Harsh Raj

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in e-commerce category management.
  • Expertise in driving strategic projects across cross-functional teams.
  • Strong leadership in sales and marketing initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in e-commerce and operations management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyCategory ManagementOperations ManagementData AnalysisSales ManagementMarketing StrategyQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Category AOPMerchandise PlanningAssortment PlanningSales and Promotion PlanningP&L ManagementCross-functional CollaborationSales PlanningData ManagementProcess ImprovementAutomationWorkforce ManagementReportingCustomer ServiceMarketing CampaignsChannel Development

About

A PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad with keen interest in Marketing and Strategy. An optimist, a hard worker and a quick learner, I have always liked taking on many different roles and challenges in any work that I am responsible for.

Experience

Prasad trading company

Business Owner

Mar 2019Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · India

  • End to End management of 45 liquor retail outlets across Odisha & AP and 10 country liquor manufacturing units -
  • Relationship building with government officials
  • Negotiations with Liquor trade companies for their schemes & trade discounts, new brand launches and their brand positioning

Ajio.com

Chief Planning Manager

Oct 2015Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Driving the category AOP and seasonal merchandise planning for Women - National, International, Indie & International Wholesalers, Kids - National & International
  • Driving the entire assortment/range planning process involving creation of the seasonal plans at pricebrick level and monitoring performance against the same
  • Sales and Promotion Planning - Designing of site offers and flash offers in order to deliver daily revenue and margin plan for AJIO.com
  • Owning the entire OTB tracker and the buy plan process (preseason/inseason) involving buy evaluation against defined planning norms/metrics
  • Partnering with Category team to own the P&L metrics (sales, margin, discounting, DOH, sellthru, FPST etc)
  • Working with cross functional teams to drive bigger strategic projects and initiative
Category AOPMerchandise PlanningAssortment PlanningSales and Promotion PlanningP&L ManagementCross-functional Collaboration+2

Ocwen financial solutions pvt ltd

Business Operations Manager

Mar 2015Sep 2015 · 6 mos · Bangalore Area, India

  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams and drive projects for the Data Management & Analytics BU
  • Initiate and lead process improvement, automation and special projects
  • Develop work force management, capacity planning and schedule adherence systems and reports
  • Develop monitoring and reporting capability to effectively track the performance of each functional area in order to minimize variability, improve quality & maximize profitability of the business
  • Develop daily/periodic pipeline reports, productivity, compliance and quality dashboards
  • Interact effectively with senior management, other departments and other stakeholders
Data ManagementProcess ImprovementAutomationWorkforce ManagementReportingOperations Management+1

Rpg enterprises

Group Management Resource

Jun 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Responsible for Customer Service & Sales of all kinds of CEAT tyres in Bhubaneswar & Cuttack territory (July'13 - Nov'13)
  • Revamping the packaging of packed tubes & improving the tube quality, Mumbai HO, RPG House (Dec'13 - Feb'14)
  • Area Manager Role at Pune RO (Mar’14– Present)
  • New Channel Development, Dealer/Distributor handling, Direct Customer Working - Fleet Management, Handling BTL & other Marketing campaigns
  • 17% Depth increase in the exiting dealers of Pune RO by ensuring good service levels & support to the channel partners
  • Deliver an effective pitch for Non-CEAT dealers to increase CEAT breadth in the market – 6 new dealers appointed
  • Successfully Implemented Truck, Dealer and Distributor module designed by Mckinsey for CEAT
Customer ServiceSales ManagementMarketing CampaignsChannel DevelopmentMarketing Strategy

The coca-cola company

Summer Intern

Apr 2012May 2012 · 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

  • Sales & Marketing - 'Modern Trade'
  • Worked on the 'Packaged Juice' category of Coca-Cola with brands "Minute maid" & "Maaza"
Sales and MarketingMarket AnalysisSales ManagementMarketing Strategy

Indian oil corporation limited

Aviation Officer

Aug 2009Sep 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Guwahati, India

  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for Quality Control Checks of ‘Aviation Turbine Fuel’ (ATF)
  • Supervised refueling of air -crafts, decantation of tank trucks & topping -up of refuelers
  • SAP implementation for sales calculation & entry of sales and loss/gain over a day
  • Led a team of 18 workmen & supervised maintenance of about 30 equipments (static & mobile)
  • Designed a manpower planning module for shift operation at Guwahati Aviation Fuel Station
  • Achievements:
  • Rated as an Outstanding Performer with a performance rating of 4.1 out of 5
  • Contributed to 13% reduction in the Overtime (OT) hours of the staffs at Guwahati AFS
  • Passed “Quality Control Signatory” certification for AFS Operations issued by DGCA
Quality ControlTeam LeadershipSAP ImplementationOperations ManagementQuality Assurance

Steel authority of india ltd.

Summer Intern

Jun 2007Jul 2007 · 1 mo · Ranchi

  • Summer Internship on 'Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)'

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

PGPM - Batch of 2013 — MBA - General Management

Jan 2011Jan 2013

ESCP Business School

MIM

Jan 2012Jan 2012

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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