Chandrakant Nimesh
Manager with 10+ years of experience driving large-scale digital transformation, cross-functional programs, sales, projects, and operations across complex commercial networks. Known for forging strategic partnerships, influencing senior stakeholders, and building scalable mechanisms that improve processes, accelerate adoption, and elevate customer experience. Strong at organizational planning, time management, stakeholder engagement, and solution design to deliver measurable business impact.
Work Experience:
10.2 Years
Industry:
Energy & Utilities
Function:
Business Development | Data Science & Analytics | Operations & Supply Chain | Project & Program Management
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
- Area Sales Manager - B2B and B2C Sales
- Led a network of 45 distributors servicing 750,000+ customers across two districts from 4 supply locations; delivered 4.9% growth while maintaining a dominant 53.7% market share.
- Mobilized plants, distributors & marketing teams to deliver 7,575 New Connections and 7,032 double bottle connections in 6 months, exceeding target by 56% and 27% respectively.
- Converted two major industrial clients from coal/diesel to LPG by independently diagnosing their energy economics, building the business case, and negotiating commercial terms, adding 95 MT ND volume
- Scaled Appu (5-kg LPG) volumes 33.77% by coordinating plants, distributors, and marketing teams to improve availability, reposition the niche product, and activate high-demand customer pockets.
- Streamlined refill booking workflows with Supply & Distributor teams to sustain <1-day turnaround reducing backlogs and eliminating peak period delays
- Resolved customer complaints with proactive distributor coordination, achieving zero reopening.
- Ensured 65,243 customer safety checks despite monsoon disruptions maintaining compliance and customer safety.
- Led district-level partnerships with district administration to execute the Ladaki Behen Yojana, ensuring on-time delivery of 3 free refills to all eligible households and eliminating service bottlenecks across the region
- Scaled cashless adoption from 47% to 76% by influencing distributor behavior, mobilizing delivery staff toward QR-first payments, and conducting targeted customer awareness drives.
- Manager-Digital Transformation
- Architected and launched an enterprise-wide Data Lake powering real-time dashboards across 7 business verticals, elevating decision-making efficiency by 60% and standardizing analytics consumption for 1000+ internal users
- Orchestrated OT/IT integration with Ops & Tech teams, saving 40% reporting time and enabling faster decision cycles.
- Facilitated 50+ requirement workshops across 6 business verticals to translate operational needs into 25+ KPI frameworks for the Connected Enterprise initiative, improving prioritization accuracy and shortening decision cycles by 30%.
- Developed investment cases exceeding ₹45.8 Cr for initiatives such as Digital Nerve Centre and RFID–QR Asset Tracking, strengthening financial transparency and reducing approval turnaround time by 30–35%.
- Evaluated 10+ emerging technologies including applications for Drone Surveillance and Predictive Analytics resulting in a ₹75+ Cr funded transformation roadmap with clear ROI and risk profiles.
- Designed 8+ analytical models and 10+ automated data pipelines for the Connected Enterprise program using insights from 50+ operational and financial datasets, improving reporting accuracy by 40% and manual effort efficiency by 50%.
- Identified 40+ workflow bottlenecks across business verticals and integrated improvements into enterprise platforms like Central Automation, increasing process throughput by 15–20% and reducing error rates.
- Led execution governance across 7 simultaneous strategic programs, delivering 10+ dashboards, 5+ prototypes, and 3 pilots, and improving delivery velocity by 25% through structured milestone tracking.
- Obtained approvals from 5+ regulatory bodies for the field deployment under the Drone Surveillance initiative, enabling a landmark 50+ km operational trial with zero compliance deviations.
- Produced insight reports and strategic assessments across 8+ themes including Track & Trace, Process Analytics, and Digital Control Centres, influencing a ₹20+ Cr forward investment pipeline.
- Delivered 30+ executive-ready presentations, 10+ strategy briefs, and 7+ deep-dive reviews covering programs like Connected Enterprise and Central Automation, improving leadership visibility into ROI, risks, and dependencies.
- Aligned 75+ stakeholders across business, technology, finance, compliance, and vendors to de-risk delivery for initiatives such as RFID–QR Tagging and Track & Trace, improving issue-resolution cycles by 35%.
- Assistant Manager- Projects
- Led procurement and tendering for multiple contracts up to ₹20 Cr through competitive bidding processes, multi-team commercial evaluations, and vendor negotiations, delivering 5%+ cost savings while maintaining scope, timelines, and service level agreements
- Owned delivery of a ₹130 Cr project portfolio by managing end-to-end procurement cycles, stakeholder alignment, vendor performance tracking, and contract execution, achieving 100% on-time completion and zero commercial disputes
- Directed a 500 KM network infrastructure upgrade across 21 sites through coordinated procurement, vendor management, and cross-functional execution, improving communication reliability by 80% and enhancing enterprise operational resilience
- Operations Officer
- Conducted short-term and medium-term demand forecasting for pipeline operations using consumption patterns, supply schedules, and throughput data.
- Performed root-cause analysis on operational deviations (pressure, flow, capacity utilization) to improve network reliability and mitigate downtime risks.
- Collaborated with supply, refinery, and terminal teams to optimize inventory management, pipeline scheduling, and logistics coordination, ensuring zero stockouts.
- Implemented cost-efficiency initiatives by analyzing pumping cycles, batch configurations, and energy usage.
- Enhanced leak-detection analytics using simulation models, improving detection accuracy to 99%.
- Maintained end-to-end supply chain continuity for multiple pipeline segments with zero quality failures.
- Winner – StratEdge 2.0 case compition on Business Strategy, IIM Lucknow | Ranked 1st among 280+ teams | Secured INR 36,000 prize.
- Fastest in the batch to get promoted from Salary grade A to Salary grade B and Salary grade B to Salary grade C in the minimum prescribed time of 3 years each.
- Outstanding Achievement Award - 2021 by C&MD HPCL: A recognition reserved for the top 0.5% performers in the company.
- Runner-up award - Young Engineer’s Conclave by C&MD HPCL 2018: Cost optimization in pipeline operations.
- Among selected candidates from an internal pool of 9000 officers to drive digital initiatives department of HPCL.
- Bachelors in Engineering (Instrumentation and Control), Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology Delhi University
- Lean Six Sigma by KPMG. Issued in March 2025
- 6 Months Course on Data Analytics by IIM Amritsar (FY 2021-22)