Ketki Padwad

Business Development Executive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

7 years of experience in category and brand management.
Proven track record in driving profitability and growth.
Expertise in stakeholder management and operations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Category Management expert with a strong background in B2C retail operations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Category ManagementBusiness StrategyRetail Category ManagementStakeholder Engagement

Other Skills

StrategyCollaborative Problem SolvingProgram ManagementCommunicationProblem SolvingAnalytical SkillsOratoryMarketingFormal PresentationTeam LeadershipMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointChange ManagementLeadershipOperations Management

About

Passionate and Result driven professional with 7 years of experience in Category management, People and Operations Management, Stakeholder management, Process/Metric improvement across several geographies.

Experience

7 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Nykaa

Senior Brand and Category Manager

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Meesho

Business Manager

Jun 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading top line growth and profitability for Home Decor, Watches, Sports & Fitness categories

Category ManagementStrategyBusiness Strategy

Amazon

2 roles

Category Manager

Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

Work to develop Precious Jewelry (Gold, Diamond, Platinum) Category through strategic brand initiatives, abuse reduction, return rate reduction, selection improvement, and both, top and bottom line growth.

Retail Category ManagementBusiness Strategy

BOLD Operations Manager

May 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Managing a team of managers in Buyer Risk Investigations to meet goals on improved customer experience, SLAs and to reduce Bad Debt from fraudulent orders. Currently owning WW and site level performance metrics, employee engagement initiatives and led the launch of risk investigations for Amazon Pharmacy.

Stakeholder Engagement

Tata consultancy services

Assistant System Engineer

Oct 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune

Worked as Change Analyst under IT Service Management. Responsible for the raising and recording of
changes, assessing the risk, impact, cost and benefit of changes, developing business justification and
obtaining approval, coordinating, monitoring and reporting on change implementation, reviewing and closing change requests. Member of the Change advisory Board (CAB) that conducts CAB meetings for the assessment and approval of High/Moderate risk changes. Also conduct Post Implementation Review of implemented changes and incidents caused by change. Completed ITIL V3 Foundation Certification. Acquainted with the tool "Service Now" and the basics of Problem Management, Incident Management and Catalog Tasks.