Working in Sales and Distribution in FMCG industry. Currently working as Section Manager (P&G) in Abudawood Pakistan. Acquired basic experience in marketing and sales (direct customers as well as channel management) from Haleeb Foods and Descon Chemicals Limited.
Ongoing FMCG experience of sales and distribution is accompanied by industrial sales exposure as Business Manager in Descon Chemicals Limited. An internship in Pakistan Tobacco Company is also a part of my corporate career.
Customer Business Development at 2300 Retail Outlets in Lahore, divided into Large, Medium and Small Tiers
• Ensuring maximum sales of Procter and Gamble Brands in given customer universe of High Frequency Stores, Cosmetic stores and Pharmacies.
• Managing a product portfolio of 12 brands and more than 280 SKUs i.e. Gillette, Ariel, H & S, Pantene, Safeguard, Olay, Oral-B, Pampers, Always, Vicks, Wella and Duracell.
• Managing a team of 9 sales executives, 3 merchandisers and daily basis coordination with Supply chain team
• Implementing KPIs like Coverage, Bill Productivity, TDPs and GS.
• Ensuring transparent transfer of discounts and trade payments to retailers.
• Ensuring best in-store display of merchandising material in Golden stores and Platinum Stores.
• 100% target achievement and growth ensured in all tarde channels in all brands.
• Routes rationalization and increasing numeric coverage along with resource optimization.
Managing a team of territory sales managers, distributors and field sales staff in ten towns of Lahore
Maximizing sales of all SKU’s of Tea Max and Dairy Queen(tea whitener), Haleeb (UHT milk), Tropico and Just fruit (juices), Desi Ghee and Cream
Business development in outskirts of Lahore through channel development and management (Qasoor district and Shahdra)
Handling key accounts including Gourmet and Dore.
Ensuring agreed investments from distributors through monitoring of their assets, stocks and credit extended to retailers
Load management of dispatches on daily basis
Developing relationships with the wholesalers and retailers in order to maximize Haleeb’s products
Monitoring of trade offers and distributors incentives and claims
Ensuring best shelf place in retail stores for all Haleeb products
Providing weekly market intelligence reports to the Regional Sales Manager
Hydrogen Peroxide Division (Descon Oxychem Limited)
Handled planning and execution of local and export sales.
Worked with distributors and textile customers for sale development and key accounts management in hydrogen peroxide business area.
Calculated total market share of Descon Oxychem Limited versus Sitara Peroxide Limited in Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad.
Worked with five distributors in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Amritsar (India).
Pulp and Paper Division
Worked in capacity of Business Manager from February 2014 to September 2014.
Handled sizing agents, optical brightener agents and surface sizing business areas.
Achieved targets on basis of contribution margin, volume and receivables.
Weekly reporting about competition’s pricing, product development, promotional activities and collection of samples for comparison testing.
Worked with logistics and quality control for relevant decisions and planning.
Prepared complete sales budget for 2014-15 for paper chemicals division.
Achievements at Descon:
Successfully handled Descon Oxychem Limited and Pulp and Paper Division portfolio in capacity of Business Manager.
Winner of Team Building Event 2014.
Organized Joint Venture of Descon and Ivax India in February 2014.
Trade Marketing and Distribution Department,
Regional Office, Lahore.
Responsibilities at internship:
Worked on a project of 4P’s of Marlboro versus Pakistan Tobacco Company’s premium brands i.e. Dunhill & Benson & Hedges.
Observed and analyzed execution of trade marketing and distribution functions by field visits of 200 retail stores in Lahore.
Interacted with retailers to find out reasons for decline in sales at some key accounts.
Submitted a detailed analysis report the head office