May 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Supply Chain Risk advisory consulting

May 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mar 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Central Demand Planner for Hair category, leading demand planning activities for this category for India Market. Facilitate and administrate forecasting & S&OP process for Hair category.
• Analyze the demand patterns and create a Demand construct at SKU Level
• Unbiased decision making on up lifts/down lifts basis inputs from Brand and Customer Marketing Teams.
• Liaise with Brand, CM, CD, Supply Planning, Customer Service, Category/Channel Finance and drive S&OP process for the categories.
• Partner with Branch teams for short term forecasting.
• Managing complexities of channel behaviors, category ambition vs channel reality, seasonality
• Driving monthly S&OP process for these categories.
• Identify demand drivers with the changing economic landscape and evolve the process of forecasting.
• Analyze forecast accuracy and bias and identify and implement process enhancements to improve these KPI’s.

Jun 2019 – Feb 2020 · 8 mos

• Leading activities related to Demand Planning for GSK India Business

Feb 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Develops in collaboration with the Demand Forecasting Manager(s) appropriate forecast models to support forecasting of the existing SKU portfolio as well as the launch of new products or line extensions
• Ensures that the statistical baseline sales forecasts are completed in line with the agreed planning calendar and that the optimum forecasting models are applied to each SKU within the Therapy.
• Support bottom up forecasting process by aligning RBM forecast to National forecast and drive single planning number.
• Provides detailed, timely forecast reporting across multiple markets and assigned Therapies for input to Pre-DRM, Demand Review Meeting, and ultimately feed into Country/Regional/Global S&OP.
• Responsible for the administration and update of APO and/or legacy forecasting systems and tools with respect to forecast models, SKU data, forecast data entry and validation.
• Works with the Demand Forecasting Manager to incorporate relevant sales and marketing information on promotions, competitor activity and other market conditions that will result in an increase or decrease of the projected sales. Also responsible for documenting these assumptions.
• Develops and applies exception reporting to enable identification and management of forecast accuracy impacts and month-to-month forecast changes.
• Uses multiple data sources such as IMS, Distributor sales, stock movements and Ex Factory-shipments etc to generate insights to drive improvements to forecast accuracy.
• Provides analytical support to the Demand Planning Managers, Regional Demand Forecasting Director/Manager, and cross-functional teams as required.

Jul 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Handling pan India distribution planning of high value vaccine product from hubs & factory
• to CFAs.
• Handling Logistics planning for vehicle from Hub to CFAs and LL sites to Hub.
• Help the company to achieve cost reduction by proposing various cost reduction projects.
• Successfully drive and deliver the one distribution network optimization project in Vaccine
• distribution supply chain.
• Play a key role in distribution switch post GSK-Novartis acquisition integration.
• Inventory Planning and control of packaging materials for cold chain products.
• Received total four Global employee recognition award in 1.5 years of Warehousing &
• Distribution role for Vaccine Distribution planning and Dashboard preparation for
• Transportation & Vaccine Sales.

Jun 2013 – Nov 2013 · 5 mos · Navi Mumbai

• Worked as Project Trainee at Drug Monitoring Research Institute (D.M.R.I.), Navi Mumbai on the Project titled "Development and validation of the High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry method for quantitative estimation of the Tenofovir from human plasma using Tenofovir D6 as an internal standard."