ALOK RANJAN
Gurugram
Summary
Management consultant with over 5 years of experience addressing commercial growth, supply chain and planning challenges for 15+ clients across 10+ countries. Expertise in supply chain planning processes, including S&OE, supply and inventory planning, demand planning, and APS implementation, project leadership and strategy planning for top-line growth leveraging strong analytical skills and a structured problem-solving approach.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Commercial Strategy Execution Lead-APAC
DRiV Incorporated (Tenneco)
12.2024 - Current
- Planned and launched 14 products in the Indian Auto Aftermarket, driving the end-to-end process from ideation to market launch and ensuring alignment with regional business goals.
- Led a team of 5 analytics managers to deliver data-driven insights on sales and order trends, supporting regional leadership decisions and monthly sales target achievement through cross-functional coordination.
- Spearheaded the APAC 5-year growth strategy, leading workshops on product and service network expansion, resulting in ~USD 4M EBITDA growth and stronger regional market positioning.
- Directed multiple strategic projects across Product, Supply Chain, Finance, and Sales, ensuring on-time execution, effective stakeholder management, and delivery of high-impact regional initiatives
- Developed and implemented commercial strategies that optimized regional market positioning and enhanced competitive advantage across APAC.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive product launches, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives and market demands.
Senior Knowledge Analyst
McKinsey and Company
06.2021 - 12.2024
- Led inventory right-sizing diagnostics across industries to assess inventory health, set norm-based targets, identify improvements.
- Released $30M in working capital for a Thai pet food client via multi-echelon optimization and network redesign across three continents.
- Improved an automobile client’s forecast accuracy by 13pp through autonomous planning enablement and multi-variate forecasting capability building.
- Deployed a digital planning control tower for an industrial equipment manufacturer, boosting OTIF by 26pp through demand and inventory levers.
- Drove end-to-end supply chain and logistics transformations, achieving $200M cost reduction, $90M working capital recovery, optimized fleet utilization, and executed global maturity assessments across 20 domains to identify improvement areas.
- Developed comprehensive knowledge repositories, improving accessibility of information and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
Delhi School of Economic
01.2021
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology
Ghaziabad, India07-2017
Skills
Product launch
Market analysis
Commercial strategy
Stakeholder management
Supply chain transformation
Inventory Optimization
Demand forecasting
Strategic project execution
Network redesign
Cross-functional coordination
EBITDA growth
Timeline
Commercial Strategy Execution Lead-APAC
DRiV Incorporated (Tenneco)
12.2024 - Current
Senior Knowledge Analyst
McKinsey and Company
06.2021 - 12.2024
Master of Business Administration -
Delhi School of Economic
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology