Ganesh S Sankaran, Marketing Controller

Ganesh S Sankaran

Marketing Controller

Johnson & Johnson Middle East

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, First Line Leader II - Leadership Training
Experience
36 years, 7 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :36 years, 7 months

Marketing Controller at Johnson & Johnson Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2010

Management reporting and analysis during Month End
Created Regional P&Ls and further spend analysis
Implemented COGNOS a Business Intelligence tool for Sales Analysis
Team Member and active participant in EMEA and TMEA projects in Finance
Implementation of Essbase in the TMEA region
Emerging Markets controller for a business unit
Received awards consistently for 3 years from Managing Director for various initiatives taken in the Finance department

Commercial Manager at Johnson & Johnson Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2008 to February 2010

Lead the pricing process for the Middle East region
In charge of Distributor Agreements
Created and maintained Distributor SharePoint site
Preparation of Distributor Profitability Model
Collection and collating In Market Sales from major markets

Process Excellence Manager at Johnson & Johnson Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2002 to December 2007

Successfully achieved Silver rating among J&J Worldwide companies in Process Excellence assessment
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
Coaching and Mentoring Business Improvement Projects
Training people on Six Sigma tools
Driving Dashboard implementation
Project Management
Creation of various tools to one of our Business units using Excel

Assistant Manager Business Services at Johnson & Johnson Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2002 to August 2003

Championed and implemented a program to combine invoices with a saving of USD 500, 000
Implemented J&J Gateway an e-commerce website
Implementation of innovative ideas to drive traffic to our e-commerce website
Direct order entry into ERP system

Business Analyst & ERP Administrator at Johnson & Johnson Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 1998 to February 2002

Enhancing the analysis of critical business information with Sun Systems
Project Manager and team member of various projects related to the ERP system like implementation of Combining Invoices, Back to Back Ordering
Implement additional systems and interfaces to SunSystems with regular consultation with User departments (mostly with Visual Basic and macros)
Intranet Site development

Information Systems Manager at Johnson & Johnson Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 1995 to December 1997

Provided strategic assessments of systems implementation
Project managed Implementation of Windows 95, Lotus Notes and Lotus cc:Mail
Responsible for installation and maintenance of the LAN and various other components including Server Installation, Routers and other telecommunication equipment
Supported more than 100 office based users and 20 remote based on IT issues

Customer Support Executive at Advanced Business Systems
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 1993 to January 1995

Installation and maintenance of Sage Accounting range of products, providing consultancy in implementation of Sage products and Microsoft products, perform year-ends and month-ends for customers in relation to their audit requirements and liaison with major Auditing firms in the Middle East. Defined support procedures to provide the management with extensive reports and provided support and consultancy to over 120 customers in the Middle East single handedly.

Regional Support Executive at Air Freight India Limited, India
  • India
  • January 1992 to April 1993

Software support to various user departments of the organization and to the whole Western India region, technical support to users to ensure smooth functioning of user operated applications. Implementation of various application packages developed in-house on various Hardware platforms especially Novell NetWare, DOS and UNIX. Training Users in various applications.

Customer Support Executive at Beta Automation Pvt. Ltd.
  • India
  • January 1990 to December 1992

Marketing of various Office Automation Products, both Hardware and Software, Software development for various clients, Training given to Customers in LAN, and other Software packages and Installation of various Hardware and Software. Specialized in installing of Local Area Networks (LANs) including Hardware suggestion to the clients, site preparation for LANs, suggesting Topologies and Installing the Software. Training given to various customers in the area of Novell NetWare, and other various software packages.

Sales Administrative Assistant at Hindustan Computers Ltd. (HCL)
  • India
  • January 1989 to December 1990

Worked closely with the Sales and Marketing for their Order processing requirements. Designed and implemented an Order Processing software package. Instrumental in Training their Major clients all over Tamil Nadu

Computer Instructor at Computer Point, India
  • India
  • January 1988 to December 1988

Training candidates in Word, Lotus and dBase products

Education

Diploma, First Line Leader II - Leadership Training
  • at Johnson & Johnson
  • April 2012
Diploma, Management Fundamentals - Leadership Training
  • at Johnson & Johnson
  • September 2006
Diploma, Six Sigma
  • at Johnson & Johnson
  • May 2003
Diploma, Systems Management - Information Technology
  • at National Institute of Information Technology, India
  • July 1990
Bachelor's degree, Management & Advanced Corporate Accounting
  • at University of Chennai
  • June 1988

Specialties & Skills

Profit Management
Project Management
Six Sigma
Financials
People Management
Microsoft Office software & the Internet
Process Improvement Projects
Implementation ERP systems
Project Management
ISO 9001
Profitability Analysis
Financial Analysis
Management Reporting

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Standards of Leadership Award (Training)
Training Institute:
Johnson & Johnson
Date Attended:
January 2011
Standards of Leadership Award (Training)
Training Institute:
Johnson & Johnson
Date Attended:
January 2013
Certificate Standards of Leadership Award (Training)
Training Institute:
Johnson & Johnson
Date Attended:
June 2003
First Line Leader Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Johnson & Johnson
Date Attended:
October 2011
Standards of Leadership Award (Training)
Training Institute:
Johnson & Johnson
Date Attended:
January 2012
Leadership Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Johnson & Johnson
Date Attended:
March 2006