Kumar Parijat

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led AI strategy formulation at BCG.
  • Achieved $55 Mn EBIDTA gain through supply chain transformation.
  • Recognized as top performer and CEO Ambassador at BCG.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a management consultant with expertise in strategy and supply chain across diverse industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

People StrategyTechnology StrategyBusiness StrategyProject ManagementProduct ManagementSupply Chain & OperationsSupply Chain ManagementProcurementReliability EngineeringFinite Element Analysis (fea)Maintenance And Repair

Other Skills

Team ManagementTalent StrategyClimate and SustainabilityOrganization StrategyOperating Model DesignElectric VehiclesRecyclingChemicalsGrowth StrategiesHR StrategyBusiness BuildingChange ManagementProject ImplementationTelecommunicationsAutomotive

About

Experienced management consulting professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Strategy, Supply Chain and Product space; experience in Automotive, Steel, Telecom, Consumer Internet, Retail and Biopharma industry, with organizations spread across Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and Europe. Has a skill set encompassing strategy formulation, product management, project management & implementation, process transformation and quality improvements.

Experience

8 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Boston consulting group (bcg)

3 roles

Project Leader

Promoted

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Functional Experience: People Strategy, Technology Strategy, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Key Projects:
  • AI Commercialization: Assist senior leadership drive (Gen)AI strategy formulation, upskilling and commercialization
Team ManagementPeople StrategyTechnology Strategy

Consultant

Promoted

Jul 2023Jun 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Functional Experience: Business Strategy, Growth Strategy, People Strategy, Technology Strategy, Supply Chain & Operations, Operating Model Design, EBDITA Improvement, Climate & Sustainability, Business Build, Project Management, Change Management, Implementation
  • Industry Experience: Telecommunications, Automotive, Retail, Biopharma
  • Key Achievements: Selected as CEO Ambassador, amongst top performers globally, to help BCG senior leadership drive Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy formulation and commercialization
  • Key Projects:
  • Indirect cost optimization: Workstream Lead for reducing product development and maintenance costs by ~$9 Mn
  • Green Business Build: Workstream Lead for building investment thesis for e-waste recycling and EV battery manufacturing
  • Enterprise Transformation Strategy
  • Lead Consultant for recommending opportunities to scale India-based captive of global firm, built roadmap to target state
  • Defined future state operating model across geographies; devised talent strategy, hiring engine for to-be state
  • Part of team recognized with ‘Extraordinary Value Creation’ award by BCG (amongst 7 out of all BCG teams worldwide)
  • New Business Build
  • Lead Consultant for devising GTM strategy by analyzing present market landscape and white spaces as per consumer needs
  • Setup building blocks for launch across people, process and technology; defined operating model and established value chain
Business StrategyTalent StrategyClimate and SustainabilityOrganization StrategyOperating Model DesignPeople Strategy+16

Senior Associate

Jul 2022Jun 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Functional Experience: Product Management, Business Strategy, Growth Strategy, IT Strategy, Supply Chain & Operations, Production Planning, Scheduling, Operations Management, Process Improvement, Quality Improvement, Financial Planning, Project Management, Product Development, Project Planning, Diagnostics & Solution Design, Implementation, Change Management, Digitization
  • Industry Experience: Building Materials, Steel, E-commerce/ Quick Commerce
  • Key Achievements: Promoted to Consultant on fast-track (accelerated by 1 year); Recognized as ‘Resourceful’, ‘Team contributor’
  • Key Projects:
  • Advanced Planning and Scheduling
  • Product Manager for designing and implementing an advanced scheduling product across elements of S&OE (Sales and Operation Execution; ranging from order prioritization and allocation, to factory level planning and plant level scheduling)
  • Drove choice of technology solutions and partners, capability development and end-to-end system integration, unlocking annualized benefits of $20 Mn. Led program management of the overall transformation team
  • Analyzed factory throughput parameters and led initiatives to improve manufacturing productivity by 0.5%
  • Supply Chain Strategy
  • Analyzed the wastage across the Fruits and Vegetables’ supply chain – identified reasons for greater than industry avg. wastage
  • Defined liquidation strategy and process; Incorporated tech-based solutions at storage sites to reduce wastage and introduced dynamic discounting for improving liquidation. Led pilot at 3 major locations to deliver improvement by additional 1% of sales
Product ManagementGroup StrategyBusiness StrategyGrowth StrategiesIT StrategySupply Chain & Operations+21

