Responsible for managing and growing a $100M+ connector portfolio focused on cloud, AI & Edge hardware market. Key responsibilities: • Leadership & Strategy: Spearhead a global team of three product managers. Formulate comprehensive business plans detailing portfolio strategy, execution priorities, and three-year financial projections.• Stakeholder Engagement: Negotiate licensing agreements with competitors, safeguarding company and customer interests. Forge enduring relationships through regular customer engagement and foster relationships with a diverse range of global suppliers.• Product Management & Planning: Collaborate with engineers to construct detailed product development roadmaps for the next 2-3 years, manage bespoke NPI projects, and coordinate with planners to monitor short-term sales projections, securing immediate revenue goals. Partner with manufacturing to instigate cost-saving measures and optimize operational footprint.• Financial Oversight: Navigate a fine balance between margin preservation and market share protection in pricing decisions. Lead project approval committee discussions to secure business case investments.

Advisor to the ICT leadership team. Led wide range of strategic initiatives at overall business unit and individual portfolio level. Identified synergistic portfolio expansion and potential acquisition targets. Key responsibilities:• BU Strategic Plan: Develop annual ICT BUs five-year strategy plan for BU general manager, CEO & CSO leadership• Switches Portfolio Strategy: Outlined "where to play" and "how to win" choices for our newly acquired business, refreshed 5-year revenue goal including clear set of execution priorities.• Market Cycle Predictor: Created a lead indicator based model, to predict commercial vehicle business cycles in North America. The model augments demand & sales managers near term forecast assessments.• TAM Expansion: Identify areas of portfolio expansion that are synergistic to ICT business model.

• Enterprise Strategy Planning: Worked directly with the Chief Strategy Offer to drive Enterprise 5-year strategy planning activity. • In-house Consulting: Led business unit level strategy projects as an in-house consultant. Select examples include Neurovascular strategy for Medical BU, Electric vehicles portfolio expansion for Auto BU, Industrial robotics BoM based content growth plan for Industrial BU• Team set-up: Spearheaded the initiative to set up an India strategy team (hired multiple analysis from premium schools / esteemed consulting organizations). Coached team on problem-solving, primary and secondary market research, communication/presentation skills.• Regional Growth Strategy: Conducted in-depth business analysis, identified attractive growth opportunities for India business & created an execution plan in partnership with business leaders to grow business at 15% CAGR and achieve $0.5B in revenue over the next 5-years

Responsible for end-to-end project delivery including client’s requirement analysis, solution roadmap creation, delegation, data gathering through primary and secondary sources, and presenting interim/final results to the end stakeholder. Had the opportunity to work with India business leaders of organizations such as Google, and Microsoft.

Led a team of ~10 people working on multiple projects at a given time. I provided the team with thought leadership and help them with solution design. In addition, I was responsible for Client account management and business development.

Joined Evalueserve in Chile, South America office to set up an analytics team for a global Industrial technology player. I was responsible for multi-cultural, multi-lingual team recruitment, and coaching. The EVS Chile employed ~200 people representing 20+ nationalities and offered capabilities in 15 languages. This was a phenomenal professional and personal learning experience.

Responsible for data collection through secondary and primary sources in a team of 2-3 analysts. Further, analyze and collate the data collected to draw insights that meet the Client's objectives. As a senior analyst also took up responsibilities of project and pepole management.