Mar 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Shenzhen City, Guangdong, China · On-site

• 1. Ensured price discount for huge BBD and Festival Planning orders as well as on time delivery of Good Quality Products through right supplier selection
• 2. Drove innovation, which was the core reason for establishment of PL (Private Label) Team to bridge the Need-Supply Gap Highlights
• 3. Expanded Electronic Accessories Portfolio for FKSB and MarQ brands of Private Label including IT Accessories, Mobile Accessories, Auto Accessories & Tablets which contributed to more than 60% Volume of Smartbuy brand with 80 SKUs/Year

Aug 2015 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Product Management
• o China Market Intelligence (Updates on Market , Products and Key Components – News , features as well as prices)
• o Efficient Product Purchasing
• o Lead Innovation

Jan 2011 – Apr 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Delhi, India

• 1) Product Development :
• o Key Responsibilities :
•  Project management and Development for Mobile Phones.
•  KRA include Timely delivery and Quality
•  Ensured we select best of the products at best price not compromising on quality.
•  Handle Complete Project Management Cycle
•  Done Price Benchmarking Exercise for Complete portfolio
•   Primary Window for all New Vendors/ODMs bringing product proposals for Lava
• 2) Product Marketing :
• o Key Responsibilities :
•  Responsible for KKT and ARC Series of Lava Mobiles.
•  KRA included managing Product Portfolio (setting a roadmap basis segmentation & consumer needs), Ensuring right Pricing and Ordering ( through fortnightly PSI meetings) and Promotion and Placement. (by devising a thorough GTM)
•  Ensuring smooth Primary as well as Tertiary of the Launched project and devising & implementation of Schemes ( both Primary & Secondary)
• 3) As VAS Manager :
• o Key Responsibilities :
•  Drive Lava’s Product Portfolio for India in the space of Content-on-Mobile, VAS & Applications Eco System.
•  Develop an ecosystem of VAS including Music, IVR, WAP, Applications & M-Commerce Initiatives for creating product differentiation & edge over competition.
•  Enabling backward & forward integration among content owners, aggregators, platform managers to provide innovative product solutions and service offering for customers.
•  Leading value engineering of existing /new handheld portfolio with embedded Content, VAS & Applications.
• o Key Achievements
•  Innovation Leader : Only Due to dedicated efforts in VAS , Lava was able to Launch Discover Series – a Smart Feature phone concept on similar lines as Samsung Rex but launched 6 months before the “REX’s” Launch
•  Price Leader :
• a) Single handedly managed complete Content Embedding task and ensured being the Price & Content leader – with Telemax, Hungama, UTV & EROS(Digitainment).
• b) For Consumer benefit – cracked many deals – with partners like Gameloft, Hungama and Many Apps Vendor

Apr 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• o Key Responsibilities :
• Projects TAT
• o Ensuring delivery of projects within the TAT defined at the project kick-off
• o Managing the timeliness & accuracy of information flow between with ODMs (vendors) and internal project/product/testing teams
• o Working closely with the ODMs to understand and help resolve the bottlenecks being faced by them during the project phase
• Project Definition implementation
• o The output H/w, s/w and mechanical aspects of the projects to be as per the defined inputs for these parameters in order to ensure proposition viability
• Monitoring quality through IQC & OQC
• o Ensuring project IQC and OQC within timelines, information circulation to relevant stakeholders and driving ODMs to take requisite corrective actions
• Ecosystem Update
• Sharing Regular Information about Ecosystem (About Latest Component Costs and New Technology).
• Industry / Technology Knowledge and Updates to Team - atleast once a month
• o Key Achievements :
•  Handled more than 25 Projects for XOLO in a Span of 1.25 years.
•  For an Initial 7 months, Single Handedly Project Management for 15 Projects of XOLO Portfolio.
•  Established Project Management Team @China
•  Brought the Project Effective Delay to an average of Less than a Day from previous effective delay of more than month and also reduced overall TAT to 85-90 days from previous effective TAT of more than 120-140 days.
•  Played Key Role in Establishment of Many Project Management Processes for increase in efficiency, accuracy, speed and effectiveness in key tasks like Sample tracking/management.
•  Through the introduction of Regular Ecosystem Updates – helped whole Product Team (including – Product Marketing team as well as Product Testing Team) , to get complete know how of Industry , Suppliers , Component prices and Innovation which helps in taking faster decision and helped sharing the same via Organizing Regular Meetings with Component Suppliers and ODM Supply Chain.

May 2009 – May 2010 · 1 yr