Krishan Samarasinghe Email & Phone Number

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Paragon Asia provides professional congress organization management services to diverse clients all over the world, Services include branding and marketing, budget planning, technical infrastructure and much more.

Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka

 Managing a portfolio of top corporates assigned to me which consist of local and overseas multinationals of over 250 companies. Responsible for analyzing market trends and changes  Cross selling of 3 city hotel properties to the local and overseas market. Responsible for achieving 3 individual budgets/sales targets for the 3 city hotels Managing customer complaints and responding in a timely manner

Sri Lanka

 Leading a team of 15 Sales Agents to achieve targets of 300 cards per month. Overlooking duties of Head of card sales at his absence to ensure that department is represented at bank wide. Identifying gaps between processors and systems and proposing and implementing solutions Working with senior business management to ensure on time implementation of business strategies.  Recruitment, training and retention of capable sales staff and maintain standard service levels. Identify opportunities to increase customer acquisition through Customer Relationship Management (CRM), improve cross sell ratio and product positioning to ensure long term customer retention. Coordinating with marketing, product development, CRMS teams to ensure on time strategy development to maintain the competitive advantage in the local market. Was a member of the bank wide cross functional team who was responsible in card portfolio planning for 2014. This team was responsible in Marketing planning, strategic direction and volume planning for card acquisition.  Department representative for Bank’s marketing activities. Involves making recommendations for marketing activities in order to achieve sales direction/volume. The department contact point for credit quality team, involves monitoring the completeness of card applications and meeting the quality guideline of all application submitted by the sales team.

Sri Lanka

Was awarded the Circle of Excellence Award from the regional office in 2008Responsibilities included, Spear heading system migration process from HSBC systems to GP systems in Sri Lanka and Maldives –Received the Circle of excellence award Designing and formulating referral programmes with non-acquiring commercial banks to get access to their client base to promote credit card terminalsWork closely with HSBC PCM,CMB and BBU to establish referral programmesPut in place a lead tracking mechanismHandle product launches and press activityAssisting regional marketing team on advertising and marketingWas the GP coordinator for HSBC cardholder promotionsWorking with regional GP training team to set up formal training courses

Colombo

Joined as a Sales & Marketing Co - ordinator in October 2004 & was promoted to Snr. Sales & Marketing Coordinator in January 2006 and later promoted as Assistant Manager sales and Marketing in October 2006.My responsibilities included,Promoting TNL Radio, Lite 89.2 & Building up the brand name of Asura FMCoordinating with advertising agencies Organizing sales promotions & events for clientsWas responsible in analysing the corporate debtor status & submitting collection plans for the management.

Primary & Secondary Education, Business/Commerce, General

First And Secondary Education