Karthick Lakshmanan

Chief Operating Officer

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India11 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led market expansion for Zolo in urban areas.
  • Achieved 14.5% revenue growth at Zoomcar.
  • Implemented strategies to halve accounts receivable.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned operations leader in the real estate and automotive sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProfit & Loss ManagementPnl ManagementProperty AcquisitionBusiness DevelopmentMarketing StrategyMarket ExpansionRevenue GrowthFinancial ManagementSales Management

Other Skills

Account ManagementAdvertisingAgile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsBudgetingBusiness StrategyBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Catalog ManagementCommercial OperationCustomer EngagementCustomer ExperienceCustomer RetentionCustomer SatisfactionCustomer ServiceCustomer Success

About

Steering Zolo's Coliving & Hotels ventures, my team and I excel in property acquisition, driving growth with keen market analyses and strategic expansions. With a sharp focus on delivering robust EBITDA performance, we've cemented Zolo's Property in bustling urban markets. My past triumph at Zoomcar, where we propelled the Bangalore and Mysore luxury car segment, is a testament to our prowess in operational efficiency and revenue enhancement. The strategies we implemented cut cancellations and halved accounts receivable, showcasing our commitment to financial fortitude and service integrity.

Experience

11 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs
Current Experience

Zolo

5 roles

Head of Operations

Promoted

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Commercial OperationService-Level Agreements (SLA)LeadershipProfit & Loss ManagementDirect SalesProcess Improvement+1

Regional Manager

Promoted

Apr 2023Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

PnL ManagementTeam BuildingProperty acquisitionMarket AnalysisGap AnalysisNew city expansion

Area Manager

Oct 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr

  • Preparing sales plan for peak traffic and non-peak traffic
  • Developing and implementing sales strategy for chennai market
  • Tracking revenue achievement, occupancy, and conversion
  • Optimising & cost controlling
  • Aid team members in achieving their targets
  • Help and aid in sales closures
  • Go out on coaching calls with team members
  • Hire & Coaching
  • Providing training to all team members on a regular basis on sales skills
  • Implement & maintain processes and systems by ground level
  • Marketing strategy & planning

Cluster Manager

Promoted

Mar 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Manage the Profit / Loss end to end for the assigned cluster
  • Drive the offline channels and close liaisoning with the online team to ensure meeting of Demand Targets
  • Responsible for managing operations (quality of service and escalations) in the marketplace and ensuring high quality of customer experience.
  • Building sustainable demand channels from a long term perspective such as corporates Tie ups.
  • Responsible for meeting the supply targets and identifying new supply avenues.
  • Building a highly engaged and energetic team that will strive for success and have high key resources.
  • Creating new processes to improve operational efficiencies. - Customer Delight - Delight and wow the customers through service and hospitality culture, managing low failure rates of services, handling customer escalations
  • Customer Acquisition and Conversion: Identify and source new sales opportunities through inbound lead follow-up, meet and convert customers daily through schedule visits and walk-ins, handle churn management of existing residents, drive referral programs, manage hyperlocal marketing activities etc.
  • Property Operations: Supervision of property staff and their daily tasks
  • Hiring and training: for all property staff, housekeepers
  • Community Events: Organize community events at Zolo Properties
  • Data Recording and Analysis: Maintain customer data, analyze them and come up with insights to improve customer satisfaction, retention and acquisition
  • Cost management: for all properties in the cluster, to keep cost under guidelines
  • Compliance activities: in terms of keeping all records for the residents, staff and vendors
  • Driving the sales growth and manage the entire end to end operations of the for the entire cluster.

Assistant manager P&L

Nov 2018Mar 2019 · 4 mos

  • ▪ Managing all customer issues, tickets and complaints within desired turnaround times
  • ▪ Activations of new properties, management of all vendor tasks and setup work
  • ▪ Supervision of food operations in the cluster
  • ▪ Cost management for all properties in the cluster
  • ▪ Maintaining a high Customer Satisfaction Score for the properties
  • ▪ Low Turnaround times for customer tickets / issues
  • ▪ Timely setup / activations of new properties
  • ▪ Cost management and control
  • ▪ Process adherence and timely reporting signing and Implementing offline Marketing Campaigns.
  • Evaluate needs, define and implement key brand promotional projects (e.g. brand-building programs for Zolo properties, mailing drives, advertising/promotional campaigns, offline events/kiosks, briefing documents for sales etc.)
  • Aligning and coordinating with the central online marketing team
  • Define marketing and promotion needs of the city for digital marketing activities, to be run centrally by a digital marketing team.
  • Lead Generation & Sales Conversion
  • Identify the right channels and source various sales opportunities through inbound lead follow-up, outbound cold calls and emails
  • Sales Training and Monitoring
  • Make sure that the property, as well as office-based teams, are thoroughly trained for customer centricity and sales conversion
  • monitoring and driving their performance.
  • Data Analysis
  • Measuring the efficacy of campaigns vs targets achieved.

Zoomcar

Manager - Supply - GTM - Business development

Oct 2021Apr 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Market Expansion: Scaled Bangalore & Mysore from zero, onboarding 1k cars, including luxury segments.
  • Revenue Growth: Boosted monthly revenue by 14.5% (INR 2.65 Cr) by cutting cancellations
  • Financial Fortification: Launched Recovery Team POD, slashing Accounts Receivable by 50% for the Indian market.
  • CRM Marketing : Led the Marketing campaign for Pan India Host led viz : Gupshup, Mo engage.
  • Fraud Mitigation: Led anti-fraud strategies, formulating new SOPs for a safer booking environment.
SQLJiraBusiness StrategyBusiness DevelopmentMarketing Strategy

Happ- the healthcare app

Cluster Head

Dec 2016Nov 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Direct SalesSales Management

Practo

Sr Territory Manager(Cloud Computing Saas Based Software)

May 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

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  • ● Develop and accomplish a lead generation plan including Outbound and Inbound prospect
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  • ● Follow up with prospective clients and should be an expert in closing deals
  • ● Attending sales group meetings concerning sales targets, forecasts, and reporting on market
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  • ● Participating in conferences, representing the company for brand awareness
  • ● Maintaining and expanding the database of prospects for the organization
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Feb 2015Jun 2015 · 4 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Education

Anna University Chennai

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2013Jan 2015

University of Madras

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA

Jul 2011May 2013

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