Ratnakar Vandanapu, Product and Sales Manager

Ratnakar Vandanapu

Product and Sales Manager

Redington Gulf

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

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 10 Months

Product and Sales Manager at Redington Gulf
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2016

Expertly manage Product, Sales and Marketing functions for Apple and Dell in MEA region. P/L ownership for a portfolio of USD 110 Million.
Orchestrate all bottom-line factors, including long and short-term development planning, and product management processes.
Identify new opportunities of revenue growth for business and timely review product cycle, sales target achievements, and
inventory control. Achieve overall gross margin and RoCE while ensuring business execution within the deployed working capital.

Selected Contributions:
• Devised tactical action plans for business development and marketing functions across East and West Africa (25% travel)
• Formulated annual budgets for marketing product; forecasted and assessed product life cycle and planning sell-through.
• Designed, developed, and implemented effective GTM strategy based on product life cycle stage and market conditions.
• Established and maintained productive and professional relationship with potential Vendors and key Partners.

Internship at Redington Gulf
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2016 to October 2016

• Assisting the Middle East and Africa partners in order processing and account management
• Training new partners on daily operations and account reconciliations on company's ERP/SAP
• Monthly internal analysis on spare parts consumption in MEA region
• Provide weekly and monthly reports to Vendor (Lenovo) on parts consumption and partner dues

Assistant System Engineer at TATA Consultancy Services
  • India - Chennai
  • August 2013 to April 2015

Assistant System Engineer:
• Handled mission critical business trade failures and handled debugging, errors to ensure business continuity.
• Expertise in collecting, processing, analyzing and documenting data using proprietary and industry standard tools.
• Project management experience in resource allocation and time management.
• Fluent, articulate and culturally sensitive. Worked in a fast paced, global multi-cultural environment across geographies and time zones. My team relied on me for critical customer communication, support and performance handling.
• Technical expertise on platforms and tools such as UNIX, SQL and proprietary tools.

Professional Achievements:
• Improved SLA levels for client services from 90% to 99% in a sustainable manner. Was formally appreciated by the client for the contribution.
• Placed in the top one percentile of my training cohort at TCS.

Internship at Sartorius
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2012 to June 2012

Designed, calibrated and tested Bio-reactors and Fermenters as per customer requirements.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at S P Jain School of Global Management
  • April 2016

Marketing

Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology
  • at GITAM University
  • April 2013

Biotechnology

Specialties & Skills

Market Research
B2B services
B2B Sales
B2B Marketing
B2C marketing
Marketing
Market Research
MS Excel
MS Word
MS Powerpoint
Product Management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Telugu
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Google AdWords (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2016
Valid Until:
July 2017
Hubspot Inbound Marketing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2016
Valid Until:
August 2017

Hobbies

  • Watching Movies