HIMANSHU JAIN

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SUMMARY

An innovative turn-around manager who has managed strategic businesses

worth $4.2 million in retail, automotive and consulting. Strategized,

executed and led green field projects for emerging markets. Proven leader

and a change agent who can drive smart solutions for small or large

businesses.

. Program Management

. Strategic Analysis

. Leadership

. Business Process and Compliance

. Marketing Management

EDUCATION North Carolina State University

Raleigh, USA

Master of Business Administration, May 2011

. Fellowship at Jenkins Graduate School of Management, GPA

(3.9)

. Assisting Bank of America on consulting project in

sustainability

. Consulting IBM University Relations for Students for

Smarter Planet Initiative

Chalmers University of

Technology

Gothenburg, SWEDEN

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering,

Aug 2004

. STINT Scholarship from Swedish Government at Chalmers

Maharaja Sayajirao University of

Baroda

Baroda, INDIA

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical

Engineering, Aug 2001

. First Class with Distinction, top 2% of the class

EXPERIENCE IBM ($160.8Billion Corp) (Fortune 500)

Bangalore, INDIA 2010-2010

IBM Extreme Blue MBA Summer Intern (Consulting)

. Prepared business case for launch of voice based and kiosk

based platform for employability and skilling and managed a

team of three technical interns.

. Identified the synergistic partnerships and formed

collaboration with corporate partners to launch a pilot.

Recommended a business plan to scale the voice/kiosk model

and commercialize it.

. Monitored the pilot from a business perspective and

proposed a revenue model based on the pilot. The project is

applied for a disclosure and research paper published on

same.

2007-2009 ADITYA BIRLA GROUP ($29.2 Billion Corp) (Fortune

500) Mumbai, INDIA

Manager, Business Strategy (Retail)

. Led a team of 25 project management professionals and

software developers to implement Enterprise Store Roll

Solution for 250 new retail outlets across India. Set up

the Progam Management Office to monitor store roll out at

Aditya Birla Retail.

. Created a strategic business plan by coordinating with

marketing managers by category to identify barriers to

choice of those particular categories. Resulted in

improvement in sales by 15% and profitability by $1.84M.

. Improved consumer satisfaction index by 15% through a

strategic execution of brand equity and pricing. Developed

promotional plans and launched three private labels. $1.2 M

improvement in yearly revenue. Conducted competitive

benchmarking

. Developed an ecommerce platform to drive the private label

sales (apparel and white goods) targeting youth and

elderly. (Contrast Segmenting.). Increase in sales of

apparel by 5% and white goods by 8%.

. Conceptualized marketing strategy for the organization with

inputs from consultants AT Kearney. Developed a CRM

solution targeted to consumer buying pattern of India.

Resulted in 7% increase in sales of the western region.

HIMANSHU JAIN

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. Supervised launch of social media cloud platform to manage

consumer feedback on prevalent brands. Resulted in increase

in the website traffic by 52% resulting in sales increase

of $.4 M

. Developed retail store audit plans to manager effectiveness

of various categories. Improved category awareness,

resulting in net improvement in revenue by 12% across each

store.

. Developed processes in all domains of Supply chain function

in retail setup viz. Warehouse, Transportation, Repack

center for Staples, Fruit and Vegetable Processing centre

2005-2006 RELIANCE INDUSTRIES ($ 35.9 Billion Corp)(Fortune

500) Mumbai, INDIA

Manager, Business Process & Compliance

(Retail)

. Designed social media strategy for promoting the private

labels in technology, apparel and white goods. Resulted in

improvement in net profit by 5%.

. Led a Go to Market process for Reliance Retail in

collaboration with various category heads/partners

consisting of a broad marketing campaign, marketing tools

for targeted customers and private label promotions.

Resulted in increase in sales of private label by $1.75M.

. Coordinated with marketing, business development and

consultants to develop new merchandising and space

optimization tools. Improvement in sales by 14%.

. Implemented various work flows such as out of stock

scenarios and expiry monitoring through RFID solution.

Resulted in 5% improvement in supply chain efficiency and

saved $230,000 for retail outlets; Stood 2nd in the

Technology Innovation Competition.

. Improved business processes for Plan, Buy, Move and Sell

operations. Integrated improved work flows with SAP IS

Retail resulting in savings of $.9M for store operations.

. Developed cost benefit analysis model and strategic road

map for implementing solar energy modules for 100 retail

outlets. Analyzed entire case using Balanced Score Card.

2005-2006 AUTO WIZ Mumbai,

INDIA

Co-Founder, Auto Electronics Manufacturing

(Startup)

. Created business plan for a $.7 million startup and

garnered venture capital.

. Identification of real estate, setting management structure

and selecting resources.

. Collaborating with suppliers to create order management

system and logistic plan.

2004-2005 FROST AND SULLIVAN

San Antonio, USA & Chennai, INDIA Energy Market Research Analyst

(Consulting)

. Prepared market research reports based on primary and

secondary research which generated revenues of $100,000 for

firm.

. Guided firms on the product roll out strategy using

competitive benchmarking and analysis.

. Defined market segmentation for various energy clients Used

various market engineering measurements to improve market

penetration

2003-2004 VOLVO CARS CORPORATION (Automotive)

Gothenburg, SWEDEN

Research Associate

. Developed curve shaping module to reduce RF emissions in

fuel pumps. Reduced RF emissions by 12%. Applied for patent

in European Patent Office

. Analyzed What if Scenarios Maps and Choice Matrices for

sourcing various Fuel Pumps

2001-2002 JAY PROJECTS

Baroda, INDIA

Sales and Marketing Engineer

. Developed marketing plans for the sales of SMPS and

Switching circuits used in electric motors. Achieved annual

revenue of $48,000 and growth of 15.2% IT Skills

Matlab, C/C++, MS Office, SAP, Microsoft EPM, ARIS,

SPSS, SQL, VHDL, Oracle

Certifications Green Belt-Six Sigma Certification, PMP

Mumbai, INDIA

EXPERTISE

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