Nishant Choudhary
New Delhi
Summary
- Highly accomplished business leader with 12+ years of experience in driving category growth and profitability in the consumer goods and retail industry in India.
- Proven track record of developing and executing successful business strategies, building brands, and leading business transformation initiatives.
- Brings in a fine balance of working in large conglomerates, scaled, and nascent tech start-ups. Always ready to get hands dirty for building zero to one, or scaling the next growth of the company.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Vice President
Satya Retail (DS Group Entity)
New Delhi
01.2021 - Current
- Heading category P&L for the entity.
- Building a playbook for the eB2B convenience channel (ARR - $11.53 million).
- Category leadership in building a sharp focus on assortment and margins.
Vice President
Express Stores
Gurgaon
07.2021 - 03.2022
- Lead category management for the entity (ARR - $8 million).
- Developing a B2B2C playbook for the general trade grocery channel (ARR - $8 million).
- Empowering micro-entrepreneurs with scale, building a compelling story of consumer adoption and profitability.
General Manager
Le Marche
New Delhi
05.2018 - 06.2021
- Heading all categories for a gourmet retail chain, including non-food FMCG (Rs 120 cr).
- Driving category P&L and the bottom lines for the business.
- Building profitability for the business with category leadership and a compelling consumer journey.
- Pioneered many distinguishing categories in gourmet formats in India, including imported foods, chocolates, cheese, packaged foods, personal care, and wines and liquor.
Manager
Future Retail - Heritage Fresh
Hyderabad
04.2017 - 04.2018
- Headed category and replenishment for small formats of Heritage Fresh store (ARR ~$30 million) - initiated a unique delivery model of fresh and FMCG delivery for a milk run across stores for 90% availability of over 6,000 SKUs.
Manager
Future Group
08.2015 - 04.2017
- Market strategy of retail formats of FMCG at Future Retail (Big Bazaar, Heritage Fresh, Easyday).
- Format strategy to drive P&L improvement in the retail large format business (Big Bazaar, Big Bazaar Gen Next, Big Bazaar 2.0).
- Prototype scaling in small-format retails of the Future Group (e.g., Easyday, Heritage Fresh, Nilgiris, Foodworld, etc.).
Manager
Bharti Walmart
04.2015 - 07.2015
- Managed the replenishment of small-format FMCG categories of 2,500+ SKUs at 250+ stores, with an availability of 95%.
- Awarded for stellar replenishment at the intercompany retail forum.
Intern
Amazon
01.2015 - 05.2015
- Improving Single Pack Rate of Items
- Project on improving the single pack rate of outbound of Amazon.in orders at Amazon India's Biggest Warehouse
- Envisioned matching the pack rates at Seattle
Intern
Bristlecone
03.2014 - 05.2014
- Designing inventory optimization as an offering for F&B MNCs using the theory of constraints.
Senior Analyst
HCL
07.2010 - 04.2013
- Project Management Operations Service Catalogue Service.
Education
MBA/PGDM - General Management
Indian Institute of Management
Mumbai03-2015
B.Tech/B.E. - Electronics/Telecommunication
Nagpur University
05-2010
Skills
- Business Strategy
- Category Management
- P&L management
- Supply Chain Management
- Growth Strategy
- FMCG Sourcing
- Distribution strategy
- Channel management
- E-com
- Team leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
Projects
- Uberized small format - Omnichannel for small format
- Product management for the small-format food rationalization As part of the format strategy team in Future Group, I designed a new, profitable, high-sales prototype for Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar Consolidation of merged retail formats.
Languages
English
Personal Information
Total Experience: 12 Years 0 Month
Accomplishments
- CNBC TV18 HUL Lessons in Marketing Excellence Winner, a marquee competition between top MBA colleges in India for a marketing case challenge, telecast on CNBC TV18
- L'Oréal Brandstorm - Winner, journey of building L'Oréal brands, project on developing the landscape for Kiehl's, a premium skincare brand
- Cairn India - National Winner, case challenge on building energy sustainability
- Amazon Live Case Study Winner
Timeline
Vice President
Express Stores
07.2021 - 03.2022
Assistant Vice President
Satya Retail (DS Group Entity)
01.2021 - Current
General Manager
Le Marche
05.2018 - 06.2021
Manager
Future Retail - Heritage Fresh
04.2017 - 04.2018
Manager
Future Group
08.2015 - 04.2017
Manager
Bharti Walmart
04.2015 - 07.2015
Intern
Amazon
01.2015 - 05.2015
Intern
Bristlecone
03.2014 - 05.2014
Senior Analyst
HCL
07.2010 - 04.2013
MBA/PGDM - General Management
Indian Institute of Management
B.Tech/B.E. - Electronics/Telecommunication
Nagpur University
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