Senior leadership profile with 15 years of global experience in Strategy, and Management. Held many P&L positions, both in Business and Consulting Services. Lead large teams, delivered multiple complex engagements and work extensively with C-suite executives for Transformation Advisory, Operations Effectiveness and Business Development. Passionate about Retail and Digital value streams. Authored numerous publications, avid blogger, orated in many seminars, and conducted many webinars, filed patent in the area of Mobility.
KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Strategy and Leadership: Sustained focus on initiatives like, business plan, account plan, go-to-market strategy, and capability framework, strategic advisor to many global C-Suit executives.
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Drive initiatives on CAMSS, and IoT. o Administered digital transformation program for global telecom company, Airtel. Digital storefront focused on enhancing customer experience and increasing digital revenue from $1bn to $2bn. Furthermore, also helped optimize physical store count for a more profitable operation. o Helped Tesco strategize and define digital marketplace, considering both buyer and seller paradigm.
Retail & CPG Domain: Lead retail consulting practice for (GBS GIC) with close to 40 consultants. Started career as a retail Category Manager, created and adopted multiple industry frameworks. o Worked with US Retailer, Publix Supermarket, to revalidate their supply chain strategy and optimize their supply chain spend. o Program managed and held P&L responsibility of an engagement to define and implement analytics strategy for ‘Banana Republic’ launch of UK. o Defined analytics framework for “Sainsbury Express”.
Business Development: Supported numerous proposals, conducted workshops and participated in significantly complex sales cycles. Defined GTM model for the consulting
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WORK HISTORY
IBM Global Business Services (November 2009 till date)
Role: Associate Partner (Sr. Certified), Business Analytics & Strategy, Retail Industry Leader (Current)
Key Accomplishments:
IBM certified “Thought Leader” in consulting capability – amongst fewer than 50 consultants worldwide, amongst fewer than five in India.
Significantly contributed to IBM blogs (http://www.ibm.com/retail), amongst the coveted list of 11 Retail leaders identified to write blogs for the buildup of NRF 2014. Published papers in external media.
Identified ‘Top Talent’ at IBM for four consecutive years. Won ‘Eminence and Excellence’ award for a large deal. Won ‘Orion’ award for practice building. Won team recognition in “Techathon” – IBM mobility initiative on identifying and developing potential mobile apps with high customer value.
Received “Highest knowledge contributor” award thrice.
Lead a team of 40 high capability consultants. Mentor six consultants and help in career growth. One mentee recently won recognition from the IBM CEO.
Infosys Consulting (July 2003 to November 2009)
Role: Sr. Associate, Retail, CPG, and