Pernod Ricard (India’s leading multinational Alcoholic beverage company) | Gurgaon

Manager – Transportation Excellence

• Orchestrated national outbound transportation across a $23M annual logistics spend, holding freight rates against market benchmarks while sustaining service levels across plants and functions.
• Unlocked $1.6M in annual savings on a $23M transportation spend through freight procurement, improved truck utilization, route optimization, and commercial renegotiation.
• Spearheaded RFQ and freight procurement cycles worth $39M, rebuilding the transporter panel through proposal evaluation, commercial negotiation, and partner onboarding.
• Drove Transportation Management System (TMS) implementation as the key business stakeholder, digitally transforming manual processes into harmonized workflows adopted network-wide.
• Built transportation governance with Sales, Planning, Manufacturing, Finance, and Procurement, tracking budget, spend, and variance against forecast in monthly KPI dashboards.

Assistant Manager – Transportation Excellence

• Automated transporter indenting on the Freight Tiger platform, eliminating manual booking steps and improving booking speed, compliance, and process consistency.
• Analyzed lane-level freight performance to identify cost leakages across loadability, detention, routing, and vendor execution, closing gaps with regional teams and transport partners.
• Unlocked $80K in annual savings by unbundling freight in the Labels supply chain, shifting transportation ownership from suppliers to in-house control while improving service levels.
• Re-engineered network design across fleet mix, truck sizing, and vendor deployment, reducing cost per case while scaling CNG adoption to lower transport emissions.

Rivigo Services Private Limited (Technology-driven logistics company) | Gurgaon

Assistant Manager – Vendor Development

• Managed a national line-haul network of 35+ suppliers and $16M in annual spend, leading a team of 3 across vendor allocation, capacity planning, and service delivery against SLAs.
• Delivered a 12% cost reduction on a $16M spend base through contract renegotiation, vendor rationalization, route optimization, and improved vehicle utilization, while maintaining service levels.
• Established vendor governance through structured supplier reviews, performance management, and compliance monitoring, strengthening operational reliability and execution discipline.
• Built contingency and alternate supplier strategies for critical lanes, protecting business continuity through disruptions, demand fluctuations, and capacity constraints.

Carrier Air Conditioning & Refrigeration (Leading Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning company) | Gurgaon

Assistant Manager - Strategic Sourcing

• Managed strategic sourcing for the sheet metal category, covering $2.7M in annual spend and 18 suppliers across India and China, driving procurement performance and supply continuity.
• Delivered $70K in annual savings and $55K in cost mitigation, close to 5% of category spend, through sourcing optimization, supplier negotiations, and commodity-informed strategies.
• Consolidated the supplier base by 18%, concentrating volume to strengthen procurement efficiency, supplier governance, and negotiating position across the category.
• Shaped sourcing decisions through commodity market analysis and supplier performance data, partnering with manufacturing, quality, and operations to manage cost pressures from rising input prices.

Graduate Engineer Trainee – Operations

• Implemented MES-driven shop-floor digitization, improving operational visibility, process monitoring, and production control through real-time workstation tracking.
• Led automation of internal material movement through motorized cart deployment, enhancing workflow efficiency and improving production continuity.

• Glen Gems Award, Pernod Ricard - Best performer in the Integrated Operations and Supply Chain team for Q4, 2024.

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

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG
• Excel Skills for Business: Advanced, Macquarie University
• Pre-MBA Statistics, IIM Ahmedabad

• Karate Black Belt