Jan 2009 – Present · 17 yrs 4 mos · India

• An association formed to develop, facilitate and propagate practices and processes that will grow the Indian retail industry leading to increased consumption and growth of the economy. RAI works on advocacy,learning initiatives and industry creation activities including events for retail. Significant progress made in all three key areas since 2009 resulting into surplus for the association for the first time.Setting up RASCI, a sector skill council for retail under National Skill Development Council. tied up with Times group for timesjobs, times accent, ET awards in retail. worked with Government and retailers to create advocacy for prudent consumption of carrybags .

Dec 2006 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Country head of retail solutions . Set up a team to create solutions in retail like multichannel retail,. Total store solutions , retail business intelligence , merchandising and supply chain , out-sorucing solutions etc. This was a thought leadership , business development and sales team.worked extensively with the global teams to create solutions that could be adopted and adapted in India.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Was instrumental in creating the expansion strategy for the chain. Increased the strores from 6 to 33.
• helped in getting the people , place, merchandise and processses aligned to achieve the strategy.

Jan 1996 – Jan 2004 · 8 yrs

• business by set up of new stores, strategic tie-ups with concessions, customer centric sop development and creation of a high achivement team

Jan 1993 – Jan 2004 · 11 yrs

• Worked on various new initiatives for the group in various areas of finance, systems, distribution, HR, buying and merchandising and PLM. A keen sense of retail customer centricity without losing sight of retail profitability.

Jan 1989 – Jan 1993 · 4 yrs

• Various kinds of management consulting work involving financial decisions and audits. risk management and operational excellence