Harsh Garg

Associate Consultant

Gurugram, Haryana, India9 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 9 years of strategy and management consulting experience
  • Expertise in Fintech and Retail industries
  • Proven track record in process transformation and operational excellence
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Retail strategy consultant with expertise in operational excellence.

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Skills

Core Skills

StrategyBusiness DevelopmentCustomer ExperienceOperational ExcellenceMarket ResearchProcess ImprovementM&a AdvisoryConsulting

Other Skills

AnalysisAnalytical SkillsBusiness Intelligence (BI)Business PlanningBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness StrategyChange ManagementCommercial AwarenessCommunicationData AnalysisFinancial AnalysisGovernance StructureInterpersonal RelationshipsManagement ConsultingMarket Analysis

About

9 years of strategy and management consulting experience working alongside stakeholders ranging from C-suite to practioners. Specialized focus on Fintech, Consumer, Retail, Banking and experience in Marine Logistics, Natural Gas and Airport Industries. Functional experience across program management, process transformation, operational excellence, growth & digital strategy, operating model restructuring with capabilities to ideate, incubate and implement solutions to deliver customer and business impact. I'm a creative and analytical thinker, strongly curious about my areas of interest and committed to delivering service excellence, with appreciation for balance between work and personal lives.

Experience

9 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
11 mos
Current Experience

Mastercard

Engagement Manager (Managing Consultant), Strategy

Jul 2025Present · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Razorpay

Senior Strategy Consultant

Aug 2022Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked with the Co-founder and Business Heads to manage RazorpayX (Neo Banking unit) end-to-end, from annual planning to execution, while driving growth & efficiency via identification & implementation of key strategic initiatives
  • In-depth research on Escrow market in India, developed GTM strategy targeting high-potential industries with PMF
  • Identified & addressed key pain points in P2P Lending, launching industry-first instant trustee approval stack
  • Led GTM for the solution, resulting in incremental business of INR 235 Crs AMB and 60K+ monthly payout txns
  • Transform free product into SaaS platform, creating a new revenue stream and enhancing product perception
  • Repositioned Business Banking platform with SaaS fee, creating workflows for customer acquisition to retention
  • Achieved a 17% increase in MTU, reducing churn and generating a new revenue stream of INR 6 crs in ARR
  • Viability analysis for Source-to-Pay product, manage wind-down activities across internal & external stakeholders
  • Projected P&L for the product, factoring in product investments & incremental revenue over the next two years
  • Annual burn reduction of INR 30 Cr, led product wind-down from customer communication to asset transitioning
  • Revamp the Customer Support function to elevate end-to-end customer experience and drive NPS improvement
  • Conducted comprehensive audit of support workflows to uncover inefficiencies across people, processes and tooling
  • Led initiatives across knowledge enablement, TAT changes, cross-functional synergy to drive 12 bps uplift in NPS
  • Annual Operating & Financial Plan for RazorpayX, generating INR 150+ Cr in annual revenue across 4 products
  • Spearheaded planning across 11 functional teams, from market mapping & target setting to defining functional OKRs
  • Drafted P&L projections, forecasted EBITDA, lead discussions on manpower planning & cost
  • Promoted from Consultant to Senior Consultant; led a team to drive project execution and team development
Strategic PlanningMarket ResearchBusiness StrategyFinancial AnalysisProject ManagementStrategy+1

Rupeek

Senior Manager, Strategy & New Initiatives

Jun 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Work with executive leadership to ideate, define, structure, launch, and manage strategic and operational new initiatives in 0 to 1 journeys which could provide the next 10x growth
  • Design & implement a pilot for an inhouse developed hardware as an automated solution for lending activities
  • − Created and implemented new processes with metrics for success and set milestones for on ground pilot execution
  • − Ensured capturing and analyzing of customer data to generate insights and feedback for better user experience
  • − Launched and stabilized the pilot at 4 locations in Bengaluru within 3 months, clocking the first 100 customers
  • Upscale the pilot for operational excellence and liaison with a listed Bank for next phase expansion strategy
  • − Enabled critical business decisions working with Tech teams to reduce errors per visiting customer from 1.7 to 0.8
  • − Pushed for automation in customer journey reducing process completion time from 18 to 13 mins per customer
  • − Conducted data driven process transformations leading to a higher customer NPS than for the overall company
  • − Achieved 500+ transactions within a quarter working closely with Technology, Growth and Operation Teams
  • − Created an integrated process flow with the Bank partner to transition the service with least mutual BAU deviations
  • Defensibility moat for the new initiative via legal means like patents, trademarks and design registrations
  • − Drafted and submitted an end-to-end patent document working jointly with multiple cross functional teams
  • − Laid out a new process to ensure exhaustive coverage and defined TAT for future patent writeups and submission
  • − Designed the organization structure with responsibilities for a new internal Intellectual Property department
  • Awarded the Extra Mile Award in Q1 2022 for re-engineering processes and bringing about transformational change in operations of new initiatives, achieving critical business and customer KPIs like 500+ transactions within a quarter
Process TransformationProject ManagementData AnalysisStrategyOperational Excellence

