Prashant Kharwadkar

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About Prashant Kharwadkar

An crop protection start-up strategist with over 33years of sales marketing and business administration experience in the constantly changing Crop Protection industry – proficient in business management P&L focus sales marketing sales administration product development and registration. Excellent negotiation and influencing skills with a passion for customer service and revenue & EBITDA growth achieved by combining technical proficiency with consultative sales skills to close important sales projects. Well versed with challenges faced in developed markets (Japan/ Korea) well-structured markets (Australia/ New Zealand/ Taiwan) competitive markets (China/ India/ Thailand/ Philippines/ Indonesia) and evolving markets (Vietnam/ Malaysia/ Cambodia/ Nepal/ Bangladesh/ Sri Lanka). An specialist with formal education mix of agriculture & management IPR law and exposure in different organizational cultures of MNC (22 yr) & local Indian Companies (5 yr) in functional areas of Business Sales & Commercial (17 yr) Sales Administration ( 3 yr) marketing (6.5Yr) and business development (1/2 Yr) . Team leader with impressive communication skills superior problem resolution talents and the ability to build and motivate high-performance teams within aggressive timelines. A fast track career growth from Management trainee to Country head and then to Regional Director heading Division. Hand experience in investment plans and growth projects setting up an entity in country like India from legal finance logistics production tolling product registration actions culminating in commercial organization & delivering sales . Product Knowledge: Insecticides Herbicides Fungicides Plant Growth Stimulants Bio-pesticides and Bio-stimulants SIGNATURE STRENGTHS : Strategy development and implementation • Business unit setup/ operations and P&L. Business development and sales planning – B2B and B2C • Product lifecycle management • Analysis • Channel mgt.•