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Shaik Masood Ahamed

Shaik Masood Ahamed

Sr Sales Professional
Chennai, Tamil Nadu,Tamilnadu

Summary

Proactive salesperson with demonstrated operations leadership, sales planning and personnel management strengths. Successful in energizing businesses with creative and strategic initiatives. High-achieving, enterprising leader with diplomatic and persuasive communication style.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Regional Manager

Fortinet
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05.2021 - Current

• Grew business by 55% in second year through just strategizing GTM segment wise with right accountability to individuals.
• Focus was overall reach within targeted clients and specific partners.
• Spearheaded initiative of brining a scientific method on account planning with a vision of 18 months.
• Established an accurate sales hygiene with clear visibility of managing Pipe and projection

Sales Manager

IBM
Chennai
09.2019 - 05.2021

• Acquired 2 new clients by positioning hybrid approach and unique DC/DR management solution.
• Handled customer relations issues, enabling quick resolution, and client satisfaction.
• Won 6000 branch NOC multi-year NOC deal from leading Indian Bank
• Was key in positioning modernization of datacenter through Cisco ACI solution for leading Bank.
• Achieved sales goals and service targets by cultivating and securing new customer relationships.
• Developed compelling presentation decks to gain approval for ideas and communicate results

Client Director

NTT
Chennai
07.2006 - 08.2019
  • Had exceptional growth in this stint with NTT/Dimension Data.
    • Instrumental in Growing business of my region from almost Zero (2006) to 30 Mn (2019).
    • Won couple of mutli-year deals in my stint by demonstration capabilities and giving win-wn situation - 1. WAN optimization solution 2, Video conferencing solution by positioning platform approach 3Migration from Avaya to Cisco IPT for one of the most esteemed ITES client.
    • Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
    • Managed daily operations while overseeing multiple locations to foster increased productivity

Territory Sales Manager

Net 4
Chennai, Tamilnadu
01.2002 - 06.2006
  • Exceeded targets by building, directing, and motivating high-performing sales team.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with product development and production teams to improve designs and reduce costs.
  • Modeled strong negotiation skills to help team members close tough deals with lucrative clients.
  • Forecasted sales and established processes to achieve sales objectives and related metrics.
  • Leveraged market knowledge to capitalize on emerging opportunities and maintain consistent growth rate at 20% or higher.
  • Established and maintained 25 accounts, expanding territory ny increasing revenue.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Sr Theagraya College
Chennai, India
06.1992 - 04.1996

MBA - Marketing Management And Research

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management Pune
Pune India
08.2010 - 04.2012

Skills

    Business development and planning

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Accomplishments

    Winner of Dimension Data`s Global Sales Incentive Trip for driving the signing up of multi-year & multi-million contract to manage a large base of IT assets in FY 2011

    Registered in Roll of Honour by Cisco for significant contribution to Cisco business in FY 2009

    Conferred with Top Individual Performance Award in collaboration Solution from Cisco

    Recognized as Super Achievers for converged infrastructure through ease of manageability & provisioning in FY 2011

    One of the Top Sales achiever award from 2013-201

Timeline

Regional Manager

Fortinet
05.2021 - Current

Sales Manager

IBM
09.2019 - 05.2021

MBA - Marketing Management And Research

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management Pune
08.2010 - 04.2012

Client Director

NTT
07.2006 - 08.2019

Territory Sales Manager

Net 4
01.2002 - 06.2006

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Sr Theagraya College
06.1992 - 04.1996
Shaik Masood AhamedSr Sales Professional