NEW DELHI: Xiaomi’s spin-off model POCO has appointed Himanshu Tandon as the brand new head of India operations. He succeeds Anuj Sharma, who’s returning to Xiaomi India as chief advertising officer as a part of a restructuring that additionally noticed the appointment of Alvin Tse, former head of Xiaomi Indonesia and founding crew member of Xiaomi, as the corporate’s head of operations in India.
Tandon has been part of POCO’s founding crew and performed a key position within the model’s development in India. Previous to this, he was the top of on-line gross sales and retail at POCO India. Earlier than becoming a member of POCO, he was a senior manager- regional enterprise supervisor and company technique at Videocon Mobiles.
POCO began as a sub-brand of Xiaomi, with gadgets offered on-line and aimed toward youthful consumers. It was spun off to grow to be an impartial firm in January 2020. The corporate had managed to seize 2% of the smartphone market share within the first month of operations in 2020, based on a Counterpoint Analysis report revealed in April 2022. POCO was additionally one of many high 5 manufacturers within the ₹15,000-20,000 value section as of Q1 22, as per the report.
Tandon has a post-graduate diploma in administration from the Indian Institute of Administration (IIM), Bangalore, with specialisations in technique, gross sales and advertising, and normal administration, based on his LinkedIn profile.
POCO India claims that Tandon holds a Guinness Ebook of World Report for opening a document variety of shops in a single day. He opened 505 shops for Xiaomi on a single day when he was venture supervisor on the firm.
“Within the subsequent days, Himanshu is wanting ahead to connecting with all of you and taking POCO to even higher heights,” POCO India mentioned in an announcement.
POCO additionally introduced that it’s increasing its after-sales footprint to over 2,000 service centres throughout the nation.
Supply: Live Mint