local marketplace platform
  • Responsible for operations of three business units at Zopper
  • Managed a sales team of four executives
  • Identified and acquired new clients for POS systems
  • Maintained relationships with existing clients for satisfaction and retention
  • Provided regular reports on sales activities to management
  • Zopper is a hyper-local marketplace platform

Business Development Executive

Taxi For Sure (Ola Cabs)
06.2014 - 08.2016
  • Company Overview: Ola Cabs is a ride-hailing service
  • Sourced vendors and facilitated onboarding process
  • Managed relationships with vendors for seamless operations
  • Conducted inspections for vehicle quality
  • Ola Cabs is a ride-hailing service

Education

Diploma - Computer Engineering

DOTE
Chennai
04-2013

High School -

RCM Higher Sec School
01.2010

Skills

  • Sales presentations
  • Sales training
  • Solution selling
  • Pipeline management
  • Competitive analysis
  • Contract negotiations
  • Cost analysis and savings
  • Market research
  • Relationship building

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Enterprise Sales Manager - Mid Market

Paytm
11.2023 - Current

Deputy Manager - HoReCa

Reliance Retail Ltd - Jiomart
10.2021 - 11.2023

Growth - Sales Manager

Supr Daily (Swiggy)
05.2019 - 09.2021

Relationship Manager

Zopper.Com
09.2016 - 05.2019

Business Development Executive

Taxi For Sure (Ola Cabs)
06.2014 - 08.2016

High School -

RCM Higher Sec School

Diploma - Computer Engineering

DOTE
SARATH KUMAR