Manas Naik

Associate Consultant

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India5 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Advised Fortune 500 pharma clients on strategy.
Founded one of India's largest school entrepreneurship initiatives.
Delivered measurable business impact across multi-billion dollar portfolios.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and SaaS strategy and analytics professional.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data AnalysisCommercial StrategyDigital TransformationData Science

Other Skills

RData VisualizationPythonFinancial AnalysisNLPPower BITime Series AnalysisMicrosoft ExcelEntrepreneurship

About

I am a strategy and analytics professional with ~4 years of experience at ZS Associates, advising Fortune 500 pharma clients on market entry, commercial strategy, digital transformation, and competitive intelligence. My work has spanned $300M - $5.8B drug portfolios, where I delivered measurable business impact Currently pursuing my PGP at the Indian School of Business (ISB, Co’26), I bring a strong mix of consulting, data-driven problem-solving, and leadership. Entrepreneurial at heart, I founded NEO, one of India’s largest school entrepreneurship initiatives (450+ schools, 2000+ students), and a merchandise venture serving 20+ colleges across India.

Experience

5 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Zs

2 roles

Decision Analytics Associate Consultant

Promoted

Jul 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

Advised Fortune 500 pharmaceutical clients on market entry, commercialization, digital transformation, and analytics strategy across global drug portfolios.
Designed market entry and launch strategies for oncology drugs, including revenue modeling, segmentation, and competitor benchmarking.
Shaped commercial strategies to protect and grow multi-billion-dollar therapies, focusing on pricing reforms, insurance access, and physician adoption dynamics.
Led digital transformation initiatives, including CRM redesign, salesforce digitization, and operating model transitions, driving efficiency and scalability.
Developed advanced forecasting and risk frameworks to improve accuracy of launches and mitigate revenue erosion in competitive markets.
Partnered with clients on competitive intelligence and growth enablement, strengthening positioning against new entrants and accelerating adoption.
Contributed to firm-building, mentoring analysts, onboarding clients, leading technical trainings, and supporting new business development.

Data AnalysisRData VisualizationPythonFinancial AnalysisCommercial Strategy

Decision Analytics Associate

Jun 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Cloud counselage pvt. ltd.

Data Science Intern

Apr 2020 – Jul 2020 · 3 mos · India

90 % résumé screening accuracy: Prototyped an NLP powered talent matching engine that parsed 5 000+ CVs in minutes, surfacing high fit candidates and cutting recruiter review time by 45 %.
End to end model pipeline: Designed, trained and deployed a gradient boosting classifier to enable real time scoring
Actionable BI dashboards: Built interactive Power BI reports
Recognition: Earned recognition for implementing the project within 3 months.

Data AnalysisNLPPower BIData Science

The entrepreneurship cell, vnit nagpur

2 roles

Head Of Operations

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Nagpur, India

Mentored & mobilised a 30 member core team, setting up standard operating procedures that kept a year long calendar of E Cell events and skill building workshops running smoothly
Campus outreach engine: Curated and delivered multiple hackathons, ideation clinics and founder talk series that embedded entrepreneurial thinking across the institute’s student body
NEO symposium - Planned and executed a regional entrepreneurship conclave that attracted ~2 000 school students from ~80 schools
Stakeholder alignment: Coordinated logistics, sponsorships and speaker engagement with faculty, industry partners and administration to ensure zero schedule slippage and positive ROI for every event

Manager

Aug 2018 – Apr 2019 · 8 mos · Nagpur, India

Visvesvaraya national institute of technology

Summer Research Intern

Apr 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr · Nagpur Area, India

Built a plug-and-play comparison suite: Coded an R package that lets researchers pit any new univariate forecasting model against the full slate of classics—ARIMA, ETS, and more with a single line of code.
One click experimentation: Collapsed hours of copy paste model training scripts into a streamlined call, shrinking evaluation cycles from half day to minutes.
Dual lens analytics: Built in helpers compute accuracy scores (MAPE, RMSE) and memory footprints, then auto generate side by side plots for instant insight.
Bridging a tooling gap: At release, no equivalent toolkit existed in R, Python, or MATLAB, positioning the package as the de facto standard inside our lab and among partner researchers.
Developer friendly design: Walk through vignettes ensure that plugging in new models or datasets is friction free.

Neo

Founder

Jul 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

One of India’s largest entrepreneurship initiatives for school students, scaled to 450+ government & private schools, scaled content delivery online to 2000+ school students