About Me

 

Kurniawan Santoso started his career as Management Trainee in Dairy Farm Indonesia (PT Hero Supermarket Tbk). This gave him the skill and knowledge in day-to-day retail management. That time, Kurniawan also devoted his spare time to be an Assistant Lecturer at his alumni, University of Indonesia.

Reaching the Department Head at Giant Hypermarket, then he decided to move to the other side of the business. He joined HL-Display as Key Account Executive, handling lot of Indonesian Retailer; DFI, Lion Superindo, Indomaret, Alfamart, etc.

Not so long after that, Kurniawan joined PZ Cussons Indonesia as Key Account Manager handling several Account including DFI, Toserba Yogya, Naga and Makro. After a couple of year serving the London based company, Kurniawan than made an important leap to accept the opportunity join Johnson and Johnson Indonesia. Company integrations between Pfizer Consumer Health with Johnson Consumer was one of the main challenge in beginning. Beside his main responsibility to grow the business with his Account, Kurniawan also involved in several Projects within the company.

His new milestone was when he awarded as the Sales Manager of The Year (2nd position) for the year of 2008.  Currently he also happened to exploring new role as Trade Marketing Manager for Key Account channel.

Kurniawan is very keen to improve the “capacity building” of Indonesian Professional, especially who worked in the Modern Market Sector. He’s showing his passion by managing this web site, with his dream to be able to share the news, information and knowledge for his colleagues across Indonesia (They are KAMs, Trade Marketing Managers, Brand Managers, Activation Managers, Category Managers, etc who worked in Modern Market Sector). Therefore with several colleagues he initiate the founding of New KAM Club Indonesia in 2009.

His vision is how Indonesian Professional able to compete at the global market. They must be equipped with comprehensive skill and knowledge, deep analytical ability, strong network and sharp business thinking. He believe that this little step can make some big different, at least for those who agree with him.

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