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title: "Akash Chandra - Manager in New Delhi | Tal"
description: "Meet Akash Chandra, Growth @ Flipkart | BITS Pilani based in New Delhi. AI stack includes claude and gemini."
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# Akash Chandra on Tal

## Headline

Growth @ Flipkart \| BITS Pilani

## About

Category Manager at Flipkart, driving growth and P&L for the Furniture business\. BITS Pilani graduate \(Civil Engineering \+ Finance\) passionate about consumer behavior, retail strategy, and scaling high\-impact businesses\. At work, I love digging into consumer insights, unclogging marketplace/ operational bottlenecks, and turning high\-level strategy into tangible GMV growth\. Off the clock, you’ll find me hunting for a cup of specialty coffee or keeping my athletic edge sharp with a game of cricket or badminton\.

## Location

New Delhi

## AI stack

claude

gemini

## Work experience

Manager at Flipkart, Sep 2026 \- Present · 3 mos

Assistant Manager \- Furniture at Flipkart, Jul 2024 \- Sep 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Category Growth — Spearheaded growth strategy and portfolio growth roadmap curation for high\-value categories—including Mattresses, Study, Dining, and Bedroom portfolios—while automating end\-to\-end planning processes to optimize investment allocation and accelerate business scale\-up Pricing & Planning — Standardized and AI assisted automated data\-driven pricing and investment planning frameworks across core portfolios to ensure high\-precision execution, competitive market positioning, and bottomline sanity across key events and BAU periods

Demand Planning Analyst\(PPO\) at Flipkart, Jul 2023 \- Dec 2023 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managed demand planning and phasing metrics for Festive Big Billion Days '23 at Flipkart\. • Improved planning efficiency and expedited data analysis processes\. • Conducted concise Business Unit performance reviews and focused on problem\-solving\.

Summer Intern at The State Council of Education Research and Training, May 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 3 mos, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, Developing LMS and automated assessment software in various subjects\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Finance Minor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

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