Bijali Latheef, Regional Business Development Manager

Bijali Latheef

Regional Business Development Manager

fine hygienic holdings

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Business And Marketing
Experience
26 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 10 Months

Regional Business Development Manager at fine hygienic holdings
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 1997

Key Result Areas:
⦁ Preparing annual business plan by the country
⦁ Identifying new business opportunities through new product launches, market creation, expansion and diversification
⦁ Directing cross-functional teams using interactive and motivational leadership, achieving cost-efficiency
⦁ Showcasing progress in stakeholder management for an unhindered process flow & channel optimization
⦁ Ensuring:
⦁ Trade spend efficiency strengthening
⦁ Distributor development & penetration
⦁ Market Mapping to identify gaps, to ensure proper distribution of all SKU’s in the territory
⦁ Sales target achievement on monthly basis along with collection and monitoring of market movements
⦁ Profitability/revenue increment
⦁ Achieving projected EBITDA and P&L management
⦁ Tracking competitor’s strategy through market intelligence and developing the counter plans
⦁ Developing:
⦁ distributors schemes for particular geography to attain higher market share and counter competition
⦁ viable services pipeline while cultivating healthy relations for repeat business
⦁ Managing business operations through business development procedures, winning sales & marketing strategies, channel/distribution standards and guidelines
⦁ Reviewing channel-wise, category wise, SKU wise, distributor wise & Sales Person wise data to understand the implication of spending and overall profitability
⦁ Streamlining the operations of the category teams and various service groups for ensuring effective delivery of solutions keeping in consideration the pre-discussed parameters for different segments as well as ensuring consistent achievement of the marketing targets
⦁ Setting KRAs for KROs & DESs; expanding distribution through the strong network in the market
Jul’07-Feb’18: Country Manager - Oman Qatar & Bahrain & Developing Countries

Highlights:
⦁ Spearheaded P&L by Country; achieved outstanding results in terms of EBITDA
⦁ Led in-store excellence program- Availability, Presence in shelf, Activations and Pricing tactics
⦁ Participated in selection and appointment of distributors
⦁ Improved Market share by category and became the leader in the Tissue Paper category by 2016

Education

Master's degree, Business And Marketing
  • at SIBER institute Kolhapur
  • June 1992

A study on Business expansion of Steel and Industrial forgings . Project done with Steel Authority of India.

Bachelor's degree, Applied Physics
  • at Calicut university
  • May 1989

Specialties & Skills

Global Strategy
Marketing
Distributors
trade marketing, market research.
sales strategy, global sales ,distributor management, P&L management, Team /channel management
category management, cross functional leadership, contracts, Joint business plan
team management, new launches
distributor selectio
sales strategy, global sales ,distributor management, P&L management, channel management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Strategic sales management (Training)
Training Institute:
FHH training academy
Date Attended:
September 2019
Duration:
48 hours
Leader manager (Training)
Training Institute:
Logic training
Date Attended:
July 2016
Duration:
72 hours
MBA in paper business (Training)
Training Institute:
FHH training academy

Hobbies

  • driving ,reading, travelling,
    -best employee 2018. -highest achiever-2020