Reliance Industries Limited (Indian multinational conglomerate in energy, petrochemicals & retail) | Mumbai

Senior Category Manager-Additives

• Spearheaded 25+ product development and market expansion projects, converting R&D insights into commercial revenue across Automotive, Agriculture, Packaging, Healthcare & Consumer durables.
• Achieved 10% raw material cost reduction (FY 2022–23) through rigorous vendor benchmarking across 40+ global suppliers, improving portfolio competitiveness while protecting margins.
• Doubled annual sales (2x) for a leading battery manufacturer by identifying and implementing material changes that increased their production speed and output, thus securing a high-value repeat account.
• Closed B2B business across 50+ customer trials by partnering with pan-India sales teams to pitch new and existing product grades directly to customers.
• Pioneered Reliance's first recycled product line, contributing to the launch of 4 recycled grades, directly advancing the sustainability agenda of a ₹2L Cr+ business in response to evolving regulatory pressure.

Senior Manager-Regulatory

• Owned end to end compliance documentation for 100+ product grades across three polymer categories, enabling seamless customer operations across pan India markets.
• Cut compliance certificate turnaround from 2–3 days to instant by digitizing the issuance process to significantly improving customer experience & operational efficiency.
• Designed and ran an annual third-party quality validation system for portfolio thus ensuring consistent product integrity and regulatory readiness at scale.
• Updated 40+ regulatory certificates annually against evolving global standards across Europe, USA, and India, mitigating compliance risk for customer accounts

Executive Assistant to the President

• Built a KPI dashboard consolidating inputs from 20 stakeholders across 3 product divisions, 13 regional offices, and 4 functional teams, improving leadership visibility and enabling faster decisions
• Synthesized weekly commercial data across 20+ industry sectors into actionable market intelligence, informing pricing, portfolio positioning, and business strategy.
• De-risked 100+ B2B customer accounts by spearheading a compliance awareness initiative for customers and field sales staff during a period of high regulatory uncertainty
• Organized a 2-day national leadership conference for 30+ regional managers, managing full logistics, agenda design, and onsite coordination end to end.

• Awarded the departmental Gold medal for topping the BE Polymer Engineering examination, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 2019.
• Secured first rank in the TE Polymer Engineering examination, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 2018.
• Authored and published -"Spilled Ideas," a collection of poetry.
• Paresh Darshal Memorial Award: Highest marks in Polymer Chemistry I, Polymer Chemistry II, and Polymer Materials combined, Third Year.
• Joint General Secretary, MIT Pune

• B.Tech (Polymer Engineering), Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune

• Pre-MBA Statistics, IIM Ahmedabad
• Excel skills for business: Advanced, IIM Ahmedabad
• Economics for everyone: understanding a recession, Issued by LinkedIn

• Running a painting business via website & social media, selling customised paintings to clients.