Aastha Arora

Associate Consultant

Delhi, India6 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Delivered 11+ cross-industry consulting projects.
  • Supported launch of Zomato Nutrition's health products.
  • Developed predictive models for investment strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a versatile consultant with expertise in strategy, research, and product development across diverse industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

ConsultingStrategyDue DiligenceGrowth StrategyPerformance OptimizationM&a StrategyData AnalyticsInvestment StrategyFundamental AnalysisProduct DevelopmentResearchEpidemiological ModelingCustomer Experience

Other Skills

Commercial Due DiligenceFirm BuildingMarket SizingFinancial ModelingCustomer Focus GroupsVendor SurveysCompetitor BenchmarkingData AnalysisFinancial MetricsOperational MetricsLong-Short Equity StrategyPredictive ModelingTraining InitiativesData ModelingRevenue Growth Estimation

About

I’m currently a Junior Associate at McKinsey & Company. I completed my MBA at ISB, prior to which I worked at L.E.K. Consulting, delivering due diligence and growth strategy projects across 9+ industries, and at D.E. Shaw, where I leveraged alternative data to design long/short equity strategies. I’ve explored new interest areas through internships at diverse organisations - most notably at Blume Ventures, where I contributed to building their early and growth stage investment portfolio, and at Zomato, where I helped launch a health supplements vertical within the New Initiatives team. I’m passionate about learning, exchanging ideas, and creating real impact. Always happy to connect and have a chat.

Experience

6 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Mckinsey & company

Junior Associate

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos

Blume ventures

Growth Investing

May 2025Jul 2025 · 2 mos

L.e.k. consulting

Analyst

Oct 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • L.E.K. Capability Network (Among first 20 hires of LCN)
  • Delivered 11+ cross-industry consulting projects for CXO-level clients across the US, UK, India & Europe and led firm-building initiatives to support the global scale-up of LCN
  • Commercial Due Diligence (Education): Evaluated investment opportunities in the Indian K12 & student housing space for an Indian PE fund through market sizing and financial modeling
  • Growth Strategy (Consumer Goods): Uncovered product whitespace in the plant-based category for a French F&B player through customer focus groups and vendor surveys
  • Performance Optimization (Oil & Gas): Delivered cost-efficiency roadmap for Britain’s largest natural gas distributor through competitor benchmarking and employee timesheet data analysis
  • M&A Strategy (Industrial): Devised expansion strategy for America's largest furniture maker by evaluating acquisition targets across product lines on financial & operational metrics
  • Firm Building: Supported onboarding and training of 80+ analysts through 1on1 mentorship and training sessions on core consulting areas
Commercial Due DiligenceGrowth StrategyPerformance OptimizationM&A StrategyFirm BuildingConsulting+1

The d. e. shaw group

Associate

Jul 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Fundamental Equities Data Analytics (FEDA) team
  • Worked with traders across the US and UK to develop 14+ investment theses through predictive modeling of alternative data and led training initiatives for new hires
  • Fundamental Analysis (Tech): Estimated post-COVID revenue growth for the world's largest e-commerce giant by building a model using credit card spend data of 27M+ customers
  • Long-Short Equity Strategy (Retail): Identified investment potential in a major QSR chain by conducting sentiment analysis of consumer tweets and analyzing quarterly broker reports
  • Firm Building: Led training efforts for the incoming associate batch by redesigning core training modules on statistical and financial modeling
Fundamental AnalysisLong-Short Equity StrategyPredictive ModelingTraining InitiativesData AnalyticsInvestment Strategy

Zomato

Research Intern

Feb 2021Jun 2021 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • New Initiatives Division
  • Supported the launch of Zomato Nutrition, the company's first private-label line of health products (e.g., whey protein, omega-3) by devising its go-to-market strategy
  • Product-Market Fit Analysis: Evaluated product viability through customer surveys, vendor interviews, and social media sentiment analysis; shortlisted high-performing SKUs for pilot launch
  • Product Ideation: Collaborated with the tech team to design a customer-friendly app interface for Zomato Nutrition, aligning UX/UI with brand positioning
  • Cross-Functional Execution: Coordinated with supply, marketing, and analytics teams to conduct the pilot launch and gather & analyse consumer feedback
Product-Market Fit AnalysisProduct IdeationCross-Functional ExecutionProduct Development

The english debating society, sri venkateswara college

3 roles

President

Jul 2020Jul 2021 · 1 yr

Core Committee Member

Jul 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr

Member

Jul 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr

University of delhi

Research Intern

Jun 2020Aug 2020 · 2 mos

  • Developed a Lotka-Volterra based model during the COVID-19 pandemic to study the impact of public health interventions on the spread of coronavirus
  • Epidemiological Modeling: Adapted predator-prey dynamics to simulate interactions between infected and healthy populations under varying conditions
  • Policy Impact Simulation: Incorporated quarantine and migration rates as variables to analyze their effect on infection control and population recovery
Epidemiological ModelingPolicy Impact SimulationResearch

Harvard university

Ambassador

Jul 2019Dec 2019 · 5 mos

  • Indian Ambassador for Harvard’s interdisciplinary research project, “Looking Back, Informing the Future: 1947 Partition of British India”
  • Primary Research: Conducted in-person and remote interviews across different communities to gather a diverse set of oral narratives of the 1947 partition
  • Intersectional Analysis: Examined the narratives through the lens of gender and religion to highlight differentiated experiences of displacement and violence shaped by identity-based inequities
Primary ResearchIntersectional AnalysisResearch

Niti aayog

Research Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos

  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Department
  • Worked with Mrs. Sanyukta Sammaddar (IAS) to strengthen India’s National Indicator Framework by improving SDG tracking methodologies and enhancing indicator robustness
  • Data Methodology Enhancements: Suggested improved outlier detection (Z-score, scatter plots), normalization techniques, and boundary-setting for indicators to reduce skew and improve accuracy
  • Weighting & Performance Metrics: Analyzed distribution logic of weights across SDG indicators and proposed methods to refine goalwise progress tracking
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Attended inter-ministerial consultations and coordinated with UN advisers and IAS officers to align statistical recommendations with data collection processes
Data Methodology EnhancementsStakeholder EngagementResearch

Oyo

Research Intern

Dec 2018Jan 2019 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Customer Experience Team
  • Supported the improvement of Net Promoter Score (NPS) across OYO’s hotel clusters by identifying customer pain points and designing incentive-based staff interventions
  • Customer Insight Analysis: Scraped and analyzed customer reviews to isolate key staff-related pain points impacting NPS across major cities
  • Incentive Design & Implementation: Linked issue areas to specific corrective behaviors and devised financial (bonuses) and non-financial (awards, social media shoutouts) incentive schemes for frontline staff
Customer Insight AnalysisIncentive DesignCustomer Experience

Education

Indian School of Business

Post Graduate Program - MBA

Jan 2024Jan 2025

Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University

Bachelor of Science - BS — Mathematics and Economics

Jan 2018Jan 2021

Laxman Public School

High School — Science

Jan 2006Jan 2018

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