Ravinder Kumar Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Ag. Market data enablement, estimations, and analysis• Estimating Seeds and CP Ag. Market in APAC and identifying key drivers by enabling driver tree i.e., crop acreages, penetration, and spent/hectare in countries through collaboration with countries BI, crop, asset, pricing, and finance functions.• Tracking external market trends using third party reports – Kynetec/CRISIL, and secondary research– FAO/USDA/Govt. of India/JCPA etc. with close collaboration with countries• Analysing the impact of micro/macro environments and cyclical weather patterns on Ag. Market such as El Nino/ La Nina, MNCs growth patterns, export/import policies, commodity prices• Enabling advanced capabilities and processes for data capture, curation, and quality control powered with insights using platforms such as Anaplan for market estimations, ACE for crop split, Agrowin for sell out market estimations and tools such as Tableau/Power BI for dashboards. Competitors performance analysis and reporting • Analysing quarterly, half yearly and annual reports of MNCs, identifying key insights and reporting to region and countries • Collaborating with external research partners – Markets and Markets to conduct primary research on MNCs competition, driving quarterly sessions with countries for key insights and infusing data on GTM initiatives.• Preparing quarterly reports on business updates on sales, pricing, macroeconomics, weather, and new business; townhall deck on competition performance • Partnering with Crop Life Asia (CLA) and analyzing Bayer market share trend among MNCs VS. Generics and reporting• Assumption management launched May 2023 – India and AUS. A solution to predict sales in future months and analysis sales of last year based on historical sales, commodity prices and rainfall.• Geo Int 1.0 – a test and learn approach to measure crop acreages, predict pest and disease for Onion and Tomato, estimate rain fed and irrigated land and carbon emission for Direct Seeded Rice.

Mumbai

• Leading Digital Transformation Key initiatives under Transform to Win strategy to achieve organization goal on farmers reach of 100M farmers reach in APAC by 2030. • Partnering with county businesses in APAC to devise and execute Advisor launch strategy to expand programs in additional countries in APAC, Africa and LATAM • Partnering with country businesses to execute strategy to meet yearly targets on revenue, reach and conversion for the program for 8 countries where program is operational i.e., India, Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam Malawi, and Peru• Pioneering multiple change initiatives and transformation projects from current to future business operations to achieve maximum efficiency. • Leading, devising, formulating & aligning platform vision with businesses on and executing roadmaps and other technology directions with global vendors such as Cognizant, TCS, and Capgemini• Forming and leading teams of product managers, project managers, and business analysts to run programs in APAC.• Collaborating with global vendors to transform applications to platforms in scalable, secured, and sustainable architecture and making it future ready.• Partnering with regional and global IT in evaluating go/no go decision on initiatives and recommending solutions to business to best fit the need.• Planning and executing on applications and platforms consolidations, sunset and launch plans.• Innovating solutions and collaborating businesses to develop state of the art solutions as per industry best practices.• Scope of work – Commercial IT in current role and Supply Chain IT in previous role from Legacy Monsanto

Mumbai Area, India

Precision Farming Solution (ASP/Velocity platform) 2019: • Successfully launched Advanced Seed Production (Velocity platform) for Corn production in India and Thailand; enabled and supported business in mapping ~7K acres of ~6K growers in Thailand and ~6K acres of ~3K growers in India. Demand and Supply Planning Grid 2018: • Delivered Demand and Supply Planning Grid for Sales and Operations Planning for Asia and Africa Business on rolling 18 months basis targeting to increase top line by ~10M€ and OTIF by 5% in 12months demonstrating deep knowledge on demand and supply side of business operations and close collaboration of business and IT. First Expiry First Out (FEFO) Model 2017: • Conceptualized & Delivered FEFO to standardize quality and priority definitions of Inventory for Asia Africa business, automate the solution in SAP and help business to reduce obsolescence inventory by 10% YOY by this implementation.WEMA (Wet EAR Movement Advice) Automation 2016: • Automated Corn harvest process (WEMA) for India to bring real time tracking of field and plant operations.• Delivered shelling data bulk upload T code to enable plant team accelerate plant processes and ensured.• Operational efficiency in tracking of harvest from field to plant generating ROI of 25%FIDO (First Information Data organizer) 2015: • Launched FIDO, global one of its kind tools in Monsanto, to capture crop information during crop cycle for Corn providing visibility on crop condition and estimating fresh yield during season helping business in contingency planning.• Launched FIDO Dashboard in Spotfire for operations team and Leader Board for leadership to keep close watch on fresh crop production and take remedial actions if needed.Maintenance Connection 2014: • Collaborated with global IT and identified solution for preventive and breakdown maintenance in plant operations for India production.

