Piyush Ranjan

Co-Founder

Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India12 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Successfully guided 120+ MBA applicants to top programs.
  • Achieved $1M+ in scholarships for candidates.
  • Launched innovative initiatives for MBA aspirants.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in education and e-commerce sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

ManagementBusiness StrategyProject ManagementBusiness IntelligenceE-commerce ReportingMarketing StrategyQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Team ManagementCreative WritingData AnalysisReportingOperational OptimizationOperationsMarket MonitoringE-Commerce BenchmarkingRoot-Cause AnalysisMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeStrategyPowerPointAnalysisTeamwork

About

I am the Founder of Management Masters, a boutique admissions consultancy focused on providing services to applicants for the world’s top MBA Programs. My candidates have received calls from 25 out of the Top 40 MBA programs in the world, including Wharton, CBS, Booth, MITSloan, INSEAD, LBS, Kellogg, HEC Paris, Berkeley Haas, Duke Fuqua, Dartmouth Tuck, Darden, IMD Switzerland, Cambridge Judge, Indian School of Business, Cornell, NYU Stern and others. So far, my candidates have received ~$1M in scholarships.

Experience

Management masters

Founder and Chief Consultant

Apr 2019Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · India

  • Assisted 120+ MBA applicants to secure admission into Top MBA programs globally.
  • Created a comprehensive application development program, The 8-Step Process.
  • Conducted 500+ highly personalized workshops to help candidates reflect on life journey, build career story and identify career goals.
  • Provided extensive, personalized guidance on building application material, including resumes, essays and letters of recommendations.
  • Created a community of accomplished MBA candidates to provide mock interview support to aspiring candidates.
  • Achieved admission calls and scholarships worth $1M+ from highly selective MBA programs, including Wharton, CBS, Booth, Sloan, Kellogg, INSEAD, LBS, HEC Paris, ISB, and others.
  • Achieved 100% interview calls and 84% admit-rate for candidates applying to 3 or more schools for 2023 intake.
  • Launched 3+ new initiatives to help MBA aspirants improve their candidature for top business schools.
  • Conducted profile evaluation for 500+ aspirants to help identify lacuna in their overall candidatures and suggested actionable insights.
  • Launched 2 cohort-based learning initiatives, The MBA Project & ISB Tripod, to help early-career candidates learn more about MBA application processes, connect with MBA alumni, and understand essay-writing frameworks. Saw participation from 40+ candidates over 5 cohorts.
ManagementBusiness StrategyTeam ManagementCreative WritingData Analysis

Richemont

4 roles

E-Commerce Project Manager

Apr 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Project Manager: EU E-Commerce
  • New Maison launches in EU E-Com
  • New market launches in Europe
  • Other operational improvement projects within EU
  • Supporting local European teams in operational optimization and planning
  • Single point of contact for different teams for EU E-Com
  • Responsible for all monthly and ad-hoc reporting activities for EU E-Commerce
Project ManagementReportingOperational Optimization

E-Commerce & Digital Specialist

Promoted

Feb 2017Apr 2017 · 2 mos

  • E-Commerce Project Manager, supporting operations, and in-charge of EU reporting
  • First point of contact for all E-Com projects for Europe.
  • Project Management: Leading projects for integrating new Maisons into the E-Com platform, localization and Omni channel activities. Working with multiple international stakeholders across the globe, managing Maison expectations and local possibilities to find and implement the best solutions.
  • Operations: Identification of improvement opportunities, impact analysis, preparation of enhancement requests and involvement in the implementation and change management processes.
  • Reporting: In-charge of e-commerce reporting for EU. Led the horizontal deployment of reporting standards globally and responsible for new initiatives for reporting improvements.
  • Business Intelligence: Support EU CRC & E-Com Director with business intelligence to identify trends and improvements, and in preparation of business cases
  • Internal Knowledge Platform: Responsible for upkeep of the internal knowledge platform, and horizontal deployment in other regions.
Project ManagementBusiness IntelligenceOperations

