Ramesh Pandian
Mr
Summary
Dear HR Team
I am excited to be applying for the position of After Sales opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.
Currently, I am responsible for After Sales Service in The Democratic Republic of the Congo for Bajaj motorcycles and Tricycles.
In my previous role, I was responsible for Service, Spare parts, Training and Warranty management in TVS Motor Company – International Business. I handled Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Djibouti.
Please consider my qualification and Experience.
Customer complaints handling and Coordinate with concern internal team to take the corrective action.
Network development
Spare parts Business
Warranty Management
Dealer development
Net Promotor Score
Inputs for New product development
Training & Development
CKD Assembly facilities at Distributers
Currently, I am located in Lubumbashi, The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Thank you in advance for reviewing my candidacy for this position.
Sincerely,
Ramesh Pandian
Experience
Service Manager
Dubai Auto Gallery / Lubumbashi
- Spearheading overall service operations - Managing post-sale service operations while ensuring customer satisfaction and business retention
- Accountable for Network expansion, Training, in / out warranty service functions
- Ensuring highest Level of customer satisfaction with the Best Turn-Around-Time
- Effective communication with manufacturers for Customer Complaints, Budget proposal and Reviews
- Monitoring revenue targets vs. achievements on daily basis; evolved strategies to enhance service operational efficiency in workshop & ensured its implementation to improve profitability.
Manager Service
TVS Motor Company / Hosur/India
Manager – Service & Spare Parts - International Business (2014-2021)
- Directed sales service operations, identified the potential market and appointed 3S, 2S and 1S with CI
- Diligently monitored after-sales performance of distributor and developed effective improvement plan for profitability & client retention
- Led distributor/dealer audits on service process sustenance for new processes deployment; checked CSI of Antenna club dealers and monitored the CSI index
- Steered continuous efforts to reduce the average resolution time of customer complaints
- Designed strategies to ensure spares parts target are achieved on monthly basis
- Took care of entire Service & Parts operational activities across 6 countries of East Africa – Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan and Djibouti.
- Handled service & Parts operation in Mozambique and Srilanka previous to East Africa.
- Ensured promotion of Extended Warranty Contract
- Developed 11 - new 3S dealer/ 120 – 1S dealer/ 85 – Parts retailer and spare parts sold worth 1.1 Mn USD in Kenya in 2019-20
- APS(Merchant Exporter) appointed in India for Ethiopia spare parts business
- CKD assembly facility rolled out in Ethiopia
- Developed new distributor for 3W business in Sri Lanka, and sold parts worth USD 2.8 million in 2016-17 in Sri Lanka
- Organized the Great “Mega Camp” in Sri Lanka that boost sales by 20% MSin the region (Sales task force team)
- Imparted technical training support to distributor, Dealer and PGMs that improve customer satisfaction by 90%; provided PGM Training in Egypt (Sales task force team)
- Implemented permanent actions such as mention to improve the Trouble free vehicle performance
- Improve Net Promoter Score(NPS) by 60% through implementation of permanent action for selected projects
- Initiated 90% reduction in Things Gone Wrong(TGW) Score by taking permanent action for selected projects
- Successfully eliminated the sporadic PPFR’s
- Designed & developed a troubleshooting handbook on solved complaints to train the dealers, and conducted scheduled audit at dealer
- Led successful elimination of warranty complaints for Panel rust complaint & Crank shaft by 90%
- Successfully completed and launched 5 new Products ( Star City ES, RTR 160, Flame 125, Scooty Streak, Wego)
- Fix Reliability Target for Part level/System level/Vehicle Level
- Evolving the benchmark characteristics
- Past product failure modes addressing in DFMEA/PFMEA and elimination
- Implementation and verification of APQP for Supplier
- Implemented permanent actions such as mention to improve the Trouble free vehicle performance
- Capturing the problems at each stage of the product development & initiating the actions for the same.
- Conduct PPAP trails and Audit at supplier end
Customer Quality (Quality Assurance Department) – International Business (2011-2014)
New Product Development – Quality Assurance department (2006 -2011)
Team Leader - QA
Indrad Auto Components / Maraimalainagar/India
- Led effective administration of Incoming, In-process and Final Product Quality
- Conducted finished product audit, process audits, supplier process audits as per schedule, analyzed the statistics and implemented corrective actions for the discrepancies
- Successfully completed Fiesta Fan cooling Module and led Indigenous motor assembly setup
QC Inspector
Kwality Precision Products P Ltd / Chennai/India
- In house Process Quality, Supplier Quality
- Initiated cost savings worth INR 10 lakh in the manufacturing cost through conversion of non-moving parts