Sushant Kalia

Operations Associate

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India9 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 10 years of experience in online marketplace startups.
  • Expert in managing operations and supply growth.
  • Proven track record of improving business metrics.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Operations Manager in the Online Marketplace and Food Delivery sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Operations ManagementData AnalysisSupply GrowthProgram ManagementCategory ManagementBusiness DevelopmentProduct Development

Other Skills

Microsoft ExcelVendor ManagementInterpersonal SkillsOnboardingStart-upsAnalytical SkillsBusiness Process ImprovementProblem SolvingStrategic PlanningPricing StrategyBusiness PlanningKey Performance IndicatorsOnline MarketplacePartner Relationship ManagementProduct categories

About

10 years of experience working in online marketplace startups in the Business Operations, Supply, and Program Management domain. Equipped with an evolved understanding of building and leading teams. Have extensively worked on business critical metrics like NPS, Churn, Retention, P&L and process improvement and optimization.

Experience

9 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

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Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · India · Remote

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Nodal Head

May 2023May 2024 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Managed day to day logistics and operations handling a team of 8 direct
  • and 40 indirect reportees. Together we enabled the delivery of ~14L food orders in
  • Mumbai weekly, by ensuring all essential business metrics are on track
  • daily.
  • Effectively managed a fleet of 35k delivery partners ensuring there is
  • sufficient active supply + buffers in each zone to cater to the demand projections.
  • Took business critical, data backed decisions affecting base pay, incentives, overall delivery partner
  • earnings
  • Increased Relative market share by 7% against the competitor in Mumbai city by
  • careful planning, strategizing, team management and data analysis.
  • Coordinated on multiple new programs and initiatives like Onboarding on Wheels, Spin & Win, etc.
Microsoft ExcelOperations ManagementData Analysis

Pepper

Manager - Supply

Oct 2020May 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

  • Led a team of 3 associates tasked with creator success & funnel tracking. Added 700+ creators to the talent pool, growing the active creator pool by 7x across critical genres, and newly launched categories.
  • Improved the product flow to ensure creators are assigned work within 2 weeks of onboarding thus reducing early lifecycle creator churn
  • Collaborated with product team on creator profile score and onboarding flow for foreign
  • language creators.
  • Spearheaded the Supply Redressal program ensuring accurate creator tags for the entire creator base thereby improving creator <> project match
  • Launched a project to improve the agencies' output quality. Collaborated with product team to improve team management and acceptance rate for agency owners.
Interpersonal SkillsOnboardingStart-upsAnalytical SkillsBusiness Process ImprovementProblem Solving+7

Urban company

Category Manager

May 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Led Mumbai's Home Appliances category, Managing a fleet of 300+ field technicians and an office team of 2 associates
  • Built a fleet of high-quality, carefully vetted, and trained professionals. On-boarded more than 150+ new professionals
  • Spearheaded B2B tie-up with IKEA, scaled IKEA in Mumbai from zero to 700+ deliveries per month within 3 months of launch
  • Developed an in-depth understanding of categories, and how customers hire in the same by monitoring crucial category metrics such as Fulfillment %, Supply Utilization, Category NPS, and Supply Churn
Online MarketplacePartner Relationship ManagementOperations ManagementProduct categoriesOnboardingStart-ups+7

Uber

2 roles

Senior Operations Consultant

Promoted

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos

  • Led a team of 7 Driver Support specialists working out of remote locations across Pune city.
  • Handled sensitive escalations related to payments, assault, etc
  • Responsible for overall Team Metrics such as total tickets closed, Driver Satisfaction Score, etc.
  • Vendor-Relationships | Making sure TAT for the processes is maintained as per SLA with the Vendors.
Operations ManagementOnboardingStart-upsTeam ManagementTeam Building

Operations Consultant

Oct 2016Apr 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Handled daily operations as a part of the in-person driver support team
  • Launched project "Listening Post”, devising a faster and more efficient way to collect driver feedback
  • Streamlined the Onboarding and Enquiry flow by fine-tuning the existing process
  • Worked on enhancing driver experience inside the office thereby improving Pune's Driver Satisfaction score
  • Organized multiple events/team-building activities as a part of the Employee-Engagement Team
Operations ManagementBusiness ProcessDaily Operations

Ghcl limited

Graduate Engineering Trainee

Jul 2015Apr 2016 · 9 mos · Wapi Area, India

  • Researched "Price Point of Home Textiles across various online retailers"
  • Oversaw a consignment from FoxHome Israel - converting raw fabric to finished product.
  • Trained under New Product Development team for 6 months
Product DevelopmentMerchandising

Education

SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

Executive MBA

Nov 2021Feb 2023

Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Textile Science

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