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Nikhil Banthiya

Business Development Executive

Bangalore, Karnataka, India12 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led strategic growth initiatives in major retail companies.
  • Successfully scaled operations in B2B pharma supply.
  • Expert in omnichannel marketing and customer engagement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B and B2C E-Commerce expert with a strong focus on retail strategy and operations.

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About

12+ years of work experience across large retail/ecommerce companies (Walmart.com, Amazon.com, Reliance Retail) and consumer tech startups (Jet.com and Saveo.in) in business leadership positions. Passionate about building and scaling tech-enabled retail businesses and and driving impact. Worked across various roles across P&L management, omnichannel marketing, merchandising & pricing, and Growth Strategy. Ability to build strong teams that deliver with focus on product and customer experience. Currently building Saveo.in, a next-gen health tech platform, through its 10 to 100 journey. Prior to this, worked at Reliance Retail and Colgate-Palmolive in Strategy Lead and Ecosystem Head positions respectively. Prior to this, was in the US for 6 years working at Walmart, Jet.com, and Amazon in various Category Management positions.

Experience

Dawntech (amazon seller)

Senior VM

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Vendor management for TV business on Amazon

Antler

Entrepreneur in Residence

Jan 2025Jul 2025 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

May 2024Dec 2024 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Set up a family office to manage investments and kickstarted some long-overdue projects:
  • 1) Dove into stock trading and launched an algo trading desk with six proprietary, back-tested algorithms.
  • 2) Building a warehouse rental business for quick commerce—the first one is already signed up in Delhi.
  • 3) Exploring contract farming of strawberry

Saveo.in

Business Head

Jan 2022Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 1) Headed Supply, Category, and Marketing verticals and involved in company's overall strategy
  • 2) Scaled supply to 3x and became Karnataka's largest B2B pharma supplier from a supply pov
  • 3) Drove development of supply tech stack which resulted in improved order fill rate of 98%
  • 4) Responsible for 30+ vendor relationships. Oversaw their performance, negotiations, churn, etc
  • 5) Expanded supply in 2 new states and set up dark stores to achieve order fulfilment speed of 3 hours

Colgate-palmolive

Omnichannel Head (Customer Development Manager)

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • 1) Managed INR 300 Cr P&L, driving eB2C, eB2B & offline growth by integrating a omnichannel marketing strategy across digital & in-store channels.
  • 2) Grew Colgate’s eB2C market share on JioMart from 43% to 75% by launching exclusive pack sizes.
  • 3) Increased eB2B off-takes by 150% via pincode-level targeting, customizing product assortment & price points for kirana stores across India.
  • 4) Drove premium product sales share from 15% to 23% by implementing Colgate-branded aisles, end caps & in-store engagement programs.

Reliance retail

Senior Manager, Strategy and Planning - JioMart

Jan 2020Jan 2021 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • 1) Charted JioMart’s journey into 5,000 cities with a strategic B2B expansion plan and an AOP
  • 2) Led the commercial due diligence for Future Retail, evaluating its market position and synergy potential for integration with Reliance Retail
  • 3) Created a new org structure that streamlined operations for the combined entity of Reliance Retail group
  • 4) Designed the GTM strategy for the JioPharma initiative, digitizing 600,000+ pharmacies through an innovative two-tier model

Walmart ecommerce

3 roles

Senior Manager, Strategy and Planning

Jan 2019Jan 2020 · 1 yr

  • 1) Managed the central planning team for Walmart.com’s consumables category with ARR of $1B+
  • 2) Owned the AOP and OTB process involving 200+ people, resulting in 20% better fill rate
  • 3) Directly resulted in 80% increase in holiday sales via better inventory forecasting

Senior Category Manager, Health

Jan 2017Jan 2019 · 2 yrs

  • 1) Owned P&L of Home Health, Personal Health & Hygiene, and Sexual Wellness categories worth $150M
  • 2) Improved the contribution margin by 600 bps by negotiating with the large CPG brands like P&G, J&J and Kimberly-Clark

Category Manager, Cameras

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr

  • 1) Headed the Cameras, Camcorders, and Lenses category at Walmart.com worth $65M
  • 2) Increasing sales by 30% YoY after 3 years of consecutive decline by improving the assortment and launching new brands
  • 3) As part of Jet.com (unicorn start-up, acquired by Walmart in December 2016 for $3.3 billion) I launched photo, imaging, and laptops categories on Jet.com and achieved ARR of $10M in the first 6 months.

Amazon

MBA Intern

Jan 2015Jan 2015 · 0 mo · Greater Seattle Area

  • Created new bundling strategy that registered 100% higher attach rates than existing bundles, based on in-depth analysis of customer purchase history, CLV and customer segmentation

The smart cube

2 roles

Senior Analyst

Jan 2012Jan 2014 · 2 yrs

  • Was the founding member of the ‘Private Equity’ team, executing projects for PE/VC firms of US and UK. Realised annual consulting sales of $2.5M. Was awarded ‘Employee of the Quarter’ 4 times in three years.

Analyst

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

B.E. (Hons.)

Jan 2007Jan 2011

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2014Jan 2016

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jun 2014May 2016

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