Pernod Ricard (French MNC, global wines and spirits leader) | Gurgaon

Manager - Transportation Excellence

• Managed national outbound transportation operations with annual logistics spend of $23M, ensuring service reliability, competitive freight rates, and seamless coordination across plants, planning, sales, and finance
• Led strategic RFQ and freight procurement cycles covering $39M of spend, evaluating transporter proposals, negotiating commercial terms, and onboarding transport partners aligned to service and cost objectives
• Delivered $1.6M in annual savings through freight procurement, improved truck utilization, route optimization, and stronger commercial negotiations with logistics providers
• Drove Transportation Management System (TMS) implementation as key business stakeholder, partnering with technology teams to deliver process harmonization, workflow digitization, and adoption across transportation operations
• Established transportation performance governance by consolidating KPI data across regional teams, developing executive dashboards and waterfall analyses to identify performance drivers and support leadership decision-making

Assistant Manager - Transportation Excellence

• Digitized transporter indenting through the Freight Tiger auto-indenting module, eliminating manual booking steps and improving speed, compliance, and process consistency
• Analyzed freight performance across transportation lanes to identify recurring cost leakages in loadability, detention, routing, and vendor execution; implemented corrective actions with regional teams and transport partners, strengthening freight governance and cost control across the network
• Drove a freight unbundling initiative for the Labels supply chain by transferring transportation ownership from suppliers to the company, improving service reliability and generating approximately $80K in annual savings through centralized freight governance and network optimization
• Optimized transportation network design by evaluating fleet mix, truck sizing, vendor deployment, and route-level operating models; improved loadability and cost per case through higher-capacity vehicles and dedicated fleets, while advancing sustainability through increased CNG vehicle adoption

Rivigo Services (Technology-driven Indian logistics and trucking startup) | Gurgaon

Assistant Manager - Vendor Development

• Managed the national line haul transportation network spanning 35+ suppliers and annual spend of approximately $16M, owning vendor allocation, capacity planning, and service execution across multiple geographies
• Delivered 12% cost reduction through contract negotiations, vendor rationalization, route optimization, and improved vehicle utilization, while sustaining service reliability across the network
• Strengthened vendor governance through structured supplier reviews, performance management, and compliance monitoring, improving operational reliability and execution discipline
• Developed contingency plans and alternate supplier strategies for critical transportation lanes, ensuring business continuity through disruptions, demand fluctuations, and capacity constraints

Carrier (American multinational HVAC and refrigeration giant) | Gurgaon

Assistant Manager - Strategic Sourcing

• Managed strategic sourcing for the sheet metal category with annual spend of $2.7M across 18 suppliers in India and China, driving procurement performance, supplier management, and supply continuity
• Delivered $70K in annual savings and $55K in cost mitigation through sourcing optimization, supplier negotiations, and market-driven procurement strategies
• Reduced the supplier base by 18% through a consolidation initiative, improving procurement efficiency, supplier governance, and relationship management
• Strengthened sourcing decisions through commodity market analysis, supplier performance management, and risk mitigation, collaborating closely with manufacturing, quality, and operations teams

Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET) - Operations

• Implemented Manufacturing Execution System (MES) driven shop-floor digitization initiatives, improving operational visibility, process monitoring, and production control through real-time workstation tracking
• Led automation of internal material movement through deployment of motorized carts, enhancing workflow efficiency, reducing manual handling, and improving production continuity

• Awarded Glen Gems Award at Pernod Ricard for best performance in the Integrated Operations and Supply Chain team, Q4 2024

• B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), Delhi Technological University, New Delhi

• Excel Skills for Business: Advanced, Macquarie University
• Pre-MBA Statistics, IIM Ahmedabad