Iqtidar Ahmad

Iqtidar ahmad

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location of Iqtidar AhmadUttar Pradesh, India
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  • Timeline

  • Skills

    Marketing strategy
    Market development
    New business development
    Product development
    Business strategy
    Business development
    Product registration
    Sales management
    Rural marketing
    Market research
    Management
    Sales
    Business planning
    Agribusiness
    Agriculture
    Team management
    Strategy
    Marketing
    Market analysis
    Strategic planning
    Sales operations
    Negotiation
  • About me

    CORE VALUE-  Understanding the Seeds Business,  Focusing on the bottom line,  Communicating Effectively,  Dedication on responsibility, Specialties: - Positive thinker, understand the Seed business, People management, Team worker, Seeds registration, Market development, Sales strategic plan.

  • Education

    • Ccs university meerut (up) india.

      1996 - 2002
      M.sc (ag) chemistry agriculture chemistry

      B.Sc (Ag) & M.Sc (Ag) Chemistry.

    • Lovely professional university

      2013 - 2015
      Master of business administration (mba) business administration and management, general b

      This education had provide me right business knowledge and understand business opportunity.

  • Experience

    • Advanta seeds india ltd.

      Jun 2006 - Jan 2007
      Sales trainee

       Handling sales and promotional activity. Appointing new distributor and dealer in working area. Conducting seminars and promotional events. Achieve maximum sales for organization. Visiting direct to distributors,dealer and farmers. Doing promotional activity like field day, harvest day, mandi campaign, rickshaw campaign, mega farmers meeting, retailer meeting.

    • Pioneer seeds pvt ltd

      Jan 2007 - Jan 2012
      Territory business lead

      ■Handling sales and promotional activity for Distributors, Dealers and Corporate Channel.■Attended special training to Corporate Manager for better relations to farmer and dealer.■Brand development, Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.■Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development. ■Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures,■Ensuring achievement of revenue by motivating, educating and coordinating with Sales Team.■Ensuring timely receipt payment from distributor and corporate channel.■Appointing new Distributor and dealer in working area.■Conducting seminars and promotional events.■Achieve maximum sales in organization.■Visiting direct to Distributors, Dealer corporate channel office and farmers. Show less

    • Advanta seeds international.

      Feb 2012 - Dec 2015
      Former territory business development manager

      Acting as intermediary for Advanta seeds international in dealing with government organization under ministry of agriculture based in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda like SAGCOT, TIC, TASTA, SARI, TOSCI and USTA.Develop market requirements and maintain feature requirements for current and future products by conducting market research and on going visits to customers and prospects.Currently seeking the Business opportunities to expand our business in my territory by appoints new clients and representatives in individual territory.Opening new gates for the company by searching the data of potential clients & to look into new dimensions for the expansion of business in my territory.To participate in exhibition, events, seminars, conferences etc for business development of company preparation of dossier for the registration in my territory.Develop and write product requirements, maintain and develop all product documentation including business case, product requirements.Co-ordination with business development team regarding marketing, sales scheduling & organizing meeting and seminar.Serve as technology transfer resource it imparts technical training to Govt. officers, dealers, distributors and farmers.Liaise with agriculture universities private institutions for getting the products tested and to avail their support.To handle registration services with statutory bodies like SARI, TASTA & TOSCI and co ordinate with them.New product awareness programmes to the farmers, Distributors, retailers as well as our close Govt. officers.Extend support to sales & market teams in market development and product promotional activities.Generate data on various new and existing products in field condition in various crops.To identified new market for the hybrid seeds business and make strategies for the sell.Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product.Visiting with clients to develop seeds business. Show less

    • Harlal seeds pvt ltd.

      Nov 2018 - now
      Regional sales manager

      • Presently associated with HARLAL Seed India Pvt. Ltd as Regional Sales Manager – Sales, Marketing & Development based at Bareilly (UP) India.• Gained experience in charting out sales plans and contributing towards enhancing business volumes & growth.• Proficient in developing new customers and ensuring quality and service norms to achieve customer satisfaction.• Skilled in maximizing corporate performance, driving growth, generating revenues and capturing market share.• Abilities in cultivating & maintaining key relationships and leveraging core strengths & connections to develop new business.• New product awareness programs to the farmers, Distributors, retailers as well as our close Govt. officers.• Extend support to sales & market teams in market development and product promotional activities.• Developing new dealers and maintaining further relations to old ones. Analysing potential partner relationships for the product. Updating farmer satisfaction feedback report and visiting to clients to develop seeds business.• Currently seeking the Business opportunities to expand our business in my territory by appoints new clients and representatives in individual territory.• Responsible for the turnover and receivables collections recovery of the region.• Responsible for market intelligence database for the defined area (including market review, pricing survey, seed technology watches etc.) and convey market trends to the MD.• Support the product development-representative to set up trials & eventually to evaluate new varieties and provide opinion on the variety advancement. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Agriclinic- agribusiness scheme from manage hyderabad

      Govt of india ministry of agriculture
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Iqtidar Ahmad
      Appreciation award VS Ranganathan & Sharad Khurana (Sales Director PHI Seeds) Aug 2009 Received the Best Sales Territory Business Lead Award in 2009 PHI Seeds Pvt Ltd Agra. (Formally known as DuPont Company Ltd).Received appreciation from Mr. Shabbir ahmed Khan (RBM PHI Seeds Pvt Ltd Chandigarh) in 2008 by giving 100% territory revenue growth in Spring corn in Punjab.