Shivam Gairola

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Sept 2014 - Jul 2015

  Associate Software Engineer

  Developer in Pl/I legacy language for the core trading platform for 2nd largest commodity trading exchange NCDEX

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  HOTBOX Food vending

  Sept 2015 - Jan 2016

  Startup

  Worked with a team of 4, as a assembly language developer for a hot food vending machine HOTBOX. Pitched the idea and placed the machine at a Hotel management institute in Mumbai. Great learning experience but limited opportunities to scale and high cost of customer acquisition. Scrapped the idea in 2016

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  Radiant Cash Management Services

  Apr 2016 - May 2017

  Assistance Manager Sales and IT

  Developed vault management system to help automate the cash collection and in ward logistics. Area sales manager in Uttarakhand, expanding to 20 new locations, with peak cash collections of 2cr a day

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  Unilever

  May 2018 - Jun 2018

  Summer Internship

  Optimizing activities common across global operating centers to drive synergies.

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  Unilever

  Mar 2019 - Feb 2024

  Close collaboration with Supply chain, R&D and procurement, evaluating key capex decisions, monitoring networks, optimizing sourcing, monitoring costs and driving savings networks. Handling the end to end category PnL. Designing schemes, trade and credit terms for each channel. Driving pricing actions maintaining balance between sales growth and gross margin. Monthly financial forecasting, preparing of yearly operating plans and 5 year strategic plans.Evaluation of Capex, and preparation of business cases for new innovations.Performance management through building financial and non-financial KPIs to track and optimize spends. TTS optimization- spend optimization at region -SKU level basis penetration, share among holders and weighted value distributionCMM modelling - work with external agency to calculate ROI of BMI spendsP2P process optimization - barcodes rationalization to simplify the payment processNon-IRR capex optimization - regression model to help in spend allocation basis quality, safety and equipment age score cardSOP for depot operations- Prepare KPI for each stage in depot operation

  • Supply Chain Finance Manager

    Feb 2023 - Feb 2024

  • Category finance manager

    Mar 2020 - Sept 2023

  • Unilever Future Leaders Program

    Mar 2019 - Feb 2020