Chrishan Smith, Manager - Sales Support & Services

Chrishan Smith

Manager - Sales Support & Services

Oriflame Lanka (Pvt) Ltd

Location
Sri Lanka - Panadura
Education
Master's degree, Management
Experience
15 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 4 Months

Manager - Sales Support & Services at Oriflame Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 8
  • My current job since October 2015

Manager-in-charge of Sales Support, Printing, Customer Service, Distribution and Warehouse. Handling a team of 25 employees with 4 direct reporting subordinates. Managing a US$300K, 360 degree Budget to achieve a US$3.5mil Revenue with profitability. Create, Coordinate Communication & Execute all Sales Actions and Perform overall Analysis. Involved in Annual and Monthly Corporate Target planning.

Sales Support Manager at Oriflame Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 8
  • February 2013 to September 2015

Manage daily activities of the operational sales support function. Oversees workflow of all business processing including preparation of reports, charts, and other statistics to support and direct the sales department & the Regional Marketing Team. Monitoring & Analysis of the Sales patterns and develop Sales Actions accordingly. Assists with budget management to ensure expenses meet target goals. Assistance in the hiring process. Handling and resolving more complex customer requests or complaints. Develop and implement promotional events and interacts with external dealers to increase sales volume. Immediate Manager for the Customer Service, Distribution as well,

Management Trainee - Sales at Oriflame Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 8
  • February 2012 to January 2013

Managed an Independent Sales force of 1000 in Western and Southern Provinces of Sri Lanka generating monthly sales of US$35000 with a sustainable independent sales force growth for 8months consecutively. Coach and Train the Independent Team Leaders on using Oriflame products and on how to grow their MLM
business.

Associate - Legal Services at WNS Global Services
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 10
  • October 2009 to February 2011

Provision of accurate and professional advice and information to the client’s of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, UK in relation to their motor claims, via telephone, letters, fax and emails, Accurately carry out verification processes as required with a strict maintenance of SLAs’ associated with quality and professionalism. Steering Committee Member and Trainer, of Lean and 5S Deployment team.

Officer - International Roaming at Dialog Axiata PLC
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 2
  • January 2008 to October 2009

Achievements : Won the Team Gold award for Honouring performance in Leadership and Achievement of Excellence in Quality Deployment at the Group Quality Systems Annual Awards 2008.
Responsibilities: Handling roaming complaints received via International Roaming Center with regard to both in-bound and out-bound roaming customers and coordinating with respective cross functional teams at Dialog Telekom to provide resolutions on par with the key performance indicator which is 90% complaints resolved within 24 hours. Provision of accurate advice and information to Dialog Telekom’s International roaming customer base in relation to International roaming products and services either via face to face meetings, International roaming hotline, e-mail and fax. In addition, I have conducted Induction training sessions on International Roaming products and services.

Education

Master's degree, Management
  • at University of West London
  • September 2015
Bachelor's degree, Marketing and Management
  • at Edith Cowan University, Australia
  • October 2011

Highest Achieving Student - Diploma of Business (1st year), Semester 01, 2010

Specialties & Skills

Marketing
Managing High Performance Teams
Managing Budget
Analysis
Situational Leadership
Sales Support & Marketing
Customer Service

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Chartered Institute of Marketing
  • Affiliate Member
  • March 2012