SMC Enterprise Limited
Sahadat Hossain has a strong background in sales, with experience in various roles across different companies. Sahadat began their career in 2009 as a Senior Sales Representative at Kohinoor Chemical Company Bangladesh Private Ltd, where they focused on achieving monthly sales targets. Sahadat then moved on to Perfetty Van Mele Bangladesh Private Limited, where they worked as a Distribution Sales Office, responsible for meeting daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly sales targets. After that, Sahadat worked as an Area Sales Manager at Bashundhara Food & Beverage Ltd, where they contributed to strategic plans and implemented sales programs to achieve operational objectives. Most recently, Sahadat held the position of Division Head at both SMC Enterprise Limited and Social Marketing Company (SMC), where they were responsible for planning, strategizing, and implementing sales programs to meet sales targets. Overall, Sahadat's work experience demonstrates their expertise in sales and their ability to successfully achieve targets.
Sahadat Hossain began their education at Burirhat High School in Shariatpur from 1996 to 2000, where they studied Science and received their Dhaka Board certification. Sahadat then attended Syed Abul Hossain College in Madaripur from 2000 to 2003 for their HSC studies in Humanities. Sahadat continued their education at Dhaka College, where they pursued a Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) degree from 2003 to 2007, specializing in Honors. Following this, they obtained their Masters of Social Science (MSS) degree from Dhaka College between 2007 and 2008. Most recently, Sahadat completed their Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Marketing from Comilla University in Chottogram, Bangladesh, from 2019 to 2021.
SMC Enterprise Limited
Social Marketing Company, Bangladesh or SMC began its journey in 1974 as a project to address the rapid population growth in the country. It was set up by Population Services International (PSI), a US-based INGO under an agreement with the Government of Bangladesh and USAID. In 1990, after having achieved significant success, the project was converted to a nonprofit private limited company with a voluntary Board of Directors. In 2014, SMC formed SMC Enterprise Ltd, a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary to separate profitable activities from nonprofit to help effectively manage a growing and complex operation which could no longer function smoothly under a single unit. SMC today is a large and successful social enterprise and a major contributor to the Bangladesh national family planning program, providing contraceptives to more than one-third of all users. It markets a full range of family planning products, ORS (Oral Rehydration Salts) and has diversified into food, nutrition, reproductive health female hygiene. It operates the biggest ORS manufacturing facility in the country. SMC enjoys excellent goodwill among its beneficiaries and stakeholders. It is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company and headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As per 2015 Contraceptive Social Marketing Statistics released by DKT International, SMC was ranked as the second largest contraceptive social marketing program globally in terms of CYPs. Since its inception, SMC operations have averted 16 million unintended pregnancies, 1.2 million deaths of children under-5 and 106.3 million DALYs (year lost to ill-health and disability). According to the 2014 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS), one-third of family planning users in the country are using SMC-marketed contraceptive brands. Among methods, 62.0% of all condom users, 44.0% of pill users and over 18.0% of all injectable users rely on SMC contraceptives to meet their family planning contraceptive needs. SMC is, therefore, the largest and most successful partner of the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) in the effort to reduce population growth. SMC has made an enormous contribution in meeting the country’s MDG 4 and 5 goals, having saved innumerable lives of women and children through family planning and ORS over many years.