Ram Sharma Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, KA, IN

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In Japanese, Rakuten stands for “OPTIMISM” - this philosophy lies at the core of our brand, serving ~1.8 billion users worldwide across 30+ countries through our 70+ businesses, spanning e-commerce, fintech, telecom, digital content, and more.Over 25 years ago, Rakuten was founded with the mission to contribute to society by creating value through.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

KeMaNeXA is a "Startup / Brand Accelerator" to help BUILD from 0 or SCALE from X to 10X.Specific focus on early stage (pre-seed / seed) startups + Family offices across India + MENA region.Sectors of interest:- Consumer / Affordable Luxury Brands (Fashion / Apparel / Beauty & Personal Care)- Health & Wellness (Nutrition / Healthcare)- SaaS SolutionsService.

Bengaluru Area, India

udaan is about making business easy in India.udaan is about making B2B commerce convenient and efficient. We believe B2B is the new B2C in India.India has 50m+ SMBs, who form core of Indian economy and society. They are the entrepreneurial pulse of India.We believe internet is a great equalizing platform. We want to bring our energies together in bringing.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a member of the core team for the Lifestyle business (apparel, footwear, accessories) @ udaan, led multiple charters covering demand (NSM), buyer experience (loyalty / retention programs), category marketing and merchandising.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

SHUKRAN is GCC's largest Retail loyalty programme (15M+ total members, 9M+ active, 65% of Landmark group revenue tagged to Shukran members). Led a team of 20+ to pivot Shukran as a next-gen profit accretive loyalty coalition, with focus on delivering “convenient, rewarding, and engaging” customer experience in an omni-channel context, driving higher share.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As a core member of Corporate Strategy team, I led strategy development and large scale business transformation programs with direct P&L impact, across businesses and geographies for Landmark Group. I also supported the future growth agenda for the group (new markets / categories / businesses / channels).I also helped drive the recruitment and training.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Key strategic projects managed:1. Program management of a enterprise wide cost reduction program for KSA the largest territory operation, achieving operating cost savings of ~USD 95M+; direct measurable accrual to net profit2. Org. restructuring for the largest territory operations with special focus on building an effective service delivery organization.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Key strategic projects delivered:1. Strategy workshops for the groups broad portfolio of Hospitality Business ranging across Hotel properties, F&B outlets, Gaming & Entertainment, Fitness chain, and Healthcare2. Led comprehensive business diagnostic, turnaround plan design and execution for Emax (USD 500M Electronics retail business) – presented to Board a.

United Arab Emirates

As part of Corp. Strategy team incubated in the Chairwoman's office, I served as a strategy consultant for the organization, leading the design and delivery of key strategy & transformation programs across businesses and geographies for Landmark Group.Key strategic projects delivered:1. Organization restructuring and transformation program management for.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Member of the Strategy consulting practice at KPMG, based in Riyadh KSA. Led the delivery of 2 engagements and assisted the Practice head in business development – managed scoping discussions, pitch presentations and.
• Led strategy formulation and policy drafting for KSA Economic Offset Program; presented to H.E. The Minister of Economy & Planning
• Feasibility study for Vaccines and Medical devices manufacturing in KSA, for investment by PIF and Ministry of Health

Chennai, UK, Mumbai, Hong Kong

• Excelled on 10+ strategy and transformation engagements for marquee companies across sectors (automotive, farm equipment, industrial, consumer goods, TMT), and 3 markets (India, UK, Hong Kong); managed teams of 2-3.
• Led an extensive “voice of customer” program to map the opportunity in pre-owned/refurbished bikes segment, and design a customer engagement strategy for Royal Enfield (USD 800M revenue, oldest global motorcycle brand.
• Led a pan-India “voice of customers and channel partners” program to design a customer engagement strategy for improving “bottom of the pyramid” farmers access to pre-owned/refurbished TAFE tractors (USD 1B revenue.
• Comprehensive Manufacturing and Sales transformation program design and roll-out to turnaround the loss-making Foods business vertical of the largest Retail chain (Saravana Stores Ltd) in South India – achieved cash.
• Portfolio strategy (products-markets-customers) to drive 3X revenue growth in 5 yrs for a USD 300M Indian Auto-component player
• Created a blueprint to diversify into defense component manufacturing for Sundaram Clayton (part of USD 7B+ TVS group)

Mumbai Area, India

• Led key work-streams on 4+ consulting engagements, across 3 sectors (Ecommerce, financial services, consumer goods).Pure-play strategy engagements
• Market entry strategy for Cleartrip (leading Indian OTA) for a B2B offering (eventually led to USD 50M+ investment by Concur)Large-scale transformation programs
• Business diagnostic & operating model design for India’s 3rd largest home finance co., to drive 3X growth in loan portfolio
• Sales & Planning Transformation for Eureka Forbes (USD 500M water purifiers leader) to drive 2X growth in direct sales & modern trade channel sales while maintaining optimal inventory of raw materials to finished goods.

Gurgaon, India

Assisted the National Manager (Supply Chain) in devising an auto-replenishment model for Renal supplies to improve stock availability by 10% across key supply chain nodes.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Designed a web-based platform for monitoring movement of Renault-Nissan cars/parts shipped from Factories to end Markets.

India (Mumbai), Japan (Tokyo, Totsuka)

• Fastest to grow from a fresh graduate engineer to Team Lead in the Hitachi account (stints in India and Japan) with top ratings, fast track promotions, multiple individual & team awards.
• Led a team of ~5-10 engineers across multiple green-field product developments with 100% on-time, ‘0’ defect delivery record
• Managed the entire product development lifecycle (customer journey design, user stories, UI/UX prototyping, engineering design, coding – JAVA/JavaScript, QA, release) for key modules (address book, mail) of Hitachi’s.
• Awarded the prestigious “HITACHI Award” by Hitachi Ltd, Japan for excellence as engineer and team lead across multiple projects
• Received multiple awards from Patni management – “Valuable Contribution Award” (twice), “Best Project Team” (twice), “Letter of Appreciation”, “Special Appreciation Award for contribution to SEI-CMMI Level 5 assessment”

Pgdbm, Strategy & Finance

Activities and Societies: General Secretary - Students Council of MDI (2008), Member - WebCommittee of MDI (2008), Member - Strategy Panel.

Bachelors In Engineering, Computer Science

Science

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