Atul Kumar, Bahrain Optician

Atul Kumar

Bahrain Optician

BAHRAIN OPTICIAN

Location
Bahrain - Manama
Education
Diploma, International Business Operations
Experience
22 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 10 Months

Bahrain Optician at BAHRAIN OPTICIAN
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • My current job since December 2012

RESPONSIBLE FOR WHOLESALE BUSINESS - BAHRAIN

Wholesale Manager. at BAHRAIN OPTICIAN
  • Bahrain
  • My current job since December 2012

Nature of Business: Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing of Ophthalmic Lens.
Place: Manama, Bahrain.
Period: Dec '12 - Till date.
Designation: Wholesale Manager.
Area: Bahrain.
Product: RayBan Sunglasses, Contact Lens & Ophthalmic Lens.
Job Responsibilities: ⇨ Handling wholesale operations.
⇨ Making business deals with opticians, pharmacies & Corporate clients
⇨ Implementation of sales promotions schemes & monitoring.
⇨ Market research & competitors activities.
⇨ Responsible for profitability of department.

Wholesale Manager at Manama, Bahrain
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • December 2012 to February 2013

• Present Organization: Bahrain Optician
LOOKING AFTER WHOLESALE BUSINESS

Area Sales Manager. at Vision RX Lens Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Patna
  • January 2009 to November 2012

• Previous Organization: Vision RX Lens Pvt. Ltd. (Essilor Group)
Nature of Business: Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing of Ophthalmic Lens.
Place: Ranchi, Jharkhand - India.
Period: Jan '09 - Nov '12.
Designation: Area Sales Manager.
Area: Retail Sales & Marketing.
Product: Ophthalmic Lens.
Job Responsibilities: ⇨ Handling branch, lab operations and achieving sales target.
⇨ Advertising, merchandising, branding ATL.
⇨ Implementation of sales promotions & monitoring.
⇨ New product launching, CRM.
⇨ Conduct products training.
⇨ Retail market research & competitors activities.
⇨ Profitability of the branch.
⇨ Create a healthy work atmosphere.

Marketing Head at Al-Motawa Trading Company
  • Saudi Arabia
  • February 2008 to August 2008

● Prior Organization: Al-Motawa Trading Company.
Place: Dammam - K.S.A (Middle East)
Period: Feb '08 - Aug' 08. (7 Months)
Designation: Marketing Head.
Area: Retail Sales & Marketing (ERP-MS Dynamic-AX) Product: Consumer Durables (White Goods)
Job Responsibilities: ⇨ Media planning and annual budgeting BTL.
⇨ ATL advertising, merchandising, branding, retail market research.
⇨ Setting up sales promotions & monitoring enhance POS materials.
⇨ New product launching, CRM, proper product placement.
⇨ Customer segmentation, advertising campaign.
⇨ Buying trend analysis & provide customer service.
⇨ Publicity & publication, printing, broadcasting, internet marketing, digital marketing.
⇨ Meet senior key official of corporate accounts to identify & tap business opportunities.
⇨ Form an alliance with Client Company for mutual promotional effort.
⇨ Optimize footfall and returns per sq.ft.
⇨ Understand customer needs.
⇨ To ensure SKU placement in line.

Business Development Manager at Stallion Nigeria Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2006 to October 2007

• Prior Organization: Stallion Nigeria Ltd. (Dubai based Company)
Place: Abuja-Nigeria. (Africa)
Period: Nov' 06 - Oct' 07 (One Year)
Designation: Business Development Manager.
Area: Channel Sales. (Great Plains-GP, Trade & Logistics)
Product: Commodities & Building Materials.
Job Responsibilities: ⇨ Forecasting, budgeting and planning of sales and collection.
⇨ Delegations of work to subordinate and motivate them to achieve targets.
⇨ Merchandising, planning & implementation sales promotions.
⇨ Credit management, overall supervision of the market penetration.
⇨ Administration of branch activities.
⇨ Inventory management, shrinkage control.
⇨ Closely monitoring the branch base costs.
⇨ Handling returns and refunds.
⇨ To maintain a competition radar.

Area Sales Manager at Kajaria Ceramics Ltd
  • India
  • January 2004 to October 2006

● Prior Organization: Kajaria Ceramics Ltd.
Place: Ranchi - Jharkhand. (India)
Period: Jan '04 to Oct 06 (Three Years)
Designation: Area Sales Manager.
Area: Channel & Corporate Sales.
Product: Building Materials (Vitrified Tiles)
Job Responsibilities: ⇨ Principle accountability for sales, collection & credit management.
⇨ Implementation of schemes & promotions.
⇨ Identifying & appointing distributors.
⇨ Forecasting & planning, ensuring ready availability of all product range.
⇨ Track record of all forthcoming & ongoing projects.
⇨ Regular follow-up to all Architects / Builders / Contractors / Applicators.
⇨ Co-ordination in between regional office & branch.
⇨ Conduct Architects & Builders Meet.

Sr. Sales Representative at Berger Paints India Limited
  • India
  • January 2001 to December 2003

● Prior Organization: Berger Paints India Limited.
Place: Ranchi - Jharkhand
Period: Jan 2001 till Dec 2003 (Three Years)
Designation: Sr. Sales Representative.
Area: Channel & Project Sales.
Product: Building materials (Paints)

Job Responsibilities: ⇨ Maintain existing customers CRM.
⇨ Cold calls in order to extend the customer database.
⇨ Sales & collection, credit control of assigned territory.
⇨ Missionary calls to painters, architects, builders.
⇨ Organizing Painters, Dealers & Architects meets.
Projects & Summer Internships
● Subject: "Find out market potential of white goods"
Organization: Kenstar Kitchen Appliances.
Duration: 2 months
Place: Patna, Bihar (India)
Description: ⇨ Find market share of company & competition.
⇨ Involved survey of 64 dealers in the city.
⇨ Detailed comparative analysis of TOI
⇨ Perception of customers regarding various supplements.

Education

Diploma, International Business Operations
  • at IGNOU
  • December 2012

2012 Certificate course in International Business Operations from IGNOU (Pursuing)

Diploma, ophthalmic
  • at SILMO
  • January 2012

2011-2012 Certificate course in ophthalmic (Optical) sales from Medical Research Foundation & SILMO ESSILOR TRUST

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at L. N. Mishra Institute of Eco Dev & Social Change
  • December 2000

1998-2000 M.B.A. (Marketing) from L. N. Mishra Institute of Eco Dev & Social Change a reputed institute (India's premier Institute)

Master's degree,
  • at NIIT
  • January 1998

• Pursued a basic Computer Course from NIIT on Internet Application & MS-office.1998. • Application Enterprise resources Planning-ERP-Microsoft Dynamic-AX 4.0 • Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (GP) - Trade & Logistics. (Nigeria) Qualifications

Bachelor's degree, HISTORY
  • at Allahabad University
  • January 1998

1995-1998 Bachelor of Arts from Allahabad University -Allahabad, U.P. (India)

Specialties & Skills

Sales Growth
Collections
Marketing Mix
Market Research
Business Development
BUILDING MATERIALS
COLLECTION
MARKET RESEARCH
MARKETING
OF SALES
SALES MANAGER
SALES PROMOTIONS

Languages

Hindi
Beginner
English
Intermediate

Memberships

NA
  • NA
  • January 2013

Training and Certifications

NA (Training)
Training Institute:
NA
Date Attended:
January 2013