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Mukul Bhartiya Head-Sales & Marketing(Organic Food Business), Arvind Ltd.
 
Mukul Bhartiya's Profile
Mukul Bhartiya
Head-Sales & Marketing(Organic Food Business), Arvind Ltd.
Arvind Ltd.
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Mumbai, India
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Professional summary

A sales and marketing professional with 11 year and 3 months of accomplished career track of delivering and sustaining revenues & profits.  Presently working with Arvind Ltd. as Head-Sales & Marketing 

Mukul Bhartiya's Experience
Current :

Head-Sales & Marketing(Organic Food Business), Arvind Ltd.

FMCG/Foods/Beverage
India, Ahmedabad

Working from 2010

Brief summary :

  • Planning, Designing, Developing and Executing product marketing plan by establishing Marketing strategy based business objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors.
    • New product launch
    • Identifying prospective clients, generating business from new accounts.
    • Monitoring and review lead and lag factors and advice corrective action.
    • Demand estimation and taking strategic buying decision. 
    • Identification and engagement of vendors to create able supply base.
    • Providing training and education to the sales force for better negotiation with the consumers.
    • Working Capital and Inventory management and pertaining to products category.

Previous :

National Category Manager-Pulses , Aditya Birla Retail Ltd.

Retail Chain/Logistics
India, Mumbai

Worked from 2009 to 2010

Brief summary :

  1. ·         Planning, Designing, Developing and Executing marketing plan for Pulses.   
  • Providing analysis of market potential of sales of pulses; Demand estimation and taking strategic buying decision, Working Capital and Inventory management pertaining to pulses category and monitoring lead and lag factors zone wise and advise corrective action.
  • Providing training regarding pulses to the sales force for better negotiation with the consumers.
  • Coordinating with RPC, Vendors and Marketing team for new product launch and giving appropriate push to existing product portfolio.
  • Identification and engagement of vendors to create able supply base.
  • Designing Class wise Marketing and communication Plan in consultation with Respective Category Managers and Zonal Category Managers.

Previous :

Manager-Business Development, Multi Commodity Exchange(Financial Technologies)

IT Products
India, Patna/Ranchi/Kolkata

Worked from 2009 to 2009

Brief summary :

ð  Administering the entire gamut of business development and marketing functions in the assigned territory of Bihar and Jharkhand. Later got the additional charge of Orissa, Chattishgarh and institutional members of these areas including West Bengal.

ð  Enrolling new members and sub-members for MCX.

ð  Elevating the business volume on MCX by direct selling and promotional activities.

ð  Creating awareness about commodity futures market in general and MCX in particular in above mentioned area to increase the market size and market penetration by regular seminars, client meets, market and mandi visits. Major emphasis was on to establish MCX brand as a perfect platform to hedge the risk of commodity market.

 

Previous :

Zonal Category Manager-Staples, Aditya Birla Retail Ltd.

Retail Chain/Logistics
India, Mumbai

Worked from 2008 to 2009

Brief summary :

ð  Drive up top line, bottom line, SPSF, inventory turn, GMROI, ensuring catchment specific SKU mix, finalising vendors and TOTs, product pricing, placement, DC and Store Fill Rate in Cereals, Pulses, Wheat, Flours, Sugar, Salt, Spices, Edible Oil and Dry Fruits and continuous catchment and competition analysis.

ð  SKU wise demand forecasting and planning for procurement.

ð  Inventory management.

ð  Handling consumer complaints pertaining to staples category.

Previous :

Category Manager-Staples(ROM), Reliance Retail Ltd.

Retail Chain/Logistics
India, Pune

Worked from 2006 to 2008

Brief summary :

ð  Drive up top line, bottom line, SPSF, inventory turn, GMROI, ensuring catchment specific SKU mix, finalising vendors and TOTs, product pricing, placement, DC and Store Fill Rate in Cereals, Pulses, Wheat, Flours, Sugar, Salt, Spices, Edible Oil and Dry Fruits and continuous catchment and competition analysis.

ð  SKU wise demand forecasting and planning for procurement.

ð  Inventory management.

ð  Handling consumer complaints pertaining to staples category.

Mukul Bhartiya's Education

Centere of Management Education, VAMNICOM, Pune

MBA/PGDM
India
From 2000 to 2002
Brief summary :

Specialization in Marketing

IGNOU

B.Com
India
From 1993 to 1997
Brief summary :

B.Com( Accounts, Business Law, Economics, Marketing, Business Communication)

 
 
 
 
Mukul's communities
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Mukul's contributions
Marketing is also about continuous changes in consumer profile, their needs and demands etc. and the marketing strategy has to change accordingly. If anybody Remamber that any strategy is not the best strategy, when it is not copied or has not been...
Social media is a platform to voicing opinions on anything and everything, where any positive feedback is considered as personal referral from a fellow user, which is far more impactful than any other form of advertisement. 
For creating WOM, some customer has to first experience it and then they will populate the good point about it through viral marketing. So, if any company wants to create a good WOM, then they first need to make in-store shopping experience excellent,...
Every medium plays a specific role in brand building. While online marketing is directed towards very specific and information seeking consumers, TV media creates curiosity among mass at large. Moreover, a brand creation will not be complete without...
Bihar might not be having things going for it right now, but Bihari's have. Only thing needed is to pool it togather. Talking about the bad name and politics, only biharis can decide that what they want to be and do. Anybody else's opinion does not...
 
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