Competent and diligent professional with over 8.7 years of experience across Operations, System Implementation, Process Management, Quality Assurance & Process Training; currently spearheading as Studio lead at Amazon Studios.
Possess natural flair for developing strategies to enhance clients/ customer relations, Quality Process, Process Management, Audit compliance, Training andDevelopment.
Hands on experience in managing Transitions and possess in-depth knowledge of entire operations ranging from ensuring SLAs, Process flows, Team/Performance, Financial Planning, Forecasting, ensuring resources are in place to meet targets, coordinating directly with Studio, Business partners, FC/facility and logistics teams, Quality Checking, New Item Set-up, Image Uploading, Influencer Marketing, Addressing FC's issues, Amazon Search, Removing Duplicate Page, Rectifying Buyable Issue, Root Cause Analysis & meeting the quality standards.
Consummate professional with outstanding presentation and leadership skills, strong People Management Skills, capable of managing members having distributed skill sets, ensuring judicious utilization of resources, excellent planning, execution, monitoring and attention to detail as well as the ability to build and lead effective teams.
Experienced Studio Operation lead with over 8.7 years of experience in Catalog Operations, Digital Imaging and Logistic Services for Jeddah, Dubai, Cairo and Gurgaon Studios. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.
Resourceful Manager offering history of success coordinating and monitoring operations across various departments. Effective leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Highly committed with hardworking mentality to maintain quality of services and product
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Studio Operations Manager
Amazon Studios
Gurgaon
11.2021 - Current
Trained new employees on proper protocols and customer service standards.
Leading program to forecast future volumes and make plans to ensure capacity meets demand, creating contingency plans and reacting quickly to changing priorities.
Leading studio operations initiatives for multiple Studios in IN region and Central Financial Planning.
Responsible for workflow, inventory, accounting compliance and loss prevention of products.
Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
Setting up daily production goals and ensure resources are in place to meet targets, coordinating directly with Studio, Business partners, FC/facility and logistics teams to ensure seamless planning for product requiring imaging.
Supervised daily operations of multi-million dollar Influencer Marketing Campaigns.
Catalog Manager
Amazon
12.2019 - 10.2021
Responsibilities
Responsible for improving Catalog quality through Relevant Attribute Backfill
Managed team of 35+ resources including Resource scheduling, recruitment, appraisal and mentoring for my team.
Responsible for establishing two programs in RBS – Relevant Attribute Backfill Program for 10 marketplaces and Premium ASIN.
Ensuring highest standard of customer satisfaction and quality service; implementing procedures to improve customer satisfaction level and resolved customer queries.
Efficiently assuring work deliverances and constant improvement in quality through taking feedback from clients and putting it across to the concerned team leaders to enhance the associates work quality.
Maintaining and updating Daily, Weekly and Monthly Leadership/Stakeholder Reports for analyzing and initiating appropriate action plans.
Assuring that appropriate processes are maintained, identifying areas to improve process, and providing suggestions regarding improvement of processes.
Providing training and conducting quality sessions to team members and new recruits to take up responsibilities.
Implemented a Templates email process to reduce the existing timeline from 5mins to 2mins by saving 3mins per email resulting a huge savings for Vendor Nudging Paragon team.
Improved the Turnaround Time (TAT) [75-80%] for providing faster and better resolution to the Amazon Customers from 8-10 Business days to 2 Business days issues pertaining to Images and Quarantine defects.
Reduced 7.5HCs requirements in ‘21 through Operational Excellence
Projects.
Improve Efficiency (backfill) from 4086bps to 5107bps through process excellence.
Improve Productivity (review) from 948 item reviews to 1250 item reviews through process excellence.
Subject Matter Expert
Amazon
10.2017 - 11.2019
Responsibilities
Managed team of 10+ resources on Premium ASIN program for 3 marketplaces.
Established Search ability program for RBS piloting for IN Marketplace.
Implemented keywords, refinement-based SOP to generate higher. searches for OHL and CEPC categories.
