Dhruv Datta

Business Development Executive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in driving category growth.
  • Expertise in strategic brand partnerships and negotiations.
  • Strong analytical skills with data-driven decision making.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in E-Commerce and Travel sectors with a focus on growth and partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Q-commerce OperationsCategory ManagementBusiness StrategyE-commerceKey Account Management

Other Skills

Category P&L OwnershipStrategic Brand PartnershipsPricing StrategyGTM PlanningStakeholder ManagementBrand PartnershipsAssortment PlanningVendor ManagementInventory ManagementStrategic PlanningProblem SolvingCross-functional Team LeadershipProfit & Loss ManagementP&L ManagementGrowth Strategies

About

A problem-solver who consistently delivers results through collaboration. Relevant professional work experience in Strategy, Key Account Management & Sales Planning. Driven by Ideation and execution, and characterized by high sense of ownership.

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Firstclub

Category Lead

Aug 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Zepto

Building Category- Beverages

May 2025Aug 2025 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Managing end-to-end trade ownership for the beverages category (water & juices) with a focus on scaling large brand partnerships in a fast-paced Q-commerce environment.
  • Focusing on full-funnel category growth strategy including assortment, pricing, visibility, and promotional planning.
  • Leading platform operations ensuring availability, fulfillment, inventory health, and minimal returns across 500+ dark stores.
  • Owning pricing architecture and discount spends, ensuring efficient conversion and contribution margin expansion.
  • Acting as the primary POC for large beverage brands, managing growth charters, commercial terms, and execution planning.
  • Collaborating with supply chain, finance, product, city ops, and merchandising teams to drive seamless execution.
  • Executing data-backed store-level interventions and playbooks to reduce stock-outs, improve fill rates, and increase sales velocity.
Category P&L OwnershipStrategic Brand PartnershipsQ-Commerce OperationsPricing StrategyGTM PlanningStakeholder Management+6

Flipkart

3 roles

Senior Manager - Category Growth and Strategic Initiatives - Consumer Electronics

Mar 2025Jun 2025 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Manager - Category Growth and Strategic Initiatives - Emerging Electronics

Apr 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Got to work on various tailor made growth stories Lisasioing between Category, Product & Tech and various teams.
  • Initiated multiple impactful programs for owned categories that were scaled across other categories following leadership recognition and appreciation of their outcomes.
  • Led strategic brand partnerships, driving topline contribution margin (CM) while optimizing bottom-line efficiencies through data-backed negotiations and program design.
  • Scaled premium product share from 5% to 17% by leveraging dynamic pricing, availability improvements, targeted promotions, and strategic investments in growth levers.
  • Delivered consistent category expansion by executing end-to-end initiatives to improve and enable the CX journey with Loyalty programs, Monetization levers, Product Exchange, Selection Representation, and Value-Added Services.
  • Drove high-impact experience initiatives such as Listing Quality Score improvement, Open Box Delivery, Tech Visit, and Video
  • assistance along with various Search and Reco improvement via A/B experimentation.
  • Led bottom-line prevention strategies through data-backed interventions, achieving significant annual savings
  • Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders and leaders across Product, Customer Experience, Supply Chain, and Content
  • teams to drive agendas and manage project execution and communication effectively.
  • Tracked critical performance metrics, developed annual category roadmaps (AOP) with quarterly and monthly adherence
  • Launched an offline distribution channel for bulk electronics sales, generating over ₹2 Cr in quarterly revenue and opening new revenue streams for the category.
Problem SolvingCross-functional Team LeadershipProfit & Loss ManagementBusiness StrategyP&L ManagementGrowth Strategies+15

Growth, Revenue and planning

May 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Drove 40% drop in Returns (one of the biggest bottom-line levers in ecommerce)
  • End-to-end vertical X Brand-level returns planning for the entire Electronics Business unit
  • End-to-end planning, program management & execution of initiatives shaping post purchase
  • experience; including multiple First-in-Flipkart initiatives - Such as Open Box Delivery, Tech Visit,
  • Video Troubleshooting, Blanco etc.
  • Responsible for conceptualizing and driving key central growth initiatives post running A/B experiments
  • Formulated AOPs and built top-down approach to help achieve the same
  • Led and participated in numerous pods to drive ideas and execution of various cross functional projects
  • Program owner of GST charter, led adoption from 3% BAU to 9% leading to a significant Increase in GMV
  • Designed and implemented an offline channel to sell electronics in bulk
Pricing StrategyProblem SolvingCross-functional Team LeadershipProfit & Loss ManagementBusiness StrategyP&L Management+19

Makemytrip

2 roles

Senior Business Manager - B2B and Affiliates

Sep 2020May 2021 · 8 mos

  • • Part of core launch team of MyPartner - platform for Travel agents, Drove onboarding of agents via various means to 10k + agents in 6 months
Problem SolvingKey Account ManagementProfit & Loss ManagementBusiness StrategyData AnalyticsGrowth Strategies+19

Senior Business Manager - Strategic Partnerships - OYO Supply

Jan 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Responsible for developing a partnership with OYO Rooms and formulating a business strategy to drive the online transactional growth for a portfolio of 22K+ hotel units
  • Primary Custodian for contractual parameters for20k+ hotels impacting daily transactions
  • Facilitated movement of hotels out of the OYO platform and helped in their individual contracting for the platform
  • Published performance dashboards to internal and external stakeholders for daily business health
  • tracking
  • Led a location correction drive for over 3k hotels to avoid adverse customer impact
  • Scaled up and maintained 100% coverage of Bookability factors across portfolio such as Meal Plans, Amenities, Content Score, etc to boost conversion
  • Grew the portfolio’s content score from 22% to 99.92%
  • Helped reduce TAT for multiple processes by continuous process innovation and automation
  • Helped optimize system flow for partner teams to ensure better delivery of daily ops
Pricing StrategyProblem SolvingProfit & Loss ManagementBusiness StrategyData AnalyticsGrowth Strategies+15

Sbi card

Summer Trainee

Apr 2018Jun 2018 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Sales Pipeline ManagementData AnalysisKey Performance IndicatorsBusiness Reviews

Limetray

Marketing Account Manager

Jun 2016Nov 2016 · 5 mos · Pune

  • Managed a portfolio of 60+ restaurants across Pune
  • Increased client base by 20% by aggressive contracting
  • Achieved revenue targets for the company by strategically up-selling available solutions
  • Drove CRM campaigns for partners to achieve incremental revenue
  • Got over 20 clients to upgrade to higher monthly subscription amounts by bundling Solutions
Key Performance IndicatorsLinkedIn Sales NavigatorBusiness Reviews

Stratbeans consulting

Software Developer Intern

Jan 2015Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

Key Performance IndicatorsLinkedIn Sales NavigatorBusiness Reviews

Education

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2017Jan 2019

SIT- Symbiosis Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2012Jan 2016

Army school

High School Diploma

Mar 2000Mar 2012

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