Nikita Baviskar

• Actively participate in New Product development and Introduction (NPDI)
• Support spend migration/analysis of each product/product category.
• Identify opportunities with new OEM vendors to do business with them in order to generate yearly savings
• Product sourcing strategy development once purchase requisition received from the production department
• Vendor contract and vendor price negotiation as and when needed. Maintain supplier relationship, direct vendor communication over mails as well as in person
• Actively handling Procurement to Pay (P2P) and Order to cash (O2C) processes
• Handle Inflation, Sourcing Savings and Purchase Price Variance (PPV) to ensure operational goals are achieved
• Collaboration with cross functional teams to ensure material deliveries and sourced products are aligned to meet customer expectations
• Vendor development and new potential vendor finding, Material planning, Inventory management strategies development
• Knowledge of using SAP system user end like ME21N, ME1M, CS13, ZV62 etc
• Individually responsible for product sourcing, project planning and execution, vendor price update, vendor PIR creation, Product study, reverse crossing, items spend analysis - profit/loss, updating fix vendor, vendor material number update, handling accounts payable issues, vendor price issues, portfolio gap analysis, raising purchase order/sales order cancellation or generation requests to the respective team, was/is items, assisted in catalog making, provided solutions to query mails of cross functional managers.

• Manage and implement product marketing strategy for sustainable growth of the product/product category.
• Product life cycle management and product launch process adaptation.
• Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning of a Product or product line.
• Studied multi-faceted development issues and suggested solutions to satisfy project goals and adhere to timeline and budget parameters.
• To solve complex problems in creative and effective ways and support local sales activities
• Conduct ongoing research to define market needs (includes interfacing with hospital personnel, clinicians, nurses, sales reps, hospital observations and literature review and updating the database) to develop and maintain product lines.
• Identify, implement and planning of new product patterns, line extensions, demand and deletions.
• Responsible for New item setup/new item creation, Item reactivation, Item discontinuation, Product portfolio gap analysis, Providing item exact/closest substitute, Item description update, Validating and updating the data on Company website for correction by following the SOP's.
• Working in a team on large crossing and quoting bid RFP files and providing in a timely manner to the sales reps, working closely with sales reps assisting them on their queries.
• Coordinate product cross reference requests submitted by sales by running preliminary analysis, assigning items with no matches to the appropriate product divisions and finalizing the information sent back to the sales reps.
• Create and manage supporting data and data structures during the assigned marketing campaigns and lead special projects.
• Maintaining product sales forecast with SCM which can help product launch plans.
• Coordinates participation at workshops, group meetings and presentations through scientific support.
• Research, collect and format competitive information to develop, analyze and maintain competitive profiles for products and competition.
• Develops all marketing communications materials and promo inputs (catalogs, brochures, giveaways, press releases, and training materials) for assigned product line in a creative and scientific way.

• Proactively commenting on market dynamics by networking with key industry participants globally.
• Publishing market research studies on industry verticals with a team of senior research analyst and junior research analyst.
• Conducted in-depth qualitative and quantitative research to identify trends and generate insights.
• Handling team of 5 research analysts and assigning everyday work.
• Prepared detailed reports summarizing research findings and recommendations for further action.
• Estimating market size, and forecasting and writing high level analysis. Quality check of reports and Market Estimation (ME) created individually.
• Executing consulting assignments
• Researching and finalizing report topics for syndicated research studies
• Writing proposals and articles
• Client acquisition and client handling
• Assuming responsibility for the end report in terms of quality and deadlines.

• Primary and secondary research: involves preparing the questionnaire, identifying interview participants, developing contacts and interviewing to generate quantitative and qualitative insight
• Identify market segments, estimate consumer demand and position products
• Worked on In Vitro Diagnostic devices, Anesthesia and Respiratory devices, Cardiovascular Devices, Diabetes Care Devices, Drug Delivery Devices, and Neurology devices Market
• Expertise in conducting analysis and market assessment on the medical device segment by building the Data models, Market Forecasting, Company share analysis by speaking with Key Opinion Leaders
• Build data based on primary, secondary and analytical modelling that include market size, historic and forecast numbers and company shares
• Did 2 projects using Excel VBA to automate the process (For Example: Roll over data)
• Market Estimation, Benchmarking country level data and CSA for the particular market
• Proficient in building 'Data Forecast Models' for various medical devices using disease indications, therapeutic factors involved, keeping into consideration the healthcare scenario, reimbursement policies, inflation, major events impacting economy, major product recalls and advancement in medical technologies
• Subsidiary of Global Data Plc, UK

TITLE: Customer need analysis to create customer centric strategy for onion farmers.

• To understand the spraying pattern of herbicides followed by the farmer
• To understand the unmet needs of the customers/farmers and the pain points in cultivation of onion
• To prepare the marketing plan to launch the herbicide new product