Anand Raj

• Actively engage with stakeholders and identify areas for placing of fellows and project teams
• Manage all the aspects of fellowship right from recruitment to training to putting together project teams
• Act as ambassador and champion for the fellowship on different forums

RTT is a British Non-Profit Organization, funded by Larry Ellison Foundation, working in the field of Education

• Developed and rolled out an effective accreditation program for Gujarat and Haryana schools for improving learning outcomes
• Conducted two full rounds of accreditation cycle for ~35,000 schools in Gujarat
• Conducted 4 statewide consultation workshops to get a buy in for the design of accreditation framework in Haryana
  
  

• Management of Operations of the Foundation under the guidance of the Leadership- Responsible for budgeting, conducting monthly programmatic reviews and quarterly expense reviews; as part of Senior Leadership team responsible for overall Foundation growth strategy
• Project Management of ongoing initiatives (around 400 programs, across 20 locations in 18 states), undertook periodic
• Monitoring and Evaluation of ongoing initiatives, built sustainability into programs, and developed innovative program ideas
• Development of budget for the foundation to ensure that the budget allocation is done effectively (Foundation has a yearly budget of INR 100 crores); undertook quarterly reviews to ensure budget spends are as per plan and achieved ~90% budget utilization

• Recruited and mentored a high performing team of 20-members and advised companies on their CSR Strategy, designed impactful CSR programs, and led on ground implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the CSR programs
• Designed CSR Strategy for Clients as diverse as FMCG, Financial Services, Power, and Logistics
• Advised CXOs and board members and supported them in crafting their social sector strategy
• Led Business Development, bringing in revenues of more than INR 4 crores (consulting and program management)
• Led successful implementation and M&E of CSR Programs by forming and Project Management Office to ensure effective implementation and monitoring of nearly 40 CSR Projects across 10 clients with CSR investment of more than INR 75 crores

• Engaged with stakeholders like government, HFCs, developers, bilateral agencies in trying to build a robust affordable housing market
• Advised Government of India (MoHUPA), State Governments (Odisha and MP) and ULBs (Ghaziabad, Surat, Indore,
• Bhopal, and Bhubaneswar) on affordable housing policies
• Drafted the revised affordable scheme, TDR policy for Government of Odisha, Housing and Habitat Policy for GoMP

• Managed P&L responsibility of INR 200 crores for 3G product; led market research to gain consumer insight, identified gaps in product portfolio and developed product; accordingly, determined market potential and developed pricing strategy for 3G data products; engaged customers as product expert to establish relationships and gain market insight
• Developed conceptual framework for segmenting 3G data users and undertook segment specific acquisition and U&R strategy
• Developed a predictive churn model for 3G customers which included parameters like Zero usage, usage pre and post 3G, usage as %age of bundled plan data etc
• Developed a cross sell and upsell strategy for 2G/3G customers

• Led TTSL’s wireless data and devices NPD strategy managing a pipeline of new products in accordance with the NPD plan as the NPD Champion, Responsible for review and analysis of on-going products and retention efforts
• Coordinated with Marketing, Sales, Network, IT, CRM, Revenue Assurance, Billing and BPR teams to bring about over 100 enhancements/improvements/changes in wireless data service offerings
• Undertook complete segmentation of Photon user base and identified key segments for targeting
• Launched Prepaid data service for Photon products creating a new revenue stream and increasing data subscriber acquisition by 15

• Constructed corporate strategy, business cases and revenue models by collaborating with senior executives in finance, business development and product development; led continual monitoring of industry trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory position of competitors; designed financial models for business plans and projects
• Created new product development process of taking raw ideas from the market and turning them into coherent product descriptions backed up with business cases

• Led the deployment (installation, operation, and maintenance) of Rural CDMA network and Managed Leased Line network
• Implemented the strategy of retaining and maintaining key Government accounts by signing MoU with various State Government departments, Public Sector Enterprises,Government educational institutions etc (P&L of INR 100 crores)
• Achieved the yearly business development targets in just over 4 months which led to replicating of best practices
• Successfully rolled out and managed as product manager the Wireline broadband network garnering over 40,000 subs and Managed leased line network catering to over 2000 corporate leased lines with a downtime of less than 2%

• Undertook testing (environmental, electromagnetic, vibration and bench) of prototype units for INSAT series of satellites,
• Research and development of extended C band and Ku band multiplexers
• Designed and modelled Ku and C band multiplexers