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Srinath Venugopal Nair

Motivated former small business owner with 8 years of experience providing cross-functional success in marketing, sales and operations. Recognized for work ethic,leadership skills,people management and training skills.

Key Skills

Team Building
Operations Management
Key account management
New Business Development
Training
Administrative management

Professional Experience

Apr 2023
Present
IELTS Trainer- Facility in Charge
White Collar International Academy Cochin, IN
Facility in charge at newly started IELTS training institute. Instrumental in setting up the teaching plan and study materials. Providing training to newly recruited staff along with monitoring their progress. 
Jan 2021
Mar 2023
IELTS Trainer
Ajinorah Global Ventures Cochin, IN
Premier chain of institutes across India providing training for IELTS,OET and other competitive exams.
Senior IELTS trainer. Primary responsibilities include handling a focus batch (exam oriented) of students. Able to provide intensive coaching to students regarding various modules in IELTS especially writing. 
Dec 2019
Feb 2021
Proprietor
Aspire TC Ventures Cochin, IN
This company, established as a sole proprietorship was engaged in the manufacture of fried snack products for the wholesale market and for third party labels.Visualized as a lean manufacturing unit with minimal overheads and purely volume based with minimal margins.We were able to attract some major clients in India and finalized yearly agreements for production and packaging in their brand name and label. 
Jan 2017
Dec 2019
Business partner
Star Heritage Products Cochin, IN
This was an upcoming startup firm which manufactured and exported food products like Banana Chips, Tapioca Chips, etc. I was a member of the team which was involved right from the inception stage to manufacturing and export operations. I handled the operations and administration divisions. We achieved targets within the stipulated time period and our packaging design and product quality was recognized by all clients. 
Dec 2013
Dec 2016
Business partner
Innovative Hygiene Solutions Cochin, IN
 This firm was started as partnership concern and I was one of the Partners in this firm. We were the All Kerala Sales and Service Providers for NILFISK brand of commercial cleaning equipments. Nilfisk is a leading brand of cleaning equipments from Denmark and their presence in Kerala was limited. We took the responsibility to increase their presence, sales and service revenue in the Kerala region . In a market dominated by brands like ELGI and KARCHER, we were able to make a substantial impact in the two years we were associated with them. 
Feb 2012
Dec 2013
Manager( Marketing and Administration)
VJ Tech Solutions Cochin, IN
  • Driving business all over Kerala through improving customer services and price management/services.
  • Developed marketing and sales plan for the financial year in alignment with managing director, marketing and sales team.
  • Designed and implemented marketing activities.
  • Monitored activities of sales executives and collated reports for measuring sales activity.Was main point of contact with National Sales Managers and Regional Sales Managers of Karcher
  • Lead and managed a team of four marketing and sales executives, conducted product demo drives for order finalization.
  • Played a major part in finalization of major orders viz., Lulu International Shopping Mall (Cochin), Courtyard Marriot (Cochin Airport), The Park Hotel (Cochin), Banyan Tree Resorts (Cochin), Hilton Hotels (Trivandrum), AVT Spices, KIMS Hospital (Trivandrum).
  • Coordinated activities between sales team and office administrative staff.
  • Product trainer for new executives.
  • New business development.
 
Mar 2007
Aug 2010
Senior Executive-Operations
VJ Tech Solutions Cochin, IN
  •  Handled operations/administration role for the organization.
  • Coordinated the activities between sales team and office administrative staff.
  • Day to day handling of office administrative responsibilities and correspondence with the head office.
  • Prepared weekly sales reports, research reports, visual presentations, quarterly and yearly business reviews and plans.
  • Worked with multimedia team to create and deliver company-marketing message across to potential clients to maximize sales efforts.
 

Education

Jan 2011
Nov 2011
Master of Science (Biotechnology) in Research School of Biology
The Australian National University
May 2003
Jul 2005
Master of Science in D.O.S in Microbiology
University of Mysore
May 2000
Apr 2003
Bachelor of Science (Microbiology) in G.R.Damodaran College of Science
Bharathiar University

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