Sambit Sarkar
Business strategy and analytics professional with experience across banking, real estate PE, and Technology, driving data-backed decisions on products, investments, and GTM strategy. Led cross-functional initiatives spanning AI/ML, treasury risk, portfolio management and sales, influencing over $200M in assets and $100M+ in ads spend while partnering with senior stakeholders across US, EU, and Asia. An IIT Roorkee grad and a Badminton enthu, built my career across Real estate PE, BFSI and Ad tech
Work Experience:
4.8 Years
Industry:
BFSI | Consulting | Technology
Function:
Consulting & Strategy | General Management | Product Management
Alphonso LG Ads | Bangalore | World’s Leading AdTech Company
Revenue Growth & Product Strategy
- Optimized inventory forecasting, developed statistical models, 6+ ad slots, 4+ ad types, boosted revenue by $2M+
- Built roadblock forecasting for the fall season, lifting inventory estimate accuracy from ~15% to over 45% across 10+ geographies, giving sales the confidence to commit avails against $100M+ in annual ad budget
- Owned and executed the highest-revenue CTV client end-to-end mid-RFP after an unplanned exit, rebuilding calculation logic from first principles rather than inheriting undocumented work and eliminated revenue leakage from overquoting by making avails predictions reliable enough to underwrite client proposals.
- Mentored 2 analysts through a period of 30% team turnover; built the team's first knowledge-transfer repository - methodologies, analytical scripts, resource guides - cutting new-hire ramp-up from 8 to 4 weeks
Go-to-Market Strategy & Cross-Functional Delivery
- Designed custom pre-sales solutions for 30+ clients including Amazon and YouTube, directly shaping $100M+ in annual ad budget allocation and GTM strategy
- Enabled 270+ campaigns across US, EU and Southeast Asia, aligning sales, ops and engineering against a single delivery spec
- Translated between engineering and sales across 7 product lines, standardising QA and API handoffs to cut pre-sales technical escalations by 10%
- Sustained delivery across three time zones to client deadlines, closing 10+ critical engagements against same-day turnarounds
- Collaborated with gaming sales team, US and EU, constructed 60+ targeting segments, audience size 15M+
LOGOS | Mumbai | Real Estate Private Equity
Capital Deployment & Portfolio Oversight
- Supported sell-side due diligence and valuation work for three key warehousing assets worth about $200 million in AUM, helping prepare them for sale.
- Tracked the performance of three warehousing assets, monitoring $210 million of pledged capital with more frequent reporting so decisions could be made on up-to-date information.
- Prepared investment decks and opportunity presentations to pitch to prospective new investors, while also producing materials and updates for existing investors.
- Handled and updated the Project Control Group (PCG) reports daily, keeping existing investors current on each project's status
ESG-Centric Governance & Strategic initiatives
- Helped achieve IGBC Green Building Certification for two assets by driving ESG compliance across design and reporting
- Stepped up during a period of leadership turnover by building fund-tracking tools that cut manual work by around 30 hours a month
Deutsche Bank | Pune | Investment bank & Financial services
Treasury Product & Data Transformation
- Led a 10-member team for Corporate Bank Deposits across backlog, sprint planning, roadmap, QBRs and story prioritisation
- Onboarded 100+ data feeds aligning ALM-QRM and business on delta NII analysis, improving IRR tracking for CB Deposits
- Built Strategic DDA data systems across US and EU5, aligning stakeholders on reporting standard and establishing pipeline
AI-Led Transformation
- Built a regression-based ML model predicting trade book arrival times, replacing manual refresh-and-wait on the front desk for 10K+ books and cutting support incidents 30%
- Selected in the top 1% of global employees for Deutsche Bank's $1M innovation fund for the arrival-time model
- Selected as 1 of 5 from a 150-graduate cohort for Deutsche Bank's AI transformation programme
- Managed trade validations on the COMET (Market Conformity Controls) desk across 3 asset classes, ensuring fair pricing and regulatory adherence
- Sports Comm. Corporate Relations and Sponsorship- Cell Head 62nd Student Activity Council, IIM Ahmedabad (Present)
- Deutsche Bank: Promotions fast-tracked twice - Analyst to Senior Analyst and Senior Analyst to Associate in within 2.5 yrs
- dB Recognition Award: Received ₹1.65 lakh cash award for exemplary performance across the function.
- Awarded IIT Roorkee Heritage Award (Top 50/8000) for all-round excellence in academics and Ex-Curr. across departments
- Coal India B-Tech Full Tuition Scholarship (₹220K/year) for exem. Acads & MHRD Scholarship for MTech (₹148k/year)
- Schlumberger Day Winner: Won the Case Comp to estimate Oil in place by delineating pay zones across 4 exploratory wells
- SEG Evolve Badge: Won Best Collaboration in Cost Reduction & Technological Innovation on global platform (1/30)
- ISRO Internship (IAS fellowship): Selected under scholarship to improve monsoon models via satellite & NavIC data.
- Conference paper: Published Confer. Paper on lithofacies classification using Supervised and Unsupervised ML algorithms
- Btech and Mtech Integrated Degree (IMT) – Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
- CFA Level 1 ,
- Udemy Real Estate Modelling (Valuation)
- CitiBank: Corporate banking virtual Internship
- Trekking & Adventure: Member of Himalayan Explorer Club; Bungee Jumping: World’s First and Highest Freestyle jump
- Badminton: Institute Colours Trophy: Gold Medallist at IIT Roorkee (Top 1/32); CBSE Zonal Finalist (Top 8/156) at U-14 & U-16 levels; Won among 800+ players at Deutsche Bank Corporate Tournament in consecutive years 2022 and 2023.
- Treasurer, Sangram: Led a 40-member team managing a ₹45L budget to organise sports fest attended by several students
- Senator & Mess Secretary: Oversaw mess operations for 600+ students & managed food availability for 1500+ during COVID
- Co-Head, CRY (Child Rights & You IITR): Led workshops for 35+ children in 3 villages and secured jobs for 20+ family