Focused Sales Manager committed to motivating others and offering extensive knowledge penetrating new territories and promoting product lines. Highly effective mentor driven to assess individual and group performance to implement improvements and set goals. Determined individual with background in establishing and nurturing lucrative partnerships.
Key Result Areas:
● Forming and leading 50+ Channel Partners including large, mid-size and small System Integrators and Resellers driving Data availability, Data Management & Data Protection Solutions.
● Driving innovation and optimization across channels to continuously improve/expand company offerings and customer experiences for services like SOC, Remote Monitoring and committed Resolution SLAs.
● Enhancing the partner business readiness process through the formation and leadership of a virtual team that developed business requirements, designed, and delivered partner training.
● Defining product/channel marketing strategy, including development of channel marketing activities in accordance with overall business goals and objectives.
● Directing channel partners at all levels, including Sales Managers, Account Managers, Sales Representatives and Managing Directors; heading the end-users training on their Digital Transformation journey.
● Promoting DevOps Services – Platform and Database migrations, Cloud Consumption Monitoring, Infra Provisioning, DR Orchestration, Network Management, Patch Management & Asset Management.
● Leading the expansion of the distribution network and accomplishing steady increase in sales.
● Identifying and evaluating new growth sectors, including international business expansion; interacted with venture capitalists & strategic investors for funding.
● Defining and setting up channel programs and infrastructure; establishing dealer growth models to frame dealer and network performance targets; ensuring performance driven culture in the team by monitoring, performance reviews and motivating team members.
● Have managed and administered sales through channel partners to various verticals like Banking & Finance (BFSI), Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Energy, Military and Defense, Aviation and many more .
Highlights:
● Collaborated with sales, marketing, and other key stakeholders to understand customer insights and executed
●Customer centric market/sell plans and programs, which increased sales and margin growth by 12%
● Managing pipeline worth more than 10M USD over CRM Salesforce.
● Developed channel marketing strategies and managed programs to highlight the strengths of each account; Increased profit levels of mature dealers to over 2M USD for the company.
● Led the complete sales cycles of deals for Dell/EMC, Commvault, Quantum, Supermicro, Open Gear, Reveal Security, Automation Edge & Net Brain.
● Managed & supported the channel partner for products like DELL EMC (Servers and Storage, CI/HCI, Networking, Data Protection, VDI Solutions with VM ware Horizon) & Commvault (Complete Backup & Recovery Solution) as Certified Sales Professional and Quantum Solutions (Backup on Tapes and De-Duplication Appliances & StorNext File System with Auto-Tiering)
Key Result Areas:
● Developed new and existing channel partners/ distributors for achieving higher levels of sales & revenues and planned marketing and advertising strategies to build a stronger brand.
● Executed plans to reach out unexplored market segments & customer groups for business expansion across UAE and Qatar.
● Drove the overall long and short-term strategies and initiatives, working closely towards developing agreed business development plans
● Tracked competition & market movement; evolved marketing & sales strategies in-line with current market scenarios
● Safeguarded business and ensuring sustained growth, focusing on achieving/surpassing sales targets; expanded business reach and creating new sales
● Formulated corporate goals, short & long-term budgets, developing business plans for accomplishment of target & goal of organization; administered the entire gamut of business planning and driving strategic initiatives.
● Established processes & SOPs and deploying various methodologies & recommending modern practices to save execution time and realize operational efficiencies
● Liaised with top management for evolving strategic vision, driving change, infusing new ideas and taking product business performance and productivity to the next level.
● Manages sales and achieved targets by direct engagement with EU verticals like Government & Ministries, Education, BFSI, Hospitality, Healthcare, Energy and Defense and Military.
Highlights:
● Created brand awareness and promoted Alpha Cloud Solution (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Backup as a Services, DRaaS ) via partner network.
● Managed CISCO and Huawei Renewals for the Alphadata Customers from Abudhabi region.
● Accomplished Voice Recording Projects and their AMCs to customers including Presidential Flight – Abu Dhabi, ADIA, NBAD, Marina Mall, Finance House, HRA and others.
● Formulated plans: translated product & business strategies into executable plans and drove implementation in UAE & Qatar regions with a team of 07 members.
