sumit prasad, DGM – Business Solutions - Retail

sumit prasad

DGM – Business Solutions - Retail

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Lieu
Inde
Éducation
Master, Marketing
Expérience
17 years, 0 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :17 years, 0 Mois

DGM – Business Solutions - Retail à COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
  • Inde - Pune
  • Je travaille ici depuis mars 2012

 Strategic consulting for international retailers to drive future ready business.
 Solution design and outsourcing to cost effectively optimize customers’ experiences.
 Process mapping and amendment recommendation for tangible & lasting solutions.
 Customize IT Infrastructure Services for business advancement and enable meaningful change, as per technical needs and budget.
 Define and develop an innovative merchandise management process to create better and customer centric assortments with optimal pricing.
 Optimize resources with testing processes, tools and consulting expertise to deliver better customer experience.
 Deliver value with business intelligence solutions and enable informed decisions.

Category Manager- Home needs à TESCO HINDUSTAN WHOLESALING INDIA PVT. LTD.
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • août 2009 à février 2012

 Categories comprise of Furniture, Décor, Luggage, Festive/Seasonal, DIY and Tools.
 Implement Planograms to enhance customer experience as per the decision tree.
 Project sales, gross margins, returns, markdowns, liquidation etc. for the existing as well as upcoming stores.
 Plan the best fixtures, visual merchandising tools, planogram and the layout for the categories.
 Strategize growth potential areas and develop plans for execution, including promotions.
 Analyze ways & means to grow like for like sales and implement findings.
 Ensure that category plan development happens as per set time frame and all adhere to the same.

Category Manager – Stationery, Toys, Books and AV à ADITYA BIRLA RETAIL LTD.
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • juin 2007 à août 2009

 Understand the shopper & develop strategies for the categories in line with the corporate objectives to deliver the financial targets within the set time frame.
 Manage the stock and intake of each option within the departments throughout its life, ensuring that availability is maintained at all times & in accordance with the assortment plan.
 Develop and execute action plans to maximize the sales & profitability of each option at minimum risk.
 Create strategies at the point of purchase to meet needs of shoppers.
 Create and communicate the category strategy to the regional teams and ensure implementation and compliance.
 Managed the entire General Merchandise import plan end to end, including visits to Chinese vendors.

Éducation

Master, Marketing
  • à Indian Institute of Rural Management
  • décembre 1999

Scholastics ➢ Two Year full time PGDBM (Marketing) from Faculty Of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Rural Management, Jaipur (Dec.1999)

Baccalauréat, B.Com
  • à Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University
  • janvier 1997

➢ B.Com from Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University (1997)

Specialties & Skills

Sourcing and Procurement
Category Management
Marketing & Branding
solutions design
BRANDING
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
IT INFRASTRUCTURE
LAYOUT FOR
MAPPING
MARKETING
OPERATIONS

Langues

Anglais
Expert

Loisirs

  • Exploring new places, especially the vast Indian coast line. Reading books on variety of subjects.