Admin Head
Linkup 4 Apparels
Total years of experience :19 years, 11 Months
• Developed write-up of the company, its Vision, Mission, Objectives and services provided. Also designed the logo for the company.
• Developed MOU for its Associated Companies and Letters of Approvals of MOU
• Developed the content for associated companies profile along with their product catalog.
• Created web content for Linkup 4 Apparels website and designed the product catalog.
• Actively involved in the corporate communications strategy pertaining to marketing and their record maintenance.
• Coordinate all activities between the Buyers and the Manufacturing associates.
• Maintain documents pertaining to indent, price & sample approval, quality assurance and payments.
Key Responsibilities & Accomplishments as Administrator & Managing Trustee:
• Took over the Administration and Management of a Home for Differently-Abled children previously run by a committee headed by the District Collector on their request since, they had exhausted their funds provided by National Trust, New Delhi.
• Branded the home with the name “Rotary Ashia” which means Hope & Life.
• Revamped the entire Administration by appointing a full time Manager and taking in new support staffs apart from the existing staff and thus increased the strength.
• Started an orientation program for staff and parents and also set up Parent Staff Committee.
• Brought in systems wherein all activities were recorded & monitored to name few,
1. Staff daily work schedule (attendance & movement time)
2. Daily food preparation, cleaning, washing and maintenance schedule
3. Children health & hygiene schedule
4. All meeting schedule of Staffs (fortnightly) and Parent Staff Committee (monthly)
5. Student activity & progress chart (quarterly)
6. Appraisal report of the staff.
7. Inventory maintenance of food materials, donations (cash & kind) and other materials.
8. Maintenance of vouchers, donation receipts and payments.
9. Maintenance and follow up of Sponsors
• Effectively developed the communication strategy through letters to sponsors, press, local media, schools & colleges in creating awareness about the Home. Have continuously conducted events like painting exhibitions, Fun Feast, Home appliance and game exhibitions as our fund generating events.
• Brought in a ‘Meal Sponsor’ system wherein we encourage the public to celebrate their birthdays, anniversaries, Remembrance Day and festivals by either sponsoring breakfast/lunch/dinner or food for whole day by paying cash for the food prepared by us and they could serve them and spend some time with our children. This is currently taking care of the recurring monthly expense.
• In the 3 years term we not only have cleared the outstanding, and also have done a sea of positive changes which have improved the quality of life of the beneficiaries. We could raise funds to a tune of 40 lakhs over this period that took care of the developmental activities, our monthly expenses and overhead.
Key Responsibilities & Accomplishments as Business Consultant:
• Through our Consultancy we have provided consultancy services in restaurant & hospitality industry, small & medium scale agriculturist (tea, vegetable & floriculture), textile & garment and wholesale & retail outlets.
• Had been providing Business Solutions to small & medium business establishments in the areas of stock inventories, HR management, appraisals & rewards system, skill development and implementation & monitoring of systems.
• Could ensure a continuous improvement in the quality of service provided and an improvement in sales & profitability.
• Have also conducted various seminars and workshop on leadership & soft skill development for schools having Interact clubs, Rotaract clubs, Providence College, Merrit College, and Officers of Cooperative Societies & Govt. School Staff.
• Getwel Medicals was the first medical shop in Ooty with fully computerized operations.
• The vision was to provide a holistic approach in managing lifestyle and chronic disorders like diabetes, BP etc.
• This was achieved through counseling, creating awareness about the disorders and the medicine being taken, providing information about various alternative therapies, importance of diet and exercise in managing the disorders, monitoring the patients BP, Blood Sugar & maintenance of their medical histories.
• In the 7 years of the business a capital investment of about 8 Lakhs was done over a period of time and a business turnover of 54 Lakhs was achieved in the 7 years period.
• Involved in formulating Systems & Strategies for sales.
• HR & Administration.
• Training and Leading a team of ten Medical Representatives.
• Could achieve a marginal growth in sales as compared to the previous year.
• As an ASM, was involved in training, inspiring and leading a team of four Medical Representatives apart from being in charge of the Super Stockiest for Tamil Nadu which was based in Coimbatore.
• During this period brought to the notice of the company the amount of losses due to poor inventory control & disposal of expiry stocks and initiated corrective measures.
• Persuaded and negotiated with the company to hand over the operation to a Franchisee and thus started our Franchisee.
• As a District Manager, was involved in planning, supervising, inspiring and implementing various strategies of the company to achieve business targets of the region by leading a team of nine Medical Representatives.
• During this period, imparted training to two MBA recruits and two of my team members got promoted as Sales Executives.
• As Sales Executive, was responsible towards achieving individual target of our zone and supervise and motivate the Medical Representatives at Erode and Coimbatore to achieve the targets of their respective zones.
• We were amongst the highest sellers of new products like Primedase, Ralrox, Nimi Rapitab & Calstron.
• During this period, I was the youngest to be promoted as District Manager and the Medical Representative at Erode got promoted as Sales Executive.
• As M.R., was responsible for achieving the targets of my zone.
• For the financial year of April 1997 - March 1998, I was amongst the two M.R.’s in entire Southern Region of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala & Andhrapradesh to have achieved 102% of my target and by doing so had shown a growth of 10% over the previous year wherein two M.R.’s were covering the same area.
• In August 1998 was promoted as Sales Executive.
• As M.R., was responsible for implementing various strategies of the company and contributing to the achievement of the pooled target of our zone.
• Stood First during my training and got confirmed within three months a record at that time.