● Engaged in introducing new product lines & partnerships to the vast existing portfolio like AVECTO ( Now Beyond Trust ), UCOPIA, and SMART FM (Nanosoft Technologies), SMART SERVICE DESK - ITSM catering to BFSI, FM, Energy and Hospitality segments
● Acted as:
o Product Manager with focus on ASC Call Recording Solutions & WFM, AVECTO – Privilege Access Management, UCOPIA – Hotel Guest Wi-Fi solution, Alcatel- Lucent (Voice & Data Solutions), CYLANCE (Endpoint Security – ML & AI)
o Alcatel Certified Sales Representative (OXO, OXE, LAN SMB, WI-FI, Healthcare, Hospitality)
o ICT Exposure: Networking and IT Infrastructure (CISCO, DELL-EMC, HPE), Unified Communications & IP telephony (CISCO & Alcatel-Lucent), Mobility and Wi-Fi Solutions, IT Security, Structured Cabling, AV & Boardroom Solutions, Data Centre Solutions, Voice Recording Solutions, CCTV Solutions, Virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V), Microsoft Solutions & Licenses.
Highlights:
● Developed around 75 channel partners in 3 years and achieved YoY business growth of 12% by achieving sales target of Euro 3M for 2010-2012.
● Directed Voice Recording Projects including Presidential Flight – Abu Dhabi, Royal Saudi Air Force, MOI KSA; generated revenue of Euro 2M in 2.5 years.
● Collaborated with channel partners, participated in conferences, and showcased products to increase brand visibility for brands by 50%
● Acquired 40 out of 90 targeted projects in 3 years by providing price & sales support to the channels.
● Initiated events including CCID (Call Centre Innovation Day) which resulted in closure of projects worth Euro 50k.
● Accomplished closure of project with Royal Saudi Air Force valued at Euro 700k and Voice Recording Projects worth Euro 100k in 3 years.
Highlights:
● Acquired 6 corporate accounts including Bahrain City Center and Bahrain Defense Force to achieve YoY sales growth of 10%
● Developed new business from accounts including GPIC, ALBA and BAPCO LSDP to increase sales from BHD 400k to BHD 1M over 5 years.
● Mentored & motivated Sales and Service Team; developed KPIs and imparted training on Radios & Voice Recording Solutions to enhance their skills.
● Provided radio communication system solution worth BHD 30k for Bahrain International Circuit F1 Grand Prix.
● Identified & developed account for sales of Private 10 channel MPT 1327 System and orders for Motorola Mototrbo Digital Radios
● Managed the following sales activities:
o Over 1500 radios in Construction industry to clients like Al Hamad Construction, Nass Murray Roberts, and generated sale of BHD 400k with 6% YoY growth.
o 500 radios to the Hotel industry including The Ritz Carlton and Sheraton Hotel amounting to BHD 250k with YoY growth of 5%.
o 2000 radios in Manufacturing and Process industry to clients including Gulf Industrial Investment Corporation for BHD 400k BHD YoY growth of 8%.
o Over 500 radios to Airline and Civil Aviation Affairs industry including Gulf Air and KLM with sales of BHD 100k with yearly growth of 6%
● Generated the following:
o BHD 250k and 5% YoY growth through sales of Motorola point-to-point data connectivity for Nuetel Communication (10 Links) to Ernst & Young
o Sale of USD 250k from order of Jotron Airband Radios for US Navy in Bahrain in 2007
● Administered post sales activities, managed delivery, installation, and training of the Bahrain Defense Force staff to order HF radios valued at USD 2.3M.
● Bagged orders for HYT Private Radio Trunking 4 Channel System for BWTC in2008 and HYT Private Radio Trunking 6 Channel System for Ministry of Health in 2009.
STRATEGIC PLANNING & EXECUTION
NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH PROFIT CENTRE OPERATIONS
CHANNEL & DISTRIBUTION
MANAGEMENT REVENUE GENERATION
KEY ACCOUNT MAPPING
P&L ACCOUNTABILITY
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
CVSP20 Module 1
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Sales: Storage Credential 2020
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PERSONAL DETAILS:
Date of Birth: 15th December 1977
Languages Known: English, Hindi & Punjabi
Address: Al Mankhool Area, Bur Dubai, Dubai - UAE
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
No. of Dependents: 02
Driving License Details: UAE Driver’s License
Passport Number: Z5314779
Visa Status: Resident Permit