SAAGAR BHANOT

Contact: 09988032169 / E-Mail: saagar.86@gmail.com In quest of challenging opportunities in the domain of Sales & Marketing/ Key Account Management with a leading organization preferably in Chandigarh / Delhi / NCR ABRIDGEMENT A result oriented professional with 9 months of experience in managing Modern Trade, Key Account Management, Client Relationship Management and Team Management. Currently associated with Coca Cola FBO, Amritsar as Modern Trade Executive (Key Accounts) Skills in breaking new avenues & driving revenue growth and identifying opportunities at the market place. Exposure in sales & marketing, team building & taking leadership initiatives. Experience in charting out sales strategies and contributing towards enhancing business volumes & growth and achieving revenue & profitability norms. Competent in implementing effective solutions to the customer needs, with an aim to improve customer contentment to acquire repeat and referral business. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Sales & Marketing: Handling the marketing and sales operations for achieving increased growth & profitability. Identifying new streams for revenue growth & developing plans to build consumer preference. Using sales forecasting to ensure sale & profitability of products; analysing business developments & monitoring market trends. Key Account Management: Identifying prospective clients, generating business from new accounts & developing them to achieve consistent profitability. Building and maintaining healthy business relations with major clientele, ensuring maximum customer satisfaction by achieving performance parameters delivery & quality norms. Client Relationship Management: Managing customer centric operations and ensuring customer satisfaction by achieving delivery and service quality norms. Identifying improvement areas & implementing measures to maximise customer satisfaction levels. Team Supervision: Monitoring, training & motivating the manpower & ensuring quality deliverables in the market. Providing direction to the sales team for ensuring optimum sales performance. Analysing the performance of team members on regular basis. OGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE Since Mar11 with Coca Cola FBO, Amritsar as Modern Trade Executive (Key Accounts) Highlights: Adroitly streamlining strategies so as to enhance the incidence rate as well as promotional activities in modern trade (Future Consumption & Immediate Consumption). Overseeing the implementation of suggestive selling in Amritsar FBO E&D outlets (Subway, Dominos etc.). Proactively organized various training and development programmes on up-selling for associates. Achieved a growth of 103% YTD in Modern Trade and overall growth of 81% YTD in NKA. Converted Alpha Mall, Amritsar into Coca-Cola monopoly.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS MBA (Marketing) from Chitkara University, Solan (HP) in 2011 with 7.28 CGPA. B.Com. from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 2009 with 50.2%. 12th from Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE Board) in 2006 with 63.6%. 10th from Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE Board) in 2004 with 64.6%.

ACADEMIC PROJECT Successfully completed the following projects based on: Retail Marketing (Chitkara Mandi). Big Baazars Exchange Offer Project. Marketing Project of Soap Launch. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING Jul10-Aug10 with PepsiCO, Gurgaon Major Project: Title: Role: Market Mapping of Pepsi for Common Wealth Games, 2010 Conducted market mapping of key areas in New Delhi (Connaught Place, R.K. Puram, etc.) for PepsiCo. Collated data on the basis of assigned parameters (Availability and Visibility). Coordinated with a team of interns for data for final report. Analyzed & determined market availability share visa-vis their competitors and gave recommendations to improve same. Apr10-Jul10 with Chitkara University, Chandigarh Major Project Title: Role: Comparison of Policies for the Development of Intellectual Capital of Middle Level Managers Conducted a research about training and development programmes for middle level managers in companies from manufacturing industry (Swaraj Engines Ltd., Puncom Ltd., etc.). Organized a Management Development Programme on Supply Chain for Eastman Industries Ltd. (ancillary unit of Hero Cycles).

KNOWLEDGE ENHANCEMENT SCHEDULES Organized an Inter-B-School Business Quiz (Quest Ions). Underwent 15-day Winter School Programme on Financial Markets organized by FTKMC. Interacted with top management of organizations like BSE, MCX, YES BANK & RBI. EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES Renowned as founding member of School Alumni Association (DAVES) Played pivotal role as committee member in organizing various socio-cultural events for DAVES07 and Daves08. Successfully captained and played for cricket team and won accolades in Inter-school tourneys IT SKILLS Well versed with MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). PERSONAL DOSSIER Date of Birth: Address: Languages Known: 09-06-1986 House No. 306, Sector 21-A, Chandigarh (U.T.) -160022 English, Hindi and Punjabi