Aayush Kawathekar — Consultant

👋🏽 Hello, my name is Aayush Kawathekar 💼 I am a procurement & operations consultant at GEP for 2.5+ years 🎯 I've contributed to over $30M in P&L cost savings through a combination of rigorous analysis, supplier negotiation, and category-level transformation. ⚙️ My work spans procurement transformation, supply chain diagnostics, and large-scale program delivery across the US, Saudi Arabia, and APAC. I've advised Fortune 100 manufacturers on $300M sourcing strategies, helped mid-market conglomerates redesign their procurement function ahead of an IPO, and led supply chain diagnostics for global CPG companies 💪 Some of my most formative work has been at the intersection of strategy and delivery. From negotiating with mill operators across 25+ US sites to managing a go-live crisis alongside a CPO on one of the world's largest infrastructure projects; simultaneously thinking about the 3-year roadmap and why a Power BI turn around time dashboard broke; I've learned that the real work begins after the strategy is signed off. 🎓 B.Tech Grad in Information Technology from Sardar Patel Institute Of Technology 📚 Minors in Management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) 🏔️ When I'm not in a client war room, you'll find me on a trek.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Procurement and Operations Consultant with expertise in supply chain and strategic sourcing.

Location: Thane, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 5 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Project Management
Procurement Transformation
Supply Chain Diagnosis
Strategic Sourcing
Power Apps
Full Stack Development

Career Highlights

Over $30M in P&L cost savings achieved.
Led procurement transformation for IPO readiness.
Developed applications optimizing team processes by 40%.

Work Experience

GEP Worldwide

Consultant (1 yr 2 mos)

Senior Analyst Consulting (1 yr 6 mos)

Intern - Senior Analyst (6 mos)

Georgia Tech Financial Services Innovation Lab

Research Assistant (2 mos)

SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

Research Internship (2 mos)

Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri Mumbai

Teaching Assistant (5 mos)

Technical Head (1 yr 1 mo)

Riverwalk Holdings

VC Intern (2 mos)

Baker Hughes

Digital Technology Intern (6 mos)

Oculus S.P.I.T.

Head of Events (6 mos)

Rotaract Club of S.P.I.T

Member and Volunteer (11 mos)

Vectorised AI Labs

Full Stack Developer (2 mos)

Enactus S.P.I.T.

Head Of Research And Development (10 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri Mumbai

at Startup School Online

Minors at SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

HSC ( XII ) at Ratanbai Walbai Junior College Of Science

Aayush Kawathekar

Consultant

Thane, Maharashtra, India5 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over $30M in P&L cost savings achieved.
Led procurement transformation for IPO readiness.
Developed applications optimizing team processes by 40%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Procurement and Operations Consultant with expertise in supply chain and strategic sourcing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementProcurement TransformationSupply Chain DiagnosisStrategic SourcingPower AppsFull Stack Development

Other Skills

Risk ControlReportingKPI SetupSupplier ConsolidationSpend VisibilityCost ReductionLogistics OptimizationLean FrameworksCategory StrategyPower BIChange ManagementPower AutomateAgile FrameworkDjangoGraphQL

About

Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Gep worldwide

3 roles

Consultant

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

Fast Track Promotion
>Working for a Saudi PIF Mega Project as a "Transition PMO" to build project plans, smooth transition and ramp up to 50+ resources across managed services, ensure risk control, set up reporting and KPIs.
>Supported M&A Synergy Assessment for portfolio companies of a Saudi holding firm, enabling 15+ supplier consolidation
> Led procurement transformation initiatives covering people, processes, and policies for IPO readiness, future state redesign, strategy for increasing spend visibility & spend under management via org redesign, sourcing policy overhaul, skill gap identification
> Rapid Supply Chain Diagnosis: Identify performance gaps and root causes across planning, manufacturing, inventory, logistics, and network design using SCOR/ Lean frameworks with benchmarking; deliver implementation roadmap for cost reduction & efficiency
>Delivered 13% savings by rationalising Logistics Optimisation (freight, warehousing & customs) by mapping end-to-end frozen & ambient supply flows for a Vietnam bakery giant

Project ManagementRisk ControlReportingKPI SetupSupplier ConsolidationProcurement Transformation+3

