Amrit Sodhi, COUNTRY MANAGER

Amrit Sodhi

COUNTRY MANAGER

FDC INTERNATIONAL FZCO

Lieu
Koweït - Hawali
Éducation
Master, Marketing Management & Business Administration
Expérience
25 years, 11 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :25 years, 11 Mois

COUNTRY MANAGER à FDC INTERNATIONAL FZCO
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • Je travaille ici depuis novembre 2013

Heading Kuwait branch office with of sales team representing LENOVO, ACER, WD, SEAGATE, KINGSTON, ASUS, XFX, APACER, SYNOLOGY, ESET, QNAP and so on. FDC is largest distributor of PC components in entire region with in-country operations in UAE, Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Jorden and Egypt. As Country Manager I am equally responsible for Retail, Wholesale and ProValue divisions.

Country Manager à Metra Computer LLC
  • Koweït - Hawali
  • novembre 2012 à novembre 2013

Single point of contact for major retail & channel customers. Planning of different sales programs to motivate the customer to achieve the targets.
Managing Local Branch office, helping Operations team to work in line with guidelines from HQ.
Vigilant eye on Stock levels, reordering of stock based on market requirements.
Keeping coordination between, Management, Operation, Finance, and Sales & Marketing and after Sales Support.
Developing and managing BD activity around key target sectors.
Meeting up with various officers in Sales, purchasing and finance departments of clients, understanding their needs and coming up with suitable solutions. Acting like a bridge between customer & company and explore possibilities of long term business to increase the sales numbers by providing utmost support to the customers.

Sales Manager à Almasa IT Distribution Co.
  • Koweït - Hawali
  • mars 2011 à novembre 2012

Managing Local Branch office, helping Operations team to work in line with guidelines from HQ.
Vigilant eye on Stock levels, reordering of stock based on market requirements.
Keeping a coordination between, Management, Operation, Finance, Sales & Marketing and after Sales Support.
Developing and managing BD activity around key target sectors.
Meeting up with various officers in Sales, purchasing and finance departments of clients, understanding their needs and coming up with suitable solutions.
Meeting up customers and addressing company, client issues & find a solution.
Explore new possibility to increase the sales numbers by providing utmost support to the customer.
Planning of different sales programs to motivate the customer to achieve the targets.

Country Manager à BDL Gulf FZCO
  • Koweït - Hawali
  • avril 2008 à mars 2011

Setting up Local Branch office.
Managing Local Branch office, helping Operations team to work in line with guidelines from HQ.
Equally responsible of Forecasting sales target assigned for various brands, P&L of achieved numbers.
Assignment of targets to Sales Team.
Vigilant eye on Stock levels, reordering of stock based on market requirements.
Consolidating different reports for different Managerial levels in Operation, Finance, Sales & Marketing and after Sales Support.
Developing and managing BD activity around key target sectors.
Meeting up with various officers in Sales, purchasing and finance departments of clients, understanding their needs and coming up with suitable solutions.
Meeting up different vendors, escalating company, client issues & find a solution.
Explore new possibility to increase the sales numbers by providing utmost support to the customer.
Introduction of different incentive programs to motivate the customer to achieve the targets.
Following up internally with operations and ensuring that all orders are completed on time to the full satisfaction of our clients.
Point of contact for a given set of customers for all customer issues. This included any feedback received regarding our quality, finance related queries and follow ups for future business opportunities.
Forged excellent relationships with our clients and was responsible for acquiring new clients.
Actively engaged to Develop & create awareness of Dell (Vostro), Asus & BenQ notebook products in Kuwait.

TERRITORY MANAGER (VALUE SALES) à ALMASA IT DISTRIBUTION
  • Koweït - Hawali
  • novembre 2002 à avril 2008

Product Management of HP & Acer Products in Kuwait as one of Local Distributors.
Developing and managing BD activity around key target sectors
Selling Active & Passive solutions to Corporate resellers engaged in Smart Building solutions, IT Tenders (Government & Large corporate accounts). Targetted brands: HP Procurve, Juniper, Bluecoat, Extreme Networks, Avaya, APW, Molex etc.
Sale & Marketing of IT Products to Hypermarket, Mega & Electronic superstores. Brands targeted: HP (IPG, PSG, SUPPLIES), ASUS Notebooks, ACER Notebooks.
Investigating and forging strategic alliances and partnerships for participation in major infrastructure developments.
Implementing a sales plan that will build an ongoing project pipeline for our target sectors.
Developing proposals and outline business plans for new projects in order to stimulate inter company discussion.

SALES EXECUTIVE à AL-WAZZAN COMPUTER SYSTEMS CO.
  • Koweït
  • avril 2000 à octobre 2002

Spearheaded the entire responsibility of Testing & marketing newly launched products of reknowned IT vendors.
To sell the software & hardware solutions based on customer’s requirement.
Prepare quotes/Budgeting based on the Tenders by Govt/Private/Educational institutions.
Actively involved in establishing relations with various Govt/Private/Educational institutes to market & sell brands represented by ACS.

Management Coordinator à Intermarket Overseas
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • juillet 1998 à avril 2000

Procurement of Raw Material used in Food & Packing Industries
Sales & Customer support.
Coordination between Management, Sales & support teams of IT Showrooms run by the company.

Éducation

Master, Marketing Management & Business Administration
  • à Gulf Institute of Management & Engineering
  • juin 2004
Diplôme, MCSE
  • à Microsoft Inc.
  • octobre 2002
Baccalauréat, ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING & COMMUNICATION
  • à Gulf Institute of Management & Engineering
  • novembre 2001
Diplôme, SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT
  • à Western Computer
  • novembre 1997
Diplôme, DIPLOMA IN SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT
  • à Aptech Inc.
  • septembre 1995
Baccalauréat, ECONOMICS
  • à Punjab University
  • mai 1991
Diplôme, ELECTRONICS
  • à Deptt. of Technical Education
  • septembre 1988

Specialties & Skills

Project Execution
Market Research
Product Management
Channel Management
Business Development
SALES PROMOTION
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
CHANNEL MANAGEMENT
MARKET RESEARCH

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