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Sateshwar  Tuteja

Sateshwar Tuteja

C Suit Executive
New Delhi

Summary

Results-driven leader, recognized for accelerating revenue and profit growth through delivering design-thinking and ingenious innovation & execution. Entrepreneurial mindset fueled by “can-do attitude’ with penchant towards action throughout Asia Pacific for complete supply chain solutions - warehousing, X border -international freight and customs. Extensive experience optimizing data analytics to identify business opportunities, monitoring competitor and market trends and conceiving ground-breaking business vision strategies. Passionate about driving organizational efficiency through dynamic business plans and transformation with a strong ability to align business solutions with unique market requirements. Articulate communicator and engaging presenter with an impressive history of building relationships with key stakeholders, C-level executives, clients, and all levels of staff from diverse and global backgrounds. Well-prepared to leverage leadership experience of running various complex & major projects.



Major professional accomplishments


Successfully lead super performing teams of senior professionals achieving top & bottom-line growth. Accelerated top line achievement from EUR 50 Mio to EUR 200 Mio over span of five years.

Successfully set up 10 country organization & growing throughout Asia Pacific from scratch in span of 15 months including company formation, P&L budgeting & planning, Commercial strategy, hiring & building up the teams etc.

Successfully established & running commercial teams which takes care of solutions, pricing, customer on boarding & customer management across the Asia Pacific resulting in biz growth / new logos gain.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience

Work History

Regional Managing Director

Wefreight Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific
01.2022 - Current
  • Setting up & growing Wefreight Asia Pacific network
  • Overall responsible for Nine APAC countries P&L
  • Conceptualizing to implementing market penetration strategy for each specific market focused in generating new business & long-term profitable revenue streams.

Head of Strategic Biz Development & Sales Planning

Agility Asia Pacific
Singapore
02.2018 - 12.2021
  • · Commercial Budget Achievement & Business Development-Responsible for business development & management of designated sales functions & delivering budget for Asia Pacific including new logos.
  • · Strategic Planning: Innovating, co-creating & developing new streams for long term revenue growth & mapping overhead costs & model mix to increase profitability.
  • · APAC Governance: Responsible for customer satisfaction (Customer relationship management) by managing all operations, sales & BI tools, Customer on Boarding, Tender management, Customer program management, Operations excellence.
  • · Team Management: Full direct staff responsibility of 27 FTE team across APAC. Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others

Head of Sales & BPM

DB Schenker Asia Pacific
11.2013 - 09.2017
  • · Strategic planning & business Development: Delivering budget for Asia Pacific. 2016 + 400 thousand tons; + 1.2 million Teu’s. YOY growth of 15% (2014-2016)
  • · Trade Lane Development: Achieving budgets for all the major trade lanes for Asia Pacific. Major focus on Intra Asia YOY growth +10%, Transpacific YOY growth of +20% & emerging markets (Southeast Asia - Italy) YOY growth of +20%.
  • · Productivity Improvement – Part of various global internal & external projects to drive efficiencies & effectiveness. Improved customer facing to non-customer facing ratio from 2.7:1 to 4.8:1. Saving of +EUR 1.2 Mill annually.
  • · Forecasting & Planning – Delivering the channel, vertical wise forecasting / budgeting to strengthen organization ability to plan deliveries.

Head of Sales, Key Accounts & Verticals – India

DB Schenker
08.2011 - 10.2013
  • Commercial Budget Achievement & Business Development: Responsible for All India business development & management of all sales functions & delivering budget. YOY top line growth of +15% across all product lines. Top line Euro +200 Million.
  • Strategic Planning: Identifying & developing new streams for long term revenue growth & mapping overhead costs & model mix to increase profitability. New Verticals introduced contributed EUR 2 million top line annually.
  • Team Management: Leading team of 12 direct & total team of + 120.
  • Improved account management by predicting potential competitive threats and outlining proactive solutions
  • Established and cultivated solid business relationships with new or existing customers

Head of Key Accounts & Verticals

DB Schenker
New Delhi
03.2004 - 07.2011
  • Improved account management by predicting potential competitive threats and outlining proactive solutions.
  • Secured high-value accounts through consultative selling, effective customer solutions, and promoting compelling business opportunities.
  • Analyzed key competitors to respond to competitive threats.
  • Trained teams to optimize service delivery in alignment with individual needs to boost customer satisfaction.
  • Built and maintained strong client relationships to drive business growth.
  • Management of Ten vertical supporting all sales channels. Top line growth delivery of 10-30% YOY; Solution based positioning resulted into improved bottom line in range of 3-10%.
  • Responsibility for vertical & horizontal growth of the organization. Opened seven new offices & various logistics centers. Turned around three loss making branches

Commercial & Business Development Roles

Various
06.1993 - 02.2004
  • Key Account generation & development.
  • Trade Lane Development.
  • Ocean freight department management.

Education

Master of Business Administration (mMBA) -

Harvard
USA
04.2001 -

Post-Graduation Diploma -

National Institute of Shipping & International Trade
Vishakhapatnam

Post-Graduation Diploma in Business Management -

Institute of Marketing & Management
New Delhi

Bachelor of Arts (Honors) - English

Kurukshetra University
Ambala Cantt

Skills

Strategic planning

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Affiliations

Member – Association for Supply Chain Management, USA

Timeline

Regional Managing Director

Wefreight Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific
01.2022 - Current

Head of Strategic Biz Development & Sales Planning

Agility Asia Pacific
02.2018 - 12.2021

Head of Sales & BPM

DB Schenker Asia Pacific
11.2013 - 09.2017

Head of Sales, Key Accounts & Verticals – India

DB Schenker
08.2011 - 10.2013

Head of Key Accounts & Verticals

DB Schenker
03.2004 - 07.2011

Master of Business Administration (mMBA) -

Harvard
04.2001 -

Commercial & Business Development Roles

Various
06.1993 - 02.2004

Post-Graduation Diploma -

National Institute of Shipping & International Trade

Post-Graduation Diploma in Business Management -

Institute of Marketing & Management

Bachelor of Arts (Honors) - English

Kurukshetra University
Sateshwar TutejaC Suit Executive