Sajeed Shaik

In this most recent role, I am overseeing all logistics and fulfilment processes while managing a high-performing staff of 275 people, three warehouses, 50K Pallets & bandwith of 35K SKU's. . I schedule and organize monthly management meetings with the CEO to evaluate operations strategy, discuss monthly operations performance, and recommend productive corrective measures. I co-ordinate with the SnOP Team, conduct inventory audits, quality checks, and critically review trends in product movement to prevent unintended shrinkage.
List of my major accomplishments during this role include:
• Partnered with teams of IB logistics, inbound, outbound, sort, and preparation to review daily demand and streamline day to day business operations of fulfillment.
• Actively contributed to effective management of fund operations, maximize best utilization, and increase efficiency through proactive co-ordination with stakeholders on overall budgeting and resource allocation activities.
• Set operational / functional objectives, developed control measures to evaluate how well staff monitored the daily operational reports in terms of sales, variable costs, and exceptional costs.
• Examined monthly profit and loss variations, whilst creating and recommending remedial actions as required.
• Recognized for decreasing operating costs (Fulfillment & Logistics) to 28% in the first quarter of 2022.
• Led customer-focused efforts that improved customer experience from 3.8 to 4.5 out of 5 in Q3 2022.

With this company, I've created, defined, and implemented policies and procedures to ensure operational excellence & also managed and updated day-to-day inventory in system with high level of accuracy. I coached, and developed new warehouse employees. I led integrated efforts to schedule and discipline current warehouse employees.
My key contributions during this role include:
• Delivered operational leadership in navigating and assuring all warehouse items were stock and maintain in line with set categorization standard levels.
• Deployed operation improvement efforts, resulting in reducing operating costs to 28%, improving vendors' annual rebates from 5% to 8%, and OTIF from 62% to 78%.
• Developed and executed quality plans based around customer service standards, whilst optimizing customer satisfaction by identifying trends and resolving cross-functional problems.
• Known for consistently meeting financial objectives of warehouse and logistics by creating annual budgets, scheduling expenditures, forecasting requirements, evaluating variances, and recommending needful corrective actions.
• Established warehouse operations systems to determine product handling and storage requirements.
• Created procedures for receiving products, deploying equipment, controlling inventory, and shipping products.
• Structured and executed effective functional warehouse plan, covering equipment, product flow, and product handling systems.

In this executive role, I led overall operations of 8 branches covering total sales revenue of 484M annually by supervising performance-driven team of 255 members. I've also reviewed all monthly profit & loss fluctuations and tracked daily financial reporting for sales, variable costs, and extraordinary costs, whilst recommending corrective action as required.
My notable contributions during this role include:
• Contributed to overall business and financial results through execution of various business strategies and personal selling techniques.
• Expanded SKUs in food & non-food categories that improved the sales from 400K to 600K.
• Increased 18% sale growth by remerchandising all the store shelves in proper categorization.
• Controlled the damages and expiry from 2% to 0.7% by training the staff & introducing the SOP for all the departments.
• Introduced SAP and completed the first successful audit for the organization.
• Credited for consistently delivering strong metrics and results driven by team selling and selling to multiple customers.
• Expanded and accomplished sales/productivity goals by setting and communicating goals for the team, tracking store's performance at all times, and consistently achieving sales through team.

▪In this previous role, I led and mentored high-performing team of 355 people in 28 branches with 235M annual sales income total. In addition to this, I actively oversaw criteria for retail business locations, analyzed, and negotiated leasing agreements with building management.
My major accomplishments include:
• Expanded organization growth by opening 20 new stores (at time of joining only 8 store operating).
• Accredited with supporting company to first time achieve profitable number with 560K by successfully realising breakeven P/L in 2012 & 2013.
• Renegotiated all vendor's contracts that minimized company's overall cost up to 16% and impacted positively on P&L.
• Streamlined all aspects of retail shop operations, including store design and refurbishment, visual merchandising, in-store activities and promotions, customer service, training of the retail staff, and customer return policies.
• Examined retail market trends, comprehended customer initiatives, and kept an eye on local competitors to ensure success.

Responsible for the achievement of the budget of the warehouse department, controlling shrinkage, training a staff of +200, daily monitoring cost & inventory.