Kathiresan Somasundaram, Regional Manager

Kathiresan Somasundaram

Regional Manager

Amazon DSP

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Business And Marketing
Experience
11 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 6 Months

Regional Manager at Amazon DSP
  • India - Chennai
  • October 2020 to August 2023

Key Responsibility
• Create regional Sales plan and target that align with business objectives and goals.
• Lead the development of business plans and tactical action plans to maximize business opportunities and achieve sales goals.
• Support the sales executives to sell a various brands to B2B and B2C customers.
• Provide detailed reports and analysis to the company directors regarding regional sales results.
• Review the success of the each sales account to predict profits and make accurate sales forecast.
• Analyst regional market product and pricing trends and complete competitor analysis to highlight new opportunities for business growth to support continuous improvement strategies.
• Develop new customers/products and innovative sales techniques to increase customer satisfaction and promote sales.
• Prepare and review the annual budget for the region.
• Motivate and support the sales team including evaluating individual performance and creating improvement and development plans where appropriate.
• Identify hiring needs, recruit, and train new members of the Sales Team.
• Respond quickly to potential problems and suggest prompt solution acting as a point of escalation for customer complaints.
• Lead service review meeting to insure customer satisfaction KRAs are met.
• Hold regular meetings with sales Team to review and expenditure reports, provide advice and address challenges.
• Creating detailed and accurate weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasting reports.

Key Achievement
• Successful negotiation contracts with 7 Delivery Hub expanded which later become the top service provider.
• Implemented new sales tactics across the sales team which increased Sales order Vs Delivery 98.90% and generated over 9700 shipments in addition volume.
• Increased the Delivery points based by 36% within 12 months by DA employing strategies sales initiatives.

Regional Sales Manager at Ajfan Dates & Nuts International
  • India - Malappuram
  • December 2018 to August 2020

Reporting to National Sales Manager, taking care of 38 VIP outlets, southern region in India. One of the major diversified industries such as Food, Personal care, Home care, Pet care, other Consumer products, and Nutrition Brands segment.

Primary responsibility is to meet the top ATL & PTL segments. This comes with driving engagement of the field force with a robust monthly review mechanism, improving field force productivity by coaching and mentoring, driving financial hygiene, planning & executing trade marketing initiatives. In addition, I lead the team in coordinating with cross-functional areas of Branch Managers and operations, supply chain, finance, trade marketing & other major stakeholders on the external front.

Key Account Manager at Abu Dhabi Maritime & Mercantile Int Co
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2012 to October 2018

Reporting to the Operation Manager, Managing the portfolio of above brands such as building partnership with existing key accounts LuLu Group and Ad Coop Society to increased sales by 26% on YTD basis. Established strong relationships to gain preferred product listing and activate to provide business and marketing penetration to ensure the maximum the sales potential. Improved and increased visibility of products by analyzing sell out reports and conducting deep customer/competitor intelligence. Increased sell out from secondary displays and promo displays with best use of POSM materials and working close with the merchandisers to create attractive off shelf displays.

Key Achievement
• Increased (SOS) market shares that during year on sellout basis in my territory by identifying brands/category off take opportunities and increasing the distribution to avoided insufficient stokes Position.
• Successfully negotiated BDA at the HQ and implemented displays, ATL/BTL activities in the prime location of the outlets
• Incremental share of shelf (SOS) for the SKUs in the each accounts by utilizing the planogram implementation with the outlet managers. Also achieved overall growth by 22% based on LY.

Education

Master's degree, Business And Marketing
  • at Jaipur National University
  • August 2018

Master of Business Administration

Specialties & Skills

Team Player
B2B Sales
ROI Accountability
Key Account Management
Strong Business Acumen
Proven sales Track Record
Performance Management
Communication and Presentation
Customer Oriented
Recruitment & Leadership
Retails Execution
Sales Forecasting
Marketing Analysis
Event Planning and Execution
Innovation & Creativity
Pipeline Management
Business Acumen
Competitors Analyses
Accountability
Strong Communication
B2B and B2C Sales
Budget Management
POSM and Branding
Team Building expertise
Sales force other CRM software packages
Business Development
Product Launch
Relationship Selling
Trade Promotion Planning
Team KPI setting and Achievement
Coaching and Monitoring
Product Development
ROI Optimization
Time Management
Negotiating and closing sales
Strong Interpersonal Skills
Strategic Account Development
Strong Deal Closer

Languages

Tamil
Native Speaker
English
Native Speaker
Malayalam
Native Speaker
Hindi
Native Speaker
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

TML Oct 2002 (Certificate)
TML Jan 2003 (Certificate)
TML CAN DO DEC2002 (Certificate)
Frerrero 1 (Certificate)
ADMMI RB PERFECT STORE 2012 (Certificate)
ADMMI RB FP 2005 (Certificate)
ADMMI AWARD (Certificate)
ADMMI ACE 2014 (Certificate)
ADMMI 100 QUITALS 2009 TO 2010 (Certificate)
ADMMI 74 MILLION CLUB 2007 (Certificate)
Long Service Award (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Association Football
    Awards for Best team of Year2017