Summary

More than 8 years of experience in agro industry. Perfectly a blend of multilevel experiences in broad-spectrum fields and in diversified areas e. g. Agriculture/ Horticulture sectors, project consultancy, branding and marketing. Past experience with SOHO, small & medium size enterprises and startups in the areas of Agriculture/ Horticulture, Food Sector, farm equipments, farm sectors, etc.

Specialties

Specializes in launching new brands and all functions of marketing and business development (institutional and channel sales), project consultancy, government liaisons, feasibility study and acceptability of products and services prior to launch, strategic consulting to start-ups, model development for utilization of IT in Broad – Spectrum fields.


Work Experience:
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InGene Organics, A Division of Biostadt India Ltd. , Mumbai
Sales Officer
(Publically Held, 500+ employees)
July ***** th Dec 2011

Responsibilities:

- Conduct Trials of Pesticides and on Field Demonstration to Farmers Group
- Conduct Farmers Meeting
- Market Development in Bihar and Jharkhand
- Currently looking after marketing operations of North Bengal and Koshi Belt of Bihar
- Product development in Field crops and Tea plantation
- Sales of Pesticides and Biocides of our division
- All business development activity concerning our brand viz. farmers/ dealers meeting, campaign planning,
creation of schemes and launching of schemes, post evaluation of campaigns etc.
- Preparation of Budget for my concerned area
- Identifying new business opportunities for our pesticides and biocides range of products in newer areas

Achievements:

- Instrumental in establishing new brands like Nanozim and pesticide in North Bengal and Koshi
belt of Bihar
- Created a niche for our Nanozim brand of products despite highly priced in its segment
- Implemented a new concept for our product advocacy by brand ambassadors selected from our successful
product users (farmers), resulting in scaling the business in very short span of time
- Winner of Best Marketing Plan- 2011at annual conference held by the company

CAMSON Bio Technologies Ltd. , Bangalore
(Sales Officer)
(Publically Held, ***** employees)
April 2007- July 2010

Responsibilities:

- Conduct Trials of Pesticides and on Field Demonstration to Farmers Group
- Conduct Farmers Meeting
- Market Development in Bihar and Jharkhand
- Product development in Field crops and Tea plantation
- Responsible for channel and Institutional Sales
- Management of C & F and warehouse
- Handled a team size of more than 10 direct reporting permanent employees and similar number
of field staffs
- Handled both seeds (Hybrid vegetable seeds) and biocide (Bio fertilizers, Bio pesticides, Growth
promoters and Bio fungicide) accounts

SIBin Group Pvt. Ltd. , Gangtok
(Sr. Consultant, Production & Marketing)
(Privately Held; ***** employees)
December 2005 – April 2007

Responsibilities:

- Hired for consulting assignment for establishing greenhouse manufacturing facility & manpower training
- Responsible for Govt. order and sales
- Production consultant for greenhouse cultivation of flowers and vegetables
- Conversion of farmers and farmers group into organic farming
- Preparation of Internal Control System (ICS) Document of each farmer as laid down by International
Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement (IFOAM)
- Post-harvest management of exportable produce in accord to HACCP System and Documentation

Achievements:

1. ) Development of Agrisnet portal ***** for Sikkim Govt.
- Lead consultant in the development of content for the portal.

Phuar Agrotech, New Delhi
(Senior Consulting Engineer)
(Privately Held; ***** employees; Greenhouse Manufacturing and Greenhouse Automation Products)
Sep 2002 – November 2005

Responsibilities:

- Site analysis, Green House Design and Execution
- Drip Irrigation Design and Execution
- Greenhouse Automation
- Advisory to clients regarding selection of crops, cost analysis and expected revenue, technical audit
and consultancy, providing access to market for their produce grown in their greenhouses
- Formation and analysis of new business initiatives
- Govt. order and sales, executed many Govt. orders
- Forming contact and alliances that can bring profit to the enterprise
- Setting supply chain for the new product/s as well as market.