ZONAL SALES MANAGER (SOUTH)
HIDDEN
Total years of experience :28 years, 3 Months
Shouldered the responsibility of handling South India sales & operations
Accountabilities:
Steered efforts in launching new product/concept SYSTEXX Glass Fabric
Essayed a stellar role in establishing distribution network in Chennai / Tamil Nadu
Accountable for specification from Architects, Consultants, PMC & Interior Designers
Shouldered the responsibility of handling sales activities from builders, developers, projects, contractors &
dealers
Significantly contributed in securing Hospira, Taj Group of Hotels, Australian Consulate, Tafe Orders, TCS
(@TRIL), etc
Accountabilities:
Handled sales operations of various products such as Partitions viz Jeb, Mars & Lotus, Furniture - Sedus, Flooring
- Tandus and Finishes - Echopanel, Offecct
Shouldered the responsibility of Director in his absence
Merit of securing:
o First Carpet Order from architect CRN - Saint Gobain R&D Project
o Broadloom Carpet Order in Taj Gateway, Chennai first in India
o Offecct Furniture Order from Hospira first in India
o DLF, BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, Hospira, Saint-Gobain & HCL at Navalur & Sholinganallur, Vishranthi Homes
Projects, etc.
Appointed & handled distributors & managed sales of company products to clients
Liaison with architects, builders, contractors & aluminium fabricators, giving them required inputs to get product specified.
Executed projects through aluminium fabricators/contractors/builders
Built Durabuild ACP brand from scratch to No.1 brand in Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh.
Successfully achieved 05-06 annual turnover in Q1 06-07 at Chennai
Increased sales from Rupees 90 lakhs in FY 06-07 to 700 lakhs in FY 07-08 at Hyderabad
Increased sales from Rupees 7 crores to 10 crores in FY 08-09 at Hyderabad.
Increased sales from Rupees 10 crores to 12 crores in FY 09-10 at Hyderabad.
Achieved above sales in spite of stiff competition from 45 brands, cheap Chinese brands and reputed global brands
Bagged various orders such as:
Chennai airport, BMW factory, ICMR, Citilights IT Park, Sukons IT Park at Chennai.
Honeywell technologies, Cap gemini, UBS, Deloitte, Infotech enterprises, NIMS
Bibi nagar, Virtusa, Dr. Reddy’s Lab, GVK Bio, Dupont at Hyderabad.
Liaison with:
• Government agencies such as power utilities, TNEB and Power Ministry for obtaining NOCs and approvals for various projects.
• Land agents for purchase of lands for wind mill projects.
Obtained a record 49 No-objection Certificates (NOC) from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board in Mar’05 alone and 80 NOCs for Sep’05 phase.
Successfully handled purchase of 1000 acres of land in Coimbatore and 500 acres in Tirunelveli within record timeframe.
Buying of granite raw material from TAMIN
Successfully managed relations with government agencies such as Ministries, Industries Secretary (IAS), Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (IFS), the Chairman of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, the Commissioner of Geology & Mining (IAS) and various other officials for getting approvals for Gem Granites
Communication with management about competitor’s activities, market situation and changing customer demands
Achievements:
Got approval for 20 granite quarry leases includes famous black and red granites from govt
Participated in tendering activities and secured Approval for 15 granite quarry leases floated by the Tamil Nadu government for the company which includes famous Paradiso and yellow granite
B.Sc. (Physics) 1994 Madras University, Chennai