This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 2500000 - Rs 3000000 (ie INR 25 - 30 LPA)
Min Experience: 15+ years
Location: Kolkata
JobType: full-time
We are looking for a highly experienced and commercially driven Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer who can operate as a trusted partner to the CEO while bringing strong expertise in healthcare consumer products and channel sales.
The ideal candidate will have previously handled a National Channel Sales role, with a strong understanding of distributor networks, trade channels, regional markets, sales planning, and channel expansion. This is a strategic and execution-oriented position requiring someone who can understand business priorities, work closely with senior leadership, and drive follow-through across sales and commercial initiatives.
The candidate should combine strong business acumen with excellent communication, coordination, analytical, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with the CEO on strategic, operational, and commercial priorities, ensuring timely execution and follow-up.
- Leverage extensive Channel Sales experience to support business growth, distribution expansion, and revenue-generation initiatives.
- Assist in developing and executing national sales strategies across distributors, dealers, retailers, modern trade, and other relevant channels.
- Coordinate with sales leadership and regional teams to track targets, performance, market opportunities, and key business initiatives.
- Analyze sales reports, channel performance, market trends, and regional data to provide actionable insights to the CEO.
- Support the CEO in identifying opportunities for market expansion, channel development, and improved sales productivity.
- Drive cross-functional coordination between sales, marketing, operations, finance, supply chain, and other teams.
- Prepare business reviews, MIS reports, presentations, dashboards, and briefing documents for leadership meetings.
- Track key decisions and action items from leadership discussions and ensure timely closure with relevant stakeholders.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including distributors, channel partners, senior sales leaders, and business associates.
- Support strategic initiatives, special projects, and business reviews led by the CEO.
Must-Have Skills
- Channel Sales
- 15–20 years of overall professional experience, preferably with substantial experience in healthcare consumer products, FMCG, consumer healthcare, pharma, or allied sectors.
- Proven experience managing or leading National Channel Sales operations.
- Strong understanding of distributor and channel networks across multiple regions.
- Excellent commercial, analytical, negotiation, and business-planning skills.
- Ability to work directly with senior leadership and handle confidential and high-priority business matters.
- Strong communication, presentation, coordination, and stakeholder-management skills.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Channel Management
- Trade Marketing
- Regional Sales
- Experience managing large-scale distributor and dealer networks.
- Understanding of consumer healthcare market dynamics and go-to-market strategies.
- Experience working with national and regional sales teams.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a seasoned sales and business professional who can move comfortably between strategic discussions with the CEO and hands-on execution with sales and channel teams. They should be highly organized, proactive, commercially sharp, and capable of independently driving critical initiatives to completion.
Skills Required
- 15-20 years of overall professional experience
- Substantial experience in healthcare consumer products, FMCG, consumer healthcare, pharma, or allied sectors
- Proven experience managing or leading national channel sales operations
- Strong understanding of distributor and channel networks across multiple regions
- Excellent commercial, analytical, negotiation, and business-planning skills
- Ability to work directly with senior leadership and handle confidential, high-priority business matters
- Strong communication, presentation, coordination, and stakeholder-management skills
- Channel management experience
- Trade marketing experience
- Regional sales experience
- Experience managing large-scale distributor and dealer networks
- Understanding of consumer healthcare market dynamics and go-to-market strategies
- Experience working with national and regional sales teams
What We Do
Weekday is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps startups hire top-tier engineering and product talent. By leveraging a massive database of white-collar professionals and advanced outreach tools, the company streamlines the hiring process through automated sourcing, AI-driven resume screening, and white-glove contingency services. Their mission is to modernize recruitment by enabling companies to discover and engage passive candidates efficiently, ensuring high-quality hires for critical roles.
