Sushmita Kumar Email & Phone Number

Dubai, AE

Business Strategy consulting. Brand Development - Research, Market Positioning, Launch of brands both online and offline. Digital Marketing - SMO, SEO, SEM, Ecommerce Website development and management, Support businesses to reset, build back and grow.Industry Projects: Retail (Fashion and High Jewellery) / Healthcare/Technology

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Managed the services & repair business across company owned retail stores for luxury leather goods, mobiles, laptops and appliances, along with printing and engraving division. Direct reporting teams of Operations, Buying and logistics.

Managing “Travelex Retail”, B2B Partner Retail” and online fulfilment propositions, including all regional stores.- Manage regional P&L, including all revenues from retail, partner & white label stores, and all direct retail costs, direct support costs, and allocated shared costs.- Own and drive store profitability/ EBITDA- Ensure the country entity.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Retail Strategy development and PNL management for Watches, Jewellery and Service divisions- Directing the Sales & Operations for 31 showrooms, 6 service centers and concession stores.- Annual Business Plans and Budgeting(Sales, GM, Buying, Marketing, VM, Capex/Opex, Manpower, Training, Facilities)- Channel Budget deployment and achievement- Plan.

Dubai

- Driving the Panasonic Retail Channel and Distribution business of Panasonic TV, Audio and Camera for the UAE market.- Accountable for PNL, Sales, MArketing, Buying, Store Operations and Store development. - Manage Panasonic product planning (OPSI), market share growth in the region across existing channels of Retail, Travel Retail, Corporate Enterprise.

As Retail Operations manager lead the Sales, Marketing and Operations of Carter's & OshKosh children's wear brands for UAE, Qatar, Bahrain & Oman spanning a network of 20 plus showrooms & concession stores providing leadership to direct reporting functional teams of area managers, retail operations and visual merchandising. Self reporting to the Chief.

Lead the retail strategy implementations for Calvin Klein, Jashanmal Department, Clark's Shoes chain of stores present in UAE, BAH with P&L responsibility. Managed Sales & Marketing of international brands in Fashion, Home, Footwear, Perfumes & Cosmetics, Luggage & Appliances as part of department stores business. Reporting to the Group CEO, providing.

Reporting to the Managing Director, managed countrywide operations of the two fashion retail brand businesses of "Straps" and "AOS" spanning 55 plus company owned multi-branded Men & Women’s smart casual wear & Women's Lingerie( 18 International, 9 National and a Private label) with P&L responsibilities. Overseeing and managing the performance &.

Core Founding member of Indian Retail School, which pioneered the Post Graduate Retail Management Programs and Retail Learning & Development in India. Managed the company operations, Initiated & implemented successful marketing campaigns for the brand launch.Designed & developed Post Graduate Programs in Retail Management along with eminent senior.

As the Regional Busines head managed the P&L of the branch operations of the company, comprising of a retail network of Nokia showrooms, After Sales Service centers & service support to 200+ Nokia dealers in the region. Independently managed Retail Sales, Marketing & Services Operations with a direct reporting of 52 plus personnel across retail sales.

Managed Operations & Marketing support for 62 Zee centers across eastern region in India and Nepal offering IT solutions/programs with direct reporting teams of Center managers, Counselors, Sales executives. Also supporting business operations of franchise partners in the region.

International Business Management, Marketing & Business Organization, A

Diploma In Information And Systems, Information Technology, Distinction

IT Programming, Software Applications & development, Hardware programming

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelor Of Science