Project Manager Resume
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Cambridge, MA
SUMMARY:
Enthusiastic project management professional and an experienced sales manager interested in obtaining a full - time position, offering creativity and critical thinking skills to help generate innovative ideas and gain industry experience.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Cambridge, MA
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for projects around business development
- Present to and consult with mid and senior level management on business trends with a view to developing the company’s unique selling propositions and differentiators.
- Develop project plans for several marketing and sales operations and concurrently manage each one of them to comply with multiple stakeholders’ diverse demands. Single handedly lead several copycat selling projects
- Instrumental in training sales representatives on excel reports, Tableau files, Salesforce.com and other sales enablement tools.
Confidential
Area Sales Manager
Responsibilities:
- Responsible to deliver annual volume within budgeted costs and achieve distribution / in store execution objective
- Estimated the category development potential for each category in which Confidential operates and built necessary plans to consistently grow shares in each category.
- Recognized market forces and trends and brought in the necessary level of dynamism to execute the Annual Operating Plan.
- Drove corporate / regional marketing agenda with local promotions.
- Aligned team on sell in plans, coordinated with market development management and brand teams to execute launch plans and implemented execution parameters
- Tracked and strategically used discounts, cost/expense control measures, FIFO, distributor/depot sales and distributor ROI (viability) on a regular basis
- Assessed performer capability and provided development feedback to frontline. Partnered with sales HR and driving People Core People Processes across the team
Confidential
Area Sales Executive
Responsibilities:
- Worked with multiple cross functional teams - managed 8 Territory Sales in-charges (TSIs) and 10 Distributors in Mumbai and led a team of 7 Pilot Sales Representatives, 4 Super Stockiest and 105 Sub-Distributors in Bihar.
- Managed grocery and chemist channels across Mumbai and successfully drove business worth 70 mn per month and handled business worth 10 mn per month across rural areas of Bihar
- Deft in scrutinizing and planning sales with area wise initiatives, inputs and competition analysis. Undertook end to end sales planning, meeting with buyers and supervised master data, estimation / forecasting
- Instrumental in training and motivating TSIs for better understanding of territory by providing necessary coaching skills for distributor sales representative management
- Instrumental in setting up an automated billing mechanism from the company to the distributor.
- Also worked on appointing a separate pharmaceutical stockist in every town which resulted in 40% growth in sales and 60% growth in reach
Confidential
Territory Sales
Responsibilities:
- Managed leading retail chains (Future Group-Big Bazaars and DMart) and generated business worth 20 mn per month
- Played a key role in negotiating deals with accounts with respect to price-offs consumer promotions and local investment. Initiatives taken in establishing new terms of trade contract resulted in a 50% growth over last year.
- Handled product listing in the assigned accounts and managed to get 25% more visibility space which contributed to achieving 50% growth over last year.
- Undertook analysis of sales statistics to formulate strategy and provided regular reports on competitor’s activities.
- Developed a sales trend analysis project for better forecasting in different channels
- Motivated the sales force with their past benchmark performances, helping them to grow and understand their key responsibilities.
- Recruited sales representatives, distributors and stockiest in Chennai
