Venkat Kalagarla, Country Manager

Venkat Kalagarla

Country Manager

Global

Location
Oman
Education
Master's degree, Marketing & Finance
Experience
9 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 0 Months

Country Manager at Global
  • Singapore
  • August 2014 to December 2017

More than 9+ years of solid International marketing experience serving the life sciences, agricultural and FMCG sectors globally.
•Special talent of working in different industry segments like medical devices and diagnostics, hybrid seeds commercialization and food divisions.
•Experience of handling sales and product P&L in Middle Eastern Asian regions, Indonesia, Vietnam and few parts of West Africa (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin)
•Handled product strategy, marketing/BD, sales channels & operations, and market research.
•Establishing Int’l Business strategies for achievement of top line & bottom-line targets.
•Worked on identifying and executing on new business and product initiatives in most parts of the Globe.
MANAGERIAL SKILLS:

- Profit Centre Mgt., Strategy Planning, Supply Chain management, Sales operations, budgeting and Diversifying into new sales regions across the Globe

African Marketing Manager at Water Health International
  • November 2013 to August 2014

WaterHealth International provides scalable, safe and affordable drinking water solutions to underserved populations across the world.

Reporting to: General Manager - Marketing

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
•Strategize and roll out communication plan for external and internal stakeholders. Develop communications themes for the African regions.
•Study the impact of marketing campaigns using the SPSS software. Implemented the practice of measuring, managing and analyzing marketing performance to maximize its effectiveness and optimize return on investment (ROI).
•Worked with J-Pal (MIT) in joint study on impact of setting up water health centres in the rural areas and the evaluation on poverty alleviation and social upliftment.
•Develop and supervise the end-to-end marketing campaigns connected to the African sub-continent.
•Design marketing collaterals for the African customers in coordination with the print and multimedia teams.
•Developed primary and secondary survey tools for the product launch. Synthesize and strategize the data collected for effective implementation.
•Drafted the Go- To - Market strategy for the African sub continent.
•Supported several of the fund raising campaigns for its subsidiary (social enterprise)

International Business Manager at Vibha Agrotech Limited
  • India
  • February 2012 to August 2014

An Agrotech company which develops Hybrid seeds technologies and procures commodities across the globe.
Reporting to: CMD

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
•Drive the business in the respective field and vegetables crops segment with a focus on profitability, create a suitable strategy to grow the business.
•Build and lead the team towards achievement of business goals; focus on building the right capabilities and setting up the channel partners in Africa.
•Develop and supervise the end-to-end marketing and business development connected to the African continent.
•Create marketing plans and implementation in conducting farm demos close to the African farmers.
•Developing end to end plans for commercialization of hybrid seeds in the African continent

International Territory Manager at BioGenex Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd
  • India
  • January 2009 to January 2012

for Marketing and Sales in Middle East & African Regions.
A subsidiary of BioGenex Laboratories Inc. CA, USA- front runners in Molecular Diagnostics, Research & Development. The company develops technologies that perform automated analyses useful in drug discovery and development, life science research, and cellular and molecular diagnostics.

Reporting to: The Senior Manager, Global Commercial Operations

Education

Master's degree, Marketing & Finance
  • at IBSBusiness School
  • January 2009
Bachelor's degree, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
  • January 2006

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Specialties & Skills

BRAND MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
MARKETING
NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR
REPORTS
STRATEGIC

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