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Name :

Channa Wijethunga
Qualification :
Sales and Marketing Manager
Industry :
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Sales and Marketing Manager

About our Client

Seeking a challenging leadership role to add value and apply creative problem-solving and management skills gained over 17 years to achieve organisational and personal success to become a passionate marketer.

Achievements

  • Achieving 30% of annual wholesale revenue growth and 10% increase in outlet coverage as sales and marketing manager
  • Expanding the distribution of Oxypura facemasks and activated carbon products to Maldives, Bangladesh and Seychelles
  • Implementing ISO 9001: 2015 quality management system to activated carbon products manufacturing in 2019
  • Initiated manufacturing white labelled activated carbon products, and secured both local and international orders
  • Implement an island wide distribution network for Oxypura brand.
  • Winning the turnkey interior designing and refurbishment tender for consular division of Foreign Ministry
  • Winning the tender for supply and installation of 700 auditorium chairs for a University- from matching the specifications, sourcing, and pricing
  • Successfully achieved all assigned monthly sales targets as a sales representative in Hayleys Consumer Products Ltd

Professional Experience

Manager – Sales and Marketing

  • Forecasting Sales of FMCG goods
  • Planning the procurement
  • Negotiating prices and promotions with suppliers
  • Executing promotions
  • Handling customer complaints and product-related issues i.e. damages, expiries etc
  • Heading the wholesale operation
  • Gathering competitor product information such as product attributes, pricing etc
  • Training and developing the sales team continuously to ensure the sustainability of sales growth

Manager – Sales and Marketing

  • Responsible for managing the clientele; including B2B, supermarkets and island-wide retail distributors
  • Practical experience in retail display to improve off-take, usage of promotional material
  • Organising floor activations
  • Point of sales arrangements to improve sales, monitoring and maintaining the profitability of the promotions in supermarkets
  • Handling short expiry, and damaged goods stock lot recoveries
  • Ensure achieving stringent sales targets in a timely and efficient manner
  • Deciding on key messages to be communicated in branding & marketing materials
  • Preparing sales & marketing plans and budgets
  • Leading the sales team towards a common goal
  • Provide timely market evaluation reports to the management
  • Gather competitors’ information to exert effective decision-making
  • Preparing technical and financial proposals for both public sector and private sector tenders
  • Monitoring the production, warehousing and logistics of the operation

Senior Marketing Executive

  • Responsible for providing finger scanning machines & access controlling with related software
  • Provide timely market evaluation reporting to the management
  • Gather competitors' information to exert effective decision-making to make competitors more vulnerable
  • Establish rapport and work closely with business partners.
  • Preparing technical and financial proposals for both public sector and private sector tenders

Senior Sales Representative

  • Responsible for Providing Total Interior Solutions to the corporate Customer in line with product portfolio of Furniture, Carpeting, ceiling and partitioning
  • Working closer with the team members in order to achieve the group target
  • Provide timely project reporting to marketing manager and management
  • Development and implementation of marketing plans and build strategic partner relationships to bring them to the top of the customer relationship ladder
  • Establish rapport and work closely with business partners, internal stakeholders, ad agencies and other vendors to facilitate marketing activities
  • Gather competitors' information to exert effective decision-making to make competitors more vulnerable

Education

Career Development -

Corporate planning workshop by P.R.Smith

The Professional Sales Manager

Active Member and former VP Memberships of Hayleys Toastmasters club

Trained Speech crafter by Hayleys Toastmasters

Effective communication skills development by Think Tank Training & Development Solutions

Networking and Rapport building by Marsh Terranova - Bizpro management consultancy

Interests

  • Reading
  • History, archaeology and mythology
  • Travelling to archaeological sites
  • Camping in wild sanctuaries
  • Public speaking (Toastmasters)
  • Practicing Healing meditation and Tanta

Skills

Technical Skills

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