Vikas Kumar Pathak

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Summary: A highly enthusiastic professional with distinctive people skills set, self-motivated and distinctive marketer looking forward to myself as an accomplished Manager with quality business consulting knowledge in Logistics & Supply Chain.

Specialties: Adaptability is the biggest strength inculcated through years. Redefining the logistics efficiency by remodeling the existing process and giving transparency of current position of the vehicles. Conducted requirement gathering sessions. Excellent negotiation and interpersonal skills. Exceptional customer service. Managed FMCG distribution in rural, urban & metro areas. Managed stakeholders. Channel business development. Team management, Retailing, Promotions, Pricing, Budgeting, Forecasting. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Corel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – 4 years

Working as Asst. Project Manager/ Functional Consultant for Autoplant Systems India Pvt. Ltd. Since September’ 2014.

Studying the existing process flow, bring out the fallacies and remodel the process using RFID technology to overcome the same, to maximize the efficiency in plant logistics, thus contributing in increasing the plant efficiency.

Act as the catalyst, for the acceptance of new process by highlighting, training & motivating the core team on the advantages & features of the new process.

Ensuring all documentation is developed & maintained since inception to completion of the project.

Creating & maintaining project documents, plans, scope docs, key activities, milestones, dependencies, duration, task-ownership, risks and issues for each activity, Process accountability.

Being single point of contact, bring uniformity in understanding of projects in between various stakeholders.

Agreeing to escalation paths and to manage expectations for all stakeholders.

Maintaining effective financial & project progress forecasting and reports.

Monitoring allocated human and material resources, associated revenue costs and all other costs against the budget.

Ensures that projects are formally closed, subsequently reviewed, and appropriate action taken.

Building and managing a team and engages teams/contacts.

Assist client in completing infrastructure work as per the project requirement.

Milestone Plan, Risk & Issues register, Tracking Dashboard, weekly and monthly reports etc.

Managing all customer communication during the project life cycle ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.

Managing internal and external suppliers to deliver the project on time and within cost tolerances.

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN AT AUTOPLANT SYSTEMS INDIA PVT LTD

1. Project Title: Unmanned Weighbridge

Client: SSL - Jharsuguda Duration: Mar 2015 - Present

Project Location: Jharsuguda, Odisha Site: Onsite

Role: Project Leader Team Size: 5

Skill Used: RFID, Vehicle movement, Logistics Management, Requirement Analysis, Project Management

Role Description: Act as functional consultant and drive the project being a Project manager

Project Details: Fully automate the weighbridge operations to make it manless

2. Project Title: In plant Vehicle Tracking

Client: ACC - BCCI Duration: Jan 2015 - Mar 2015

Project Location: Kalamboli, Maharashtra Site: Onsite

Role: Project Leader Team Size: 3

Skill Used: RFID, Logistics Management, Logistics Coordination, Logistics Operations,

Role Description: Functional Consultant

Project Details: Track Vehicle movement inside the plant to improve the space utilization, reduce traffic, increase dispatch, and provide real time visibility of vehicle position

3. Project Title: Vehicle Authentication for Copper Ore

Client: SSL - Tuticorin Duration: Oct 2014 - Jan 2015

Project Location: Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu Site: Onsite

Role: Project Manager Team Size: 5

Skill Used: RFID, Vehicle movement, Logistics Management, Requirement Analysis

Role Description: Functional Consultant

Project Details: To allow only authorized vehicle to be loaded with expensive copper ore

Worked as Area Manager (sales & marketing) for De-United foods industries ltd., Lagos Nigeria, C/o PT Indofoods Indonesia, Location – Niger State, Africa (Apr’2014 - Jul’2014)

Drive overall sales of Products; meet/surpass individual product/SKU sales targets.

Manage the product supply from the production centers, so as not to overburden the company warehouse.

Maintain prospect pipeline and daily plan for sales; keep effective follow up.

Identify and exploit opportunities for business development in new territories.

Evaluate distributors’ sales performance & take steps to ensure expectations are met.

Keep active track of order status & deliveries.

Attaining monthly redistribution targets for individual products and SKUs.

Monthly Planning & execution of activities to boost redistribution, wherever required.

Maintain targeted availability and visibility primarily at distributor and sub-distributor level; formulate & execute plans for the same.

Ensure successful execution of all trade marketing activities.

Liaison with area marketing managers

Actively track and report weekly activities of competition in each product category.

Worked as Sr. Officer Adani Wilmar Limited on Distribution Management System an Automation project to make operation at Distribution points completely online. AWL Head Office, Ahmedabad (Jan’2014 - Mar’2014)

Worked as Area Sales Executive Adani Wilmar Limited positioned in Mumbai region, with key focus areas as:

(Apr’2012 - Dec’2014)

Managing the distribution channel, by making sure that the right product reach the right place at the right time.

Collaborating with logistics & commercial teams to minimize the freight by clubbing the dispatches.

IMC (Mar-comm.) & specific focus on BTL activities.

Sales force management-Leading through Training, Motivating, Directing and Monitoring & Controlling.

Using price & volume mix enhancing availability & visibility.

Business Development – continuously focus on new areas for business growth.

Channel mapping & placement for existing as well as new product range.

Territory Management, Sales Data & MIS.

Planning and percolating the Annual Business Plan down the line.

Planning procedures for new product launch. Monitoring the launch, take corrective measures.

Worked previously as Management Trainee Adani Wilmar Limited, in different capacities understanding and learning the market and its operations in different territories’ such as – Ahmedabad Region, M.P, West Bengal. (June’ 2011 – Mar’2012)

Worked as SR (sales rep.) & TSI (territory sales in-charge).

Understanding the FMCG market.

Selling Levels - Channel Sales / Wholesale Trade/ Retailing/ Modern Retail.

Understanding the competition & developing counter strategies.

Managing the revenue and collection targets.

Worked in multiple locations with different geographic spreads & customer behavior pattern.

INTERNSHIP (Marketing) Kolkata Area, India (15th Jun’ 2010 – 15th Aug‘2010)

Ms. J. J. Auto motives Ltd. (Automotive Industry)

Major Learning about the functioning of a distribution channel. Interests of the stakeholders. Customer Feedback on Service quality strength & scope of improvement.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

1) Army Institute of Management Kolkata, West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata Jul’ 09 – Jun’ 11

M.B.A. Marketing (1st division)

2) Army Institute of Management & Technology, Gr. Noida, GGSIP University Delhi Jun’ 05 – Jun’ 08

B.C.A. (1st division)

3) Kendriya Vidhyalaya, Mathura, U.P. Apr’ 03 – Mar’ 04

A.I.S.S.C.E. (1st division)

4) Army School, Deolali, Maharashtra Apr’ 01 – Mar’ 02

A.I.S.S.E. (1st division)

INTERESTS & HOBBIES

Digital Photography & Image touch-ups in Corel Photo-Paint.

Cartoon Sketching.

Computer games.

Cooking.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Date of Birth : 28 December 1987.

Languages Known : English & Hindi. Elementary efficiency in Punjabi, Marathi & Bengali.

Permanent Address : C-19, Sundervan, Near Balajipuram, P.O. Aurangabad,

Mathura, Uttar Pradesh – 281 006.

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