FARHAN SHEIKH, Business Development Manager

FARHAN SHEIKH

Business Development Manager

Hitech Cellphone Pvt Ltd

Location
India - Kolkata
Education
Master's degree,
Experience
18 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 3 Months

Business Development Manager at Hitech Cellphone Pvt Ltd
  • India - Kolkata
  • My current job since March 2012

Role: Sales and Marketing
 Strategizing sales growth planning for South India for Cellphones business and Pan India for Accessories business.
 Managing a team of 8 Sales manager and Co-ordinators with each managing 4 to 5 states.
 Analyze segment-wise and plan trade promotions based on seasonal and local festival.
 Identify potential growth segments, plan and implement actions to optimize sell-out
 Participate in trade fairs and represent the organization on a larger platform to promote trade alliance and strengthen B2B business.
 Managing 5 retail outlets operations and sales.
 Identify retail sales trend and seasonality (for retail outlets).
 Design and promote overall retail in-store level communication for effective and efficient communication for product feature based selling.
 Budgeting for the entire sales, resourcing and operations.
 Developing business and creating new channel partners for sales growth.

:OPERATIONS
 Auditing of all outlets and warehouse checking for adherence of company policies.
 Forecasting and creating sales growth in seasons and festivals by giving special targets and schemes during the time.
 Liaising with vendors for purchase of stock, managing inventory and also implementing new framework for warehouse management and control for protection of stock from loss and theft.
 Sales trend analysis of retail as well as wholesale business by focusing on key location and product demand.
 Managing a team of 10 accountants who work on tally with inventory and sales input and also auditing.

Checkouts operations at Morrisons Supermarket PLC , UK
  • United Kingdom
  • January 2009 to October 2011

 Cash monitoring on daily/weekly basis.
 Customer service and customer focus on daily basis.
 Following Supermarket policies in regards to sales of restricted product.
 Experienced and trained in various departmental procedures.
 Planning and strategizing for effective display of product line-up to tantamount higher sales momentum and forward key ideas to senior management.
 Retail Level 2 trained.

Deputy Manager Risk Containment Unit (Regional Head) at Cholamandalam DBS Finance Ltd
  • Other
  • February 2008 to September 2008

 Market risk Analysis to take the prospective measures for controlling the frauds and bad debts and implementing it across the all retail banking products.
 Initiate & develop relationships with management in identified organizations for business development.
 Relationship management with corporate clients of the area to build the clientele.
 Initiating Legal and Recovery process in fraud cases and help team to track the fraudulent clients
 Auditing and compliance check of Internal teams and external vendors as well of in house sales collections teams.
 Managing vendors and resource planning.
 Risk Investigations
 Fraud write-Off recovery for retail assets and commercial banking portfolio’s.
 Credit Controlling.
 Planning on budget, Risk control strategies and resource management on quarterly basis for eastern region.
 Monthly Financial reporting and Fraud trend analysis to National Manager and Board of Directors.
 Merchant Training on Acquiring fraud and also help in installing of POS machines.

Assistant Manager Fraud Control at Citigroup Global Services( Citigroup Company)
  • Other
  • February 2006 to February 2008

 Managing Fraud and Risk across all retail banking products
 Prepared MIS Report to help the IT teams to develop Database for Fraudulent Clients.
 Credit Controlling and leading Collection team for bucket 4, 5 & recoveries.
 Managing workflow from sales to completion of Retail product lending.
 Identifying prospective channels & initiate channel engagement for generating incremental business thereby achieve business targets & goals
 Resource planning and tracking the change in market trend for frauds to suggest the team management for measures to be taken to control it.
 Fraud write-Off recovery for retail assets and commercial banking portfolio’s.
 Monthly Financial reporting and Fraud trend analysis to Regional Manager
 Auditing and compliance check of Internal teams and external vendors as well of in house sales collections teams.
 Acquiring Fraud checks on POS, E-commerce, Chargebacks and merchant training.
 Managing a call center for outbound and inbound risk related and various customer service issues.
 Managing vendors and resource planning.
 Market Risk Analysis
 Credit Controlling.
 Managing a team of vendors and in house officers for collections of higher buckets and fraud recovery.

Customer Service Executive at Kankei Relationship and Marketing (Vodafone Sister Comany)
  • Other
  • June 2005 to February 2006

 Resolving customer queries for product issues and also for payment of dues to company.
 Drafting the service level MIS of the

Education

Master's degree,
  • at Leeds Metropolitan University
  • November 2009

Scholarship Winner MBA program "2008-2009

Bachelor's degree, Accounts, Commerce, Economics
  • at Bhawanipore Gujarati Educational College.
  • May 2005

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