Ashish Raut

• Led a dynamic team for 3+ years as a strategic partner to a US Auto Insurance leader, overseeing a €150K account. Designed and implemented competitive strategies across US markets, leveraging data-driven insights to drive operational excellence and market expansion.
• Aligned stakeholder priorities with tailored research models to deliver actionable insights. Translated findings into strategic recommendations, optimizing marketing, communication, product development, and operational strategies.
• Managed end-to-end delivery of research-driven strategies across consumer profiling, segmentation, brand health, and customer satisfaction, supporting stakeholders in making informed strategic decisions.
• Engaged with senior stakeholders to drive strategic alignment across marketing, business development, product strategy, and operations, ensuring consistent value delivery across European business units.
• Supported 1+ year of delivery consulting engagements across Pre-Deal, Deal Execution, and Value Creation phases for a Saudi-based client - was part of a $40M deal
• Built and supported business plans for the disinvestment of client's subisadry where worked with buyers at the intail stages
• Providing mentorship to team members, actively managing their performance, and conducting comprehensive assessment evaluations, overseeing recruitments and knowledge documentation, training and transfers.

• Collaborated with a Nordic Private Equity firm on Deck creation, industry research, and valuation tasks.
• Oversaw the request intake process, participating in project scoping calls to enhance understanding and prepare detailed scope documents.
• Developed client-related materials, including pitches, proposals, marketing collateral, and associated analyses.
• Conducted in-depth investment research to support clients' investment projects.
• Worked on trading comps and provided support in valuation and comparative analysis
• Communicated effectively with stakeholders through written and verbal interactions, fostering clarity and collaboration.

• Led end-to-end delivery of high-stakes research and strategy projects, coordinating with cross-functional teams and external vendors to ensure successful execution.
• Conducting the primary and secondary research to analyze various industries Using the data gathered during the research to carry out market, competitor, and supplier analyses
• Facilitated primary data acquisition through designed questionnaires, through coordination with support teams.
• Delivering the research findings in customized reports in PPTs and other formats based on the client’s requirement
• Making timely and high-quality deliverables to various clients Working in an unstructured environment, and making sense of discrete and disconnected data to generate logical conclusions
• Working on various data modelling techniques, to derive the market sizes of various industries Making
• Created business value propositions using comprehensive strategies to solve business contingencies, followed by an end-to-end execution of such studies and presented results to relevant stakeholders.

Conducted testing across web and mobile platforms to ensure functionality and performance.

Executed automated test scripts using IBM Rational Tester for efficiency.

Performed load testing on multiple mobile applications to assess scalability.

Created virtual users with LoadRunner to analyze application response under various conditions.

Conducted meetings with system users to define project scope.

Collaborated with software developers and project support teams to identify business requirements.

Designed tests aimed at risk mitigation throughout project lifecycle.

Provided objective feedback to software development teams for continuous improvement.

Performed qualitative checks on Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) for accuracy.