Accenture strategy & consulting

3 roles

Management Consultant

Dec 2021Jun 2022 · 6 mos

  • Functional Experience: Product Management, Supply Chain & Operations, Operating Model Design, Digitization, Order Management, Logistics & Warehousing, Business Process Management, Process Transformation, Project Management, Change Management, Implementation
  • Industry Experience: Telecommunications
  • Key Projects:
  • Greenfield Operations Setup
  • Product Analyst for designing business processes and performance metrics, for Logistics & Warehousing processes
  • Assisted Application Architect in creating business process requirements to drive out application requirements and metrics
  • Operating Model Design: Project Delivery Lead for designing value chain and digital twin of client’s supply chain operating model
Product ManagementAgile MethodologiesSupply Chain & OperationsOperating Model DesignDigitizationProject Management+9

Management Consulting Analyst

Aug 2019Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Functional Experience: Product Management, Business Strategy, Growth Strategy, IT Strategy, Supply Chain & Operations, Sourcing & Procurement, Production Planning, Operations Management, Process Improvement, Quality Improvement, ERP Transformation, Finance, Project Management, Product Development, Business Process Management, Service Operations, Project Planning, Diagnostics & Solution Design, Implementation, Change Management
  • Industry Experience: Telecommunications, Biopharma, Food Processing, Retail
  • Key Achievements:
  • Promoted to Management Consultant on fast-track (accelerated by 1 year)
  • Awarded CN India SC&O Practice Level Awards – ‘Above and Beyond’ twice, for impactful project contributions
  • Recognized as ‘Innovative’, ‘Phenomenal’ ‘Exceptional’ and ‘an Asset’ by project MDs/leads on various projects
  • Consistently rated amongst top 10% of Capability Network (CN) India employees for excellent project delivery
  • Key Projects:
  • Supply Chain Transformation
  • Product Manager for Semi-Finished Goods (SFG) Requirement Generation, and SFG, Finished Goods (FG) Capacity Allocation
  • Employed VBA and linear optimization to develop an automated dynamic capacity allocation tool and an automated requirement generation tool, reducing planning cycle time from 2 days to 10 min
  • Performed process diagnosis for all supply planning functions across all manufacturing sites and a product base of 1700+ SFGs and 8000+ FGs. Defined To-Be Processes, master data and implementation roadmap
  • Unlocked 28% higher profitability in monthly commit creation translating to annualized EBIDTA gain of $55 Mn
  • Boosted Requirement vs Commits vs Actuals % to 72% from 23%, by defining SFG RRS (Runner-Repeater-Stranger) strategy, and safety stock and campaign strategy. Devised Inventory Norms to reduce DOH by ~30% (saving $1.28 Mn annually)
  • Managed 20+ client stakeholders, to conduct supply planning cycles and ensure alignment on newly developed processes
Product ManagementBusiness StrategyGrowth StrategiesIT StrategySourcingProduction Planning+17

Summer Intern

Apr 2018May 2018 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Product Manager for Accenture Smart Manufacturing Solution (ASMS)
  • Collaborated with internal team and vendor personnel towards End-to-End enablement of ASMS 2.0 demo package
  • Drove Industry X.0 technology based configuration and front-end dashboarding; developed GTM, implementation package
  • Offered PPO for the role of Management Consulting Analyst
Product ManagementManufacturingGo-to-Market StrategyIndustry 4.0Financial AnalysisSoftware Implementation+1

