Ravichander Viswanathan

About Ravichander Viswanathan

Ravi\'s holds experience across Customer Development, Customer Marketing, Channel management & Key Accounts management functions.Ravi\'s strengths are innovation, growth mindset, action oriented & good relationship skills.Having started his career in Modern Trade- Retail with Big Bazaar as a management trainee & Senior front end category, Ravi spent his career largely with HUL in different functions.After graduating from SIES in 2006 & having completed his BE production engineering from KJ Somaiya College, Ravi now has gained experience in FMCG sales & Retail spanning two categories & four roles.Ravi has also had an opportunity to complete his IIM-Bangalore EGMP management course which has helped him in his current role as a Key Account Manager. In his career Ravi has worked with one of the largest business for Big Bazaar- GM Fashion, has driven big ticket business in HUL like Super Value stores, Family grocer, has managed Customer development operations, piloted chemist channel program in GT, he has also successfully lead MT- Pharmacy Chains, LULU, Spar Hypermarket & now Tesco- Star Bazaar as a Key Account Manager.As an alumnus of SIES college of management studies, Ravi has majored in Marketing & Sales & this has given his career an edge in various roles.

Experience

1. Modern Trade Head - Ice Creams

   Unilever

   Nov 2024 — Present · IN

   Driving Modern trade sales for Kwality walls Ice creams, with a team of 7 people reporting into me.

Education

• SIES College of Science

  HSC, Physics Chemistry & Maths

  1997 — 1999

• PVG Vidya Bhawan

  SSC

  1988 — 1997

• KJ Somaiya College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Production Engineering

  1997 — 2003

• SIES College of Management Studies

  PGDBA, Marketing

  2004 — 2006