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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pricing Vision & Strategy – Assisted the world’s largest fast-food chain in defining vision, guiding principles, value levers and KPIs for it’s future of affordability; supported with RGM op model, action plan and narrativeMembership Strategy - Assisted an anime streaming platform in segmenting their customers, and designing subscription tiers & offerings based on customer behavior analyzed through survey data analysisBusiness Case & roadmap - Assisted in prioritizing technology initiatives, developing a detailed roadmap, and creating a supporting business case for the initiativesGrowth Strategy – Assessed growth strategy for a heavy equipment dealer through analyzing geographic footprint, visualizing growth scenarios and capability gap assessment to identify improvement areasGlobal and Market Roadmaps Integration – Assisted in integrating disparate global and market technology roadmaps for world’s largest fast-food chain. Developed go-forward roadmap development process.Store IT Maintenance – Assessed current state of store IT maintenance operations for a leading retailer through data analysis. Recommended future state requirements, and prioritized them based on value, time and effortData and Analytics Strategy – Assisted a large distributor of electrical components in quantifying value. Recommended use cases that could potentially improve gross margin by more than 30% over five yearsNA Go-to-Market Strategy – Estimated the size of prize for a fragrance ingredient manufacturer in North American market. Created a behavioral segmentation of the client’s customers. Created a value proposition and curated value-added services based on customer interviews

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

EU Go-to-Market Strategy – Assisted an American Hydrogen-truck manufacturer in expanding to the EU market by assessing hydrogen infrastructure, regulations, competitor landscape and market potentialTransformation Management Office – Assisted a large home furnishing retailer in a multi year tech transformation effort by tracking and forecasting Capex and OpEx costs budgeting across 40 workstreams worth $261MSupply Chain Analysis - Assisted in identifying factors affecting On-Time and In-Full performance of supply chain of a large CPG client. Owned base datasets and supported analyses for client’s top customersOperating Model Transformation – Assisted a global food & beverages player in restructuring their marketing op model. Identified redundancies and areas of opportunities among marketing teams through survey of Brand/Division teams and feedback from client stakeholdersDelivery Transformation – Assisted Deloitte’s DT team by owning 2 reports on key metrics across automation, cohort shifts and margins. These metrics are tracked by Consulting OP and IND leadership to drive transformation across projectsCost Transformation - Assisted a large US CPG company in optimizing their cost of capital by analyzing their current customer payment behavior and recommended future payment terms as per industry leading practicesGrowth Strategy – Assisted a leading wine packaging and logistics provider in defining their growth strategy to double revenue in 10 years through identification of adjacent growth opportunities

Gurgaon, India

Advanced Retail Buying: Assisted a leading US retailer with insights on their vendors to frame a fact-based vendor negotiation strategy.Assortment Optimization: Assisted in developing a toolkit for a German retailer to analyze category and product performances across lenses such as financials, pricing, geographic distribution.Brand Acceleration: Analyzed survey responses of consumers of beauty products to understand product performance and user preferences

Bangalore

Completed a market research project over a course of two months. The objective of the project was to estimate the potential in the market for smart wall clocks and to decide if Titan can venture into this segment.

Bengaluru Area, India

- Primary role involved structuring business problems, generating & testing hypothesis and presenting insights to end clients.- Managed analytics, automation and dashboarding for the loyalty program of a large Australian retailer- Used statistical techniques to identify and solve for the inefficiencies in supply chain for the same retailer- Mentored small teams of freshers in problem solving framework and dashboarding.\

Bengaluru Area, India

Worked as an individual contributor in handling Logistics, Finance and Operations of two centres of Byju’s ClassesPOC for customer relationships and engagement activities to improve brand image of the institute

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Activities and Societies: Used my analytical expertise and strategic problem solving skills to win multiple business competitions, gaining.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronics And Communication Engineering

Activities and Societies: National Cadet Corps

Education record

Activities and Societies: Dramatics, English Club