Experienced Retail Professional with 16+ years in Retail Operations, Franchise Management, B2C, Enterprise, and Distribution Channel Sales. Proven track record in handling large portfolios, creating business opportunities, launching products, devising sales growth strategies, and enhancing customer experience. Trusted strategic partner for business leaders, focusing on improving product capabilities and boosting sales.
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Head Offline SalesThe Indus Valley Jan 2024 - Dec 2024Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India- Setting up the offline sales vertical - GT & MT-Market expansion & Strategic Growth -P&L & Revenue Growth -Team building-Budgeting & Resource allocation-Customer & Market segregation -Marketing integration & Brand building initiatives in offline sales-Product & Customer focus -
Lead - Sales And Operations - Dealership Channel (Apparel And Accessories)Royal Enfield Jun 2018 - Jul 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaResponsible for Overall Sales and Retail Operations for Royal Enfield Gear & Accessories Business.● Implementing strategies to improve retail sales by achieving excellence in Retail Operations at more than 1300 stores.● Continuously tracking progress of each store against targets and take necessary steps to boost sales for nonperforming stores.● Responsible to Understand the market, customer and competitor behaviour to develop the optimal product mix, outlet mix, and price mix for each region to ensure maximum profitability.● Accountable for timely audit of store operations to check on merchandise availability, store ambience and infrastructure and take steps to improve the same.● Track product performance at retail and initiate action planning to capture additional sales opportunities for fast-moving products and minimize inventory through timely clearance of slow-moving products.● Educate Dealers/Distributors about product portfolio and services offered.● Manage sales pipeline, forecast monthly sales and identify new businessopportunities● Execute Rolling Sales Plan to achieve product-wise targets.● Annual Business Planning, Budget Control, Revenue generation.● SOPs implementation & roll-out across various functions of Store Operations● Managing the product life cycle in a such way that gives higher sell thru tomaximize profits● Responsible for inventory management and deliver budgeted turns● Managing the P&L of the channel for Optimized profitability by controlling discount/schemes.● Responsible for all training needs of the store employees that includes designing the training content Major Achievements:● Top Up finance scheme introduced to better easy of ownership● Started Ride safe campain to promote safe riding and improve riding gearawearness● implemented the auto ordeing process to refill the right prodcut availabily atstore● Prodcut penetration improved from 31% to 94% in 2 Years. -
Regional Sales ManagerSafari Industries India Ltd. Feb 2014 - May 2018Bengaluru, KarnatakaKey Account & Catagory Management: -Design and formalize Terms of Trade (TOT) with all the Modern Retail chains& Key Accounts.-New Product/ SKU Mix development for Modern Trade, deciding on strategyand annual.- Prepare Annual Promotional calendar and drive execution.-Design assortment for different formats – Convenience, Hyper, Super, Cash &Carry, etc.- Responsible for developing Modern Trade business and presence.-Organize sales promotion campaigns, product launch demos, product displays,etc.- Coordinate with a team to ensure timely deliveries and execution of orders.-Ensure achievement of the annual targets within the allocated budget thevariance along with the causes.- Promotions and display (Space on Hire) initiativesRetail Operations:Retail Business Development- New exclusive stores, COCO, FOFO & LFR's.● ROI of COCO & Franchisee Stores● Responsible for operations and top line growth of al formats● Expansion of retail foot print across South & EAST region basis feasibility● Effective Merchandise Planning to increase Retail KPIs● Commercial Hygiene of EBO stores in terms of stock, cash & assets● Negotiating with stake holders to reduce fixed operating expenses● Oversee Visual Merchandise,● Retail Projects and Communication● Budget Achievement: Top-line● New Franchisee & New Store addition● Customer Loyalty ManagementTeam Members Include: Sales Team, VM Team, MIS Team, BD ManagerReporting to: Head of Retail & Modern TradeMajor Achievements:-Turned around South Region by successfully restructuring the EBO & Key anddriven the market expansion by opening exclusive & multi-brand stores in keytowns of South & East Regions.- Opened End to End EBO Stores around 50 in 9 months. (2017-18)-Successful in consistently exceeding the Regional wise/Branch wise targets by100% each month.-Ensured dominance of brand Safari across all the multi-branded & LFR luggagestores, by commanding at least 30% counter share. -
Area Sales ManagerFujifilm India Pvt. Ltd. Jun 2011 - Feb 2014Bengaluru, Karnataka, India -
Channel Sales ManagerSandisk (V5 Global Services Pvt Ltd) Jan 2007 - Jun 2011Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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