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โ€ข Completion of Yellow belt project - Reduction of Q2R in Fraud and Risk Management comment mismatch
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Shekar T S

Shekar T S

Assistant Planning Manager
Bangalore

Summary

Ambitious Planning Manager with 8.10 years leading organizational planning functions in support of overall business strategy and goal achievement. Knowledgeable industry veteran with background analyzing report data, controlling inventory and forecasting. Innovative with history crafting new strategies for planning process and tactics to boost sales.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
5
5
Languages

Work History

Assistant Planning Manager

Flipkart
Bengaluru
01.2022 - Current


  • Managing the Demand Planning & Shaping for Private Label brands in Flipkart across Categories with annual revenue worth 2500Cr involving activities around revenue growth, controlling marketing spends, planning future category expansions
  • Managing account level P&L to deliver GMV, pricing and offer creation
  • Daily & Hourly Tracking GMV, PPV (page per view, Search, Merch & Reco), Views, click and CTR (click through rate)
  • Tracking inventory health both Alpha and Market place
  • Maintaining regular communication with the central events, planning, merchandising, and inventory teams
  • Creating the demand plan(Based on DRR) for categories, brands, and verticals.
  • Planning advertisements PLA and PCA
  • Responsible for overseeing tasks related to merchandise sales planning, inventory management, catalogue go-live, actionable operations/technology initiatives, and conducting related analyses
  • Providing weekly/monthly reporting, analysis and insights on category performance and also sharing event performance and card performance(store and central allocation)

Assistant Manager CX Design & Strategy

Flipkart
Bengaluru
10.2021 - 12.2021
  • Developed loyal and highly satisfied customer base through proactive management of team customer service strategies
  • Building a mechanism to have a clear governance on the projects
  • Managed projects within ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด, defined program requirements, and ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ž๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐š & ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ to determine improvements
  • Achieved ๐ฌ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฌ for branded products, cost of returns reduction for premium brands, and ๐œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ through the introduction of Image Check as a process in electronics BU to reduce fraud and remorse
  • Benchmarked business ideas to exceed revenue goals and quotas related to ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ด
  • ๐‘ฐ๐’Ž๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’—๐’†๐’… 700 ๐’ƒ๐’‘๐’” ๐‘น๐’†๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’ ๐‘ต๐‘ท๐‘บ, ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’—๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’… 11% ๐’„๐’–๐’”๐’•๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’๐’๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’”๐’„๐’๐’“๐’†, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’“๐’†๐’…๐’–๐’„๐’†๐’… 61% ๐’„๐’๐’๐’•๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’” ๐’•๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’๐’•๐’‚๐’„๐’• ๐’„๐’†๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’Š๐’”๐’”๐’–๐’†๐’” ๐’“๐’†๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’ ๐’…๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‘๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ-๐’–๐’‘


Team Lead CX Design & Strategy

Flipkart
Bengaluru
04.2018 - 09.2021

โ€ข ๐‚๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ

โ€ข Led and ๐œ๐จ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ 14 ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, setting priorities and tracking metrics

โ€ข ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ, ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ-๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐š๐ญ๐š ๐š๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ, ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ-๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ, ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ฌ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐ข๐ฑ ๐’๐ข๐ ๐ฆ๐š

โ€ข Mentored newly hired employees on operating the applications and safety and developed a training manual to use for reference

ยท Managed end-to-end queries of all sub-processes, co-ordinate with business teams and stakeholders for new projects

  • Developed monthly and daily production output plans to deliver on customer experience
  • Reviewed project specifications and planning before assembling complex tasks to better understand assignments and expected deadlines




Senior Specialist - CX

Flipkart
Bengaluru
07.2017 - 03.2018

ยท Handled a new project for south Indian languages and been a part of training and development for 6 months

ยท Reducing Language Gap - Assessed and authenticated customer exchanges, voids and returns.

ยท Established and updated work schedules to account for changing staff levels and expected workloads

ยท Coached team members to deliver hospitable and professional services while adhering to set service models

Specialist - CX

Flipkart
Bengaluru
07.2016 - 06.2017

โ€ข Wish Master Helpline - Provided primary customer support to internal customers
โ€ข Verified accuracy of customer account information and updated when necessary
โ€ข Identified customer issues with products or services, investigated causes and initiated resolutions

Consultant - CX

Flipkart
Bengaluru
07.2014 - 06.2016

โ€ขMaintained customer satisfaction with forward-thinking strategies focused on the gap between courier and customer

ยท Engaged customers in conversation to uncover needs with probing questions and overcome objections using persuasive techniques

Education

MBA - Finance

Sikkim Manipal University
Bengaluru
07.2015 - 07.2016

Bachelor of Commerce(B.com) - Finance

Seshadripuram First Grade College
Bengaluru
07.2011 - 04.2014

PUC -

Hymamshu Jyothi Kala Peetha Composite PU College
Bengaluru
07.2009 - 04.2011

SSLC -

Vanitha Seva Mandira
Bengaluru
07.2008 - 04.2009

Skills

    Business planning

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Software

Adobe Analytics

Excel

SQL

Certification

Completion of Yellow belt project

โ€ข Completion of Yellow belt project - Reduction of Q2R in Fraud and Risk Management comment mismatch

For the period observed from May 2020 to July 2020, The Q2R(90th percentile) for FRM comments mismatch queue is trending at May 2020 : 142 hrs, June : 266 hrs , July : 126 hrs, overall Q2R 90th percentile stands at 164 hrs. Impact was reduced to 78 hrs.

Interests

Research activities, techie and gadget freak

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Timeline

Assistant Planning Manager

Flipkart
01.2022 - Current

Assistant Manager CX Design & Strategy

Flipkart
10.2021 - 12.2021

Team Lead CX Design & Strategy

Flipkart
04.2018 - 09.2021

Senior Specialist - CX

Flipkart
07.2017 - 03.2018

Specialist - CX

Flipkart
07.2016 - 06.2017

MBA - Finance

Sikkim Manipal University
07.2015 - 07.2016

Consultant - CX

Flipkart
07.2014 - 06.2016

Bachelor of Commerce(B.com) - Finance

Seshadripuram First Grade College
07.2011 - 04.2014

PUC -

Hymamshu Jyothi Kala Peetha Composite PU College
07.2009 - 04.2011

SSLC -

Vanitha Seva Mandira
07.2008 - 04.2009
Shekar T SAssistant Planning Manager