Amal Pramanik
Amal heads up the UK business of Imperial Tobacco, one of the leading global tobacco companies. UK is Imperial Tobacco’s home market where it has a market leading position with yearly local profit of over Rs. 4800cr (at £600m, it is over 20% of Imperial’s global profit). Prior to UK, Amal was the head of Imperial’s Netherlands business and was also a director of various international subsidiaries.
Amal graduated from IIT Kharagpur and did his post graduation degree from IIM Ahmedabad. In his very successful career spanning over c25 years, Amal has held various senior sales and marketing and IT roles in ITC, NIIT, Pepsi, Gillette and now Imperial Tobacco and worked in India, Australia, Netherlands and UK.
Before immigrating with his family to Australia in 2000, Amal was the head of oral care business (Oral B) of Gillette for India and neighboring countries.
Amal has key strengths in his ability to negotiate large commercial arrangements/ deals, his ability to test robustness of ideas and proposals, his commercial acumen and thorough understanding of business processes & culture in different parts of the world and also his ability to help teams set strategic direction and enhance performance.
Email: A_pramanik@hotmail.com