Nitin Pandya

• Plan and supervise outdoor media including solar street light erection, billboard fabrication and maintenance. • Manage logistics, raw material purchasing, petty cash & insurance. • Handle client follow-ups and sales/marketing for billboard rentals.

• Supervised technical staff and daily operations. • Managed general office tasks, customer care & sales.

- Specialized in setting up chain of supermarket(s). - Served as a consultant to clients such as M/S International Restaurant & Mini Mart Ltd. Consultation includes placing retail systems, procurement, stock controls, man power management, routine Management and Administration.

- Managed to assist in the set up of two healthy outlets. - Managed to market/develop and create a substantial number of commercial customer base country wide. - Started merely with a range of 1700 products and managed to boost to 3500 products by the time I left. - Created a supplier base of about 100 suppliers within a span of a month and centralized our purchasing centre for four outlets. - Fully managed the logistics/distribution from the central stores to the outlets and bulk customers. - Did routine purchases from the various suppliers and the biggest local whole sale market in West Africa (The Lagos-Market).

- A fully fledged grocery and provision store. - Imported a wide range of many Indian Consumer goods directly from India.

- Concurrently ran a super market next to the restaurant. - Introduced many control methods into the system and administered daily routine operations which also included accounts, catering, inventory, purchasing, bar tendering, etc.

- Sold wire products for construction industry and plastic products ranging from house hold products to chairs, tanks, crates, packaging and more. - Grew my contribution of sale by 300% in 5 years time. - In 2003 was promoted to Sales Manager plastics designation. - The company also grew and expanded with/into dental, plastics, metals, cosmetics, food & confectionary division growing equally with seven depots country wide and large number of exports to neighbouring countries. - We manufactured products like whitedent, bodyline cosmetics, polytanks.

- Assisted in the procurement of Raw cashew kernels for export based in Mtwara, Tanzania. - Managed to procure 15000 tons from the deep remote villages.

- Assisted in marketing its Ceramic Products and Caparol; paints and pipe fittings. - Marketing RAK ceramic products like Porcelain, Mosaic tiles, etc.

- Served as the cashier initially at the Gerezani (3 years) Depot (TAPYA’S LTD) - Handled huge amount of cash, did routine banking proceeds and managed petty cash, prepared manual payrolls etc. - 1997: Due to high rise in production/sales routine I was transferred to the factory as the Storekeeper / Distribution Manager / Transport Fleet Controller.(Logistics) and promoted as THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER. - Served as storekeeper by maintaining necessary paint stocks in a very high range of varieties, liased with production departments and various Depot managers. - Managed front desk sales at the factory. - Eased flow of finished products in right time. - Systemized/Designed/Planned stores arrangements. - Managed 5 transport trucks, 5 executive cars. - Coordinated with various country/local transporters like Kara Roadways/Hassanali Esmail/Cargo Couriers/Super Man etc. Also arrange TRC Wagon Transport from Ilala goods shed.