Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · New Delhi

• Founded Bangla Canvas as a platform and network of cafes and cloud kitchens connecting Bengalis and bengali food lovers across the world

Mar 2015 – Sep 2022 · 7 yrs 6 mos

• First leadership hire | Worked with the founder and other leaders from seed to unicorn | Transformational Journey |
• Key areas and highlights:
• 0 to 1: Multi faceted general management profile to build business and an organization from scratch
• Key Business areas:
• Building and scaling the ecommerce business
• Driving foot print expansion Pan India
• Taking various new initiatives and building new businesses

May 2014 – Mar 2015 · 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Heading Sports Footwear category with P&L responsibility
• Accountable for overall online sales & margin ( Gross margin & Contribution margin)
• Managing top Sports brand portfolio with direct brand & manufacturer partnerships
• Fostering & managing partnership relations with relevant business & trading partners
• Planning & executing promotional activities forging alliances with marketing partners, industry players, industry professionals
• Product Management, Merchandising strategy implementation to improve overall conversions on different online visits channels

Apr 2011 – Apr 2014 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• One of the 35 global campus recruits for Meritor's "Emerging Leadership Development Program" (ELDP) for a min 2 years-long program for leadership development, training and assignment for Meritor India & Global operations
• Direct reporting to Company top management (Director/CXO) for strategic projects & large programs in Supply Chain, Finance & Systems, Marketing & Strategy
• Assigned as the program manager managing large Supply Chain Transformation program for Meritor India along with Mckinsey delivering 10% cost optimization for overall procurement
• Assigned as the Manager of Finance & Systems responsible for Product Costing, Customer RFQs, Supply chain cost optimization, SAP integration for Materials & Inventory management

Apr 2010 – May 2010 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Primary market study & strategy formulation for enhancing PepsiCo India's strength & capability in capturing more accurate real time secondary sales data by application of best in class cloud technology and Distributor training program
• worked on this project being PepsiCo India's top 5 strategic agenda
• worked along with a top global Consulting (Booz & Company) & Technology partner (IBM)
• Presented the strategy to the MD & CEO of PepsiCo India

Nov 2007 – Nov 2008 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked as the product manager in global markets team for conceptualizing, developing and improving systems, products and processes for streamlined sales operations of corporate banking & treasury functions.
• Improved web-based products and decision support systems for facilitating easy derivative transactions, risk mitigation and customer risk profiling
• Led a team of sales managers, software developers, operations managers to develop systems for better sales operations management, CRM, sales analytics

Jun 2007 – Nov 2007 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked on the client-site for managing a large green-field construction project for Hindustan Unilever
• Managed end-to-end vendor on boarding, supply chain
• Consulted client's team on the project management and timely quality execution with cost optimization techniques

Sep 2006 – Feb 2007 · 5 mos · Jamshedpur Area, India

• Worked on consulting Tata Steel Jamshedpur plant's consumables procurement team to optimize fuel cost by applying simulation-based analytical method

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos · Lancaster, United Kingdom

• Worked on the Research study of the application of Java-based simulation research technique to solve large and complex Econometric & Micro-economics problems