Senior Analyst Consulting

Aug 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

> Strategic Sourcing for MRO Services, Delivering Category Strategy to client's Chief Procurement Officer, Developing Power BI dashboard for weekly updates to client's Chief Procurement Officer, Change Management and PMO during major transformation
> Category Strategy for a $50M+ spend category, including spend analysis across 20 mills, 20 stakeholder interviews, market research, category vision & timeline, supplier relationship management program, risk mitigation strategy & category governance.
> Building Power BI Dashboard for Reporting end to end Purchase To Pay process for the client.
> Project Management for the Organization Change Management
> Awarded GEP KUDOS Achiever Award for hard work and dedication

Strategic SourcingCategory StrategyPower BIChange ManagementProject Management

Intern - Senior Analyst

Feb 2023 – Aug 2023 · 6 mos

Engaged with Fortune 200 enterprises across various industries to support and drive key strategic initiatives in Procurement & Supply Chain

Georgia tech financial services innovation lab

Research Assistant

May 2024 – Jul 2024 · 2 mos

Assisting Dr. Sudheer Chava on impact of AI on Financial Sector with topics including financial inclusion for underserved populations, innovative startups solving responsible finance, Risk Management & AI and much more

Spjimr sp jain institute of management & research

Research Internship

Nov 2022 – Jan 2023 · 2 mos

Conceptualization a Chatbot Auditing Framework; Undertook literature review analysing 100+
publications on customer satisfaction and anthropomorphization of chatbot.

Bhartiya vidya bhavans sardar patel institute of technology munshi nagar andheri mumbai

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2022 – Feb 2023 · 5 mos

Teaching Assistantship for the course 'Distributed Computing' under Dr. Kailash Devadkar. Dr. Kailash Devadkar is an Associate Professor of the Information Technology Department. During my tenure, I got an opportunity to help him during the course and lab work by covering some industry-relevant case studies. These case studies helped students to understand the underlying concepts of Distributed Computing. Working with the professor to design quizzes and assignments was a fruitful and rewarding experience. I truly found a mentor in Kailash Sir and I will always be grateful to him for this opportunity.

Technical Head

Aug 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

>Working with students and teachers to help communicate the troubles faced by students to the teachers.
> Conducting multiple large across college and inter-college events for technical, cultural, and sports domain
> Working with committees across the college to help them conduct events and work with college servers to host their websites and apps.

Riverwalk holdings

VC Intern

Jul 2022 – Sep 2022 · 2 mos

> Gained experience in the end-to-end deal process - from reviewing pitch decks and doing initial assessments of businesses to financial analysis using MIS & business metrics and preparing investment memos.
> Managed a Sector Agnostic Portfolio Fund with 200 Crore AUM.
> Reviewed 50+ Indian startups for Seed and Series A investments in Marketing Tech, AgriTech, Fintech, and Cross Border Trade domains.

Baker hughes

Digital Technology Intern

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

>Solely Developed and Deployed multiple applications for teams across HSE, Marketing, Sales, M&A, Cyber Security, and HR using Power Apps, Power Automate, Excel, Excel VBA, and SharePoint.
>Optimizing teams by over 40% with help of digitization and Product Based optimization.
>Leading Project Management for various projects across the organization with Agile Framework, including Archiving Server setup on Azure, and Chatbot for the website using SalesForce.
>Worked with Business Teams and Engineering Teams to understand the working of various teams and technologies

Oculus s.p.i.t.

Head of Events

Oct 2021 – Apr 2022 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

-> Worked with more than 100 people from the Oculus Team to lead successful events over 3 days with multiple sponsors, artists, and participants.

Power AppsPower AutomateProject ManagementAgile Framework

Rotaract club of s.p.i.t

Member and Volunteer

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 · 11 mos

Organized and Volunteered for multiple events conducted by The Rotaract Club of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. Events included Blood Donation, Stray Dog Feeding, Beach Cleaning, and Food Donation drives.

Vectorised ai labs

Full Stack Developer

Aug 2021 – Oct 2021 · 2 mos

>Deployed an onboarding platform, which facilitated complete activation of the user from login to the dashboard.
>Completely built a Purchase Order Invoicing platform for a healthcare-based client within 1 month.
>Worked with Django, GraphQL, Celery, AWS