Kapil Gupta

Experience

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  Mission Cafe (Yahoo Food)

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Founding Partner

  • Started a franchise based restaurant in Kolkata as a full time working partner and was involved in administrating the proceedings for a period of 29 months.• Handled a team of 14 members where my responsibilities included business development, working capital management, branding and advertising, inventory management and streamlining processes• Increased revenues by 120% within the first 2 years while reducing raw material expenses and wastage by 25% and by expanding the business by launching catering services Show less

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  L'Oréal

  Apr 2018 - May 2018

  Summer Intern

  • Conducted a Competitive Benchmarking Analysis for the divisions’ 200+ SKUs and recommended the ideal product portfolio for a select outlet category• Recommendations given on the basis of insights derived from benchmarking• Ran pilot programs that contributed to addition of 62 new outlets within the region• Researched on possible avenues for increasing delta distribution in the existing universe of the product portfolio• Identified and analyzed existing barriers to trade at the distributor and retail levels for increasing product penetration and increased distributor sales by 1.8%• Conducted a Cost Benefit Analysis for the improvement of width distribution• Developed a Training Module for the field force to identify opportunities in expanding distribution using internal data and external identifiers Show less

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  Intellect Design Arena Ltd

  May 2019 - Jun 2021

  Assistant Manager- Payments

  • Represented product team for servicing client requests by application of Business Need-Gap Analysis • Experience of working as an onsite resource at Hanoi, Vietnam for supervising functional handholding to the client for implementation of a payments product• Analyzed U.S. payments markets for incorporation of country specific payments and business products for the organization• Documented the requirements for the development of the Fedwire and ACH payment engines• Preparation of Sales Decks in co-ordination with marketing teams along with handholding potential clients as the Product AM on product features and queries Show less

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  Appario Retail Private Limited

  Jul 2021 - Apr 2022

  Associate Vendor Manager

  • Responsible for growth of Laptops and PC Accessories portfolio (Headphones, Mice, Keyboards) for brands on Amazon.in• Vendor Manager for 2 brands; Asus and Logitech• Improving Input Metrics for brands like Selection, GV share, Inventory, Pricing, while expanding Net GMS and Vendor MarginsSkills Acquired: • Data crunching & Analysis • Amazon Vendor Management • E-commerce Sales• Business planning • P&L management • Brand Strategy & Growth • E-commerce Consulting• Brand Management • Brand & Product Building on Amazon • Tech Industry Overview• Amazon Marketing Services Exposure Show less

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  RetailEZ Private Limited

  Apr 2022 - now

  Vendor Manager