Avinash Acharya Email & Phone Number

India

India

India

India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Oversaw CSR impact of 8 clients with INR 200 Cr+ annual investment; led a small cross-functional team of leads & associates from India’s top engineering institutes; worked closely in a cross-functional role engaging with sales, marketing, research and product teams to lead client delivery Led Goodera’s CSR Impact 360 service-line, an offering for mid-market companies. Engineered partnerships with 15+ best-in-class NGOs in India, reviewed programs, budgets and set up reporting process. Developed appropriate legal and financial constructs to make offering viable. Led pre-sales conversations with potential clients Spearheaded key strategic steps on internal organization realignment and transition from “consulting delivery” oriented model to “Center of Excellence (CoE)” model. Led effort on setting up goals, objectives, and career pathways for CoE teams

Bangalore

WIth Amazon: Managed end-to-end CSR across 20+ projects/partners with focus on Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) of community development projects in education, women empowerment, livelihood, health and environment. Strategized and executed roadmap for Amazon’s “Gift A Smile” program; Co-developed a disaster response enablement process leading to global recognition for Amazon on its efforts during natural disasters in India With Dell: Drove M&E of Dell “Legacy of Good” program in APJ region implemented through 10+ NGO partners. Consulted Dell India on transitioning to Dell Global’s “Vision 2030”. Led expansion of Goodera’s business to Dell Global and the global platform roll-out processWith Lenovo: Co-developed CSR strategy, conceptualized shared-value project on skilling; oversaw M&E and execution With Mondelez: Designed a 3-year CSR strategic roadmap – reviewing past CSR work and exploring focus areas around nutrition, plastic recycling, agriculture, sports and community development to set up a 2022 vision aligned with Indian govt missions Designed the IPL 2018 RCB Green Campaign - digital marketing and on-ground execution in collaboration with Diageo team

Identified, discussed, implemented, and assessed greenhouse gas mitigation actions taken locally and within the social networks of fellows; Executed a live project with 25 urban working professionals through a campaign called “Climate Save November” aimed at reducing/avoiding 5 tons of CO2 collectively in 4 weeks through behavioral changes.

Mumbai Area, India

Led strategic procurement for a Fortune 500 company with spend of $30 MM; Rationalized Material Handling Fleet; Executed procurement strategy for production to delivery of Point-Of-Sale Material; Strategized roadmap to evaluate & award business partner to devise Chinese E-commerce market entry strategy for Organic Baby Food brand.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Devised channel strategy for online marketing; implementation led to 20% followership rise on twitter & 65% rise on Instagram in 2 months• Led the branding effort for Sportscafe from scratch; arrived at brand proposition; devised strategy and implemented brand communication for 2 weeks; Laid implementation roadmap for next 2 months

Mumbai Area, India

• Identified savings opportunities for US pharma company in indirect spend, specifically in MRO througho Consolidating suppliers under one umbrella integrator; verifying baseline based on contractso Evaluating compliance of integrator to identify transactions, where monetary value can be recoveredo Identifying a high-spend category under MRO & sensing mkt potential for lower cost of procurement

Chennai Area, India

• Corporate Banking: Estimated volumes & wallet sizes of 900 corporates, presented in int'l conference• Corporate Banking: Streamlined profitability measurement process, 2 clients, staffed onsite SE Asia• Insurance: Designed micro-market strategy, improved sales force productivity by 20%, 10 Indian mrkts• NBFC, India: Designed 1st in market agent allocation process using google maps, savings INR 15 Cr• Pharma: Modelled supply schedule across 20 brands, & geographies, supported key business decisions

Chennai Area, India

• Oil & Gas: Ensured milestone adherence; 20+ teams, 100+ initiatives, improved productivity of client• Social sector: Set up performance assessment system, 150 schools, Mumbai School Excellence Program• In-house: Drafted PnL simulator to optimize HR process, supported McK mgmt to devise 5 year strategy

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: ICON, Sr Coordinator - Consulting Club of IIM Bangalore• Received PPO from GEP Consulting, based on outstanding.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

• 99.5 percentile of 3000+ participants in Logistics, an inter-university algorithm design contest, '08 • Board member, Sun Open Source.