Barun kumar Singh's Linkedin Analytics

I am a business leader with 15 years of experience in hospitality, apparel & fashion and building materials. I specialize in Growth & Expansion, Business Strategy, Retail Operations, P&L Management and People Leadership. I build winning environment that consistently add value, deliver measurable results and enhance organizational viability. I work on driving a sustainable & profitable growth of the brand in the region with accountability of top line and profitability. I proactively coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure adherence to SOP's and to create a culture of delivering customer delight to meet the organizational goals. At Value Building Materials, I'm driving the growth, profitability and expansion along with upscaling other group businesses (Pack it hub, Miracle meal) in the same portfolio. At Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail I drove the network expansion of one of the youth-focused fast fashion brands across 06 cities in South & East India, thereby adding INR 22 Cr($2.7Mn) to the brands topline. As a Territory Head, I was responsible for driving a P&L of ~INR50 Cr ($6.25Mn) with a team of 27 direct and 175+ indirect reportees spread across 9 cities. This role helped me build a people-first outlook and a deep understanding of financial & operational nuances of a start-up Brand. My first Stint with ABFRL started with Van Heusen as Business Manager which gave me a great expose on how to build team and drive sales through people. My learning curve enhanced while I turned around two low performing stores to a profitable store in Delhi NCR through customer service, people management, merchandise correction, Data analysis, Visual Merchandising and Mission Happiness-Store NPS. Great Exposure of opening the Flagship store of Van Heusen at Connaught Place-DELHI Location along with the New Brand Identity and Brand logo. In my 7 years’ hospitality exposure I’ve worked with some great five-star hotels in Food and Beverage service, Banquets, Events, Coffee Shop, Bar and Restaurant Operations and have grown through the ranks! I’m a Hotel Management graduate, who also holding a bachelor’s degree in Arts. Apart from being good on academics, I pursued my interest in creative domain and also actively participated in the industry led competition, projects and events. I like traveling and I’ve been round the world on a world cruise while working on a cruise liner (UK) to more than 25 countries and still counting…!