Nikhil Gaur, Mba, Ms Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

The Woodlands, Texas, Us

Owned the Metal Seated Ball Valves product line, overseeing its development and implementation of short and long-term strategies, pricing and profitability, and fostering cross-functional collaboration with engineering, operations and quality teams.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Analyzed scopes in construction projects worth ~$90MM to $120MM that were prone to fluctuations post work order execution, potential cost impacts, and identified opportunities to mitigate cost and lead times increases.• Developed a directed procurement agreement with suppliers to reduce the lead time from 30 weeks to 6 weeks and negotiated an additional savings of $0.7MM for internal customers.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Led a team of 6 members to help Bayer improve the planned downtime by 15 minutes/shift, providing opportunity to realize additional annual revenue of $4MM.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Developed Business Model for Strawberry Market and helped client to define unique value Proposition and Pricing strategies.• Helped client to enter a new market by analyzing the Total Addressable Market, Growth opportunities and associated Risks.

New Delhi, Delhi, In

• Spearheaded product development of 1 Full Model change & 1 Minor change Model: Both the products were delivered in time with an overall saving of $21.7MM.• Partnered with engineering, legal, finance, quality, and vendors to reduce the cost of vehicle child Parts by 5% through value analysis and value engineering (VA/VE) ideas.• Performed regression analysis on strategic products, helping top management in gauging the cost of the products with just few parameters and improving the decision-making by 15%.• Strategized new product launches by assessing and developing profit and loss statements, calculating internal rate of return & breakeven point, forecasting 5 years profitability, and conducting financial analysis and presented it to board members.• Mentored around 100 New Joiners' and Laterals regarding the expectations in the current division, investigated their space of revenue and directed them to their ideal offices.

New Delhi, Delhi, In

• Supervised and managed sourcing, development, costing & procurement of electronics and safety components, such as speedometer, sensors, feeder cables, airbags etc., for new projects, effectively maintaining supplies, inventory, and logistics.• Improved the testing process of a product, leading to increase in efficiency by 33% and founded new Tier 2 Supplier which led to the reduction in Man/Machine hour Rate from $17.8/hr. to $14.7/hr.: Achieved combined saving of $96.7K.• Benchmarked competitor product by doing Teardown of a product and generated insights to achieve saving of $0.35MM.• Evaluated tooling and development cost of a product and communicated observations to upper management, ultimately resulted in saving of $0.58MM during re-negotiation with Supplier.• Documented and initiated ~150 vendor Selection approvals, spend of ~$20MM, from Top Management after running RFXs and developed a model to ensure that the business is equitably distributed among suppliers for each product category.

New Delhi, Delhi, In

• Acquired skill in Zero Base Costing (ZBC) or should cost modeling of plastic & sheet metal products: Used it to realize cost targets by strategizing the most optimum ecosystem and thereafter negotiated with Suppliers to meet those cost targets.• Optimized Cycle time of a product by 18 Seconds, resulting in overall saving of $35K.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy & Operations

Master Of Science - Ms, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering