Ahmar Khan
Sales & Business development professional
Dubai
Summary of Career
Experience as
01 January 2003
10 March 2010
Sales and Business Development Manager
A leading DMS (Dealership Management Solution) provider for automotive retail and service. Excellon DMS for Automotive industry (AutoSol) is the bestselling solution coming out of India configured especially for the Automotive Industry. It covers standard DMS features along with Automotive Industry specific needs of dealers & OEM.
• Started with a 5 people team and 4 installations and led the company along with the management team to grow to a 100 people team and more than 1500 installations across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Malaysia till the end of my tenure
• Handled complete Indian sub-continent region
• Initially identified the opportunity with individual dealers to establish the product and achieve numbers to pitch the product to the OEM’s
• Established the brand by meeting hundreds of dealers and presenting them the solution which involved hectic travel regime.
• Identified high volume cities to maximize customer acquisitions
• Spearheaded the promotion campaigns continuously in major automotive shows & exhibitions
• Evolved sales and marketing strategies at regular intervals to stay ahead of competition
• Reached all major Automotive manufacturers to present the product, instrumental in acquiring OEM customers like, Ashok Leyland, Lanka Ashok Leyland, MyTVS, TVS Bangladesh, Yamaha Nepal, Castrol’s Bike Zone, Volkswagen India, Perodua Cars Malaysia
• Maintained close ties with high level decision makers of all the major automotive OEM’s in India.
Experience as
01 February 2001
31 January 2002
Chief Marketing Manager
It was a global community and information portal for the Indian Woman, with topics ranging from Beauty, Fashion, Health, Diet, Travel, Relationships etc.
• Responsible for devising strategy to generate revenue through advertisements, content and co-branding
• Managed to partner with Lokmat group for a national tie up for sharing content which gave the portal desired publicity
• Regularly gave feedbacks to update the portal functionally and provided content to match the competition
• Provide training to the sales team so that they can have maximum convergence of the leads
• Generated new business through networking efforts and execution of creative marketing plans implemented within strict advertising budgetary guidelines.
Experience as
01 May 1999
31 January 2001
A pioneer to come up with city specific portal nagpurkhoj.com . They came up with portals for multiple cities across India and also a focused portal for Dubai
• First executive to join the company at its inception
• Responsible for generating revenue through web pages, banner advertisements, content, website development, domain booking, space booking and co-branding
• Top performer for consecutive 3 months
• Responsible for training the sales team
• Got the opportunity to handle Mumbai city based on excellent performance
• Handled partner development and appointed partners in 6 cities of Maharashtra, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh
• Responsible for managing the partners in Maharashtra, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh and generating revenue through them
Matric 01 March 1993
Saint Francis deSales High School, NagpurIntermediate 01 March 1996
Sindhu Hindu Mahavidyalay, NagpurBachelor 01 March 2000
BCom- Sindhu Hindu Mahavidyalay, Nagpur. Final year incomplete