Strategy&

2 roles

Senior Associate

Oct 2020May 2021 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Focused on expansion strategy, market outlook, operating model restructuring and process transformation across multiple industries including Gas, Airport and Retail
  • Ten year market outlook assessment for a recently formed City Gas Distribution company
  • Assessed the government policies on propulsion of CNG & EV vehicles to deduce the future growth direction
  • Conducted TCO Analysis for vehicle types to plot the inflexion points for consumer shift to CNG or EV
  • Suggested the targeted opportunity bracket as a way ahead for the company to focus on in the next 5-7 years
  • Perspective on improving non-aeronautical revenue for a INR 350 billion Indian multinational conglomerate
  • Suggested methods to drive revenues including enhancing non aero performance & development of aerotropolis
  • Recreated passenger journey at airports to provide a secure experience required due to COVID-19 pandemic
  • Conducted primary research of 4 airports to adjudge the layout & offerings and showcase areas for opportunities
  • Point of view on creating a digital strategy and describing factors for successful transformation for retailers
  • Captured impact of COVID-19 on the retail industry and consequent effect of increasing digital engagement
  • Built shopper journeys for enhanced online offerings and digitized offline services as a blueprint for clients
  • Evaluated the international retail domain to develop insights on leading strategy and actions by companies
  • Restructuring operating model and manning for a INR 50 billion Indian ethnic wear and lifestyle retailer
  • Created a model to estimate phased manning numbers as the business upticks for Product & SCM teams
  • Ensured responsibility shifts and conducted gap analysis to minimize impact in the design to shelf process
  • Achieved headcount reduction of 26% as a result of reduced business, new structures and realigned R&R
Market AnalysisStrategic PlanningProcess TransformationStrategyMarket Research

Associate

Nov 2018Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Focused on strategy and process transformation, driving implementation and creating a governance regime with major experience in Retail sector
  • Process transformation and governance structure for a INR 50 billion Indian ethnic wear and lifestyle retailer:
  • o Executed process transformation for site to store process to enabler frictionless and quicker launch of stores
  • Institutionalized enhanced process steps, new org structure and governance mechanisms for increased efficiency
  • Administered actions led to 1.5x store openings with avg. ~28% reduction in store launch timelines in FY20
  • o Drafted the first annual plan and future roadmap for the newly launched customer loyalty program
  • Analyzed the plan to reset objectives with targets to linked campaign ideation to impact on customers
  • Monitored execution led to 10% increase in CLV, 4.5% increase in repeater base and 13% upward shift in tiers
  • o Assisted in formulation and implementation of re-launch strategy of existing design services proposition
  • Incorporated hub & spoke model, new operating structure to expand service availability across stores by 1.8x
  • Accelerated measures led to 96% increase in SSSG with strengthen tools and infra like look books and LMS
  • o Critiqued the new initiatives and recommended changes to achieve the desired targets for omni channel sales
  • Validated hypothesis of skewed employee contribution in 150+ stores to propose changes in the incentive policy
  • Visited 25+ stores to ascertain roadblocks in implementation, modified agenda led to sales share increase from 0.35% to 0.90% and penetration rate at 1.4x in 6 months
  • o Created governance & performance monitoring structure to drive rigor in business review & build accountability
  • Assisted in facilitating 100+ review forums with agenda driven meetings & work plan to timely push objectives
  • Initiated ‘Focus 40’ in initial reviews to revive lowest performing stores, of which 25 recovered in <3 months
Process TransformationGovernance StructureStrategyProcess Improvement

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Analyst, M&A Advisory, Real Estate

Apr 2018Oct 2018 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Worked in the Real Estate sector as a summer intern, offered Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) on performance evaluation, joined fulltime with the EMEA Real Estate M&A Advisory team
  • Supported the sector teams in EMEA and Australia on key marketing initiatives and client deliverables. Prepared models for peer comparison, preliminary company analysis, absolute and relative valuations.
  • Internship Project - Pioneered an end-to-end buy-side pitch for an American multinational diversified hospitality company. Responsible for ideation, due diligence, firm valuation, synergy calculations and post-merger risk analysis.
Financial AnalysisValuationM&A Advisory

