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OperationsManager

SAMARTH GUPTA

Operations Manager
Gurgaon,Haryana

Summary

Highly-Organized Regional Operations Manager with excellent skills in recruiting, evaluating and promoting staff members in the Automobile Industry. Proactive in supporting and planning various effective marketing and sales strategies. Currently responsible for the P&L for Delhi NCR for ICICI Lombard, formerly Autoninja Pvt Ltd (backed by SAIF Partners), as Regional Manager- Operations & Analytics. Overseeing the growth of the region for 60+ clients, with 10x increase in revenue and less than 5% churning ratio.

Overview

6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Regional Operations Manager

ICICI Lombard
, Delhi NCR
04.2020 - Current

Key Responsibilities: Operations | Team Management | Process Optimization | Strategy and Growth.

  • Managing regional P&L of INR 60 M, across Delhi NCR – handling portfolio of 60+ dealerships. Leading team responsible for driving business growth & product adoption for clients. Improved region’s operational profitability to 75% by standardizing end to end project management.
  • Initiated development of 2 new teams, Pre-Launch Team & Analyst team. On-boarding with ICICI Lombard and setting up KRAs, building processes for smooth flow of communication between both teams.
  • Primary KPIs include Client Satisfaction, Client Adoption/Growth and Launches - developed feedback forms, locked response time for deliverables, ensured retention% improvement at >50% of dealerships, decreased avg. launch time from 27 to 13 days.
  • Designed & Implemented RM Report Card, a scorecard used to assess RMs' efforts and various MIS for smooth flow of communication across all hierarchies.

Associate Consultant

ICICI Lombard
Gurgaon, Haryana
11.2019 - 03.2020

Key Responsibilities: Operations | Analytics | Consulting | Client Management

  • Onboarded and improved performance of dealership managements at over 10 clients for 2W and 4W across Punjab.
  • Provide data-driven solutions to analyze client business potential and provide actionable insights using tools like MySQL, Tableau and MS Excel.
  • Directed work completed by team of Junior Consultants. Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
  • Devised, deployed and monitored processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels to 5-10% over natural y-on-y growth of client business in Car Service sector.
  • Studied different OEM’s Data Management System (DMS) of leading car manufacturers including Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Kia, Honda etc. to develop RPAs.

Associate Consultant & Analyst

Autoninja
, Uttar Pradesh & Haryana
01.2019 - 11.2019

Key Responsibilities: Operations | Consulting | Analytics | Business Growth | Problem Solving

  • Managed Product Success across 2 states (Uttar Pradesh & Delhi NCR) -handling portfolio of 20 clients with churning ratio of Additional MR of INR 1 Lac, by leading sales efforts through cross-sell opportunities
  • Designed Dashboards to track key KPIs of clients in order to expand client business. Mapped process activities to identify shortfalls and rectify inefficiencies.
  • Increased efficiency and working efforts of Sales Consultants by quantifying efforts in mathematical numbers and developing incentive structures from that data.
  • Spearheaded company-wide initiatives – Researched Different Domains within a dealership to assist development of Auxiliary Modules such as Evaluation module, Inventory module etc.
  • Additional Responsibilities - Collections Head, North Zone - Regularized receivables cycle to 1 month from firm's average of 2.5 months.
  • Spearheaded Collections from avg. 50 L per month to consistent 75 L per month from North Zone. Optimized processes, decreasing underlying payments considerably.

Junior Consultant & Analyst

Autoninja
, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh
01.2018 - 02.2019

Key Responsibilities: Operations | Analytics | Consulting | Testing | Strategy

  • Launched 1st SalesCRM client in North Zone, streamlined adoption, product satisfaction & OEM specific problems. Later, handled P&L of INR 40M at around 15+ clients with churning ratio of less than 5%. Delivered revenue increase 8-10% at every client.
  • Developed Case Studies for Opportunities at Nissan, leading to on-boarding of 8 Nissan clients in North Region and 4 Nissan Clients in South Zone, driving revenue of direct 10 lakhs+ and adding 12 new clients in Sales List of company.
  • Did ground work to develop product configurators, enabling faster data integration – led to onboarding of 5 new OEMs – Nissan, Morris Garages, Audi, Tata, Ashok Leyland.
  • Engaged with product team to develop product features - Improved adoption & generated additional revenue. Articulated business requirements for Visit Module which in turn lead to 25% increase in unit account profitability. Ground work for Evaluation module to on-board new vertical in dealership ecosystem.
  • Worked with AVP- Ops and Prod. Manager to Develop the Inventory & Gamification Module; led information gathering and research around problems like Supply and Demand, points table etc.
  • Increased product efficiency, raised ~30-40 new features and more than 70 bugs.
  • Generated Additional MR of INR 1 Lac, by leading sales efforts through cross-sell opportunities

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Thapar Institute Of Engineering & Technology
Patiala
04.2014 - 04.2018

High School -

R.K.S.D Public School
Kaithal
05.2012 - 05.2014

Skills

Team Management

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Accomplishments

  • Top rated employee for the consecutive 4 quarters; Ratings are done on 11 comprehensive parameters such as Communication, Client Management, Analytical skills, Motivation, Team Management, Professionalism, Task Management etc.
  • Spot Award winner for streamlining collections and standardizing clients by running special programs
  • Overall Student Coordinator, URJA2K17, Thapar University Headed URJA, sports fest of Thapar University, managed a team 120+ people, increased the participation of the foreign teams by 10 folds.
  • Captained Badminton team of Thapar University for 2 years, meanwhile achieving 2nd pos. in Inter-Engineering Colleges Tournament at IIT Roorkee.
  • Co-Founder, SPADES (Sports and anti-drug Discipline Educating Society) aimed at carrying out measures to engage people towards sports and reducing drug abuse in the college.

Software

Microsoft Office Suite

MySQL

Tableau

PowerBI

Clevertap

JIRA

Timeline

Regional Operations Manager

ICICI Lombard
04.2020 - Current

Associate Consultant

ICICI Lombard
11.2019 - 03.2020

Associate Consultant & Analyst

Autoninja
01.2019 - 11.2019

Junior Consultant & Analyst

Autoninja
01.2018 - 02.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Thapar Institute Of Engineering & Technology
04.2014 - 04.2018

High School -

R.K.S.D Public School
05.2012 - 05.2014
SAMARTH GUPTAOperations Manager