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Vasanth Vasudevan

Vasanth Vasudevan

Area Business Manager
Tamilnadu,India

Summary

Accomplished Sales & Marketing professional possessing 11+ years of multifaceted experience in Retail sales, Operations, CRM, Channel Sales , Team handling. Involved in developing strategic initiatives and capturing emerging business opportunities. Results-oriented, decisive leader adept at forging lucrative relationships with key partners. Recognized for turning around struggling markets to achieve sustained growth. Working and always seeking to work in challenging & high intense GTM & Market share gain projects in Retail & Distribution Industries. Specialist in Network Expansion & ROI management of business partners.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages

Work History

Area Business Manager

Titan Company Limited (Tanishq)
Tamilnadu, India
09.2017 - Current
  • Custodian of Tanishq Jewellery business in assigned area. 5 year CAGR at 25% , Handling a business size of 500 crores.
  • Business Planning/ Market share gain - Gained 4% market share in 2 years.
  • Network expansion - Opened 5 new stores, Increased the retail sq.ft by 70% by renovations & expansions
  • ROI management.
  • Franchisee Management / Team Handling - 8 Stores Across Tamilnadu
  • Close monitoring of competition activities tracking/mapping
  • Innovative & regional specific BTL activities to improve walkins
  • Involvement in Daily / Weekly / Monthly sale,metric,operations efficiency
  • Curated customer connect activities / product launch,activations
  • Team building / Development

Area Sales Manager

Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd (Lighting)
Chennai
06.2016 - 08.2017
  • Established strong relationships with major accounts and key decision-makers to increase sales in designated territory.
  • Handling team of 6 Territory Managers & driving business
  • Team Management / Development
  • Custodian of entire lighting business in highly competitive industry in assigned area
  • Distribution & dealer management
  • ROI management.
  • Expertise in Value Weighted Distribution/ Market share gain.
  • Network expansion - Reach,Depth & Width of distribution management

Territory Sales Officer

Hindustan Unilever Limited (FMCG)
Tamilnadu (Salem)
02.2014 - 07.2016
  • Custodian of Hindustan Unilever FMCG Business in assigned territory.
  • Planning & achieving daily/monthly/yearly target - Volume & Value.
  • Extensive retailing and closely monitoring Numeric Reach, Weighted Distribution, Counter Share & Market Share and working towards improvement on them.
  • Managing distributor's sales team by reviewing them on weekly and monthly basis, training and motivating them towards their achievement on Volume & Value targets.
  • Working out on healthy ROI to distributors by spreading wings towards new avenues of business, forecasting sales through upcoming new products, manpower planning.
  • Established successful account relationships by building rapport and maintaining consistent communication.

Sales Executive

Crompton Greaves (Lightning )
Tamilnadu (Coimbatore)
07.2011 - 02.2014
  • Responsible for achieving volume & value based targets in assigned area.
  • Achieving primary and secondary targets in order to ensure maximum brand visibility and improve counter share and market share.
  • Planning & achieving daily/monthly/yearly target - Volume & Value
  • Working out on healthy ROI to distributors.
  • To motivate dealers and make them more efficient by educating them about products and ensure their profitability
  • Expanding network by appointing new dealers in all untapped market
  • Achieving collection targets,monitor & control debtors and inventory planning at Branch level.

Education

MBA - Marketing

Anna University
Tamilnadu
05.2009 - 06.2011

Skills

    Retail Sales Management

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Accomplishments

  • Most Coveted - Dream team winners- 2021
  • National Interweave Winners - 2021

Interests

Football

Personal Journaling

Road Trips

Timeline

Area Business Manager

Titan Company Limited (Tanishq)
09.2017 - Current

Area Sales Manager

Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd (Lighting)
06.2016 - 08.2017

Territory Sales Officer

Hindustan Unilever Limited (FMCG)
02.2014 - 07.2016

Sales Executive

Crompton Greaves (Lightning )
07.2011 - 02.2014

MBA - Marketing

Anna University
05.2009 - 06.2011
Vasanth VasudevanArea Business Manager