May 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Delhi, India

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I am a cohort member at Entrepreneur First, an international Talent Investor with a 3% acceptance rate. It supports individuals to build technology companies.
• Backed by Linkedin, Paypal, and Google Deepmind founders, EF funds individuals and helps build co-founding teams, develop ideas and accelerate through fundraising from the world's best investors.

Apr 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As Business head for 5+ private brands, I was responsible for Strategy, Planning and driving the PnL of 5+ Brands across 100+ cloud kitchens across 13 cities. While the primary responsibility was to drive revenue management, the role also entailed working closely with other functional leads to deliver the requisite Ebitda.
• I am particularly proud of the first-in-class hyperlocal pricing model that could determine dish-level prices for any food brand, the alternate channels that we explored to build and the kitchen footprint optimization and Op-ex optimization that we drove to get closer to our financial goals.
• I am also proud of building a 40+ business team from scratch across 8 regions with consistent vision and scaleable processes.

Jul 2018 – Apr 2019 · 9 mos

• I was heading the mens' apparel category managing both Myntra and Jabong (17% of business). At this stage, I was responsible to drive the business strategy and deliver (a) Growth (b) Profitability (c) Customer Experience (d) Long term differentiation and (e) business health.
• At this point, I also focused a lot more on consolidating our partnerships into fewer but stronger ones, on demand generation, building marquee events (Myntra Mantastic Sale) to drive higher Men's traffic to the platform and on internally building the right processes and teams.
• Proud to share that my team has had comparably far better scores at Great Places to Work surveys and have had healthy number of promotions. I am proud of having built a well-knit team over time - A culture that I am proud to have built.

Mar 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• As the category grew larger, so did my portfolio size along with a larger responsibility of driving the Catrgory Strategy and vision focusing more on medium to long term differentiation for a sustained growth, profitability and customer stickiness.
• Together with the team, I scaled market place business from 10% to 30%, developed our own APIs for the purpose of integration with top partners such as Aditya Birla Group and Arvind Apparels etc. We also opened the distributor model to ensure a higher quantity and quality of supply. This played a pivotal role in our assortment availability, margin profile and to our ability to scale without adding financial risk.
• We also cracked strategic partnerships with French Connection, Tommy Hilfiger and UCB to either get exclusive access to global ranges or to get a long term exclusive arrangement which mutually benefited both the organizations.
• I am also proud to have evangelized the idea of Specially Made Units (SMUs) as a key pillar of our strategy which eventually contributed to 10% of our business with better margins and higher customer stickiness.

Aug 2015 – Mar 2016 · 7 mos

• I was given the additional charter of creating an almost non-existential occassionwear category. I built the right team, scaled supply through consumer first assortment, refined the user journey on the platform and invested sufficient mind space to create a category that is ~ 200 Cr today with healthy margins.
• Proud to share that we were the first ones to identify and focus on this opportunity with a customized approach to build Suits & Blazers and ethnicwear as separate sub categories. With the first mover advantage we were able to commanded a 40%+ online market share eventually.

Apr 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

• I started my journey with Myntra as the Business Manager for Workwear and was soon given the responsibility of managing some key casual wear brands.
• I launched key brands such as Blackberrys, expanded assortment by 2X, gross margins by 5pp working closely with the key partners and demonstrated a YoY 60% growth for the category

Jul 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

• I worked as a retail planner for 110 Allen Solly stores. My primary responsibilities were revenue and inventory planning, Store layout and assortment planning, discounting and pricing and inventory allocation across stores.
• I am proud to have built an algorithm- based inventory optimization model that improved our inventory turn by 12%; a model that was adopted across 10+ brands of the ABG group. I was also awarded for this technology-led scalable solution.

Nov 2009 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon

• At UCB, I was managing all the exports of UCB India in terms of Client coordination, Order management, distribution, documentation and vendor management. I was responsible for clearances of all the shipments and also the allocation of inbound inventory.
• I am happy to have contributed to the SAP implementation at this stage where I automated the invoicing, documentation and reporting processes of the Exports business.

Jun 2009 – Nov 2009 · 5 mos

Jan 2009 – May 2009 · 4 mos · Bangalore

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Bangalore

Mar 2007 – Apr 2007 · 1 mo · Anjar, Gujarat