Mckinsey & company

2 roles

Analyst

Jan 2016Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Provided active support to clients, consultants, peers and firm as a whole. Played an expert role for peers on Marine logistics and Retail industry given experience on multiple engagements on the topic.
  • Operations Assessment and Growth Strategy for a GOI Entity
  • Provided recommendations on strategic locations for new port development projects based on cargo flow trend and forecasting
  • Assisted on developing a National Multi Modal Transportation grid to increase efficiency and reduce logistics cost for the EXIM movement of essential commodities
  • Recommendations led to 3 sites being selected for building greenfield ports and potential savings opportunity of INR 30,000 crores, 70+ modernization projects at existing ports, and 150+ connectivity projects
  • Integrated 5 Year Business Growth Strategy for a leading Indian Knitwear company
  • Assisted to formulate enablers to capture Modern Trade opportunity in India via product changes and direct distribution models
  • Suggested attractive product categories / consumer segments based on size, growth, competitive intensity, consumer white spaces and synergies with current operations
  • Identified potential opportunities in global licensing and country clusters to focus for international expansion
  • Global Consumer Sentiment Survey 2016 [Survey covering 22,000+ respondents from 26 countries]
  • Took ownership for Indian leg with the aim to understand consumer sentiments on their financial prospects and subsequent effect on their buying behavior
  • Derived crucial implications for consumer goods companies and retailers as they seek to meet consumers’ ever-changing needs and preferences
  • Externally published as “Saving, scrimping, and … splurging? New insights into consumer behavior”
ResearchAnalysisConsulting

Junior Analyst

Jul 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Responsible for research and analysis for consulting assignments while working with global consultants on client engagements across multiple functions, industries and geographies.
  • Micro Market Insight and Strategy Implementation Overlook for a leading PSU Bank in India
  • Created a branch-network strategy for the bank by identifying expansion opportunities based on
  • micro-market insights
  • Suggested improvements in location specific branch performance by analysing structural and
  • manpower capabilities of 150+ bank service points through personal visits in a metro city
  • Monitored post strategy implementation to assist with solutions for seamless integration, success
  • led to duplicating the effort in multiple cities
  • Go-To-Market Strategy for a multinational South Korean Cosmetics company
  • Assessed the cosmetics industry in India with emphasis on international brand businesses
  • Analysed the business of premium to masstige consumer segment and proposed product portfolio choices for optimum market penetration
  • Contributed in formulating the market entry strategy for the client in India as per the clients constraints and aspirations
  • Supply Chain Assessment for a multinational American Insurance company
  • Identified cost reduction opportunities by assessing the end to end supply chain process
  • Recommended transformation of supply chain processes by advising on technological solutions to automate manual processes
  • Determined cheaper alternatives for processes by conducting vendor analysis
  • Corporate Transformation Strategy for a multinational Japanese conglomerate
  • Identified the challenges and bottlenecks faced by the client in achieving stated targets for its operations in India
  • Addressed pain points and developed a report on the conditions affecting the mismatch between strategy and implementation
  • Recommended an expansion plan in India by conducting a market-entry assessment for their business segments not yet operational in India

Mslgroup india

Intern

May 2014Jun 2014 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • Responsible for assisting Account Managers on digital media campaigns of multiple clients like Airtel, Videocon, Whirlpool, The Times of India and Pearl Academy:
  • Tracked and analysed media reactions on digital platforms during the launch of Airtel 4G
  • Managed customer relations for Whirlpool and Videocon on their social media platforms
  • Assisted on campaigns of Pearl Academy launched on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Vine
  • Assessed engagement of client campaigns on Twitter using the Brandwatch tool
  • Administered the Facebook page of ‘Mission Admission’ campaign by The Times of India

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)

Jan 2016Jan 2018

CFA Institute

Level 3 Candidate

Jan 2018Present

Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III)

Master of Business Administration - MBA — International Business

Jan 2017Jan 2017

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Integrated Professional Competency Course (IPCC)

Jan 2011Jan 2013

St Xavier's College, Kolkata

B.Com — Commerce

Jan 2011Jan 2014

Kolkata Institute Of Graphology

Graphologist — Graphology

Jan 2011Jan 2011

The Assembly Of God church School

Class 12 — Commerce

Jan 1997Jan 2011

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