Deepak Kumar, Business Development Manager

Deepak Kumar

Business Development Manager

Yellow Flower Trading Co LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Marketing & Finance
Experience
11 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 9 Months

Business Development Manager at Yellow Flower Trading Co LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2017

Task & Responsibility:
» Handling 8 stores of Jockey and Cottny in Dubai and 2 in Abudhabi.
» Handling e-commerce platform - Souq, Landmark, Noon for online business.
» Handling supermarket and Hyper markets like Lulu, Madina, carrefour.
» Completes store operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
» Develop, implement and execute sales strategies and territory business plans to drive sales in existing and new markets
Schedule and conduct ongoing departmental visits and provide exceptional customer service
» Maintains store staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
» Motivate sales staff to deliver excellent customer service, improve their efficiency, and meet sales quotas
» Monitor the performance of existing sales staff
» Achieves financial objectives by preparing monthly, quarterly and annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
» Ensures availability of merchandise and services by approving contracts; maintaining inventories.
» Formulates pricing policies by reviewing merchandising activities; determining additional needed sales promotion; authorizing clearance sales; studying trends.
» Markets merchandise by studying advertising, sales promotion, and display plans; analyzing operating and financial statements for profitability ratios.
» Secures merchandise by implementing security systems and measures.
» Determines marketing strategy changes by reviewing operating and financial statements and departmental sales records.
» Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
» Updating colleagues on business performance, new initiatives and other pertinent issues
» Touring the retail stores regularly, talking to colleagues and customers and identifying or resolving urgent issues
» Initiating changes to improve the business.
» Achieve needed results and a high level of sales performance
» Coordinate with partners to create and execute business plan to meet sales goals
» Evaluate partner sales performance and recommend the improvements
» Address partner related issues, sales conflict and pricing issue in a timely manner
» Develop positive working relationship with partners to build business.

Achievements:
· Achieved overall 180% of target in Q2 2018.
· Awarded as the Best Sales Manager of the year 2018 Quarter - 2 for Jockey
· Awarded as Retail Head in Dubai Territory
· Promoted from Sales Manager to Retail Head

Business Development Manager at Aditya Birla Group (MADURA Fashion and Lifestyle Ltd)
  • India - Bengaluru
  • July 2016 to August 2017

Task & Responsibility:
• Handle the Fashion and apparel products- Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England
and People
• Managing high performing multinational accounts.
• Active member of inaugural of Van Heusen Innerwear launch in South.
• Ensure key accounts are performing optimally and nurture the relationships.
• Maintaining of stock from distributor to retails outlets.
• Verification of stock in regular intervals
• Creating a bridge between distributors and retailers in a business perspective.
• Branding and marketing of new arrivals
• Encouraging retailers about latest schemes to earn more benefits.
• Proper implementing of business strategy to grow as company as individual.
• Brokering and optimizing strategic partnerships with national and International clients
• Identify and develop new business opportunities and lead acquisition initiatives.
• Target Marketing
• Business Development at Global Level.
Achievements:
• Topper in Q4 by achieving the 120% of target.
• Rewarded by Vice president (Innerwear) for the performer of the month for Feb and March-2017.
• Awarded for best merchandising and branding in the market.

Manager- Sr. Sales at Jockey International Ltd. (Page Industries ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2015 to July 2016

Task & Responsibility:
• Responsible for Sports, Modern classic, Socks &Towels
• Responsible Secondary Sales
• Handling 8 Distributor Sales officers and 2 Distributors.
• Mentor, manage and supervise an inside and outside sales team.
• Increased profitability through effective incentive programs, base cost reduction and maximizing
revenue to incentive ratio.
• Identifying opportunities for further sales and new areas for development
• Planning for placements of all products in the Multi Branded Outlets and Jockey Comfort Zone.
• Planning for Marketing material requirements and execution part.
• Successfully launching new styles in all category.
• Responsible for maintaining the market leadership lost to competitor through proper planning &
strategy.
• Converting other brand outlets to jockey outlets.
• Converting 65% jockey maintaining outlets to JCZ (Jockey Comport Zone)
• Trained the sales force in consultative selling techniques and skills
• Provide best customer service.
• Providing ICICI Pay Direct Card for All Scheme eligible outlets

Manager- Assistant Manager at Barcode India Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 2012 to March 2015

Responsible for creating new Key - accounts.
• Preparing short-term sales plan, sales approaches and strategies, find opportunities to develop business by identifying the potential customers
• Handling pre-sales, sales and Post- sales activities.
• Conducting a Market-Research and analysis of new markets
• Closely working with product team to understand new product requirement
• Introducing new products thereby ensuring business growth.
• Improved pipeline and proposal development capture rate by over 25%.
• Lead team in reaching and surpassing sales goals.
• To create new business opportunity
• To maintain data for sales projection
• To achieve given targets

Education

Master's degree, Marketing & Finance
  • at Bangalore Institute of Management Studies Bangalore University
  • January 2012

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Bachelor's degree, Management
  • at SSIMT COLLEGE Punjab Technical University
  • January 2010

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High school or equivalent, 12th
  • at Govt School Gurdaspur Punjab Board
  • July 2007
High school or equivalent, 10th
  • at Golden Public School Punjab Board
  • July 2005

Specialties & Skills

Fashion Retail
Channel Marketing
Business Development
Retail Management
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
COST CONTROL
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
CUSTOMER SERVICE
LEADERSHIP
MARKETING
MENTORING
OUTSIDE SALES

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifies in MS Office (Training)
Training Institute:
preskills
Date Attended:
April 2016
Certified as sales professioanl (Training)
Training Institute:
aditya birla