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title: "Akriti Sahai - Consultant — Strategy & Business Advisory in Barcelona | Tal"
description: "Meet Akriti Sahai, Strategy & Operations | Ex-NTT DATA, GEP | ESADE MBA’26 | Procurement & GTM. based in Barcelona. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and gemini."
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# Akriti Sahai on Tal

## Headline

Strategy & Operations \| Ex\-NTT DATA, GEP \| ESADE MBA’26 \| Procurement & GTM\.

## About

Four years across procurement and supply chain consulting, executive search, and strategy; most recently as a consultant at NTT Data, where I led market strategy for a global agribusiness client and built a full market entry business case for regenerative agriculture in Brazil\. Before my ESADE MBA, I spent two and a half years at GEP Worldwide \(procurement consulting, FTSE 250 clients\) and one and a half years at Corner Office Advisors, where I was a leadership advisory consultant working with clients across Private Equity, Big 4, and strategy consulting firms\. My background spans go\-to\-market strategy, market entry, competitive analysis, procurement consulting, strategic sourcing, spend analysis, supplier rationalisation, executive search, and C\-suite advisory\. BSc in Mathematics from Lady Shri Ram College \(top 10% of class\)\. VP of ESADE's Consulting Club\. Winner \- NTT Data and Roland Berger case competitions\. Open to: strategy consulting · management consulting · procurement consulting · supply chain consulting · founder's office · CEO office · strategy and operations — India, UAE/Gulf, and Europe\.

## Location

Barcelona

## AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

## Work experience

Consultant — Strategy & Business Advisory at NTT DATA, Inc\., Jun 2025 \- Aug 2025 · 3 mos, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, • Led end\-to\-end competitive analysis across 50\+ players for a global sustainability\-focused agribusiness client, synthesising findings into a board\-ready go\-to\-market strategy that directly secured a €220K follow\-on consulting mandate for the firm\. • Built a full market entry business case for one of the world's leading agri\-science companies expanding into regenerative agriculture in Brazil, modelled farmer adoption economics, pricing sensitivity, and risk\-return scenarios to project $100/acre/year upside and frame a board\-level investment decision\.

Consultant — Executive Search & Leadership Advisory at Corner Office Advisors, Jan 2023 \- Jul 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Designed and executed a commercial partnership strategy across 150\+ organisations, converting 30\+ into active revenue\-generating relationships\. • Advised C\-suite leaders across strategy consulting, Big Four and PE\-backed firms on succession planning and leadership assessment mandates\. • Led end\-to\-end executive search mandates \(role scoping, market mapping, longlist, shortlist, assessment, placement\) for Partner and MD\-level roles at global consulting and PE\-backed firms\. • Developed and executed positioning and outreach for leadership programs

Consultant at GEP Worldwide, Jul 2022 \- Dec 2022 · 6 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Overhauled the performance management infrastructure, redesigned KPI frameworks and built executive dashboards that unlocked €300K\+ in annualised savings and sharpened leadership decision\-making\. • Worked with a team of 2 analysts to standardise reporting frameworks and automate visualisation workflows, cutting client reporting time by 45% and reclaiming 320\+ analyst hours annually for higher\-value delivery work\. • Analysed €35M\+ in annual spend across 10,000\+ suppliers, identified structural cost leakage and built a sourcing roadmap that delivered \~18% cost reduction and \~22% improvement in procurement cycle efficiency\. • Consolidated a fragmented vendor base by 95% through data\-driven spend analysis and supplier benchmarking, delivering €192K in projected annual savings and significantly reducing commercial risk exposure\.

Sr\. Analyst\- Consulting at GEP Worldwide, Aug 2020 \- Jul 2022 · 2 yrs, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Associate Intern at Airblack, Jun 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 2 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Worked closely with the Co\-Founders to prepare a variety of different written communications, such as reports and documents, and created, managed, and manipulated extensive databases regarding pricing and quality\.

Social Change fellow at YES FOUNDATION \(India\), May 2018 \- Jun 2018 · 2 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India, Worked for The Toy Bank NGO, providing toys to underprivileged children for cognitive and intellectual development; Contributed to mock\-ups, email campaigns and social media content and Undertook research on child development\.

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Esade

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Lady Shri Ram College For Women

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