Kaushik Sarkar

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ABOUT KAUSHIK SARKAR

Kaushik is a highly dynamic, purpose driven business leader with an exceptional record of growing and turning around declining sales, transforming business processes, nurturing talent with acute focus on results and thereby creating customer value. Kaushik is currently leading business development & sales for Industrial OEM segment at NBC Bearings. The key tasks are to aggressively drive growth in industrial segment through strategy transformation and its implementation at organization level. It includes driving execution through sales enablement supported by technology and adherence to process. Key focus is on setting high standard of customer experience through a combination of product & service portfolio backed by seamless execution. Prior to this he was driving sales & business development in a first-of-a-kind organization which is into building infrastructure towards manufacturing ecosystem to enable ecosystem of efficiencies in cost, supply chain and quality through cluster concept & also enable ease of doing business. Interestingly before that, as a partner and investor, he was in an entrepreneurial setup which is an engineering start-up primarily focused on enhancing safety, productivity & efficiency of process industry. Before that in Timken, he was responsible for managing a large team accountable for a significant revenue generation in automotive aftermarket having more than 100 channels & 5k retailers. With sales declining & business environment fraught with uncertainties, a slew of transformational initiatives were taken which helped in turning around the business to a rapid growth. In earlier years, Kaushik gained extensive experience in channel management, marketing, industrial OEM business, key account management, business development, and plant maintenance.His impatience with implementing & following a process and patience with results is his key strength which has helped to establish rewarding long term growth. He firmly believes customer (internal & external) relationship management is the key to sustained growth. Key Skills: Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Channel Management, P&L leadership, Strategic Planning, Business Process Transformation, and Talent Management