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Charan Rajput is a seasoned sales and marketing professional with extensive experience in driving business growth, developing sales infrastructure, and implementing best practices in distribution and cost management. He has a strong background in sales, marketing, and operations, with a focus on customer-centricity and strategic planning. With a strong educational foundation in business management, Charan has a proven track record of success in leading teams and achieving sales targets. Charan has held various leadership positions in companies such as BN Group, Bata India Limited, Cargill, Agro Tech Foods Limited, and Cadbury Gifting India, where he has been responsible for developing sales strategies, managing teams, and driving business growth. Throughout his career, Charan has demonstrated a strong ability to analyze market trends, develop sales infrastructure, and implement best practices in distribution and cost management. He is a strategic thinker with a customer-centric approach, and has a strong understanding of sales, marketing, and operations.

Experience

  • BN Group
    • Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
    • National Sales Head
      • Jul 2023 - Present
      • Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

      Markets Strategy, coverage pipeline, Revenue growth, sales enablers, category overview, Marketing Coordination, Comprehensive Forecast planning, Distribution Transformation, 360⁰ Go-to-Market strategy, competition benchmarking, estimate-budget setting, techno commercial training, distribution outreach, pricing hierarchy, Customer Acquisition activity, market Expansion strategies in chosen geographies, Supply Chain team collaboration, Customer Centricity

  • Bata India Limited
    • Gurgaon, India
    • General Manager Sales
      • Jan 2019 - Jun 2023
      • Gurgaon, India

      • I’m focused on driving performance and delivering on our growth ambitions, ability to cascade strategic frameworks into Sales operating systems & processes• Responsible even passionate about creating a faster and more responsive business aimed in each state • Coaching individuals at different capability levels & appetite to win their hearts & minds behind GTM Transformation efforts• Pragmatic, ability to handle ambiguity, flexible with strong influencing skills• Passion for winning in the Last Mile Execution• Strategic skills – Able to combine data, competitive landscape and Insights into strong business opportunities/case for change and selling it within the organization and Distributors Partners

    • United States
    • Food and Beverage Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Distribution Manager -Sales Ops
      • Apr 2017 - Dec 2018

      Responsible for all 360⁰ business activities - Speed to Market, speed to response, Business acumen, People management , BTL, TTL, Planning, Forecasting, Costing, Route to market, Go-to-Market, all efficiency parameters. Numeric , Weighted,▪ I was accountable for an overall infrastructure, sales & customer development in both the region North & East. ▪ Stakeholder Engagement to identify and engage with key individuals both internal & external, to achieve a profitable outcome.▪ Collaborated with stakeholders and re-distribution stockiest to achieve the assigned secondary sales targets.▪ Imparted training to new members; monitored performance of different sales personnel and compared to month’s objectives▪ Area specific activation plans (ATL/BTL/TTL) across the region to resonate with the local preferences.▪ Driving sales initiatives and achieving desired targets with overall responsibility of Return on engagement (ROE)▪ Responsible for GTM, fundamental growth principles are to share the right amount of basic knowledge to people around

    • Sr Sales Manager
      • Jul 2014 - Mar 2017

      ▪ Managing the business as per the AOP and managing overall ground activities (Execution) that ensure business success like, MDM, beat, route/town optimization, techno commercial training and other engagement parameters. ▪ Accountable for an overall infrastructure, sales & customer development in both the region North & East. ▪ Stakeholder Engagement to identify and engage with key individuals both internal & external, to achieve a profitable outcome.▪ Collaborated with stakeholders and re-distribution stockiest to achieve the assigned secondary sales targets.▪ Imparted training to new members; monitored performance of different sales personnel and compared to month’s objectives.▪ Area specific activation plans (BTL) across the region to resonate with the local preferences.▪ Driving sales initiatives and achieving desired targets with overall responsibility of Return on engagement (ROE)▪ Responsible for GTM, fundamental growth principles are to share the right amount of basic knowledge to people around.

    • India
    • Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Sr. Area Sales Manager
      • Dec 2010 - Jun 2014

      Responsible for all the business activities that ensure the business success

    • Area Sales Manager
      • Apr 2008 - Nov 2010

      Sales Processes Driving KPIs for sales & distribution as per goal Sheets of the Regions. Credit & Claim Management & Market Intelligence. Ensure 100 % adherence to the implementation of SFA. Monitoring performance and ROI of Distributors & Stockists.Business Value and Contribution Delivering yearly sales target Approximately 100 Cr Annual of overall area level in tonnage & Value. Generate sales of company products through a team of Sales Managers & FoS in order to achieve the annual sales targets.Market Development & GTM Strategy. SKU’s level analysis of market trends to develop future plans. IBP (Integrated Business Plan) month wise business forecasting and bench marking the previous year ensuring a proper inventory management. Anchoring for Sales Force Automation all the Markets. Enabling the team for successful test launches of SFA.

    • Sales Supervisors roles
      • Dec 2003 - Mar 2008

      Sales & Distribution Management. Develop Sales Infrastructure and Implement best practices of Distribution & Cost Management. Generation of Primary Sales in line with Secondary Sales. Preparation, implementation and review of sales plan. Daily monitoring of sales and retail productivity; & weekly sales review. Weekly/Monthly submission of sales related reports. People Development & Orientation. Recruitment and training of Sales Executive. In-Depth coaching on Distributors ROI Calculations. Maintain and develop good business relationship with all existing distributors.

    • Sales Trainee
      • Sep 2002 - Nov 2003
      • Delhi, India

      Sales & Distribution, Primaries secondaries, distributors claim, wholesale drive, value purchase scheme, products visibilities, POSM deployment, Lifting scheme, all the promotional activities for Brand Awareness & Visibility in respective market place.

Education

  • 2013 - 2014
    Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
    EGMP - General Management, Business Management, General
  • 2006 - 2008
    Polaris Academy Dehradun
    Master of Business Administration - MBA, Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General
  • 1997 - 2000
    Sahu Jain College, Najibabad
    Bachelor of Commerce - B.Com, Business/Commerce,

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