Esther Punitha
Bangalore
Summary
More than 13.7 years of experience working in operations, purchase, finance and analytics. Having worked in MNCs and startups, I have a good exposure working in varied business environments. Have demonstrated high work ethics and dedication to the organizational objectives leading to recognition at all workplaces.
Experienced management professional prepared for leadership roles. Strong ability to drive operational efficiency and strategic growth while ensuring seamless team collaboration. Adept in handling complex projects, adapting to changing needs, and fostering results-oriented environment. Reliable with expertise in project management, team leadership, and process optimization.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate General Manager - Control Tower & Planning
Homelane.com
10.2022 - Current
- Developed Control Tower alerts - Whatsapp Nudges, Email alerts
- Developed Control Tower - Visibility trackers (All stages)
- Developed Algorithms for Code reds - Alarming projects and processes
- Delivery Solutioning - solved delivery problems from the root
- Developed Open Ticket Escalations
- Ensuring FTC - First Time Complete materials getting delivered to sites
- Created tools to monitor the same
- Ensuring FTR - First Time Right materials reaching customer sites and prepared tools for regular monitoring
- Steps developed for Installation team on monitoring the materials and delivery to site dates
- Created Rework order form automation
Senior Manager - Planning and CT
Homelane.com
01.2021 - 09.2022
- Project Planning right from Order Booking to Handover to customer
- Pan India - Project allocations to factories
- Plant capacity Planning, demand and forecast of materials
- Addressing delivery issues and escalations
- Control Tower - Initiating control tower and process right from scratch
- Developing control tower in every process/stage from Order booking to handover to customer
- SAP creation - planning activities
- Handled team of 40 Pan india - Close to 1000 projects a month
Manager - Production Manager
Homelane.com
08.2019 - 12.2020
- Production planning, scheduling and reporting
- Allocation of projects to produce in various factories based on the capacity, availability and customer locations at optimum level
- Create, issue and track production order
- Report status of each project in the production line
- Sub-contractor management for production
- Reserve raw material and accessories stocks based on BOM, trigger JIT procurements
- Capture wastage and losses due to human or machine error and capture normal production wastage and reporting
- Production quality control
- Product packaging and storage
- Factory maintenance schedule - preventive maintenance, break-down handling and appropriate re-aligning the production schedule due to scheduled maintenance and unexpected break-downs
- Monitor inbound and outbound activities
- Have a control on conversion costs incurred
- Logistics planning for intercity projects and worked on reducing PSF
- Worked on implementing ERP and trained complete central operations team
- Implementation of scanning was executed to avoid missing of materials
Manager - Purchase and Warehouse South
Homelane.com
04.2019 - 07.2019
- Managing the entire Purchases for Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad projects with respect to all products
- Purchase orders for about 300 products worth 5 crores a month will be sent to vendors
- Managing complete warehouse inventory, maintain MSL, Match physical and ERP stock
- Meet vendors and finalise on prices for Raw materials, JIT items and hardware, accessories
- Coordinate with vendors for better TAT- minimum 2 days for all JIT materials
- Help other cities to set up purchase and warehouse (MUM, NCR)
- Ensure that my team plans for all dispatches in advance with regards to hardware, accessories, packing materials, stock items etc
- Barcode implementation for packing the hardware and accessories
- Team size 20 over and above production team of 30
Manager - Project Planning
Homelane.com
01.2016 - 04.2018
- Plan and assign projects as per capacity (approx 100 projects) a month
- Overall, have done about 1000 projects planning
- Coordinate with various departments to delivery project on time
- Initiate PO for all factories
- Ensure payments and reconciliation for vendors are done on time
Project Finance Analyst
Homelane.com
02.2015 - 12.2015
- Worked with operations team in terms of order booking and execution
- Account vendor bills and follow up for payments and year end reconciliations
- Maintain petty cash and site advances for site supervisors and project managers
- Prepare and share Profit and Loss to the Management
Project Executive - Customer Service
3M India Limited
07.2011 - 01.2015
- Demand Planning, Analytics & Order Management
- Coordination with sales team for order entry process optimization and invoice generation from various warehouses
- Worked with the project billing team and initiate orders to customers
- Handled revenue worth 5 crore a month - Coordinate with vendors and converters for accounting bills and payments
Education
BBM -
Bangalore University, St. Anne's Degree College
01.2011
2nd PUC -
Goodwill Girls high school
01.2008
SSLC -
Goodwill Girls high school
01.2005
Skills
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Access, advanced Microsoft Excel, Google Scripts & sheets
- Knowledge of Business process control system software and other ERP systems
- SAP
- ERP
- EXCEL
- Leadership development
Personal Information
Age: 34
Married
Timeline
Associate General Manager - Control Tower & Planning
Homelane.com
10.2022 - Current
Senior Manager - Planning and CT
Homelane.com
01.2021 - 09.2022
Manager - Production Manager
Homelane.com
08.2019 - 12.2020
Manager - Purchase and Warehouse South
Homelane.com
04.2019 - 07.2019
Manager - Project Planning
Homelane.com
01.2016 - 04.2018
Project Finance Analyst
Homelane.com
02.2015 - 12.2015
Project Executive - Customer Service
3M India Limited
07.2011 - 01.2015
2nd PUC -
Goodwill Girls high school
SSLC -
Goodwill Girls high school
BBM -
Bangalore University, St. Anne's Degree College
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