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Yogender Singh Solanki

Business Development Executive

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India20 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 14 years of experience in sales and marketing.
  • Expert in driving growth in the Food & Beverage sector.
  • Strong relationships with major market players.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Sales and Marketing professional in the Food & Beverage industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales ManagementStrategic Account ManagementSales StrategyInstitutional SalesKey Account ManagementNew Business DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentVendor ManagementCustomer ServiceOperations Management

Other Skills

Account PenetrationAnnual ReportsBrand ManagementBudget ManagementBusiness NetworkingBusiness PlanningBusiness StrategyBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Capital ExpendituresChannel Account ManagementCoachingCompetitive AnalysisConsultationContract ManagementCost Control

About

Im Unstoppable.. Out of box thinker, Food lover and creater.. Throughout my career, I have been driven by my intellectual curiosity to find answers to the most pressing questions. Whether it’s finding a perfect sales & marketing strategy, product or a root cause of a problem, or finding a rare product for the market. I ‘ve been quickly uncovering a customer’s pain point and identify a strategic solution. With my refined skill set, I bring customer-centric mindfulness that enables firm to innovate and thrive. This is what I am doing for my clients at HyFun Foods as I act as nexus to market giants like ITC MasterChef, Amul, Godrej-Tyson, Mother Dairy, Keventer, Sumeru, Future Group, and QSR – Burger King, KFC, Carls Jr, Pizza Hut, CCD, etc. I am a cross-functional, and creative sales & marketing professional with over 14 years of experience with proven track record of handling large size business and all channels like Modern trade, Food-service, QSR & B2B across the Food & Beverage /FMCG sectors & Frozen food industry. In addition to this valuable experience additional key impacts includes • Strategic Business planning • Financial planning, product coasting, AOP’s planning • Marketing, merchandising, and brand strategy . Market mapping, product launch • Customer, vendor, and client Relationship • Planning TOT’s, JBP’s and Persistent and skilled at negotiating. • Training and development

Experience

Del monte foods private limited

Regional Sales Manager- west (Food Service)

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Leading the Food Service business across Western India with a focus on driving growth, expanding channel reach, and building strong partnerships with HORECA, QSRs, and institutional clients. Responsible for strategic account management, team leadership, and delivering sustainable revenue growth for Del Monte’s premium product portfolio.
Account PenetrationBudget ManagementBusiness PlanningBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Institutional SalesMan Management+3

Hyfun foods

2 roles

Senior Manager Institutional sales

Aug 2024Jul 2025 · 11 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Sales PlanningFood ProcessingQSRBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Key AccountsInstitutional Sales+1

Key Account Manager, India

Jan 2019Aug 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  • Industry: Frozen Food – RTC /RTE/ Frozen Pizza/IQF
  • Functional Area: Sales and Operations, Business development, promotional planning, production planning/ New Product launch, NPD –Horeca/ QSR & Private label (Burger King, KFC, Carls’Jr., CCD / Amul, ITC, Godrej- Tyson, Mother Dairy, Future group, Sumeru, Keventer,)
  • Cross functioning – Working with NPD team for better understanding of product and managing customers quarry efficiently and quickly.
  • Product Sensory and development – I am a passionate home-cook, using my skills and market knowledge to develop new products as per production line capability and market trend.
  • Supply chain management - Managing dispatches and ordering stock management,stock movements.
Annual ReportsContract ManagementCultural DiversityMarketing CommunicationsSales PlanningProduct Marketing+53

Funwave foods llp

AGM Key Account domestic & International business

Aug 2023Sep 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Annual ReportsContract ManagementCultural DiversityMarketing CommunicationsSales PlanningProduct Marketing+52

Donna italia

Sales & Operations Manager

Aug 2015Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · India

  • Donna Italia provides pizza culinary solutions to star hotels, cafes, Bars, canteen, and Banquets.
  • Industry: Frozen Food / RTC/
  • Functional Area: Develop and monitor marketing and sales for HORECA Sector (Hotels, Restaurants, and Caterers)
Annual ReportsContract ManagementCultural DiversityMarketing CommunicationsSales PlanningProduct Marketing+53

Ramdev food products pvt. ltd.

ASM Modern Trade Pan India

Jul 2013Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  • Modern Trade and Horeca/ Foodservice Pan India
  • Working division – Branded spices and Instant food category / FMCG / Food & Beverage category
  • Spice & Condiments category
  • Business Formats: Reliance Market- cash n carry/Reliance Retail Ltd/Future Retail Ltd/Metro
  • Dmart/Hypercity/Star Bazaar/More Hyper/ Spencer’s / Booker India/ Wal-Mart
Annual ReportsVendor ManagementCultural DiversityMarketing CommunicationsCoachingMan Management+30

Countdown supermarkets

Assistant Category Manager

Jan 2009Sep 2012 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Auckland

  • Department: Chill & frozen food category (Cheese, Butter, Milk, Ice-Cream, frozen Vegetables, frozen Meat, RTC/RTE/Fresh juice/ frozen Pizza, frozen bakery products, etc.)
  • Key responsibilities:
  •  Managing multiple ad and promotional programs
  •  Minimizing shrinkage and planning markdowns
  •  Determines the correct product assortment for our customers in current and new markets, including Private Brand offering
  •  Works closely with the merchandising operations to complete planograms and their successful implementation. Closely monitors the results of these resets to minimize out of stocks and markdowns.
  •  Negotiates with vendors for the lowest cost of goods. Understands and analyses vendor cost and promotional allowance structures and how our net cost of goods compared to our competition
Annual ReportsVendor ManagementCultural DiversityMarketing CommunicationsCoachingMan Management+30

Spicejet limited

Boeing 737/800 L&T officer /Shift supervisor

Aug 2005Aug 2009 · 4 yrs · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • Supervise flight operations and Cargo
  • Air-side operations
  • load and trim officer
  • Customer Service Department
  • Reservations and check in
  • Supervise & liaison of functional operations such as Check- in passengers, Arrivals and departures.
  • Daily and monthly reports of operations and customer service to Head Office. Such as – daily Sales Report, Departure and arrival report, Delay reports
  • Training undertaken - Dangerous goods, Basic AVSEC, Screening , cargo Loading
Annual ReportsVendor ManagementCultural DiversityMarketing CommunicationsCoachingMan Management+30

Reliance communications

Senior Sales Executive

Jul 2004Aug 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • Selling telecommunication and broadband products
Man ManagementMicrosoft ExcelService DeliveryTeam ManagementSalesCustomer Satisfaction+3

Education

Whitireia Community Polytechnic

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jul 2009Oct 2010

Whitireia and WelTec

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jul 2009Oct 2011

Gujarat University

B.Com — Accounting

Jan 2001Jan 2004

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Jan 1999Jan 2001

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Jan 1998Jan 2001

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