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Saravanan Balaraman is a seasoned retail and business operations professional with extensive experience in managing multiple retail stores, teams, and operations. He has a strong educational background in business administration and literature. Saravanan has worked in various roles, including Area Manager, Cluster Manager, and Store Manager, with a focus on business operations, team management, and sales growth.

Experience

  • Soch Apparels Pvt. Ltd.
    • Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Area Manager
      • Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
      • Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

      Handling Business Operations for Tamilnadu and PondicherryOperating 15 retails stores of TN & PY with about 30000 sq. ft. of retail area with a turnover of 35 Corers per an.· Leading a team of store managers towards effective collaboration and attainment of goals· Undertaking sound financial management to ensure stores are profitable and stay within budget· Ensuring compliance with company’s policies and operational guidelines· Dealing with problems by providing creative and practical solutions· Evaluate the performance using key metrics and address issues to improve it· Optimizing the operations to ensure efficiency· Organizing various training and development programs for all the employees for their skills developments.· Evaluating the employee performance and develop individual development plans. · Performing the market research to study consumer behavior, latest trends and competitor activity.

    • India
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Cluster Manager
      • Oct 2015 - Aug 2019

      Handling Business Operations of Reliance Trends Operating 10 retails stores of TN with about 95,000 sq. Feet of retail area with a turnover of 85 cr annually.· Developing a sales-driven and expense conscious cluster/region through selection and development of Key Store personals.· Co ordinating with the Store Managers to have well-planned business operations to deliver better results.· Frequent coordination with the regional merchandiser to have the proper inventory managing by inter store transfer and special promos etc.· Having Cluster Business growth of 13% compared to last year YTD· Inspecting the stores regularly, reporting to the senior management and implementing sales campaigns.· Business analysis with commercial parameters such as ATS, IPCM, SPSF & review on P&L and take adequate steps wherever required.· co ordinating for the Omni Channel, the online Business for the entire TN and achieved the highest sale in Pan India.· Organizing various training and development programmes for all the employees for their skills developments.

    • Store Manager
      • Jun 2011 - Oct 2015

      Handling Business operations of Reliance Trends store

  • Arvind Fashions Limited
    • Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Store Manager
      • Jul 2008 - Jun 2011
      • Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

      Handling Store Business operations

  • GLOBUS
    • Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Customer Service Representative
      • Jun 2003 - Jul 2008
      • Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Education

  • University of Madras
    Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing/Marketing Management, General
  • University of Madras
    Bachelor's degree, BA literature

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