Volvo (Swedish truck manufacturers mostly operating in Europe, North and South America and Australia) | Bengaluru

Experience Cost Analyst

• Conducted hypothesis-driven root-cause analysis on BOM price variances, implementing corrective actions that eliminated
• €12,000 in annual cost leakage presenting findings to senior leadership as a replicable cost governance model.
• Led a 2-member team to automate the BOM clean-up process using Microsoft Power Automate improving process efficiency
• by 15% and freeing analyst bandwidth for higher value work.
• Spearheaded a 7-member cross functional cost reduction workshop in France across design, purchasing, and finance generating
• €150/vehicle in savings and presenting structured recommendations to Strategy leadership.
• Architected the Standard cost of sales framework covering 70% of total material costs, replacing ad-hoc data flows with a
• systematic, time bound process enabling reliable cost forecasting and scenario planning across the Volvo-Eicher JV.
• Developed monthly Engine long block price forecasts using Provision and Actual YTD data, running scenario analyses to equip
• Strategy and Finance teams with forward-looking cost intelligence.
• Managed cost reporting across India and France, navigating cultural and time-zone differences to ensure zero delivery delays
• serving as the bridge between operational and finance functions.
• Oversaw the largest ARV portfolio in the France division, demonstrating ability to handle high-complexity, high-volume cost
• analysis under tight deadlines.

Tata Motors Limited (India's largest automotive manufacturer, commercial and passenger vehicles) | Pune

Senior Manager Cost Engineering- Purchasing and supplier Quality

• Generated and syndicated cost reduction ideas worth ₹20 Cr to senior leadership by identifying and recommending an efficient alternate material through classical VAVE methodology.
• Led a 12- member cross functional team to conduct a supplier cost workshop, driving collaboration between design, purchasing and production to identify cost reduction levers by applying hypothesis driven problem solving.
• Synthesised competitive market pricing intelligence across four teams through structured benchmarking workshops generating ₹50 Cr in cost-saving ideas and advising leadership on strategic sourcing decisions.
• Accountable for supplier negotiations across multiple vehicle programs, applying data-backed pricing benchmarks achieving ₹30 Cr in savings while maintaining quality and delivery standards.
• Deployed an in-house automated costing application migrating the Nylon Pipe model from MS Excel, saving 400 person-hours annually and establishing a replicable digitisation framework for the function.
• Steered development of a proprietary automated should-costing tool reducing estimation turnaround by 70%, building a historical cost database, and enabling design-to-cost scenario analysis for new sourcing decisions.
• Spearheaded 40+ knowledge transfer sessions across the Cost Engineering department building institutional capability, standardising best practices, and recognised for exceptional leadership in Motivating Self & Others.

• Awarded Bronze Accolade by senior leadership at Tata Motors for leadership excellence and showing agility in cross functional program reviews and achieving cost targets
• Accolade presented for displaying exceptional leadership behaviour of #Motivating Self & Others.
• Accolade presented for displaying exceptional leadership behaviour of #Leading Change

• Bachelors in technology (Mechanical Engineering), National Institute of Technology, Silchar

• Core Member of Profile Committee for PGPX2026 Batch.
• Managed events as General Secretary of the Mechanical Engineering Society (MES), facilitating faculty-student communication
• and institutional coordination.
• Awarded Best Speaker in a Mock Parliament for structured argumentation and persuasion under pressure.
• Cleanliness drive on Shivgange trek and installed Dustbins as Volvo CSR activity