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VIJAY ARUMUGAM

Coimbatore

Summary

Proven track record of 8 Years in driving sales growth and establishing strong customer relationships at Hindustan Unilever Limited. Expert in leveraging CRM tools and Excel to analyze market trends and enhance team performance. Excelled in complaint handling and upselling, achieving significant sales targets. Skilled in teamwork and collaboration, consistently met project deadlines through effective route management and customer support.My goal is to utilize my past experience to stimulate business development, assess business procedures, recognize areas for enhancement, and execute successful resolutions.

Overview

7
years of professional experience

Work History

Hindustan Unilever Limited

Customer Service Officer
03.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Achieve sales targets through selling (visiting Market) and Driving RS (Redistribution Stockist) System.
  • Handling West Tamilnadu 5 repartees.
  • Analyze how to improve the competitive position in the market through improved customer service.
  • Negotiate with the RS and develop the people on managing customers to obtain business.
  • Monitor systematically the performance of the RS And RS sales team and take corrective action plan ( Infrastructure Gap) and training sales team to deliver targets.
  • Established relationships with key stakeholders in the business community like MT/NMT/KEY Chain Accounts.
  • Managed Multiple Projects and met time-sensitive deadlines.
  • Resolved RS and Retail customer issues in an efficient and timely manner.
  • Identified potential opportunities to upsell products or services to customers.
  • Performed follow-up calls to ensure customer satisfaction with product and service delivery.
  • Developed strategies to improve customer service processes and procedures.
  • Monitored inventory levels of products available for sale to customers.
  • Trained new employees on company policies related to customer service practices.

Hindustan Unilever Limited

Business Development Associate
01.2019 - 02.2021

Job overview

  • Manage RS(Redistribution stockists) Sales volume and Growth Targets and other Execution metrics.
  • Handling RS Sales team and Logistic team to allocate daily plans through increase sales volume.
  • Developed and implemented strategies to increase sales and Growth.
  • Established relationships with key stakeholders in the business community.
  • Researched new markets to identify opportunities for sales growth.
  • Prepared reports detailing sales performance, competitive analysis, and market trends.
  • Monitored progress of projects against goals set forth by management.
  • Reviewed Every alternative days on Executive metrics with RS and Sales team.
  • Identified additional business opportunities and communicated to team.
  • Improved Sales plans and sales strategies processes to maximize business development.

Prepared monthly sales reports for distribution to team.

Graviss Foods Private Limited

Product Sales Representative
07.2017 - 01.2019

Job overview

  • Meeting and Greeting Retailers and making them happy.
  • Maintaining good relationships with new and existing customers.
  • Deal with Customer Feedback,Enquiries and Complaints.
  • Ensuring sales targets and other Parameters are met before the specified deadlines.
  • Finding new customers for Productive sales and closing the deals while place the Brands.
  • Identified sales opportunities through customer interactions and recommended products accordingly.
  • Maintained accurate records of customer communication, including notes(Schemes&Offers) on all conversations with customers.
  • Built strong relationships with customers by providing prompt responses and resolutions to their inquiries.
  • Maintained accurate sales forecasting reports.

Education

Excel College of Engineering And Technology
Namakkal, India

Bachelor of Engineering from EEE
05.2011

University Overview

Government Higher Secondary School
Erode

HSC
04.2011

University Overview

Skills

  • Reliability and punctuality
  • Complaint Handling
  • Professional Appearance
  • Sales Promotions
  • Good communication skills
  • Customer Support&Realtionship
  • Task Delegation
  • Upselling strategies
  • Returns processing
  • Product/Project Support
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Understanding Customer Needs
  • Relationship Building
  • Excel/Pivot/Vlookup
  • Product and service knowledge
  • MS Office/Outlook
  • Sales and Upselling
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Order Processing
  • Route Management

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Received award for 2021-2022 “Highest EFOS Delivery” National Award from GM of HUL.
  • Received “Best Performer” Award from HUL for last 3 years in TN cluster.
  • Received "Best BDA" Award in 2020 from TN cluster.

Timeline

Customer Service Officer
Hindustan Unilever Limited
03.2021 - Current
Business Development Associate
Hindustan Unilever Limited
01.2019 - 02.2021
Product Sales Representative
Graviss Foods Private Limited
07.2017 - 01.2019
Excel College of Engineering And Technology
Bachelor of Engineering from EEE
Government Higher Secondary School
HSC
VIJAY ARUMUGAM