Rizwan Ali

Channel Strategy Assistant Manager MEAHQ
MaleChannel ManagerLive in United Arab EmiratesNationality United Arab Emirates
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Work experience

  • Channel Strategy Assistant Manager MEAHQ

    LG Electronics
    2023.11-Current(2 years)
    (1 year 4 months) Managing and Overseeing Channel Strategy Tasks for LG Electronics (TV,REF, WM) in the Middle East and Africa (Covering Gulf Countries, Turkey, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Levant & Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Morocco) Product Mix & Channel Mix: Monitoring & designing strategy by Channel, by BU, by category in order to see profitability & check improvements areas for each product categories and focused channels. Channel LTI Management: Monitoring & managing channel inventory for all subsidiaries. Clearing LTI models, planning for potential LTI models and maintaining WOS. Channel PRM Management: Monitoring & maintaining channel PRM for all the major channels, along with competitors in order to design strategy to be excelled in each BU, category & models. GTM Leader/Manager Management: Setting & monitoring GTM Leader/ Manager, Trainers, Merchandisers & Promoters KPI criteria, guidelines, mentoring, and enhancement. Constant managing & improving monthly GTM related activities progress including trainer, merchandiser and promoter management. Trainers & merchandisers Evaluation: Yearly evaluation to check & improve trainers' & merchandisers capability. Promoter Productivity: Collecting data from all subsidiaries, analyzing each subsidiary and MEA overall status progress comparing to previous year based on promoter productivity, cost productivity, each BU productivity based on promoter sellouts. Flooring Display: Setting yearly & monthly targets and then monitoring their progress. Tracking competitors flooring display in order to be No.1 Pre-Planned Promotion (PPP): Quarterly & Semi Annually PPP models and channels tracking & progress monitoring. Managing Best Practice Awards: Collecting, analyzing & selecting the top 3 winners quarterly from the best practice cases submitted by all subsidiaries & branches. Organizing and Supporting Team Events: GTM Workshops, Training (Train theTrainer, Product & Sales), and Best Promoter Competition
  • Key Account Manager

    TCL Communication
    2019.09-2023.10(4 years)
    (4 years 2 months) Managing Carrefour and Lulu Hypermarket - Sales Training of promoters, Weekly and monthly meeting to discuss and solve problems, managing stock, constant and frequent contact with distributor to make sure availability of stock on time in retail stores. Tracking inventory on daily and weekly basis, motivating sales team to achieve their targets on time, planning and execution of special reward policy for top 3 performers monthly or for some special event to increase sales. On Field Sales Training Skills, sharing live and real-time examples to involve the team and keep their motivation level up. Supporting and guiding team, related to their store relationship and with other sales team of the stores. Direct contact with retailer team and distributor team to develop more efficient and effective business relationship. Constant follow-up on current stock on hand in store and distributor. New sales team hiring and performance tracking. Special focus on low sales team members to increase their performance. All Pakistan Management training program which includes product and sales training, inventory management, retailer relationship, team management, target decision and tracking, distributor relationship etc. Collect, Compare and Analyze competitors’ products with our products. Keep tracking major brand products and activities to make good strategy to compete in market by training the team related to defending and attacking points according to the competitors’ products. Meeting new and potential distributors and retailers to develop and expand business. Sharing current and upcoming products, prices, marketing plan, and extra support. Online/Offline Product and Sales training to countries like UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Pakistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan and others. Also helping them with market-related queries, sales, training, stock, branding etc. Frequent meetings and follow up with distributor team and support them for sales and market problems.
  • Training Manager

    Vivo Pakistan
    2017.06-2019.08(2 years)
    (2 years 3 months) Management Training Officers (MTO) Program – Recruitment and selecting from top 10 universities, their training, sales progress of different stages, their tracking and follow-up, their market appointment on each stage and their assessment appraisal of each stage, their market problem and their solution, appointment in region for special task handling then assessment and at the end final selection for major posts in head office sales department. National Trainers Program – Quarterly training, planning, execution and follow-up, sales performance, training, tracking, terminal activities, progress of regions, market and sales team training, new product launch, sales targets, team management etc. Regional Managers and Supervisors Training Program – Semiannually regional managers and supervisor training programs on all aspects like sales, stock, team management, retailers' relationship, targets, promotions, market activities, team training etc. New Product Launch – Plan, execute all tasks related to new product launch – promoters and sales team training & follow-up with regions, marketing materials, market activities, regional launch events etc. Competitors Analysis – Collect competitor data related to existing and new products coming in market and analyze according to our products and give feedback to higher management. Sales Promoter training for both aspects product and sales skills. Tracking and follow-up low sale promoters, then support them to increase their performance. Constant Regional Support and sales training to all 14 regions of Pakistan by personal visits – Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, Faisalabad, Peshawar, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Sahiwal, Bahawalpur and their surrounding major cities team. Focused on those regions which are either important and potential or weak and low performer.

Educational experience

  • International Islamic University, Islamabad

    of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing
    2016.01-2018.01(2 years)
  • International Islamic University, Islamabad

    Administration - BBA, Marketing
    2012.01-2016.01(4 years)
  • Roots Millennium College

    A Level, Business, Law and Psychology
    2010.01-2012.01(2 years)
  • Roots School System

    GCE-O-Level, Science
    2008.01-2010.01(2 years)
  • Cadet College Murree

    Secondary
    2007.01-2008.01(a year)
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