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Berlin, De

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

As Manager, Programme Management, I lead 3 key markets, such as Europe, Middle East and India managing a total team of 13 seasoned Program Managers.Key Accomplishments: ► Supported the launch of 28 Echo family devices and Complex features that have achieved a total unit- sales of ≈28MM units.► Delivered 30 “expansion” programs covering language and dialect that has enhanced customer experience of > 5MM customers globally.► Successfully envisioned and executed an External Beta Program for Amazon devices with 23K+ engaged Alexa customers in Europe and Brazil. ► Helped build mechanisms through key projects and goals that have helped realize efficiency gains of ≈5700hrs annually.► Consistently raises the bar for managing talent, performance and career progression with demonstrable employee happiness scores.

Munich Area, Germany

During this tenure, I worked as Senior Program manager and managed all Europe related compliance and quality initiatives in reverse logistics. Key Accomplishments: ► Delivered critical compliance goals to support the launch of GDPR in the Europe driving a 100% compliance in reverse logistics.► Conceptualized and launched the attribute segmentation framework for ‘Memory’ attribute, to identify returned products that can store personal information leading to an incremental annualized savings of €6MM/year. ►Designed the process with customer service for customers to “Talk to an Expert” for Apple, to guide customers remove personal data from their devices before returning them leading to annualized savings of €1.7MM/year.

Dubai

During this tenure as Head of Key Accounts, I managed a team of 5 Key Account Managers, fostering partnerships with ≈200 partners in the education management industry in the Middle East region. Furthermore, I devised effective sales strategies, customer acquisition projects and supported creative aspects of the business to assure overall success and growth of the organisation. Key Accomplishments: ►Build revenues of $1MM across 30 universities in the first 15 months of customer onboarding. ►Headed the project with UAE's largest media house to release the first "Study in the UAE" magazine with a distribution strength of 1MM copies. ► Oversaw relative pricing strategies, and back-end management processes to improve profitability and organisation's competitiveness.

Chennai Area, India

This was an entrepreneurial venture with the vision to build India’s best video-gaming experience company. Key Accomplishments:► Launched 6 successful premium gaming experience zones across South India in a period of 3years with an annual revenue growth of over 200%.► Handled the product distribution of Steel Series- the world’s leading gaming accessorymanufacturer across South-India across 150 stores, creating sales increase of over 40%.► Expanded distribution network across 60 retailers in a period of 2 years.► Partnered with key Gaming companies such as Kingston, AMD and ATI to create 5 annual Pan-Indiagaming marketing events participated by of over 10,000 gamers.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

In this role I was responsible for managing sales for Vehicle manufacturers (both local and international) to the tune of ≈$50MM ensuring on-time delivery and dispatch to customers, inventory control and new product development

Bachelor Of Engineering, Mechanical

Activities and Societies: Secretary,Society of Mechanical EngineerMechanical Engineering First class, with an average of 73%, top 15.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Ranked in the World's top 25 MBA-full time courses, 4th in the UK and Europe's top 10.