Apr 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Building the best online buying experience for India.
• Working on initiatives across the company to enhance customer experience, seller experience and overall marketplace health. Initiatives involve major focus on improving the user’s experience in search and discovery of desired product.
• Planning and owning product delivery from conception to roll out. Owning product road map and aligning it product vision
•  Created comprehensive solution to identify and prevent duplicate listings on platform. Enhanced search experience, prevented fake and imitation listings. Led to ~3% reduction in returns and an increase of 10 point in to NPS.
•  Conceptualised and created 'Listing Score', a content improvement mechanism to incentivise high quality listings in Web and App Search results which led to a 70% jump in seller edit. Average listing score increased from .4 to .7 across categories that led to increase of 12% in conversion.
•  Created a mechanism (Andon) to identify and prevent poor quality listings on platform. Designed business logic and an automated algorithm based identification and disabling mechanism. Created RCA panel to enable disabled listings and record RCAs. Led to ~2% reduction in returns and a jump of 12 point in to buyer NPS.

May 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Awards & Recognition:
• Super Employee for the quarter (Rated amongst top 50 employees in 10,000 KPMG employees),
• Super Team for two projects for outstanding project delivery (20 selected among more than 1,000 projects in KPMG India)
• Work Profile:
• Operation Strategy: Defined global operating model for a top tier supply chain & logistics player.
• Cost Reduction: Advised a major retail chain in F&A process consolidation across formats and created business case for F&A cost optimization strategy across different subsidiaries.
• Back Office Transformation: Provided strategic oversight for back office transformation to Multinational African telecom player for Finance, HR, SCM and Fixed Assets.
• Contract Review & Negotiation: Performed the financial and contractual review of one of the largest outsourcing contracts. Scope covered key business processes (F&A, Procurement, HR)
• Financial Modeling: Formulated a charge back mechanism to resolve transfer pricing for corporate services of major conglomerate.

Jun 2011 – Mar 2012 · 9 mos · Visakhapatnam

• Production Management:
• Monitored regular production, troubleshooting & inventory control management while planning and
• conceptualizing the strategies for the accomplishment of production target within a specified time
• and quality parameters.
• Successfully expanded the production to three shift operations, thereby increasing production
• volume by 60%.
• Introduced Lean practices & techniques in the plant to achieve better operational metrics,
• initiating 90% production efficiency.
• Enforced standardized operation sequence & improved productivity through detection, reduction &
• elimination of Non Value Added Activities from the production line using KAIZEN, resulting in
• 30% decrease in downtime.Also implemented 5S concepts & Quality Management System based on ISO-9001-2008 standards.
• Initiated backward integration of the business by purchasing machinery for raw material
• production.

Jan 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · Visakhapatnam

• Project Management & Implementation, Erection & Commissioning Plant Operations, Root cause Analysis , Cross Functional Coordination , Plant Shutdown & Start up.

Jun 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Visakhapatnam

• Product Development:
• Led a multi-regional team in developing innovative color design products. Formulated original
• concepts, guided prototype fabrication and created the product range for the company.
• Directed market research studies for product and consumer needs segmentation that determined
• market executions.
• Instrumental in Technology transfer of quartz surface manufacturing from Breton S.p.A (Italy) to
• Pokarna Limited.
• Project Management & Plant Erection:
• Managed the Erection & Commissioning of green field project of a $100 million worth new plant
• installation.Successfully planned various civil, fabrication & erection works involved in plant, finishing the project in record one year time.

Mar 2011 – Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Played a crucial role in company's Strategic Decision Making and business development.

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos

• Analyzed the fundamentals and working of effluent treatment plant (ETP). Performed laboratory experiments to suggest changes in the existing ETP system. Recommended changes helped to decrease the COD level of water.

Apr 2006 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr

• Worked as Overall coordinator Annual ChEA symposium (AZeotropy 2007)
• Professional Course: Completed online executive development program on production and operations management conducted by Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi. Dec 2010
• Community Service: Member, NSS (National Service Scheme), Taught poor children from Mumbai slums near campus