Amit Bhutta is seeking a managerial role in sales and retail operations, preferably in Bangalore. He has 12 years of experience in retail sales, operations, marketing, business development and team management for companies like United Colors of Benetton and Adidas. His career highlights include consistently achieving sales targets, developing strategic plans to enhance operations and profitability, and managing retail stores and multi-member sales teams.

1. AMIT BHUTTA
Mobile: +91-8008100550
E-Mail: amit.bhutta@gmail.com
Seeking managerial assignments in Sales & Retail Operations with a reputed organization.Seeking managerial assignments in Sales & Retail Operations with a reputed organization.
Location Preference: Bangalore
Profile
Brief_______________________________________________________________________________________
 A competent professional with nearly 12 years of experience in the areas of Retail Sales, Operations,
Marketing, Business Development, Managing Channel Partner and Team Management.
 Strategic planner with proven abilities in managing retail business operations and expertise in aligning to
company’s mission & strategic direction.
 Experience in managing & executing various promotional activities / events and escalating business, profitability
and market coverage.
 Proficient at providing value added customer service by resolving customer issues & ensuring customer
satisfaction with product and service norms.
 An effective communicator with excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills.
Core
Competencies________________________________________________________________________________
Retail Operations
 Creating initiatives, designing events, planning of merchandising and execution of marketing events/ activities for
driving sales.
 Ensuring a healthy product mix is available at all times representing the brand properly
 Streamlining system and procedures for effective inventory control.
 Providing consistent & exceptional standards of customer service and achieving customer satisfaction.
 Interfacing between Stores & Supply Chain for ensuring adequate stock & placing timely orders.
Business Development
 Responsible for business planning & business management for Channel Partners
 Formulating short term strategic plans to enhance operations, profitability & revenue targets for org. as well as
channel partners
 Scouted for new channel Partners & Markets/Location to increase Brand’s retail footprint in strategic markets
 Conducting meetings for setting up sales objectives and streamlining processes to ensure smooth functioning of
sales operations.
Team Management
 Planning and scheduling individual / team assignments to achieve preset goals within given timeframe, quality &
cost parameters.
 Leading, training & monitoring the performance of retail team members to ensure efficiency in sales operations
and meeting of individual & group targets
 Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters development opportunities and motivates high
performance amongst the team.
MIS Management
 Preparing P&L, monthly & yearly reports/ presentations for Partner & Management’s reference.
Career
Contour________________________________________________________________________________
Since Aug’14 ~ United Colors of Benetton Area Sales Manager for A.P & Telangana
Handling Sales, Operations, Business Development, Profitability & Channel Partner/Sub Partners for United Colors
of Benetton.
 Develop sales and marketing strategies to drive sales growth for the territory
 Manage sales team and ensure sales growth and revenue enhancement
 Conduct market research to understand competition and market trends
 Provide innovative ideas to Channel Partners & buying teams to ensure healthy contribution from all categories
 Relationship management with existing customers for repeat business
 Build a healthy sales culture and sale centric atmosphere among the team members
 Maintain contacts with franchisees across Brands to build referrals for appointing Sub Franchisee
 Scouting for Potential Market/Location & Partner for expansion of Business