Mumbai/Gurugram

Client: Monsanto Holdings Pvt. Ltd. Period: Jun '14 - Dec '16Many projects on Supply Chian IT Client: Govt. Of Rwanda Period: Feb ’14 – Apr’14Role: Strategy Consultant Deliverables: • Conducted workshops for Govt. Of Rwanda – Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Agriculture to understand their key initiatives for the upliftment of the population targeting Goals 2020• Collaborated with Govt. Officials in benchmarking their key indicators with other govts and public institutions. • Identified, gathered & prioritized Key Performance Indicators and mapped with data sources to enable command centre development.Client : Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT)Period: Jul ’13 – Dec’13Role: IT Consultant Deliverables:• Collaborated with onsite and offshore teams to formulate IT strategy for upgradation and consolidation of JNPT’s Enterprise apps.• Vendor evaluation on pre-qualification & technical parameters in RFP and submitted final evaluation report to JNPT.

Bangalore

Recruited by Bharat Electronics (A Defence PSU under Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence) as Probationary Engineer through All India Written Test and Personal Interview in 2006.Growth Path: Jan’10 to May’11 – Sr. Engineer Jan ’07 to Dec’9 – Deputy Engineer May ’06 to Dec’06 – Probationary Engineer Key Result Areas:• Collaborate with Indian Scientists from most reputed organization under Govt. of India for requirement gathering, software requirements specifications documentations and sign off.• Conceptualization of solution, prototype development, and demonstration to key stakeholders for buy in• Leading team of engineers to transform prototype into a product integrated with RADARs and ensuring clearance of Site Acceptance TestAchievements:Doppler Weather Radar: • Collaborated with ISRO, IMD and BEL Scientists to understand and gather requirements for communication software development and PCB designing.• Indigenously Developed and Proved end to end communication software in LINUX (TCP/IP) for Doppler Weather Radar establishing protocol among modules and sub modules for proper command and control of Radar.• Developed and proved FPGA based enhanced mother board on very first-time power on by replacing regulators, processors, and FPGAs to improve performance of mother board.• Proving prototype helped organized to secure additional orders for meteorological department and research organizations.Low Probability of Intercept Radar: • Collaborated with SAAB Sweden to integrate and prove SAAB’s Transmitter integration with BEL’s signal processor to prove the system for Indian NavyCommunications systems for P17 Ship: • Responsible for testing and troubleshooting of mother boards for communication modules.• Responsible for proving the system on-site and clearing site acceptance testing.

Life Cycle Assessment: Quantifying Environmental Impacts, Sustainability Studies, Honors

Sustainable Infrastructure Systems: Planning And Operations, Sustainability Studies, Honors

Sustainability: Strategies And Opportunities For Industry, Honors

Master Of Technology - Mtech, Data Science And Engineering

Digital Transformation: Platform Strategies For Success, Digital Transformation

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Operations And System

Activities and Societies: Member of Bhavishya society, an initiative to impart education to under privileged studentsManaged teams.

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelor Of Engineering In Electronics And Communication, Honors

Activities and Societies: Part of coaching institute as lecturer and administrator for GATE preparation