Nitish Khankriyal

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India5 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in scaling product categories.
  • Expert in data-driven strategic planning and execution.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional team management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic growth expert in E-commerce with a focus on data-driven decision making.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic PlanningCategory ManagementUser EngagementRetention StrategiesGrowth StrategiesMarket StrategyBusiness GrowthMarket AnalysisCost Optimization

Other Skills

Business Growth StrategiesData AnalyticsSQLUser BehaviorPerformance ManagementProject ManagementGo-to-Market StrategyBusiness StrategySupply ManagementDemand ForecastingFraud PreventionCost ReportingStrategic ThinkingConversion OptimizationProgram Management

About

I love contributing to strategic planning and growth initiatives at fast paced organizations. Previously held roles at Meesho, Urban Company and Zomato, where work in program/category management included owning P&L responsibilities, optimizing assortment planning, solving for demand and discovery, enhancing user engagement and cross-functional stakeholder management. Holds a B.Com (Hons) from Delhi University and attended IIM Indore's Integrated Program in Business Analytics. Skilled in strategic planning for growth, demand forecasting, and fraud prevention, with a focus on driving impactful outcomes through data-driven strategies and cross-functional collaboration.

Experience

5 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Stealth

Everything

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Meesho

2 roles

Associate Category Manager

Promoted

Jul 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

  •  Built and scaled Women Kurtis category (~INR 4200+ Cr. annual NMV, 16% to platform), from strategic roadmap design to execution - driving a 20+ member team across supply, pricing and demand levers.
  •  Designed and executed data backed assortment, pricing and discovery interventions, scaling the category 27% YoY and bridging demand-supply gaps across multiple customer cohorts.
  •  Conceptualized and launched strategic programs (Loyalty, Gold, Monthly Sale and VSKU Pricing) transforming user engagement (+57%), retention (+41%) and SKU level conversion (+28%)
  •  Co-built pricing algorithms and recommendation models with Product and Data Science, driving supplier engagement (+32%) and customer conversion (+18%).
  •  Defined and drove A/B experiments across merchandizing and discovery, boosting CTR (+12%), CVR (+5%) and reducing Bounce Rate (−15%).
  •  Led revenue forecasting and monthly business reviews under AOP presenting RCAs on variance and strategic growth plan to C-Level leadership.
  •  Conducted competition benchmarking on pricing, cost of doing business, and category share to guide NMV and margin decisions.
  •  Institutionalized real-time SQL dashboards, enabling faster data-based decisions on selection, pricing, discovery, retention and user behaviour.
Strategic PlanningBusiness Growth StrategiesCategory Management

Category Associate

Apr 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Led SKAMs and KAMs to deliver key category KRs, streamline seller support, and ensure operational excellence.
  • Drove OKRs to source high-ASP, trends, low-ASP products by addressing low converting searches to boost conversions.
  • Managed sale events and landing pages to drive discounting, boost seller participation, and improve UX.
  • Built SQL dashboards on Metabase for real-time health metrics tracking and faster decision-making.
Growth StrategiesProject ManagementCategory Management

Urban company

Category Manager

Oct 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Delhi, India

  • Led multiple teams in Delhi and Tier-2 markets for launches and standardization across North to increase market share of Urban Company in service gig industry.
  • Responsible for both, Partner and User acquisition, retention to drive growth and maximise ROI.
  • Led and streamlined subscription projects to increase partner traction and availability.
  • Drive data based decisions on quality metrices and customer experience to drive profitable growth.
Go-to-Market StrategyBusiness StrategyMarket StrategyBusiness Growth

Zomato

Senior Associate

Nov 2018Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Uttarakhand, India

  • Responsible for growth reports & analysis across Uttarakhand & Uttar Pradesh to increase market share of Zomato in North India.
  • Reduced delivery cost in the region by up to 36% by optimizing the components of the pay-out while increasing the demand in co-ordination
  • with salesteam, thus keeping earnings stable for the fleet.
  • Led 12% MoM order growth via data analysis basis food combos, BOGOs, occasions etc and while laying out target approach for Sales Team.
  • Read early signs of customer behavior shift basis seasonality, peak days/hours in a day to help Business team drive a roadmap for growth.
  • Led the implementation and optimization of BTL planning, resulting in improved budget allocation by 7% and achievement of volume and
  • market share targets.
Supply ManagementDemand ForecastingMarket AnalysisCost Optimization

Education

Delhi University

B.Com (Honours) — Commerce

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Integrated Program in Business Analytics

Jun 2021Apr 2022

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