Jan 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Leading Category at Rupeek, India's leading and fastest growing B2C fintech Start-up.

Feb 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Leading Operations at Rupeek, India's leading and fastest growing B2C fintech Start-up.

Feb 2016 – Jan 2017 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Aug 2015 – Jan 2016 · 5 mos

• Deliver Forecast Accuracy & Net Ship through integration of market capacity, order book and partner capability to maintain an integrated pull market through x-functional collaboration to drive growth & profitability for Nike India

Jun 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Lead a team of 9 members responsible for managing 30 partners (largest partner base for Nike India) across national multi brand and regional distribution
• Responsibilities:
• channel P&L
• channel performance (sell-in basis market capacity, sell-thru and partner health)
• channel strategy with a focus on accelerated growth through transformation & expansion
• team development
• Delivered:
• strong double digit growth across the channel
• partner inventory health and sell-thru growth
• incubation & scale of new concepts introduced for the 1st time in the market
• retail productivity and same store growth through assortment focus, retail elevation and strong service standards
• grew scale with one of the partners to evolve in to the 2nd largest brick & mortar partner for Nike India with a focus on same store productivity (no new stores added with partner in FY15)

Jun 2013 – May 2014 · 11 mos

• Category Sales Manager (CSM)
• Responsibilities:
• category P&L
• channel strategy for each category basis assortments & global direction to drive Nike & partner productivity/profitability
• category performance across all Nike channel incl. Nike only stores, e-commerce & multi brand (sell-in and sell-thru management)
• concept stores incubation with category focus
• x-functional collaboration with merchandising & marketing to bring the category vision to life
• Delivered:
• fastest growth categories for Nike India in FY14 & FY15
• 5 new concept spaces which consistently outperformed the rest of the fleet of stores
• football business execution in lead up to WC'14
• reset of men's training
• 1. Awarded Nike India Maxim in recognition for work on football in e-commerce (first ever shop-in-shop executions in the e-commerce space across players/brands in India)
• 2. Awarded Nike India Maxim in recognition for work on men's training

Jun 2012 – May 2013 · 11 mos

• Delivered:
• Lead a team of 3 with a focus on reset of all 'alternate' business channels for Nike India including CSD (Canteen Stores Dept.), team sales, schools, exports & closeout to significantly improve profitability.

Apr 2010 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Research & recommendation on potential investment opportunities
• Collaboration with portfolio companies on high priority areas in partnership with CXOs
• Sector research
• Business Development & identification of early stage potential investment opportunities

Jul 2008 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Management consulting with a focus on Consumer Goods, Retail & Telecom