Vikas Sharma

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years of diverse industry experience
Awarded Employee of the Year for 4 consecutive years
Expertise in scaling operations for exponential growth

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned operations leader in E-commerce and FMCG sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Fulfillment Center OperationsLast Mile DeliveryProcurementWarehouse Management

Other Skills

Warehouse setupKPI trackingStrategic SourcingVendor ManagementDemand PlanningSOP DevelopmentWarehouse Management SystemSupply Chain ManagementOperations ManagementLogistics ManagementProject ManagementInventory ManagementTeam ManagementBusiness AnalysisBusiness Strategy

About

15+ years of rich & diverse exposure across Industries [FMCG, E-commerce] and functions [Supply chain, Plant and warehouse Operations, Planning , Logistics, Last mile and Procurement functions] with brands like Zepto, Flipkart, Pepperfry, Supermax Personal care, TCS. Actively involved in scaling up operations for exponential growth y-o-y with superior customer experience. Worked at leadership roles and gained rich expertise in field of Warehousing, Long haul, Last mile, Procurement, Plant operations, and Supply planning roles. Strong operations professional with a post-graduate (PGDIM) from NITIE. Awarded "Employee of the year" for 4 consecutive years at Pepperfry. (among 1% of employees) Key Skills 1. Supply Chain Network Design- Strategic decision to locate warehouse with evolved network improving service level and reducing cost 2. Fulfillment Center operations- Set up State of the art fulfillment center (3 L Sq Ft) in record time 3. Last Mile delivery- Set up world class last mile delivery operations for Big box items 4. Procurement- Strategic sourcing and planning of procurement with annual spend of INR 3.6 Billion 5. Building high performance team- Hired and developed high performance team across various functions

Experience

15 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Zepto

2 roles

Chief Operating Officer

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

SVP Operations

Sep 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Flipkart

2 roles

Head of Hyperlocal Ops

Feb 2021 – Sep 2021 · 7 mos

Head Central Ops- First Mile and Last Mile

Sep 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Pepperfry

3 roles

Head- Supply Chain

Apr 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

Regional Head- Supply Chain

Promoted

Oct 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for Last Mile delivery & Fulfilment Center operations setup of Furniture and Home category for North, West & East region.
Setup Mother warehouse of 3 L sq ft Warehouse with world class standards in record time of 30 days.
Launched Last mile operations at Mumbai, Pune, Vadodara, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Goa & Bhopal.
Responsible for creating in house last mile delivery operations with maximum flexibility and minimised cost
Define, track and improve on KPI’s pertaining to Furniture delivery and customer delight in terms of delivery service

Last Mile deliveryFulfillment Center operationsWarehouse setupKPI tracking

Regional Head- Last Mile

Dec 2014 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

Supermax personalcare pvt. ltd.

Procurement Head- India

Apr 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Thane

Strategic Sourcing and Planning of major Raw Materials- Steel, Plastics & PM with Spend INR 3.6 Billion
Leading S & OP process in order to analyze Demand Planning data, ensure forecast accuracy for each SKU
Rationalizing SKU’s, standardizing packing materials and new vendor development for priority 1 SKU’s
Budget allocation planning & responsible for resolution of all issues related to Quality, Specifications, Damages/Losses and Revalidations
Vendor Management including Contracting, driving to adherence to performance metrics in cost reduction, rationalization, lead time and quality compliance
Developing alternate local sources at par with quality for present imported items due to rising exchange rates
Strategic long term projects of capacity planning to facilitate decision making of make vs buy plan

Jsw steel ltd

MBA Summers Internship- Supply Chain Management

Apr 2011 – Jun 2011 · 2 mos · Mumbai

Worked on the project "Development and implementation of standard operating procedure at Stockyards" which involved
Designing SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for Stockyards in India
Implemented complete WMS (Warehouse Management System) for a NEW Stockyard at Pune
Inventory Planning, Logistics Management and MIS at Stockyards.

Strategic SourcingVendor ManagementDemand PlanningProcurement

Tcs

Business Analyst

Sep 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Malad, Mumbai

As a Business Analyst, the responsibilities were as follows:
Optimization and Performance evaluation of Benchmarking & Performance Testing module
Responsibility to increase the overall throughput of the system (Orders per seconds)
Prepared Business Requirement Documents in conjunction with users globally
Quality Assurance of developed solutions and products