Arindam Das

Experience

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  Cipla

  Aug 2002 - Feb 2004

  Marketing Executive

  Handling Retail Sales as a Territory In-Charge.

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  Future Group India

  Oct 2004 - Oct 2006

  Department Manager

  Managing Food Retailing Business, Heading Foodbazaar.

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  Metro Cash & Carry India Private Limited

  Nov 2006 - Jan 2015

  AGM(Sales & Operations)- Commodity, FMCG Food & Non-Food, Private Level Food & Non-Food business operations Sales and Operations of Commodity and Process Food, Inventory Management, Operations Excellence, Key accounts management, Availability and fill rate tracking. Planning, administration and designing of business strategies to achieve the set targets.

  • Assistant Genaral Manager (DC Operations-Food Business)

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

  • Senior Department Manager

    Dec 2009 - Dec 2011

  • Department Manager-FMCG and Commodity Business

    Nov 2006 - Nov 2009
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  Future Group India

  Feb 2015 - Feb 2022

  Overall Category Management of Commodity & Staples, FMCG Food & Non-Food, General Merchandise, Fruits & Vegetables, Dairy Bakery & Frozen , Private Level brand building. Complete P&L Ownership-Category Operations, Buying & Merchandising for East Zone Category P&L Management, Demand Planning, Sourcing, Buying & Merchandising, Margin Planning & Price Strategizing. Store Operations, New businesses development, People Management, Sales & Marketing Management, Inventory Contro, EBIDTA Management. ATL/BTL of Marketing activities, measuring success of such activities, budget planning and execution of marketing activities.

  • Sr.Manager- Head B&M Easyday Club Supermarket-East India

    Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Regional Category Head-Staples Food Easyday Club Supermarket-East

    Aug 2018 - Oct 2021

  • Store Manager-Bigbazaar Hypermarket

    Feb 2015 - Aug 2018
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  Reliance Retail

  Mar 2022 - Dec 2022

  DGM-National Merchandising Lead Merchant-FMCG(East & NE)

  Handling Merchandising function of FMCG food & non-food & Staples food of Reliance SMART & SMART Bazzar vertical Eastern Zone with a team of 4 Merchandising managers.

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  Emami Frank Ross

  Jan 2023 - now

  Emami Frank Ross Limited Chief General Manager & Head - Procurement

  Spearheading procurement & category management function of the Organization, handling annual 500cr+ procurement nationally with a team size of 20 direct/ indirect reportees. Managing Procurement, Merchandising & Category Management function at Organization level, P&L owner of all Categories - PHARMA, FMCG & OTC business.Part of the leadership team in redefining strategy to move forward in ever changing retail business landscape in the country to serve and satisfy customer expectations in alignment with organizations interest. Show less