E-Commerce & Digital Specialist

Mar 2016Jan 2017 · 10 mos

  • Reporting to the European Client Relation Center & E-Commerce Director, I support the operations and development of E-Commerce activities in the EU region.
  • Identification of operations improvement opportunities, analysis of impacts and preparation of enhancement requests
  • Maintaining and updating the operational procédures and workflows, and the E-Commerce knowledge management system
  • Support the EU CRC & E-Com Director with business intelligence to identify business trends and improvements
  • Ad-hoc analysis of E-Com performances, and preparation of reports
  • Performing E-Com testing as a Key User, preparation of test documentation and training of new users for E-Com
Business IntelligenceReportingOperations

Digital and E-Commerce Trainee

Nov 2015Mar 2016 · 4 mos

  • Key Skills and Learnings:
  • Increased understanding of e-commerce operational procédures
  • Improved analytical skills
  • Increased understanding of Luxury Digital Environment and its challenges
  • E-Commerce & CRC Reporting & Business Intelligence
  • Support the CRC & E-Commerce Director with business intelligence in order to provide meaningful insights and recommendations in regards to business trends and identify improvements
  • Perform ad-hoc analysis of E-Commerce performance as business needs dictate
  • E-Commerce Benchmarking & Market Monitoring
  • Analyse current E-Commerce performance of the brands, conduct benchmarking analysis and give recommendations
  • Monitor and report on emerging digital and market trends, best practices and new E-Commerce
  • developments
  • CRC & E-Commerce operation support
  • Update operational procedures and workflows following up each technical enhancement
  • Maintain the E-Commerce knowledge management system, OneWiki, up-to-date
  • Coordinate workshops with brands, prepare the minutes and keep the action list
E-Commerce ReportingMarket Monitoring

Hilti asia

Marketing Intern

Jul 2015Oct 2015 · 3 mos · Hong Kong

  • Project 1 - To review the marketing strategy of a newly launched product line and suggest improvements by redefining the key applications and target customer segments for the product.
  • Drove comprehensive feedback collection and analysis to identify key challenges and opportunities
  • Used Business Model Canvas to create detailed mapping to identify key product applications, key target segments and key activities.
  • Created short-term targets, and submitted timeline and proposals for successful implementation of the strategy, addressing employee motivation and cross-funtional team creation.
  • Project 2 - Identification of top product lines for driving customer engagement
  • Improved the original method used within the organization by bringing in more parameters into consideration
  • Delivered a stable, reliable, and data-driven result within extremely short time-period
  • Helped kick-start further discussion on the issues at hand, providing a reference base of solid analysis.

Business game st.gallen

Case Responsible

Jun 2015Apr 2016 · 10 mos · St Gallen, Switzerland

  • Create challenging case studies for the event in close collaboration with 5 partner companies
  • Identify improvement areas for the BGSG 2016 and initiate projects to implement the changes
  • Create new Selection Test for the Business Game to improve the correlation between selection test performance and case-performance during the BGSG of the final 50 teams.
  • Improve the Eloquence Finale event to align with the Business Game objectives
Business IntelligenceE-Commerce Benchmarking

Maruti udyog limited

Assistant Manager

Aug 2012Jul 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Projects - Reduction of Market Warrranties for Wheel Bearings and Shockers
  • Implemented several line countermeasures at vendor facilities to reduce defects and improve product quality through proactive audits
  • Carried out detailed root-cause analyses of part failures and implemented solutions in concerned areas
  • Initiated product design changes to increase product performance
  • Projects - Critical Market reported issues
  • Lowest resolution time for market complains (77 days) (Department Average - 92 Days)
  • Implemented countermeasures to resolve defects in inhouse and vendor processes.
Marketing StrategyData Analysis

Kennametal

Research Intern

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Project Title: Effect of Hardness and Composition on Fracture Toughness of Cemented Carbides
  • Project Requirements: Powder Metallurgy
Quality AssuranceRoot-Cause Analysis

Education

University of St.Gallen

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Jan 2015Jan 2017

University of St.Gallen

Master of Arts (M.A.) — Strategy and International Management

Jan 2014Jan 2015

Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Integrated Dual Degree — Metallurgical Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2012

Kerala Samajam Model School

ISC

Jan 2002Jan 2007

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