PRAKASH. M. GANDHI

• Formed strategic partnerships, established metrics and participated in complex negotiations.
• Actively involved in business planning & analysis for assessment of revenue potential in business opportunities
• Managed annual freight budget of $ 110 Million.
• Negotiated with 35+ different Shipping Lines ,Ports, W'Houses and freight companies and received annual contracts resulting in tremendous cost savings.

• Developed effective business plans to align strategic decisions with long-term objectives.
• Pivotal in achieving agency budgets with a substantial growth in the revenues along with a firm control on expense

ü Instrumental in implementing the following

o Credit control systems thereby ensuring minimum trade outstanding

o Rebate control systems and cut out fictitious payments.

• Increased revenue streams by reducing costs, managing schedules and performing variance and risk analysis to implement corrective actions.
• Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules and contract negotiations.
• Developed effective business plans to align strategic decisions with long-term objectives.
• Successfully developed exports on existing services.
• Improved the Fob percentage thereby giving more control on the import cargo

• Developed strategic and tactical marketing plans for region.
• Successfully handled maintenance of equipment stocks, in liaison with container management division, monitoring imbalances, and container velocities and maximising demurrage collection.
• Responsible for the initiation OF LCL - group age, consolidation boxes from THE Indian sub continent to the Arabian Gulf In 1998
• Played a stellar role along with the VP in relationship management with the Key accounts like Sabic, Equate Exxon, Qapco, Mobil, Dubal, Balco and Gramco, ETC,