Jul 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Apr 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Heading Production planning & sourcing for personal care brands (mCaffeine and Hyphen)
• Overseeing New Launch, S&OP, supply planning (Raw Material and Packaging), and replenishment for 250+ SKUs, 100+ Suppliers & Contact Manufacturers
• Leading procurement strategy & operations, COGs optimization & Supplier development & relationship management etc.
• Facilitated end to end Project management for New product launches from Product/Packaging brief to Wh. landing
• Achieving key supply chain metrics including fill rate, inventory optimization, COGs reduction, and forecast accuracy

Sep 2020 – Jan 2021 · 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Jan 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led the activities of all sub-function involved in sourcing, material acquisition, control of material from forecast demand to the delivery of the stock to Buyer or Warehouse
• Set up supply chain with strategic sourcing with 3 sub-components from different vendors to dispatch the assembly products to 12 locations within a TAT as demanded, for a major Food and Agri client and ensured recurring business for 3 consecutive orders worth Rs.18 Cr
• Executed project with gross margin improvement to achieve savings of 1.87% (15lakh) for the quarter in form of targeted negotiations and discounts for long term projects, vendor consolidation, and mould developments
• Facilitated end to end planning for new customized material handling product, generating revenue of 1.8 Cr for the quarter with 17% gm
• Executed special project on inventory liquidation, reducing inventory from 22cr to 14cr and DIO from 28 days to 24 days and showcased the data through a dashboard for visibility and decision making
• Managed 17 sellers in the south region, ensuring smooth operations of the assigned process for Seller to Buyer, Seller to Warehouse and Warehouse to Buyer movement
• Managed CAPEX business of 90 lakhs/quarter for the south, developed 7 new vendors for material handling products
• Managed internal delivery team and liaison with 3PL partner for improving OTIF (76% to 95%) & quality adherence, returns, Inventory and DIO

Sep 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Launched 8 new outlets with end to end planning of location, assets, resources, budget, tech changes, area mapping with a team of 6 people and in collaboration with different teams and stakeholders.
• Executed Signage and branding project for 28 outlets across city, planned resources, budget, and timeline, developed multiple vendors for execution and sourcing
• Reduced outlet downtime from 80mins to 20mins per day, and stock-out from 12% to 7% thus increased revenue by around 5%. Assisted data and tech team in automated outlet deactivation algorithm
• Designed the framework by defining key metrics collated on a dashboard which helps Outlet Managers look at data points for effective monitoring
• Devised an incentive structure for Chefs and Delivery Boys which helped in boosting performance and decreased attrition and further measured this input to analyze skilled performance with data
• Facilitated operations planning for high sale events like Comic-Con (20 lakhs), New year (40 lakh), and festivals
• Assisted in training module development to be followed centrally across all cities

Jan 2017 – Aug 2017 · 7 mos

• Launched, ramped up and managed operations of 8 outlets with total revenue of 95 lakhs across different locations in the city
• Handled a team of 170 associates with 6 direct reports, also reduced attrition from 15% to 5% per month
• Performed customer feedback analysis and thus reduced customer compliant from 13% to 6%
• Driven sales and growth strategy to improve outlet level turnover by 8-12% month-on-month since February 2017
• Identified strategic areas to focus by mapping analysis to actionable

Jul 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai

• Core Team Member to set-up the Operations and Business Strategy by working shoulder to shoulder with the Founders
• Individually handled Vendor Management from the back-end—onboarding of promising business partners
• Designed of Sales Operations Framework for Intra-City SME Customers, including multiple business models
• Designed the Pricing, discounts, and Incentive for Customers and Vendors
• Market Research for inception of Operation to kick-off revenue generation and continuously worked on expansion plans, strategies, and execution across Mumbai City
• Led and owned Branding Project for third parties on Turant Vehicles which generated additional revenue of 12 lakhs with net margin on 60%
• Set-up Inter-City business from Ratnagiri to Mumbai, and Pune generating 20 lakhs revenue at a profit margin of 18%

Apr 2015 – Jul 2015 · 3 mos · Mumbai

• As Supply head at Porter, Mumbai I was Managing Vendor Development team on 15 people.
• Divided Vendor team in three sub team of Vendor enrolment team, Feet on street team, Response team.
• Enrolled more than 250 Vendors across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Bhiwandi to match demand.
• Vendor team job was from finding the vendors on field to putting them in company's system, Branding the Vehicles, App testing and training to drivers for smooth and optimise operations.

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Dhanbad-Ranchi Area

• I had undergone 6 weeks internship, at B.C.C.L , a subsidiary of Coal India Limited ,Dhanbad, and successfully completed a project on 'Analysis of main reasons of shaft breakdown and its precautions'
• Basic working of electric, engine and transmission section at sinidih workshop, BCCL, Dhanbad