Rajesh Udaykumar

Background

About Rajesh Udaykumar

From Mar’02 with Apollo Tyres Ltd As District Manager Played a stellar role in turning around the market for Apollo Instrumental in transforming a loss making branch office to a growing office by achieving a growth of 43% in 10 months in sales value and 85% growth in LCV tyres. Played a significant role in improving the market share from 4th position in Truck and LCV tyres to 2nd position As State Manager (Punjab,Himachal Pradesh & Jammu Kashmir) Arrested degrowth in the state. Became the highest radial selling state in the organisation. Award of Excellence- 04-05 Govt business,05-06 Govt business,Radials,Alloy wheelz,06-07 Govt,Radials As Manager Corporate Marketing ( LCV Tyres)- June 07- Dec2009 as Manager Corporate Marketing Group (Light Commercial Vehicle tyres) for Indian and Global operation ( Product Manager) in HO Gurgaon – Introduced the New commercial vehicle segmentation for the organization- Leading the New Corporate Identity Rollout for the organization- Introduced winner products for Domestic and International operations- Introduced new campaign module which resulted in category growth- Conceptualizing the new Commercial Vehicle flagship store TRUST- Assisting the OEM team in introducing products to premium OEMs - Monitoring category net margins- Setting the Annual sales budgets for the Country operations(Repl, Inst,Exports)- To do product launches in international market for LCV category in H2 2009-10. As Brand Manager global (Regal brand) 1st Jan2010 May’96 – Mar’02 with CEAT ltd, Chennai as Sr. Territory Manager (Tyre Division) Apr’95- May’96: Commenced career with 20th Century Finance Corporation ltd, Chennai as Junior Officer –Hire Purchase. Specialties: Sales & Marketing