Phenol Project: Key role in project valuation, market assessment, price risk analysis and project scheduling for India's largest greenfield phenol-acetone project (capacity of 200,000 MTPA phenol)Pharmaceutical Intermediates: Core team member to create a new focus area within the fine & specialties business vertical. Achieved commercialization of 2 new products in 1 year.Operational Excellence: Interaction with management consultants and industry experts for operational excellence projects. Business Intelligence: Led the launch of QlikView BI for designing and implementing management dashboards across functions. Guest Speaker at QlikTalk Ahmedabad, a customer-interaction conference organized by QlikTechMentoring: Mentored 5 management trainees at Deepak throughout their training period

Client-side lead for a profit improvement program at Deepak Nitrite with BCG, leading a core team comprising 20 internal members and 6-8 BCG consultants.Driving the Program Management Office (PMO) with initiatives expected to deliver annualized bottomline value in excess of INR 450 million.Panel member for supplier negotiations on two Supplier Days thus far, which generated ~INR 50 million in annualized savings.

M&A and Joint Ventures: Strategic fit evaluation, financial valuation, business planning, industry structure analysis and term sheet execution.Expansion Strategy and New Market Entry: Market opportunity mapping, sector analysis, market development strategy, commercial negotiations with customers/contractors, business projectionsProcess Improvement: Creation and implementation of process improvement frameworks, project monitoring, process standardization, policy amendmentsBusiness Review: Performance assessment, business intelligence dashboards, planning and budgeting, variance analysis, scenario analysisOrganizational Change: Organizational restructuring, internal training, CEO communications

--Assisted the CEO in formulation and execution of strategic initiatives and evaluation of inorganic growth opportunities--Introduced effective ways to track business performance such as monthly summary of daily movements in key operating parameters, weekly unit-wise variance analysis and Gantt Charts for progress on capital expenditure projects--Created valuation models and analyzed strategic fit of acquisition targets in fertilizers, seeds & insulators sectors--Participated in brainstorming sessions and unveiling of a new Vision and Mission at both businesses--Collaborated with Function Heads and other key personnel on activities such as planning & budgeting, monthly and quarterly business reviews, policy amendments and articulating business rationales for new strategic projects--Managed communications from the CEO to employees, corporate functions and other stakeholders

--Designed Balanced Scorecards for senior management roles across departments. --Performed Scenario Analysis to gauge the impact of the Base Rate System on the credit portfolio of the Bank--Evaluated strategic rationale and synergy potential for inorganic growth opportunities in the Banking space--Created a scoring model to identify the relative strengths and synergies of potential strategic partners for the Bank in the life insurance space. --Evaluated potential inorganic growth opportunities for the Bank

--Explored strategic and financial viability of a debt-restructuring opportunity in the Indian Steel Industry--Execution, including due diligence and legal documentation of a private equity transaction for an industrial equipment firm--Built a market screening tool, based on macroeconomic data and sector trends to identify investment targets--Researched for a mezzanine-financing deal of a leading business group in the Middle-East Real Estate Sector

--Developed marketing campaigns for an American mortgage firm using SAS Analytical Package and MS Excel --Performed market segmentation based on customer characteristics and product analysis for US mortgage products--Formulated Logistic Regression Models to predict customer payoff and refinance likelihoods for existing customers--Assessed the aggregate level portfolio payoff trends using exponential smoothing time series analysis