Established Image Validation System to improve ASINs display.
GRCS POC for RBS Selection WW team to address tech-related issue for Catalog team by dive deep and connecting with Tech POCs.
Best Practice Sharing POCs – Conducted WW RBS session with WW RBS POCs to discuss WoW implementation of ideas.
POCs from RBS for Store walk for New-launch categories.
Implemented Defected Image Program to identify all imaging defect and established correction on detail page through manual and ML based approach.
Vendor Training for Cloudtail Vendors to set-up Catalog.
Established SOP on images which is in current use for all vendors for IN marketplace.
Established Duplicate Page program for WW-MPs by identifying the potential duplicate ASINs helping to restore Customer and Seller Experience.
PROJECTS.
Search Optimization - Customer behavior mapping for analyzing the keywords used for search
Image Defects fix – Classifying images defects and preparing a road map to fix.
Duplicate Page Removal - Identifying the potential duplicate ASINs helping to restore Customer and Seller Experience
Senior Associate
Amazon
11.2015 - 09.2017
Responsibilities
Prepared various analysis Reports – Input Output Analysis, Team performance report, Capacity & Forecast analysis, Internal Error Analysis Report, Defect / Defective Analysis, Team Utilization and Efficiency report, MBR.
Provided training to the new Associates in the process and worked on various projects for helping team and the organization.
Established good quality of work and with no mishaps in the flow of work.
Point of contact Searchability, Duplicates and Buyablibty on program launches for IN, CA and AU MPs.
Planned and implemented 100% Productivity planning and control / Forecasting.
Involved in making changes to improve catalog hygiene for Amazon Display Page for IN category launches as an image, New Item Setup and Aplus page POCs.
Store-walk POC from Retail Business Services for Category launches for Amazon.In
Created attendance reports & Error logs, resolving it with the help of case log team, and handling Sev-2 Documentation.
Conducted weekly team meetings to discuss updates, statistics, and other information.
Interacted with the management, team and associates to facilitate smooth communication to understand and analyze the requirement and identifying appropriate solutions for problems, if any.
Part of the GRCS- RBS committee to solve tech related issue for RBS associates.
Member of Team SPOC for R&R, Volume Dashboard, Backlog Reports.
PROJECTS.
Improvement of FTR – Identifying & applying solution for controllable and non-controllable factors to improve TAT.
Web Crawling - Collecting information product based compliance data or classification.
Cross Sell Analysis - Identification of the product categories having better conversion rate and overall revenue impact.
Catalog Associate
Amazon
01.2014 - 10.2015
Responsibilities
Catalogue creation and setting up of newly created item.
Identification and resolution of catalogue related errors and detail page.
Image uploading for the newly created item and maintaining the quality of catalogue created.
Launched 10+ categories for Amazon.IN as a Image POCs.
Experience over working on the creation of catalogue for different categories.
Experience of handling inbound and outbound issues from FC’s.
Relationship Officer
Ventura Securities Limited
08.2013 - 10.2013
Liaised with clients by phone, email and text messaging to meet client needs and define expectations.
Communicated regularly with clients to understand needs, evaluate current product use and cross-sell new products.
Education
Adwaita Mission
Banka
10th -
Saint Teresa's School
Bhagalpur
Bachelor of Engineering -
Sapthagiri College of Engineering
Bangalore
07.2013
Skills
Strategic planning
Business planning
Financial planning and Management
Business Development
Staff Management
Green Belt Practitioner
MS Office, Windows
MySQL/redshift
Search Engine Optimization
Accomplishments
Awarded will 5 Global awards at Retail Business Services
Credentials of being awarded “Trail Blazer” for first batch for L4 Manager award in April’20
Submitted 52 Kaizens (Process Improvement ideas)
Recipient of First Among Individuals Awards and 1 Customer Delight
Contributor to the Best Team Award in FY’17
Additional Information
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Place: Bangalore (Manish Kundan)