Tanuj Halder
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Amphor - Muaeng; Chonburi 20000; Thailand
Handphone: +(66-85-902-****, Email: *****.******@*****.***
Summary
. 18 Years of work experience at Heavy Engineering, Service and Auto
Industry in Thailand and India
. Proven functional expertise in B2B Sales, Business Development,
Business Planning and Analysis, Budgeting, Project Management,
Service Marketing, Market Analysis, Business Consulting and Production
Planning.
Work Experience:
TI Automotive: (Location: Chonburi/Bangkok, Thailand) March 2006 -
Current
A. Global Pump & Module Divisional Commercial Sales and Business
Analyst, at TI Automotive (Since Nov 2009)
. Initiate and control global divisional budget and medium term
business plans in line with corporate objectives with consideration
of local and global automotive markets.
. Work closely with regional commercial and engineering directors in
Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America to develop
annual global divisional commercial KPIs and sales strategies and
report to global directors on monthly basis on movement of KPIs.
. Track actual sales, volume, recovery of raw material cost increase,
impact of engineering changes, pricing movements, spare parts
sales, non-planned incremental sales impacts and budget variances
compared to short and long-term sales plans and commercial issues
across global operation and summarize performances.
. Manage global project screenings involving sales, finance,
engineering and warranty directors and report to corporate finance
director on active bids, business wins and losses.
. Administer global sales database for regional and global financial
& commercial reporting.
. Work with regional commercial directors on market intelligence and
remain a resource person on divisional benchmarking for customer
and competitors.
. Any other duties assigned by global sales, engineering and finance
directors.
Achievements:
. I became the resource person for data on behalf of commercial
organization of global division.
. Fully responsible for global divisional customer and sales database
depicting sales, volume, pricing, contribution margin, market share
and detailed business plans of approximately E467 million annual
sales worth of business.
. Have been leading short and long term global divisional business
plans, KPI tracking and commercial performance reporting since
January 2010 and grew with the division from E292 million annual
sales in 2010 to E467 million annual sales by end of 2013.
. Achieved recognition of my contribution and my inputs are being
used on board presentations and global customer meetings since
2010.
B. Account Manager Thailand & Asia Pacific Business Analyst; TI
Automotive (Aug 09 - Sept 10).
Account Manager
. Manage all external customer communication and develop relationship
in line with short long-term plans.
. Initiate Thailand short and medium term sales plans and work with
regional directors
. Internally coordinate Thailand specific cost saving projects, raw
material price increase and recovery, customer funded tooling
recovery, improvement of contribution margin of projects.
. Work with production, purchasing and logistics teams on customer
forecasts and FGI control
. Anticipate future, maintain and build relationship with existing
and future customers, follow up for RFQ and RFI and be the window
person to meet all commercial formalities for line production and
service parts requirements of the customer.
. Work with regional warranty director on field claims associated
with parts supplied from Thailand plant.
. Provide 3 month short term sales forecast to figure out annual
impact to sales and pricing in comparison to short term plan, track
actual sales, volume and recovery of raw material cost impact, cost
reduction activities in terms of parts localization / process
development etc and develop necessary strategies to maintain
adherence to plan against existing projects being sold from
Thailand.
. Assist regional sales directors with market specific customer and
competitor intelligence.
. Any other duties assigned by regional sales, engineering and
finance directors.
Asia Pacific Business Analyst
. Initiate Short (1 year) and Mid term (5 years) sales plans based on
corporate sales objectives.
. Coordinate internal project screening, project costing, CAPEX
requirement, customer funded tooling, quotation activities for
programs being quoted from Thailand.
. Assist regional sales director in formulating commercial strategies
for annual 5 year business plan for Asia Pacific region.
. Centrally control product cost, engineering changes and CR
initiatives for Asia pacific.
. Establish and maintain commercial KPIs and report to regional
directors on monthly basis.
. Regionally track actual sales, volume and recovery of raw material
cost impact; and summarize regional commercial performance.
. Initiate and control quarterly annual commercial plan for sales and
contribution margin for regional and country level financial
planning.
. Regionally coordinate project screening, project costing and
quotation initiatives.
. Administer regional sales database for regional financial &
commercial reporting.
. Maintain Asia Pacific automobile market intelligence on customer
and competitors.
