Nitish Kandari

Nitish Kandari

Strategy & analytics leader with 10+ years of experience in consumer goods, retail and healthcare. Expert in marketing, growth, CRM and digital transformation and proven success in driving revenue, user engagement & cross-functional strategy in APAC.

Work Experience:

10.6 Years

Industry:

Consulting | FMCG & E-Commerce | Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Function:

Consulting & Strategy | Data Science & Analytics | Healthcare Management | Marketing

Work Experience

Abbott Healthcare – Nutrition Division (Nutrition category leader in India) | Mumbai

  • Manager – Analytics and Insights, Marketing
    • Generated an incremental monthly revenue of INR 30 lakhs for the Child Nutrition category by driving a repeat purchase from 25K monthly active users on the Abbott Loyalty Program at 15% conversion
    • Tailored SKU-based discounting program to promote larger packs, upgrading 8% of the 25K active users from 400GM to 1KG
    • Influenced the purchase decision through targeted ‘Refill the Pack’ WhatsApp notifications and drove 12K users per month (3x average traffic) on the brand pages of e-commerce partners
    • Defended against an 11% YOY decline in sales of the Adult Nutrition category in West Bengal, the highest contributor to the national outlet sales with a 15% share, through orchestrated geo-specific efforts from the field force and media teams
    • Built partnerships with Blinkit, TATA 1mg, and BeatO to implement data-driven targeted sampling for Type 1 and 2 diabetes patients, achieving a 9% conversion on 13K monthly new trialists and a 590% ROI by minimising lead acquisition costs in underperforming towns
    • Designed the data analytics charter for 7 Asia-Pacific markets to build coherent data systems and increase data usability
       

Accenture Solutions (Data-driven marketing and digital transformation services) | Mumbai

  • Associate Manager – Marketing Analytics
    • Built and led analytics-driven marketing solutions for HCP engagement and prescription growth for GSK in their Respiratory TA across 6 markets in Europe
    • Equipped the brand teams in the Respiratory therapeutic area with analytics insights to grow their market share
    • Generated 4% YOY incremental prescriptions-driven revenue and improved the face-to-face engagement time of the field force with the Pulmonologists from 2 to 2.5 minutes by aligning the digital campaigns with their identified channel affinity
       
  • Analytics Advisory Specialist
    • Saved ~£350K in annual production cost of the unutilised digital content designs like video, infographics, etc., by a measurement of its engagement time; the optimisation allowed scoping of 2 new markets under the content management team with the same headcount
    • Empowered 12 brand teams with omni-channel campaign engagement insights by integrating data streams for five marketing channels
    • Secured a fast-tracked promotion in 2.5 years; first hire of the team and helped scale it to over 30 analysts while leading 8 of them
       

ZS Associates (Management consulting services across US, Europe and Asia-Pacific) | Gurugram

  • Decision Analytics Associate Consultant
    • Led 25+ Sales Force Effectiveness projects for healthcare clients like GSK, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Roche, optimizing go-to-market strategies and refocusing on key Healthcare Professionals and hospital accounts to boost market share
    • Reduced sales disruption by ~30% through cross-functional collaboration during M&A integration, streamlining large-scale sales force operations, territory design, and placements
       
  • Decision Analytics Associate
    • Spearheaded rollouts in the USA and EU with ~70 key stakeholders and directed delivery engagements of Sales Strategy
    • Served as key liaison with 20+ counterparts across the US and UK, while managing a team of 5 associates in India over 4 years
Accomplishments
  • Performance Champion of the Year 2020-21 at Accenture: Youngest member of business development team; engaged Merck and Roche as Accenture clients
  • Promotion for Exemplary Performance: Promoted to Associate Manager within 2.5 years at Accenture
Education
  • B.Tech - National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur | India
Certification
Extra-curricular
  • Trained actor of three years with national-level theatre participations
  • Selected for the position of Head and Advisory of Cultural Events at the annual festivals of MNIT, Jaipur
  • Led the hockey teams at the district level and CBSE North Zone tournaments