Prashant Barfe

Head Central & Omni Channel Operations, Corporate alliance & Customer excellence at METRO Wholesale India

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Prashant Barfe's Summary

Leveraging 23+ years’ experience; I strategize, innovate, revive and turn around business categories with a view to attain maximum profitability. I exhibited excellence in evolving business strategy and value proposition, creating a multi-year business plans along with creation of multi-geography business ecosystems. My expertise lies in building high ROI ecosystems, centres of excellence and leading operations. I excel in managing large profit centres across various product lines and geographies, building and managing large and high performance teams, new revenue stream creation. I am apt in all aspects of retail store operations like visual merchandizing, store level promotions, team handling, customer care, inventory management and manage the store as a profit center. Not only this, I also follow a systematic research & plan for revenue generation by focusing on new product introduction, sales strategy, customer experience, cost & inventory control for Home Business. Some of my professional contributions are: ▪ Contributed in the: o Development and execution of private label line of Business. o Developed Omni model for Electronics business named as Ezone. o Setting up of Omni-channel (from scratch and build it to a sustainable level). o Development of business excellence model & customer experience initiatives. o Driving key strategic initiatives with respect to cost, customer, inventory, people & process. ▪ Turnaround to a negative 60 cr business to 20 CR positive EBIDTA ▪ Successfully developed and executed Private label product line for the business which contributed to 300 Crore of the business with a margin contribution of 25% on overall sale. ▪ Successfully developed and implemented various Business technology tools such as SAP IS Retail, Microsoft CRM, POS Wincor Nixdorf, Sales force, Symphony. I am a great motivator who strategically influences decision makers at all levels to embrace, leverage and deliver best practices. Apart from this, I possesses exceptional interpersonal skills, comprehensive problem detection/ solving abilities and an analytical bent of mind. I can be reached via private message on LinkedIn