Summary

Ability to interface fairly and effectively with relations, professional manners, capable to work under pressure, meet deadlines in a timely manner. Ambitious team player, hard worker, enjoys challenges, learns, goal oriented, driven, and adapts quickly. Strong communication and conceptual skills, very personable excellent organizer, skilled listener with ability to asses, manage and the needs of multiple departments./p/div

Projects

Effects of Brand Equity on Consumer Buying Behavior in Tobacco Industry

Experience

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Sales Capability and GTM Manager
Ismail Industries Limited
Nov 2021 - Present | Karachi, Pakistan

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Assistant Trade Category Manager
Ismail Industries Limited
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020 | Karachi, Pakistan


Assist manager in developing product marketing strategy, trade marketing initiatives and work closely with the sales and marketing team to ensure trade marketing strategies are aligned with marketing objectives and sales revenue targets
Serve as liaison to sales teams, helping to define and optimize local marketing, sales and outreach efforts in geographic markets across the country
Develop and advance strong internal and external stakeholders’ partnerships to ensure effective implementation of marketing campaigns that meet or exceed objectives. Examine marketing research to assess campaign performance and provide suggestions for optimization

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Assistant Market Strategy and Planning Manager
Procter & Gamble Pakistan Limited
Oct 2013 - Jan 2018 | Karachi, Pakistan


Responsible of handling core commercial operations for Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Safeguard, Olay and Wella Professional
Manage purchase requisitions and GR for miscellaneous marketing materials using SAP
Optima/Factsheets (trade plans) handling and tracking timely deployment to sales team and distributor
Budget tracking, commitments, claims, actual, Data analysis of sales and active distribution by brand and channels
Monitor and track brands market share & performance quarterly basis to identify risks & opportunities
Facilitating on top random field stock requirements with SNO
Coordinating with vendors for timely POSM development and deployment
Consumer/Market insights on competition pricing and marketing initiatives
Analyze the trends of all the promotional and customer business development activities
To report Brand Manger regarding the brand performance and share, sales, retail audit and distribution across the channels on monthly basis.

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Team Leader – Sales & Trade Marketing
British American Tobacco Group
Nov 2011 - Apr 2013 | Karachi, Pakistan

• Supervise sales / merchandising team (with leadership skills, motivation, reward management and delegation)
• Make availability of the products via sales man/sales promoters (According to the planogram store wise)
• To proceed retailers customer on Invoice discounts / Off invoice discounts
• Customer monthly / Quarterly / yearly Incentives
• Customer’s business partnership agreements (for new and existing customers according to the company policy)
• Keep tack and execute key business drives like (Sales promotions, Discounts, different trade offers, in store marketing activities, merchandising and consultancy)
• Key accounts management (stock check, trade offers, discounts and different marketing promotions and maintain good 1-2-1 relationship with random visits)
• Claim processing of Retailers/distributors (monthly, quarterly or yearly as per company policy)
• Distributor ROI, and clearly brief about the profits and to seek other business partners for investment which could help more company financials growth
• Distributor stock issuance request, invoice processing and payments
• Distributor on ground inventory record
• Daily sales tracking in term of value and volume
• Distributor coverage (Actual covered vs. stores universe, Numeric and weighted etc)
• Logistics and warehousing
• BTL activities
• Market visits

Education

Preston University
Masters, , Masters in Business Administration‎
Marketing
CGPA 3.3/4
2013
University of Karachi
Bachelors, , Bachelor's of Commerce‎
Accounts, Stats, Economics, Business Law, Income Tax Law
2008
Govt. Islamia Science College Karachi
Intermediate/A-Level, , Pre-Engineering‎
Chemistry
2004

Skills

Expert Accounts / Manager
Expert Admin Assistantce
Expert Admin Task Planning
Expert Affiliate Management
Expert Agile Leadership
Expert Analytic Reporting
Expert Area Sales
Expert Asset Management
Expert Asset Planning
Intermediate Aviation Regulation
Expert  Adobe Premiere Pro
Expert Billing
Expert Boutique Knowledge
Expert Branch Licensing Policy
Expert Brand Activation
Expert Brand Management
Expert Business Decision Making
Expert Business Development Strategies
Expert Client Acquisition
Expert Client Relationshup
Expert Compliance Quality Control
Beginner Compressed Air
Expert Content Management
Expert Cooordination Skills
Expert Corporate Sales Management
Expert Create Purchase Orders
Expert CRM Analysis
Expert CRM Program Management
Expert Customer Service Systems
Expert Data Management
Expert Data Reconciliation
Expert Database Management 
Expert Development Development
Expert Direct ales
Expert Distributors
Expert EHR
Expert Employee Performance Management
Expert End to End Sales
Expert Ensure Collection
Expert Enthusiastic Self Starter
Expert Field Operation
Expert Fincane Reporting
Expert Formal Quotations Preparation
Expert Good Presentation Skills
Intermediate Government Clients
Intermediate Health Safety Management
Expert HFO Operations Handling
Expert High Achiever
Expert Insurance Knowledge
Expert Insurance Coordination

Languages

Intermediate Pashto
Expert Punjabi
Expert Sindhi
Expert English
Expert Urdu