Rounak Sarkar

Project Manager with experience in executing complex projects within diverse industries. Proven ability to drive teams towards achieving project goals while adhering to timelines and budgets. Demonstrated strengths include strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication. Past work has resulted in successful project completion, improved efficiency, and significant cost savings.

Management Trainee

Reliance Retail (AJIO.com)

April 2023 - May 2023

• Hypothesised & Root-Caused size-related returns worth $165 mn across product categories & segments
• Studied 10+ product categories to identify availability-discount mismatch leading to incorrect customer order
• Designed and implemented product returns dashboard to enable data-driven decisions and reduced 5% returns MoM
• Initiated size chart optimisations to minimise customer propensity of wrongful orders in AJIO's flagship BIG BOLD SALE

Market Analyst

SPI Incubator

May 2017-July 2017 

• Proposed a 30% efficient prototype for an affordable housing project
• Prepared and interviewed 50+ blue collar-and complete Analysis of various requirements of blue-collar workers by conducting their interviews so that the affordable houses match their requirement
• Introduced a business model and reduced meal cost by 20% for an industrial dorm blue collar workers

Marketing Intern

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow 

May 2016-June 2016

• Strengthened the concepts of Marketing and applied those concepts of Marketing to solve business cases published by HBR
• Prepared a marketing plan for an Android App by performing an analysis of Marketing Strategies, Brand Positioning, Pricing Strategies and various other tools that are being used by various companies

• UDEMY: Certification on Design Thinking, 2023
• Completed Associate Developer Certification in Dell Boomi, 2019
• Completed Professional Developer Certification in Dell Boomi, 2020
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) by Scrum Alliance
• Project Management Foundations - Acquired skills like Defining Goals, choosing a Strategy, crafting a Quality plan and making decisions
• Udemy Certified MS Excel Proficient
• ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) from Udemy for detailed understanding of User Interface & Navigation, Database Administration, etc

Executive Member

Career Development and Placement Office

July 2022 - Feb 2023

• Selected in the Placement Committee responsible for corporate brand promotion of IIM Raipur
• Coordinated recruitment drives and cold called corporate offices to generate new leads
• Organized various corporate events, batch handling and multiple placement related process
• Acted as Protocol Officer and SPOC for corporate guests at IIM Raipur's 6th HR Summit, 22

Head

Marketing Team

July 2017 - July 2018

• Led a team of 12 to secure sponsorships (kind and cash) of INR 15 Lakh from 15+ companies across India
• Agreement with Samsung Semiconductors for conducting a Case Competition and awarded the winners with placement offers
• Conducted and Organized various Guest Lectures and flagship events with participation of students around Tamil Nadu
• Raised an amount of INR 5 Lakhs through sponsorships across 15+ different companies across India