ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
BE/BTech: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Masters: Purdue University
PROFILE SUMMARY
Comes with over 3 decades of experience in Operations & Supply Chain in FMCG having worked with leading companies like Hindustan Unilever, PepsiCo, Kellogg and Britannia. Adept in working on business excellence models and driving cross-functional transformational projects. Area of expertise includes FMCG Operations/Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Cost Transformational Projects, Engineering & Technology. Has worked on several transformational projects across different countries/cultures.
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Independent Consultant
October 2022 - Present (1 year 1 month)
Mumbai, India
Working on SC consulting to deliver Practical Solutions to ensure Sustainable Performance across the Value Chain covering Procurement, Manufacturing, Planning and Logistics.
Kellogg Company
10 years 3 months
Senior Director - Supply Chain Sub Saharan Africa
November 2019 - April 2022 (2 years 6 months)
City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Led SC Strategy for the Africa Region focused on driving portfolio change
and resetting cost structure
Senior Director - SC excellence Asia-Pacific & SC Director India
June 2017 - October 2019 (2 years 5 months)
Mumbai Area, India
Led SC excellence for the AMEA region covering Australia, Asia, Africa and Middle East. Driving SC performance in the Business Units using the Kellogg Work System model to deliver Outstanding, Sustainable performance
Supply Chain Director
February 2012 - May 2017 (5 years 4 months)
End to End Supply Chain covering all aspects of Souring, Planning, Manufacturing and Delivery. The key focus is to ensure SC provides the competitive edge to Kellogg India's growth agenda
Britannia Industries Limited
2 years 4 months
GM - Projects, Engineering & Technology
March 2011 - February 2012 (1 year)
Corporate responsibility for implementing projects across all businesses of Britannia. Spearheading a significant transformation in the footprint and capabilities over the next 12 months. The key challenges in the role involve delivering on-time significant capacity creation, optimizing Capex costs and implementing the most relevant standards of Engineering and technology in all sites. The role also involves setting the Technology & Engineering strategy for the company in line with the overall business strategy. This involves continuous upgradation of organizational capabilities to deliver the current competitive challenges and those of the future
Head - Cost Transformational Project
November 2009 - February 2011 (1 year 4 months)
Led a program on cost transformation across the extended value chain cutting across Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing and Delivery. The program targetted and successfully delivered a significant improvement in cost structures across the value chain. Led a cross functional team of managers, partnering with a consulting firm to deliver the program. The program involved data analysis and hypothesis building coupled with focussed ideation sessions to generate opportunities. Once the opportunities were confirmed, clear charters were drawn up clearly identifying the milestones and delivery responsibilities. Various such initiatives were managed by me as the Program Lead to ensure the results desired at an overall level for the organization. It also helped me enormously as a Manager - understanding insights of the business as a whole, appreciating the latest techniques on data analysis, change management dynamics in leading such transformations and also program/project management techniques.
PepsiCo
EVP - Manufacturing Operations
August 2007 - October 2009 (2 years 3 months)
Headed the South region Technical Operations. This was the largest COBO region and the fastest growing region in Pepsico.
Hindustan Lever Limited
Manager
1994 - 2007 (13 years)