Nov 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Currently I run a Start up Flayvours4u which are chain of Ice cream stores in City of Bangalore.
• Have been instrumental in starting the business from Ground from concept to Opening stores.
• We operate three stores where am responsible for Store P&L, Inventory Management, Hiring, Training& Development, Customer Acquisition& Retention.
• Also responsible for Business Development, Increase in Market share.
• Responsible for Business Licenses, Compliance like Food Safety & Hygiene
• Flayvours4u USP’s are we offer instantly made Ice cream serving more than 250 types of Ice-cream using Fresh Milk . Our Ice creams are made fresh every day, low fat, using homemade toppings & Syrups.

Dec 2016 – Sep 2017 · 9 mos · Vijaywada

• As Part of Team Lead was responsible for leading team on joint Project with Govt of A.P and World Bank known as APRIGP project. The project was envisaged to establish an organized rural retail chain from the kirana stores owned by SHG members across 150 Mandals and help them in the aggregation of the local demand, logistics management to achieve quality and cost advantage for the products and services.
•  Brought in as a Process expert to redefine and setup Rural retail Stores from Ground up Project stage, Advise the Govt Teams at District& Mandal Level on Best retail practices, Preparation of SOP’s, Creation of Training Modules and Make the MART as Destination point for all SHG Group members.
•  Advised and facilitated SERP project core team in scale-up, capacity-building, Train & develop Supervisor and Store Management team to run the operation of MART stores.
•  Conducted a In depth Customer & Market Analysis of each Market and present the facts to World Bank Team.
•  Develop Store wise Budgets, Blueprint of store lay out plan and Develop replenishment system ensure better Stock Turn over’s.
• Creation of 3PL Vendor agreements, Route Mapping for each stores in plain and Agency areas.
• Work closely with SERP staff in developing annual, quarterly, and monthly work plans and achieve Project targets.
•  Provide guidance to district level project staff and cluster level spear head team in their efforts to achieve project outcomes.
• Development of templates for MIS, Dashboards and POS System for reporting for District &Mandal Level Team.
•  Instrumental in Opening 71 Stores fully complaint Rural Retail Stores across 100 Mandals.

Sep 2012 – Sep 2016 · 4 yrs · Agra Area, India

• As Deputy General Manager for U.S Retail Gaint Walmart as Profit center Operations
• ↳ Responsible for P&L Management, Merchandising, Business development, Membership expansion & Retention, Stock replenishment, Store audits, Compliance, Market intelligence and Competition analysis.
• ↳ Achievement of budgeted Business plan ensuring expenses is indexed to sales, create & implement plans to maximise store financial performance, analyse economic trends and deliver projected ROI and EBITDA.
• ↳ Achieve Channel sales targets in Primary & Secondary catchment through Omni Channel by increasing the markets share and outlet coverage. Analysis on Beat productivity, Items per Bill, Margin on assortment sold analysis.
• ↳ Monitoring of various compliance like Food safety, Inventory Audit, Operational Parameters, Asset protection, monitoring of Human resource compliance and taking all preventive measures on ensuring compliance.
• ↳ Directing and motivating the sales Business development team to provide members accurate information, competitive pricing, proper price comping, maintaining in-stock and inventory levels.
• ↳ Hiring, training, mentoring, assigning duties, providing recognition, and ensuring diversity awareness. Uphold company’s open door policy in meeting associates, listening to concerns, researching issues, reviewing Company policies and procedures.

Feb 2012 – Sep 2012 · 7 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• As Regional Manager west responsible for making all the hypermarket in Gujarat and Mumbai Profitable.
• Key Deliverables
• ↛ Ensuring all Hypermarkets in region meet their Budgeted Targets EBITA positive and achieve their Steering wheel targets.
• ↛ Continuous monitoring of various operational parameters across regions and taking corrective actions.
• ↛ Implementation of space, range, display in all stores and execution of the same are done within the stipulated timelines.
• ↛ Achievement of above 95% score in all the audits carried out by both external and internal agencies.
• ↛ Liaising with the government bodies for procurement of needed licenses; generating non sales revenue by tying up with various vendors.
• ↛ Training, Recruitment and timely inputs to be provided to all staff in order to take up larger supervisory roles.

Mar 2005 – Jan 2012 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• As Regional operations for ITC-ABD was responsible for expansion of Choupal saagar from ground up across the various geographical regions.
• ↛ Responsible for Store Design, Planogram, Vendor tie ups with both National and Local level vendor to ensure region specific assortments.
• ↛ Promoting ITC brands in Stores as well E-choupal Networks by implementing various Marketing plans and using channel like Road shows, Haats in increase the Brand visibility and availability in local Catchments.
• ↛ Preparing sales budgets, cost management logistics and SOP’s Training manual in retail operations and conduct CRT as well as OJT for all Stakeholders.
• ↛ Managing the responsibility related to new product introduction, category role-matrix as well as analysis of margins/volumes/sales mix for each product.
• ↛ Monitoring the inventory, rationalising the stock and managing shrinkage.