Anwar Barayil spent 27 years with multinationals in the Gulf, including Gillette, P&G and Etisalat, then 20 years building his own businesses in the UAE and India. He is based in Chennai.
Anwar Barayil is a Chennai-based sales and goal-setting trainer who works with colleges and companies in Kochi. For MBA students he offers a 90-minute career talk; for distributors, retailers and FMCG teams he offers sales team training built around their own market.
Kochi is a working port city, and much of its business is moving, selling and distributing goods. Shipping and port-linked firms, logistics companies and the wholesalers who supply the whole district all depend on people who can sell and follow up.
The IT parks at Infopark and around Kakkanad employ young graduates who are good at their craft and often unsure how to talk to a customer. Retail around Edappally and MG Road, and the FMCG distributors who feed it, are the other big group of sales jobs in the city.
Kochi also has a long list of MBA and management colleges, so a career talk for final-year students fits easily into a normal teaching week.
Field sales, trade marketing and sales planning for FMCG, telecom and retail teams, built around the company.
For Kochi companies the strongest match is sales team training. Anwar spent 27 years in FMCG field sales and trade marketing, so distributor salesmen, retail supervisors and area managers get examples from the same kind of work. Colleges usually start with the 90-minute career talk and add the selling-skills course for students who want more.
Why sales belongs beside engineering, medicine, law and accountancy, told through his own path from sales clerk to manager. Built for final-year business and management students.
Finding customers, the sales call, handling objections and closing, drawn from 27 years at Gillette, P&G and Etisalat.
Anwar is based in Chennai and travels to Kochi by air or by the overnight rail routes through the Palakkad gap. Kochi works well as a base: a visit can include a talk at one college in the morning and a team session at a company the next day.
Anywhere outside his first-preference southern states, the host covers travel, stay and fee.
Anwar Barayil, a Chennai-based sales trainer, offers career talks, goal-setting workshops, selling-skills courses and sales team training for colleges and companies in Kochi.
The 90-minute career talk "Sales is a career worth choosing" suits final-year MBA and PGDM students. A college can add the half-day goal-setting workshop or the one to two day selling-skills course afterwards.
Yes. Sales team training is custom. It covers field sales, trade marketing and sales planning, and suits distributors, FMCG teams and retail chains in and around Kochi.
Call or WhatsApp +91 98402 44034, or email anwar.barayil@gmail.com, with your college or company name, group size and the session you want.
Send your college or company name, group size and the session you want. He replies himself.
Anwar Barayil, main page · Why a sales career: the full talk