deepakchowdhary

After spending some good 3 yrs in sales I have decided to move to marketing with Asian Paints. Soon ( second week of April) I would be moving to Bombay in my new marketing role as Brand Manager. So right now I am in this exit mode where there is no will to do the market visits, meeting dealers and settling issues and the new role is a week away. Sitting in office knowing you dont have much to do is really painful. On 28th of the month I would start handing over to the new soul coming all the way from calcutta to take up my role here in Delhi.
Now when the date is coming closer to move I am getting into this reminiscent mode about by sales stint till now in Asian Paints. First day in sales and I had to manage a group of dealers from Chandigarh to jalandhar for a product launch. Not knowing anything about them or sales it was the most painful shock which I got. Then after spending some good 6 months as trainee I moved to Ludhiana where in I tasted the real flavor of sales. Painful dealers and sales pressure actually kept me on toes. My visits to dealers and interaction with team Amit, Ashwani,Ravi, Sanjeev and Ankur is something I would always remember. Staying in Ludhiana which is not among the best of the cities to enjoy urban hood was an experience in its own. I bought my firt car Maruti Esteem and a truck slammed into it in Ludhiana.The brawls with Vijay Hardware, SK paints, Kallu building material and many more is something which I never thought I would get into. I never thought that I would be using strong words and closing shops and business with people. I went there very timid and by the time came was posted to Delhi I was a very confident sales manager.
Then came Delhi stint. I joined and realised that the entire team here is new. This is the phenomenon which is very prevalent in Metros because of the sunrise industries always ready to pay higher to our guys than what we pay. Holding on to them and dealing with the lowest market share depot for Asian paints in the entire country was a challenge. Driving 1 and a half hours one way was another pain. But staying at home was so much fun. Doing initiatives with my team Anurag, Amol,Ankit, Arvind,Sudeep,Chadhaji and laxmi was quite fun. We are on a verge of closing the unit at a very healthy growth rate.
Now moving to marketing comes with 2 thoughts: one is new role entirely different and a completely different set up. secondly moving to Mumbai. Though I have stayed in Mumbai and I found it okie but living with family is a different ball game all together. Lets hope things all in place fast.
Right now I can just keep my fingers crossed and hope the worst will not hit me right away...:)