Apr 2024 – Jul 2024 · 3 mos

• Led teams of 4-6 members for end to end project delivery across growth acceleration, cost transformation, and sustainability cases for Fortune 500 retail clients
• Key achievements:
• The only associate (out of 120+) in the Center of Excellence (CoE) to be put on fast-track promotion path to ‘Project Leader’ for maintaining a 100% client NPS across engagements
• Notable projects:
• $85B U.S. Warehouse Club Chain: Led supply chain transformation efforts, identifying $50M in annual cost-saving opportunities across 20+ initiatives, including an in-depth competitive analysis of customer-store-fulfillment center proximity

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 · 11 mos

• Led teams of 4-6 members for end to end project delivery across growth acceleration, cost transformation, and sustainability cases for Fortune 500 retail clients
• Key achievements:
• Rated in top 5% among all Bain employees for 'consistently exceeding expectations'
• Recognized as practice-wide expert for expertise in sustainability and stakeholder strategy across industries, including Grocery, Apparel, Luxury, E-commerce, and Beauty
• Notable projects:
• $3B Indian Online Grocery Platform: Conducted a comprehensive SKU analysis (80K+ across 90 categories) for both regular and quick commerce, optimizing discounting, availability, and pricing strategies to enhance in-stock rates, customer experience, and profitability
• Canadian Luxury Department Store ($800M ARR): Identified cross-shopping behavior across multiple customer cohorts by analyzing 2M+ transactions, uncovering $10M in new revenue streams through upselling and cross-selling within beauty, jewelry, and fashion.
• $1.8B Brazilian Beauty & Fragrance Company: Partnered with the CSO to design a sustainability roadmap with 2030 commitments spanning ESG priorities, including climate change, waste management, water conservation, biodiversity, DE&I, and ethical sourcing
• Intellectual Property & Research Contributions
• Stakeholder Strategy: Collaborated with industry experts to model over 30 metrics, proving that stakeholder-centric companies outperformed the S&P 500 by 200+ basis points while lowering volatility by 20bps

Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 · 11 mos

• Led teams of 1-2 analysts on workstreams within larger project context, across growth acceleration, cost transformation, and sustainability cases for Fortune 500 retail clients
• Key achievements:
• Rated in top 5% among all Bain employees for 'consistently exceeding expectations'
• Notable projects:
• $27B Global QSR Brand: Enhanced digital personalization strategies by developing data-driven customer personas, leading to a $12M increase in sales
• £32B British Grocery Retailer: Conducted a consumer survey of ~10K shoppers to assess market awareness, uncovering a 15% wallet share growth opportunity
• Intellectual Property & Research Contributions
• Decarbonization in Fashion & Luxury: Led Bain’s research on global emissions trends in the fashion and luxury sectors, projecting future emissions relative to SBTi targets and calculating the marginal abatement cost of emission reduction initiatives

Aug 2021 – Mar 2022 · 7 mos

Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

• Fundraising: Collaborated with the CEO and Chief of Staff to secure $17M in Series B funding, developing pitch decks and valuation models.
• Revenue Growth Strategy: Led the e-commerce vertical, driving 300% sales growth through optimized pricing, marketing, and product development.
• Hiring Initiatives: Sole analyst managing hiring for 5+ roles, screening and interviewing a talent pool of 1,000+ candidates, and establishing an in-house media team.

Sep 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Led a strategy and operations project for a D2C fashion jewelry startup, collaborating directly with the founder on fundraising and hiring. Helped secure $10K in seed funding, cut hiring costs by 50%+, improved production efficiency, and reduced design-to-market time from two weeks to four days

Aug 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Co-founded the first Indian chapter of CEO, a worldwide association of student entrepreneurs running profitable businesses
• Spearheaded the blog initiative - a weekly column on the business models of high growth companies and disruptive start-ups as well as current trends in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, with 600+ readers
• Lead a team of 20+ potential entrepreneurs to engage with post-seed start-ups through the medium of strategy based live projects

Aug 2019 – Jun 2020 · 10 mos

• Organized the university's largest Economics fest, securing $6K in sponsorship and attracting participation from 2,500+ students from 60+ colleges and 10+ universities across Delhi-NCR

Aug 2018 – Jul 2019 · 11 mos

• Led a content team of five to produce a weekly economics and finance digest, 'Demystify', educating 2,000+ subscribers across 40+ colleges through a creative infographic series

Aug 2017 – Jul 2018 · 11 mos

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo

• Built the financial model for equity funding of a two-wheeler enterprise and computed its valuation using DCF & Multiples approach; benchmarked WACC with respect to beta and equity risk premiums using industry reports
• Carried out the quantitative analysis of a client in the tertiary healthcare domain using financial and operational metrics
• Prepared the pitch deck of an ornament conglomerate in the mid and premium market segment

Aug 2018 – Sep 2018 · 1 mo

• Conducted in-depth research of top 100 furniture vendors across the US and Malaysia by sales, including their recent funding rounds
• Contributed significantly towards the formulation of the company’s recruitment and vendor policy by researching the potential employment avenues and exploring the freelance furniture designer market

Jul 2018 – Oct 2018 · 3 mos

Aug 2017 – Jul 2018 · 11 mos

• Co-founded YCanvas, a pro-bono initiative to provide strategy and investor support to pre-seed start-ups; worked with 5+ start-ups
• Volunteered at TiE Start-up Expo and TiECon for the role of assisting investors and VCs

Jun 2018 – Jul 2018 · 1 mo

• Scoped and profiled potential client companies by performing subsidiary check to determine the scope of work and fee
• Dissected the valuation reports for tangible assets of a client, in an IBC case, under the restructuring division, and gave insights
• o Undertook research on impact fund investments in India under the then ongoing Social Impact Value project
• Performed the brand value analysis of Indian celebrities using their endorsement contracts and movie fees as metrics

Dec 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 mo

• Audited the business models of close competitors of the company, including, but not limited to online book trading platforms

Oct 2017 – Apr 2018 · 6 mos

• Assisted with the evaluation of 30+ startups to determine their viability for providing them with incubation support
• Undertook feasibility studies and market research for the startups, to ascertain their valuation and quantum of funding support

Oct 2017 – Nov 2017 · 1 mo

• Profiled top 100 cryptocurrencies in India by market cap, including studying its historical price trends
• Compared the price volatility of each with Bitcoin and Ethereum, using beta coefficient and graphical analysis

Sep 2017 – Nov 2017 · 2 mos

• Worked on managing the social media awareness of the company, including curating and marketing the content