2.  Conduct regular business plan & review meetings with Sales & Buying team
 Provide trainings, educational workshops and challenging opportunities for enhancing career growth of
employees
 Appreciate the contributions and accomplishments of sales employees through proper reward & recognition
mechanism
 Develop performance improvement plan for sales team to meet performance goals.
 Develop creative promotional strategies to attract new customers
Aug’10 ~ Jul’14 adidas Group Area Sales Manager for A.P
 Was Handling Sales, Operations, Business Development & Channel Partner for Reebok & adidas in Andhra
Pradesh
 Consistently achieved Sellout, Sellin & Business Expansion Targets as set by Company.
 Awarded Top Area Sales Executive for India in 2011
 Secured annual school shoe business of 9 crs. + through direct school tie-ups resulting into assured sales
 Managed 42 Reebok Exclusive & Outlet Store with a Strong team size of 250 front end Retail Associates
 Prepared seasonal Sell-In planning for stores in Andhra Pradesh
 Was a part of FTP (Franchisee Transformation Prog.) – Successfully retained Reebok retail footprint in AP at the
time of business model transition.
 Convinced Reebok partners to take up adidas stores in their portfolio and also got reebok stores converted into
reebok Fithubs
Jan’08 – Aug’10 ~ SunCorp Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd. (Retailing), Hyderabad Business Operation Manager for
Reebok, A.P.
 Efficiently & effectively managed to consistently achieve 50% yearly growth
 Efficaciously handled 61 Flagship, Concept & A+B Reebok stores and more than 250 frontend staff across
Andhra Pradesh.
 Contributed proactively in company business when the company received “Best Franchisee” Award for three
consecutive years and “Ace” Award for two consecutive years from Brand Reebok.
Oct’06–Dec’07 ~ Reebok India Company, Hyderabad Assistant Store Manager, Hyderabad.
 Successfully achieved 120% of set targets in the first year of retail operations and was actively involved in
migrating POS software from Shoppers to Logic ERP which helped in crafting strategies for future sales & product
planning.
 Dexterously achieved MSP (Mystery Shopper Prog.) score of 98%.
 Successfully implemented shift working to ensure that store could cater to more number of people.
 Accreditations received through various awards like: “Best Store Manager”, “Best Performing Store” & “Customer
Service Star” in 2006 & 2007
 Successfully managed Asia Pacific’s Biggest Reebok Store at Hyderabad, India.
Jan’06–Sep’06 ~ Essence Commodities Limited, Hyderabad Retail Manager/Marketing Executive
 Successful Acquired clients for commodity trading
 Ensured bigger wallet share from existing clients
 Distinction in acquiring new corporate clients from Industries like Oil, Iron and Steel, Jewellers, Agro Products,
etc.
May’04 -Jan’06 ~ eYantra Industries Limited, Hyderabad Retail Manager/Marketing Executive
 Fortuitously managed all the activities pertaining to new store opening & executed all pre opening activities,
including staff recruitment & training for delivering effective operational structure.
 Significantly involved in planning budget for revenue & expense and regularly compared actual expenses with
projected budget at the end of the month giving suggestions on business planning.
 Formulated marketing and promotional plans and organized related activities to achieve business growth.
 Essayed a stellar role in implementing Standard Operating Procedures at stores at Indian School of Business,
TATA Consultancy Limited through e-tool.
 Essayed stellar role in setting up store at “GITEX”, International Fair organized at Hyderabad, which resulted in
generating a number of good leads for the company.
 Instrumental in generating sale of INR. 84 Lakhs from ISB in the first year.
 Secured an important deal of opening stores at TCS Campuses across India.
 Made presentations of company products to visiting executive at ISB from companies like Visteon, GAIL, Indian
Oil, LIC, ONGC, Microsoft leading to business.
 Bagged the “Best Performing Store” Award in 2005.

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Jan’03 – May’03 ~ Fern Pack’s Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad Marketing Executive
Growth Path:
Jan’03-May’03 Marketing Executive
Jun’03 –Feb’04 Marketing Executive (with Hardwel Services, Hyderabad, Sister Concern of
Fern Pack’s Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad)
Deliverables:
 Handling the requirement of welding electrodes for cement & Sugar factories across Andhra Pradesh.
Scholastic____________________________________________________________________________________
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2004 B.Sc. in Computers from Pragathi Maha Vidyalaya, Osmania University with Ist
division.
Training______________________________________________________________________________________
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 Underwent training on module 1, 2 & 3 of ARU (Adidas Retail University)
Personal Dossier
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Date of Birth : 19th
May, 1984
Address : #Flat No.503, Micasa Flora Appt’s, Beside Surekha Hospital, Kompally,
Hyderabad.
Linguistic Proficiency : English, Hindi, Telugu and Gujarati