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Saravanan Rajaram

Catalog Lead
Chennai

Summary

+5 Years of experience in E-commerce with Amazon in competitive pricing operations , Handling operations team for US & MX marketplaces & implementing new ideas to improve process and to be competitive. Driven complex and large projects in order to achieve the Goals set forward by going above and beyond.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Catalog Lead

Amazon
Chennai
07.2021 - Current
  • Leading two teams for two different marketplaces US & Mexico which has combined strength of 20 resources to deliver vision and goals to meet business needs.
  • Analyzed & set forth Goal entitlement for the current year by working with BI , Automation , Audit & Stakeholders for both the marketplaces & successfully achieved the goals.
  • Providing technical solution to stakeholders while facing issue with Catalog & Pricing , Sending out clear call-outs on drop / gain in metrics.
  • Communicated weekly , Monthly & Yearly metrics and dashboard reporting to assess business wins and drive continuous improvements to stakeholders.
  • Collaborated with Pricing Managers, as well as other cross functional teams like sales, tech and product team to define business requirements and provide pricing solutions.
  • Worked with Automation team to automate existing competitor mapping process which resulted in 25K product matches across competitors that helped in reducing 250 HC's work.
  • Handled Turing project were was pivotal in setting up automation configuration by working with tech & automation teams which resulted in +450 plus Competitor’s to produce more product matches through automation that leveraged 20% of manual intervention.
  • Successfully handled the sales period by being the Primary POC and completing the sales event without any escalation. Have been POC during sale period for MX & US marketplace with experience on sales such as ( Black Friday , Cyber Monday , Christmas , New year , Hotsale , BTS , Prime Day).

Catalog Specialist

Amazon
Chennai
07.2019 - 07.2021
  • Analyze and track Amazon's market competitors and aim to provide the best market price on our products using various mapping techniques and tools in order to add value to customers' purchasing decisions.
  • Experience in Retail operations with expertise in Pricing Analytics, Market Research, Ticket Handling, Operations Management, SLA Management, Stakeholder management.
  • Led a team of ~15 resources to audit, track, maintain quality metrics and generate productivity report and ensure team's performance to meet business goals by formulating new business strategies.
  • Collaborated with BI, Automation and other cross-functional teams to define business requirements for organizational processes, achieve productivity standards and adhere to accuracy standards.
  • Performed impact analysis and root cause analysis using Excel, SQL and tableau
    with vendor and product specification data to offer pricing recommendations for increasing the visibility of the products of 3P vendors.

Catalog Associate

Amazon
Chennai
09.2016 - 07.2019
  • Responsibilities include monitoring and ensuring accuracy of pricing
    analytics through audits and process improvement activities.
  • Suggested and implemented process/system improvements to increase efficiency of the team's outcome and identified emerging process performance trends.
  • Performed product and category based analysis using excel to identify the reasons for the spike or drop in the demand.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional peers on process-impacting bugs
    and worked with teams spread over multiple locations to ensure SLA's are met.

Network Support Engineer

Concentrix
Chennai
01.2015 - 09.2015

Supported US & Australians clients on user interface and networking queries for the back up software Symantec.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Jeppiaar Engineering College
Chennai
08.2010 - 05.2014

12th - Computer Science

Vidya Ratna Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Chennai
08.2009 - 05.2010

10TH -

Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School
Chennai
08.2007 - 05.2008

Skills

    MS Excel

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Certification

Tableau KNET Amazon

Timeline

Tableau KNET Amazon

01-2022

Catalog Lead

Amazon
07.2021 - Current

Process Trainer KNET Amazon

06-2021

Catalog Specialist

Amazon
07.2019 - 07.2021

Catalog Associate

Amazon
09.2016 - 07.2019

Network Support Engineer

Concentrix
01.2015 - 09.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Jeppiaar Engineering College
08.2010 - 05.2014

12th - Computer Science

Vidya Ratna Matriculation Higher Secondary School
08.2009 - 05.2010

10TH -

Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School
08.2007 - 05.2008
Saravanan RajaramCatalog Lead