Vaarun Bagaria

Experience

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  Globus Transitos PVT. LTD - India

  Mar 2010 - Apr 2010

  Summer Intern

  1) Reading, researching, and routing correspondence; drafting letters and documents; collecting and analyzing information to understand the business process.2) Searching for new leads, finding potential clients to tap.3) Reconciliation of accounts.

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  Mahasri Polymers & Packaging

  Feb 2013 - Dec 2017

  Operations & Supply Chain Manager

  Plastic Recycling Factory in Budge Budge - Dealing in recycling of PP scrap, converting them into granules to act as a Raw Material for various housing plastic goods.~ Led a team of 25+ workers across procurement, production, accounts, and sales. Ensuring adequate competent staffing at all times.~ Identified, negotiated & developed vendors for achieving cost effective purchases. ~ Making decisions about equipment use, maintenance, modification and procurement. ~ Optimizing profit while taking into account the lifetime of the machines involved & their operation period.~ Providing leadership, coordination and coaching to the plant and operational team. Show less

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  Swastika Enterprises, Patna

  Apr 2018 - Feb 2019

  Business Development Manager

  Headed Dealer Accounts & Sales for the state of U.P. for a distribution co. dealing in 3M Road safety products.• Created a total of 40+ dealers in a 2 month period with a team of 2.• Account management of Dealers over the period of employment.• Stock and Cash Flow Management to service them.• Route Planning of a 2 member service team to existing and new dealers created.• Competition Benchmarking and Crisis Management.

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  Oxa Fleet

  Mar 2019 - Nov 2020

  Category/Project/Program Manager

  Worked with a team of 15± to spearhead the end-to-end establishment of – An On-Demand Logistics Platform for Cargo Transport, Vehicle Breakdown, Recovery & Hearse Vehicles to run as a service under the brand ‘OXA’Product development - Oversaw end-to-end development of the OXA Platform (Android app, Website & MIS)Contract oversight - Responsible for all facets of contract development, including analysis, negotiation and closeout.Business Development (Vendor Acquisition) - 700+ transporters onboarded and trained within 60 days. Team of 3. Conversion of 85%Prioritization and multi-tasking - manage multiple, concurrent processes, and where necessary, strategically prioritize to ensure all deadlines are met.Customer Acquisition & Marketing - Lead generation. Finalizing digital marketing agencies to handle our social Media, search ads and SEO. Email, SMS and WhatsApp blasts. Flyer distribution. Conceptualized referral systems for faster acquisition and stickiness. Offline Social Marketing using Stickers on Transport Vehicles, Location based T-shirt Branding, banners in select high-rise societies, targeted flyer distribution, etc. Handled the application's ASO & online reputation (ORM). Created Content for Oxa's Blog, Website & Social media. Creating animated videos using online tools like Animaker and Renderforest. (Check Youtube). Created Customer Loyalty & Referral schemes.Cold called leads, handled incoming calls from customers and managed them with the help of the MIS we built, etc. Show less

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  Choko

  Dec 2020 - Feb 2023

  E-commerce Operations & Business Development

  www.choko.co.inwww.instagram.com/choko.co.in/Responsible for building Choko's presence and including distribution across Online and Offline channels. Co-ordinating with marketing, supply chain, cataloguing, finance, commercial and other members of the organization.Order Management and Fulfilment - Ensuring all order fulfilment, return and recall inbounding are on track and efficient. Supporting with set-ups and SOPs for smooth independent functioning.Marketplace Management - Liaising with account managers on partner platforms - Evaluating markets and analyzing pricing strategies / markdowns and discount. Monitoring account health.Cataloging - Leveraged emerging tech. to reduce cataloging and listing time by 90%.Monitor KPI's - RTO%, mis-shipments%, days of delivery.Customer Care Management - Customer feedback & service quality analysis.Adhoc Operational work - Maintaining optimum packaging stock levels. Coordination with Aggregators &3PL (Shiprocket, Bluedart, FedEx, Ecom, DTDC, etc). Solving technical queries, handling escalations.Marketing and Reachout's - During Choko's initial days, I wrote the copy for the website. Maintained the Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest & Linkedin with regular posts, captions, curated relevant hashtags. Collaborated with influencers (influencer marketing) and ran promotional campaigns through give away's, offers, and ads across platforms. Attended and supervised photoshoots for our products.Online Marketplaces handled: Hopscotch, Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, TataCliq, Ajio, Limeroad, Once Upon a Trunk, Little Tags, Little Muffet, The Nestery, Fabpik, Silver Rattle, Maalgaadi, Havya Jewels, Propshop 24. Tools used: ThirdWatch - An AI-driven solution from Razorpay that helped reduce Return to Origin (RTO).Servetel - Cloud based call management solutions.Unicommerce. Wix (Front-end/Back-end) and Shopify Backend Dashboards.Razorpay.Google Spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel, Zoom and Meet, Zoho Mail.Zapier, Linktree Show less

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  Omni Astra Pvt. Ltd

  Feb 2023 - now

  Manager - E-commerce & Modern Trade

  Managing the online business / P&L for Omni Astra with it’s array of esteemed luxury brands including the likes of Tom Ford, Mont Blanc, Diesel, Swarovski, Timberland, Bally, Charriol, Kenneth Cole, WEB, Invu, Tods and Skechers.Sales and Marketing across all online portals such as TataCliq Luxury, Amazon, Myntra, Ajio Luxe, etcAdditionally, looking after its offline segment in the Modern Trade space partnered with Shoppers Stop.