Achievements:
. Achieved replacement business of electric pump module for a major
Japanese OE customer worth E2.5 million annual sales and initiated
negotiation for small car plastic fuel tank business for another
Japanese OE customer which we won (E3.0 million annual sales) after
reorganization.
. Managed growth of annual sales from E4.5 million in 2009 to E13.1
million in 2010 for Thai Operation.
. Following reorganization in Oct 2009, I was chosen for global role
in electric fuel pump and module division and work closely with
global divisional directors and regional teams from June 2010.
. Gained an insight on plastic fuel tank, electric fuel pump and
modules and productions processes which eventually helped better
understanding of business my employer is in and helped me to have
an outlook of regional automotive market.
C. Position: Asia Pacific Cost Controller & Business Analyst; TI
Automotive (Mar 06 - Aug 09).
. Assist regional directors in formulating commercial strategies for
annual and 5 year business plans for Asia Pacific Region.
. Centrally control product cost, engineering changes and CR
initiatives.
. Establish and maintain commercial KPIs and report to regional
directors on monthly basis.
. Track actual sales, volume and recovery of raw material cost impact
& summarize commercial performance.
. Initiate and control quarterly annual commercial plan for sales and
contribution margin for regional and country level financial
planning.
. Coordinate regional project screening, project costing and
quotation initiatives.
. Administer regional sales database for regional financial &
commercial reporting.
. Analyze Asia Pacific automobile market by OEM, Country and maintain
market intelligence.
Achievements:
. Developed reporting system of commercially successful and
unsuccessful programs for future reference and project pricing in
line with change of bill of material, customer directed part and
price of raw material etc.
. Established regional sales tracking and variance analysis for live
summary of overall sales and volume at any point of time for
business reporting and capacity utilization at plants across Asia
Pacific.
. Managed regional sales database of annual sales E29 million in 2006
and grew to E106 million in 2009 for Asia Pacific Fuel System
Division prior to splitting it into two product divisions in late
2009.
. Established key commercial KPIs and regional project screening
procedures.
. Contributed during in regional project screening, costing
initiatives comprising fuel delivery module and plastic fuel tank
for operations in South Korea, China and Thailand in terms of
market movements, OEM strategy and competitor outlook.
. Led regional auto market analysis since 2006 (two times a year)
based on auto production forecast by CSM (now IHS) and JD Power
(now LMC Automotive)
. Assisted Asia Pacific directors in formulating commercial planning
and strategies since 2006 during mid term business planning.
. Achieved job enlargement comprising commercial account management
role in Thailand in July 09.
Asian Institute of Technology: (Location: Pathumthani, Thailand) Aug
2004 to March 2006
D. Position: Program Officer, AIT Extension, Asian Institute of
Technology (Aug'04 - Mar'06)
Preparation of training proposals, development of learning modules,
development of program details, project management and budget control.
Taking care of communication prospectus, brochure; key account
management of training unit for management and development projects.
Achievements:
. Coordinated training projects worth approximately US$160,000 during
2004-2005 on Effective marketing in an uncertain environment,
Finance for non finance managers, Organizational financial planning
& cost control, Advanced management program for Asia Pacific
Managers, Project monitoring & evaluation, Time Management for UNDP
officials, HRD for public sector management and Management &
implementation of development projects, participated by multi-
country (China, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia,
France, Bhutan, Thailand, Maldives, Nepal and Vietnam)
professionals at AIT Extension.
. Managed customer relationships for training programs involving
multi-country participants.
. Enhanced domain knowledge in finance and accounting.
. Built a network across countries in Asia and Coordinated between
cross-functional teams in AIT.
. Developed program materials for the trainings coordinated above.
. Managed marketing initiatives in reaching prospective training
participants across countries.
. Looked after all outgoing marketing communication for AIT Extension
projects.
Advanced Research Group: (Location: Bangkok, Thailand) July 2002 to
July 2004
E. Position: Country Market Analyst; Advanced Research Group Co.,
Limited, Bangkok, representative of IDC (International Data
Corporation) in Thailand. (July 02 to July 04).
Monitoring, evaluation and coordination of research projects,
development of methodologies, development of guidelines for field
survey, preparation of questionnaires for in depth interviews, data /
information validation, analysis of data and information, forecasting
of trends and offer strategic alternatives, report writing.
Preparation of proposals, project budget and liaise with overseas
clients/prospects for key account management and business development.
