Sundaram Sankaran, Head Of Ecommerce

Sundaram Sankaran

Head Of Ecommerce

Al Mikhlah Ecommerce

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Technology
Experience
22 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 5 Months

Head Of Ecommerce at Al Mikhlah Ecommerce
  • Qatar - Doha
  • March 2022 to June 2023
Ecommerce Strategist at Ebdaa Technologies
  • Qatar - Doha
  • April 2020 to February 2022
Head Of Business Development at JOLLY CHIC
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2019 to March 2020

• Evaluate, negotiate, and close key deals that help to achieve our strategic initiatives
• Evaluate and explore strategic opportunities
• Create partnership frameworks that can efficiently scale as necessary
• Seek out new areas for partnerships, formulate win-win scenarios, create business proposals and close the deals
• Work closely with Product and Marketing to identify potential areas for collaboration opportunities
• Nurture and grow existing relationships with key strategic partners
• Manage and grow a pipeline of potential domestic and international strategic partnership targets

Sourcing & Marketing Manager at Getit.Qa
  • Qatar - Doha
  • June 2017 to April 2019

• Strategic Sourcing Support
• Category and Vendor Management
• Development of Category-Specific Strategies with focus on Marketing & Advertising
• Aligning category strategy to stakeholder prioritization and developing category road map
• Built the supplier matrix for designated strategic business unit (SBU) categories
• Prioritization and Planning of Strategic Sourcing Initiatives
• Identification of Global vs Region-Specific Opportunities
• Driving the execution of multiple business plans and projects
• Ensures business needs are being met
• Identify suppliers based on their alignment with product category specifications
• Promote and supporting company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
• Supporting activities related to sourcing products through all sourcing paths

Business Consultant
  • India
  • June 2016 to May 2017

Help retailers go online
•Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development
•Setting short and long term goals for the business and forming strategies for each department
•Implementing procedures and policies to improve efficiency
•Setting department and individual KPI's
•Improve the business by restructuring and reworking the teams job roles to allow for optimal results and growth
•Negotiating terms with suppliers
•Launching private label brands and Improve brand portfolio and product selection

General Manager at Kingsouq
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2015 to April 2016

Kingsouq is one of the Leading online shopping portal which has offices in Dubai and China.

Sourcing Manager at MarkaVIP
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2014 to December 2014

MarkaVIP established itself as an exclusive shopping community with a unique, invitation-only membership. Our members can discover private sale campaigns that offer unique brands and styles for just a brief window of time.

Category Manager at Ecart.ae
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2013 to April 2014

Ownership of P&L, targets, pricing, promotion, inventory management, and new product concepts under assigned brands/categories to submit the purchasing proposal
•Ownership of the category strategy and business plans and deliver the revenues and product margin targets in a timely manner
•Build strong and healthy relationships with suppliers and plan product cycles accordingly
•Negotiate and manage purchases with suppliers within the assigned category
•Responsible for event pricing in order to achieve the agreed upon targets
•Manage category growth, along with increased profit margins as agreed with the direct manager
•Monitor various category plans and identify variances between forecasts and budgets

Hazel Trading - ecart.ae, Dubai, UAE

Category Manager at Bhatia Traders LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • January 2012 to July 2013

Bhatia Traders runs Duty Free Shops across all Northern Emirate Sea Ports.
Bonded Warehouses and Seaman's Clubs apart from functioning as a major Supplier to Ship
Chandlers and Oil rigs.

FREELANCER
  • India
  • April 2010 to December 2011

Utilizing my experience in sales & management, I have been freelancing on a number of successful sales and business development projects since

Area Sales Manager at The Carphone Warehouse Group PLC
  • Great Britain (UK)
  • March 2006 to November 2009

is made up of two very distinct businesses: Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalkGroup. Carphone Warehouse is the retail and distribution business and is Europe's leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services with over 2, 400 stores in 9 countries. TalkTalk Group is our fixed line business and is currently one of UK's largest broadband provider serving over 4.1m broadband customers and over 1.1m voice-only and narrowband customers

General Store Manager at Phones4U
  • Great Britain (UK)
  • November 2003 to February 2006

Phones 4u is the UK's leading mobile phone retailer. Since opening our doors to customers in 1996 we've expanded across the UK and Northern Ireland resulting in a network of more than 470 stores, offering all networks and handset brands and market leading choice and value.

Sales Manager at Swastik Software Solutions
  • India - Chennai
  • June 1999 to July 2002

Swastik software solutions is a private software development company which is specialized in developing Banking,
Accounting software.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Technology
  • at Coimbatore Institute of Technology
  • December 2019

Degree in

Master's degree, Computer Technology
  • at Westcoast University
  • December 2019

Bayt Tests

Management Skills Test
Score 62%

Specialties & Skills

Business Development
Category Management
B2B eCommerce
Retail Buying
Sales Operations
BUDGETING
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
MANAGEMENT
MARKETING
POLICY ANALYSIS
PRICING
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
BUSINESS PLANS
problem solving
operation
business ideas
market research
negotiation
planning
key account management
magento
logistics
digital marketing
marketing mix
marketing strategy

Languages

English
Native Speaker
Hindi
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