Feb 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · On-site

• Project: Design & Delivery for an Integrated Business Planning Product (predictive analytics)
• Managed product backlog, sprint plan & release cycles basis user impact & business value unlock, with over 90% delivery OTIF
• Governed product lifecycle including development, testing & delivery & ensured seamless integration with SAP, Azure, Kinaxis & TPM
• Conducted 50+ user interviews & competitor benchmarking to list current solution gaps & further improve product proposition
• Collaborated for a GenAI & NLP pilot use case to empower non-technical users to extract insights about the forecast performance
• Influenced senior stakeholders & cross-functional teams to ensure product vision is aligned & executed as per business/user needs
• Drove product adoption by designing a self-paced curriculum & exceeded 3 out of 5 product KPIs thus driving NPS from -48 to +2
• Improved Forecast. Accuracy by 5%, Forecast bias within +/-3% leading to EUR 0.5 Mn inc. T/O supplemented by 10+ innovations

Jun 2022 – Feb 2023 · 8 mos · On-site

• Project: Category E-Commerce Strategy for Premium Beauty Brand
• Identified different user touch points & strategically deployed media assets to improve CTR & visibility by 25% for new launches
• Analyzed performance of KPIs such as CPO, CAC & ROI & generated insights for strategic vendor negotiations to drive P&L growth
• Increased sales by 80% with a 500% ROI by optimizing pricing strategies & platform discounts to further improve the gross margin
• Project: Channel Inventory Optimization & Business Waste Reduction
• Developed a dynamic data model with a Lead Indicator & reduced Channel Inventory by ~INR 2 Cr in Pilot done for Central India
• Recognized by the Vice President, Supply Chain India for the innovative solution & also contributed to its PAN India deployment
• Project: Area Sales & Customer Development CoE: Assortment Growth
• Devised an execution framework using Salesman KPIs (MGP, GPS BP, TA) to give field force insights into salesman’s performance
• Achieved an assortment growth of 500 bps & reduced the outlets not visited by 7% MoM in Pilot done in Kolkata Metro region
• Project: SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) Platform Implementation
• Worked on 5Mn. EUR E2E supply chain visibility project as a part of future fit Supply Chain initiative
• Managed interactions between ERP, Kinaxis & Mulesoft & identified potential validation failure areas
• Developed & deployed a Supplier Activation Strategy for Wave 1 with 95% adoption rate
• Project: Digital Workplace for Frontline Workers
• Conducted agile sprint plan, standups, & retrospectives as scrum master ensuring alignment & efficiency among 50+ stakeholders
• Achieved time savings of ~32 hrs/month per HRBP & ~3 hrs/month per Frontline worker in managing the day-to-day operations

Apr 2021 – May 2021 · 1 mo

• Awarded Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) to join Unilever as Full-time employee

Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Orchestrated end-to-end product development lifecycle, ensuring seamless transition from vehicle concept to market release
• Optimized part localization by working with CFTs to reduce material costs & achieved INR 6.5 Cr savings through VAVE initiatives
• Led the procurement process for an INR 8 Cr greenfield facility, managing supplier selection, price negotiations, & commissioning
• Identified critical improvement areas & bottlenecks using QC tools & resolved over 250 issues, reducing failure costs by INR 12 Cr
• Mentored a team of over 10 associates and fostered a culture of productivity, safety & quality improvement on the shop floor
• Participated in 50+ initial quality survey camps to capture market insights & Voice of Customer for future product strategies
• Developed SOPs to proactively mitigate the top 15 customer-reported defects to ensure high quality product in future
• Recognized with two Achievement Awards from Leadership for outstanding contributions to projects - S-presso and Dire Tour

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos

• 1. Conducted process risk identification audit & operator ergonomics study of the engine assembly shop
• 2. Conducted volume trials at vendor end & also suggested 5S standards for reduction of secondary defects

Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Industrial training pertaining to the recent development in Automatic Manual Transmission (AMT)

Aug 2014 – Mar 2015 · 7 mos · G.B.Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology

• Participated in BAJA 2015 - Team COTmoKRATS