Offering assistance to the General Manager in business planning,
service portfolio management, project cost estimation and business
communications. Contribute to newspapers articles in Thailand and take
part in quarterly press conferences on market movements.
Achievements:
. Managed market research and consulting projects involving service
users and service providers in Thailand in the fields of
information technology, telecommunication, paint etc.
. Bagged and executed custom made business consulting projects worth
US$ 66,000 during 2005.
. Liaised with market research companies from Singapore, Vietnam,
Japan, USA and Taiwan
. Apart from Telecommunication, Information Technology fields,
extended support to Industrial, Consumer and pharmaceutical market
research projects in Thailand.
. Contributed articles on market, prepared reports and took part in
press conferences as country market analyst.
. Developed business plans, financial budget, control mechanism for a
start up venture.
Gurukul Trust: (Location: New Delhi, India) Sept 2001 to February 2002
F. Position: Project Co-ordinator, The Gurukul Trust, New Delhi,
India. (Sept 01 to Feb 02).
Project monitoring, outsourcing of software & hardware equipment from
USA, Japan and Singapore.
Achievements:
. Executed project within planned timeline.
. Coordinated with government agencies in New Delhi for approval and
relevant licenses.
Self Employed: (Location: Kolkata, India) Sept 2000 to June 2001
G. Position: Manager, Halder Agency, Sep 00 to June 01, Calcutta,
India. (Sept 00 to June 01)
Business development, budget control and operation management for a
trading firm.
Achievements:
. Streamlined logistic facilities for the business
. Streamlined material sourcing and marketing.
Larsen & Toubro Limited: (Location: Kansbahal/Kolkata, India) Jan 1994
to Aug 1998
H. Position: Sales & Business Development Executive, Larsen & Toubro
Limited, Kolkata, India. (Feb 97 to Aug 98)
Key account management and business development for machines and parts
used in core sector industries in India, preparation of sales budget.
I. Position: Production Planning and Control Engineer, Larsen & Toubro
Limited, Kansbahal (Orissa), India. (Jan 94 to Jan 97)
Production planning; annual production budgeting; scheduling of
operation; load planning; material requirement planning and capacity
utilization of ferrous cast machine parts manufacturing unit in India.
Looked after heat treatment, quality control and coordinated with
other units of the organization.
Achievements at Larsen and Toubro Limited:
. Looked after cement mill spare part market and achieved US$ 2.8
million sales during FY 97-98.
. Developed road maps for L&T to enter mining equipment machinery
market (export replacement products) in India.
. Assisted senior management on annual budgeting and business
planning of Foundry operation.
. Was a team member to analyze part failures to develop new product
and relevant raw material requirement for the development
. Built customer database and managed key accounts on cement mills
and mining equipment machinery segment of our business.
. Assisted senior managers on optimization of resources and capacity
utilization of manufacturing facilities.
. Managed production processes for cast steel and iron machine
components at Foundry shop.
. Implemented waste management principles at stages of operations.
Education:
. MBA in International Business from Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand (April 2000) GPA 3.68/4.00
. Bachelor of Engineering from Bengal Engineering College and Science
University (July 1993, first class with distinction), India.
. Higher Secondary from West Bengal Board with Science Stream, India.
. Secondary from West Bengal Board, India.
Scholastic Achievements:
. Recipient of H.M. the King of Thailand's scholarship at post graduate
management school in Thailand
. Recipient of National Scholarship in India at Engineering School in
India
. Recipient of merit appreciation for secondary examination at High
School in India
Past honorary positions held:
. Committee member, L&T officers club, Kansbahal, India (1996-1997).
. Literary and Publication chairperson, Student Union, Asian Institute
of Technology, Thailand (1999-2000).
Language Ability:
. English, Bengali : Native/Bilingual Profeciency
. Hindi : Professional Profeciency
. Thai : Limited Working Profeciency
Strengths, weaknesses, interests and personal details:
. Multi-tasking, adaptable, self controlled professional who needs
minimal supervision.
. Strong analytical mind with Number and perfection orientation
. Challenge self and continuously seek ways to improve
. Strong belief in honesty and ethics.
. Like mountainous jungle treckking, painting (fine arts) and classical
music
. Seek versatility and would like to get involved in social activities.
. Attached to issues on philosophy, people
. Born on 5th July, 1970
. Married with two children (Children and Wife hold Thai passports).