Bajaj auto ltd

2 roles

Senior Engineer

Jul 2016Apr 2017 · 9 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • In charge of:
  • Cost synthesis, analysis, modification and finalization of painted parts and decals, including Original Equipment, Spares, Semi-Knocked Down (SKD) and Completely Knocked Down (CKD) equipment, of 2-wheeler models of KTM and Bajaj
  • Tracking and GR monitoring of allotted painted parts and decals of all 2-wheeler models
  • Identification and resolution of supply chain bottlenecks, in cross-organizational teams with respective buyers
  • Continuous monitoring of vendor rating of all vendors of polymer department, and identification of bottlenecks for non-satisfactory rated vendors
  • Key Achievements:
  • Achieved highest ever schedule compliance of 96% for department by removing supply chain bottlenecks
  • Reduced packaging variety by 32% & enhanced packaging cycle life by 37%, of plastic parts, to save costs of $0.1 Mn annually
ProcurementCost ManagementVendor ManagementSupplier EvaluationAutomotive

Graduate Engineering Trainee

Jul 2015Jun 2016 · 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Key Projects:
  • Standardization & Optimization of Packaging across polymer product categories - Conceptualized and drafted a manual containing packaging guidelines; established Quality benchmarks (standards) for 24 product categories
  • Process Mapping using Lean Methods to increase productivity of Pulsar 200RS assembly line - Conducted motion loss study and engineered easy tools to reduce Non-Value Added activity and increase line capacity.
  • Quality Improvement of KTM vehicle assembly line - Designed easy tools to reduce bolt slip defects
  • Improvement in Material Handling in CKD area - Reduced manual handling and increased BOPT handling, consequently reducing operator fatigue and increasing line efficiency
  • Key Achievements:
  • Achieved savings of $0.1 Mn per annum and lessened bolt defects in KTM line by 85% using Fault Tree analysis

Tata steel

Summer Trainee

May 2014Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

  • Studied and improved of the reliability of Fine Conveyor Circuit of Stock House at I-Blast Furnace
  • Reduced conveyor circuit breakdown hours, using Pareto Analysis to debug & remodel bottlenecks
Reliability EngineeringPareto Analysis

Rourkela steel plant

Summer Trainee

Jun 2013Jun 2013 · 0 mo · Rourkela, Odisha

  • Studied the various elements of operations, and maintenance of different parts at the shop floor of Mechanical Shop, Rourkela Steel Plant

Autonext

Summer Intern

Jun 2013Jun 2013 · 0 mo · Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

  • Undertook a detailed study of different automobile systems and latest technologies used in automobiles

Institute of minerals & materials technology

Summer Trainee

May 2013May 2013 · 0 mo · Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

  • Performed a comparative and analytical study of a wheel rim of different materials using Finite Element Analysis- ANSYS Tool

Hindustan aeronautics limited

Intern

Dec 2012Dec 2012 · 0 mo · Odisha, India

  • Studied the manufacturing, working and maintenance of a jet engine
  • Carried out a detailed examination of the Alitizing process used on Nozzle Guide Vanes
Finite Element Analysis (FEA)ANSYS

Central tool room & training centre (msme) government of india

Summer Trainee

May 2012Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

  • Underwent training in CAD software (AUTOCAD and CATIA), and designed an engine blower model using CATIA
  • Gained hands-on experience in manufacturing a hand injection mould using conventional machining techniques
Maintenance and RepairAerospace Engineering

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2017Jan 2019

emlyon business school

Exchange Student

Jan 2018Jan 2019

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Bachelor's Degree — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Mother's Public School, Bhubaneswar

Higher Secondary School Diploma (Plus 2) — Science

Jan 2009Jan 2011

St.Joseph's High School, Bhubaneswar

High School Diploma

Jan 2003Jan 2009

St. Xavier's High School , Durgapur

Jan 1999Jan 2003

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