Years of retail experience
V Santhosh
Retail Department Manager & Recruitment Leader
Bengaluru
Summary
I am a conscientious and compassionate human strongly driven by values. I love helping people. I carry a strong passion & interest towards recruiting, empowering & developing teammates.
Motivating and positive with excellent interpersonal, coaching and communication skills.
I'm skilled & have hands on Experience of 5+years in Recruitment, Values Induction, Retail Merchandising, Retail operations and much more.
I'm an avid Automobile enthusiast. I have a strong passion towards the Automobile Industry.
My passion is also towards restorations & repair of Vintage cars & bikes.
Overview
6
6
3
3
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages
3
3
Years of Recruitment & Training leader
4
4
Years in Team leader roles
Work History
Retail Department Manager
Decathlon
Bengaluru
07.2019 - Current
- Responsible for People, Planet & Profit for Team Fitness at Decathlon Bannerghatta Flagship Store.
- Recruitment Leader for the store. Recruited over 200+ people in the last 3 years.
- Company Induction Referent for the store. Sharing the values of the company and Inspiring young talents who have joined the company.
- Responsible for 20 crores of Business from my Department for the year 2022.
- Leading and coaching teams of upto 20 teammates currently.
- Developed 4 potential leaders in the last 2 years who are now empowered to lead different projects and teams.
- Part of the Relocation/Opening team of the Decathlon Flagship store at Bannerghatta.
- Trainer on topics of Recruitment, Sales, Customer Interaction, PNL statement.
Retail Sales Manager
Decathlon
Bengaluru
02.2017 - 07.2019
- Firstly, made my customer/User's day every time they met me on the shop floor by giving them an amazing experience.
- Played a key role in Layout merchandising and to plan and execute floor moves quickly adapting to the business needs.
- Learnt the factors of Business piloting and set the yearly ambition for the department and the sport.
- Excelled the Product knowledge, Thanks to which I was also Recognized as the Product Trainer for Karnataka cluster.
- Thanks to my keen interest on protecting our Environment, I was also the Green Referent for my store. As a referent I was motivated to strongly pass on the sense of Sustainability to my team.
- I am someone who plans and thinks ahead of the future, thanks to this behavior, I was able to come up with the Commercial calendar for my Department for a year. Presented this to my leaders and was recognized to be the Referent for this topic and trained people on the same topic
Education
Bachelor's of Commerce - Business Studies
Christ University
Bengaluru, India 06.2015 - 04.2018
Skills
Recruiting and Hiring
Staff Coaching & Development
Store Operations & Safety
Creative merchandising
Strategic planning
Business Forecasting
Community Engagement
Retail Sales
Profit & Loss statement
Timeline
Retail Department Manager
Decathlon
07.2019 - Current
Retail Sales Manager
Decathlon
02.2017 - 07.2019
Bachelor's of Commerce - Business Studies
Christ University
06.2015 - 04.2018