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Silajit Dutta

Silajit Dutta

Kolkata

Summary

As a Territory Manager of India East at Medtronic, one of the world's leading medical device companies, my core responsibility is to oversee the business management of the cardiac surgery product portfolio across the zone. I work closely with Cardiac Surgeons and perfusionist, and handle key accounts, government tenders, and sales strategies. Passionate about driving revenue growth and market share growth. Before joining Medtronic, have worked as a Business Development Manager at Dozee, a remote patient monitoring startup, where managing corporate and home care sales, PnL, device installation, training, and customer engagement. My expertise also includes pharmaceutical sales, having worked as a Product Specialist at Novo Nordisk and as Nutrition Officer at Nestle.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Territory Manager - East

Medtronic
Kolkata
09.2022 - Current

Products - Cardiac Implants, Capital Equipment, Consumables, MICS Instruments

  • Working very closely with CTVS surgeons and perfusionists.
  • Promoting new therapies and surgical approaches to keep the surgeons future ready.
  • Executing key business strategies and handling KOLs.
  • Handling Government Tender Business and PSU Projects across the Zone.
  • Working closely with the government's procurement officials regarding MII clause relaxation.
  • Gaining Market Share in Cardiac Implant portfolio.
  • Revision of prices on a yearly basis to maintain good SM across accounts and increase profitability.
  • Engaging customers for Skill Enhancement and Therapy Awareness Programs.
  • Optimizing the sales cycle of capital equipment purchase.
  • Managing Channel Partners and maintaining profitability of direct supply.
  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders to maintain smooth cross-functional transitions.

Therapy Areas - CABG, AVR, MVR, Robotic Assisted Cardiac Surgery, ASD, VSD, Revascularizing, Valvular, and Subvalvular Diseases

Business Development Manager - East

Dozee
Kolkata
06.2021 - 09.2022

Product - Dozee, Dozee Pro V2

  • Handling the operation and sales of Dozee.
  • Corporate Account Handling.
  • Home Care Sales Management.
  • Onboarding New Clients.
  • Created short-term and long-term goals for the business team to achieve objectives.
  • Surpassed sales and customer service targets, consistently exceeding established KPIs.
  • Developed business plans to establish revenue and growth.
  • Drafted sales contracts to use during consummated deals.
  • Handling operation for the region.
  • Device Installation and Activation
  • Training doctors and nurses about handling devices.
  • Driving adoption of the Dozee solution.
  • Engaging doctors and nurses through various activities.
  • Upselling the number of devices in the existing accounts.
  • Account Retention and License Renewal
  • Reactivating churn accounts.
  • Onboarding Govt, PSU, and Corporate accounts.
  • Team Hiring.
  • Training the team members.
  • Coordinating with the internal and external stakeholders.
  • Recruiting and Onboarding Channel Partners

Key Accounts Manager

Alcon Laboratories
Kolkata
10.2019 - 06.2021
  • Taking care of National Key Accounts.
  • Generating Demand for Vision Care Surgical Devices and Meeting the Sales Volume Targets.
  • Handling Optometrists and Ophthalmologists of the region.
  • Managing pricing and SCM of Lenskart, Titan Eye, GKB, Himalaya, and Lawrence & Mayo.
  • Managed HO and all India purchase of GKB.
  • Tracked and analyzed key account trends, identifying opportunities for growth and eliminating potential threats.
  • Forecasted and tracked renewals, upgrades, and other key account metrics to prevent accounting issues.
  • Organized CMEs for Optometrists and Ophthalmologists

Product Specialist

Novo Nordisk
12.2017 - 09.2019
  • Dealing with insulin delivery devices and new generation insulin brands like Ryzodeg, Fiasp, and Treseba.
  • Covering trade and corporate accounts of the region.
  • Handling KOLs of the territory.
  • Coordinated product support and training for staff and customers, offering demonstrations to highlight features and benefits.
  • Generating prescription for different insulin regimens.
  • Analyzing prescription behaviors of different HCPs.
  • Fitting Insulin therapy in Type I and II DM in accordance with ADA guidelines.
  • Generating new leads on a monthly basis.
  • Achieving the assigned volume and value targets.
  • Maintaining growth and increasing market share.
  • Strategizing SoV via data trends.

Nutrition Officer

Nestle
Dibrugarh
02.2015 - 11.2017

Product - Infant nutrition portfolio.

Territory - Assam and Eastern Arunachal.

  • Disseminating scientific information to the HCPs and paramedics.
  • Covering rural markets.
  • Special focus on tea estate markets.
  • Establishing the premium segment IMS at the rural market.
  • Doing HCP Connect and other activities engaging HCPs and paramedics.
  • Handling KOLs of the region and convincing them for advocacy of our products.
  • Managing BPNI contacts.
  • Maintained high volume and high growth in the region.

Education

B.Pharma -

West Bengal University of Technology
01.2016

Skills

  • Key Account Management
  • Corporate Sales
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Government Sales
  • Business Development
  • Capital Equipment Sales
  • Tender Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team handling
  • Pricing Strategy
  • Institutional Sales
  • Medical equipment
  • Medical Devices
  • Sales Cycle Management
  • Surgical sales

Certification

  • NEN Premiere Award Winner
  • Advanced Online Excel Training
  • Six Sigma and the Organization Advanced
  • Six Sigma Black Belt Training
  • Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Training

Accomplishments

  • FY24 NSE Excellence Award
  • FY24 H1 Top Achiever in Focus Products
  • FY24 Top Performer Award
  • FY23 Director’s Club Award
  • FY22 Top KAM Award

Projects

Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, 334 Days, Preparing a review on current scenario of drug resistant tuberculosis [Multi Drug Resistant TB and Extremely Drug Resistant TB]. Mother to child HIV transmission, 122 Days, Recent research results and inventions to prevent mother to child HIV transmission.

Languages

  • English
  • Bengali
  • Hindi
  • Assamese

Timeline

Territory Manager - East

Medtronic
09.2022 - Current

Business Development Manager - East

Dozee
06.2021 - 09.2022

Key Accounts Manager

Alcon Laboratories
10.2019 - 06.2021

Product Specialist

Novo Nordisk
12.2017 - 09.2019

Nutrition Officer

Nestle
02.2015 - 11.2017

B.Pharma -

West Bengal University of Technology
Silajit Dutta