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Chaitanya Dhawan

Building Misfits

Gurugram

8+ years of work experience

Misfits
Nov 20224 yrs 1 moPresent

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Misfits is a platform for interest based clubs where club members, club leaders and venues come together to form healthy thriving communities. Misfits provides a platform for people to join, create, sustain and grow clubs.
Urban Company
Jul 20221 yr 1 moJul 2023

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Urban Company
Nov 20219 mosJul 2022

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Unilever
Jan 202111 mosNov 2021

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Leading the product development and operational scale up of direct to retailer fulfilment model piloting in Chennai with a projected monthly turnover of 100Cr, codifying and setting up processes & unlocking order to delivery (O2D) time
Unilever
Jul 20191 yr 7 mosJan 2021

India

Rotations(3-12 weeks) across the breadth of the organization in the Unilever Future Leadership Program 2019 Stints - Demand Planning - - Devised a Forecast accuracy loss tree and successful applied innovative solutions for improving forecast accuracy for F&R category - Worked on forecasting, dis-aggregation and eliminating human touch points giving a potential 400bps forecast accuracy improvement for the category Procurement - Worked on Supplier Operations visibility(700+ suppliers) during the Covid-19 lockdowns in India and helped ramp up the operational suppliers from 19% to 94% within a month in association with the legal teams - Developed a detailed biomass sourcing strategy and matrix for factories across India to solve the issues of cost, quality and availability. Achieved ~10% potential savings on the current spens Factory - Worked on making a no operator touch cascade and eliminating minor stoppages in the packing lines of Surf Excel bar giving an improvement of 3.2% in line efficiency SUIT - Conducted a thorough bench-marking exercise across personal wash production sites in India(10) on operational, maintenance and hardware standards and devised a plan for each site to comply with standard parameters with plan implemented in the stint for 8/10 sites. R&D (BPC SnT) - Set up Cyclic voltammetry to detect prebiotic action in a particular bacterial system - Kinetically modelled the metabolic pathway for a particular bacterial system to predict optimal experimental conditions and minimize the number of experiments to be done
Unilever
May 20183 mosJul 2018

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Among 2 students in India in Supply Chain profile who were awarded the Pre-Placement Offer for excellent performance - Worked with Unilever Engineering, the team responsible for providing engineering solutions to all Unilever's international businesses. - Provided Engineering design to increase the maximum factory throughput in Home Care Blown Powder Portfolio(Surf Excel, Sunlight etc.) - Detailed equipment and process proposals gave a potential 23 weeks worth of extra factory production annually
Students' Placement Office, IIT Kanpur
Mar 20171 yr 1 moMar 2018

Kanpur, India

- Structured & spearheaded a team of 50 company coordinators to manage complete recruitment procedures - Streamlined the placement & internship process in a 3-tier team for 1200 and 600 students respectively - Accomplished 25% YoY increment in job offers and 22% YoY increase in number of Pre-Placement Offers - Achieved 30% YoY increase in recruiters with 110+ new firms such as BlackRock, Rubrik and Nomura

Education

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

20154 yrs2019
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Executive General Management Program

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

20212021

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Headline

Building Misfits

About

Building a social media platform that actually helps fulfil the need for community and deep meaningful connections. Misfits is a platform for interest-based clubs where club members, club leaders and venues unite to form healthy thriving communities. Misfits provides a platform for people to join, create, sustain and grow clubs. Checkout the official Misfits website: https://www.misfits.net.in/

Location

Gurugram

Work experience

Co-Founder at Misfits, Nov 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Misfits is a platform for interest based clubs where club members, club leaders and venues come together to form healthy thriving communities. Misfits provides a platform for people to join, create, sustain and grow clubs.

Product Manager at Urban Company, Jul 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Associate Product Manager at Urban Company, Nov 2021 - Jul 2022 · 9 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Fulfilment Operations Manager at Unilever, Jan 2021 - Nov 2021 · 11 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Leading the product development and operational scale up of direct to retailer fulfilment model piloting in Chennai with a projected monthly turnover of 100Cr, codifying and setting up processes & unlocking order to delivery (O2D) time

Management Trainee (UFLP) at Unilever, Jul 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, India, Rotations(3-12 weeks) across the breadth of the organization in the Unilever Future Leadership Program 2019 Stints - Demand Planning - - Devised a Forecast accuracy loss tree and successful applied innovative solutions for improving forecast accuracy for F&R category - Worked on forecasting, dis-aggregation and eliminating human touch points giving a potential 400bps forecast accuracy improvement for the category Procurement - Worked on Supplier Operations visibility(700+ suppliers) during the Covid-19 lockdowns in India and helped ramp up the operational suppliers from 19% to 94% within a month in association with the legal teams - Developed a detailed biomass sourcing strategy and matrix for factories across India to solve the issues of cost, quality and availability. Achieved ~10% potential savings on the current spens Factory - Worked on making a no operator touch cascade and eliminating minor stoppages in the packing lines of Surf Excel bar giving an improvement of 3.2% in line efficiency SUIT - Conducted a thorough bench-marking exercise across personal wash production sites in India(10) on operational, maintenance and hardware standards and devised a plan for each site to comply with standard parameters with plan implemented in the stint for 8/10 sites. R&D (BPC SnT) - Set up Cyclic voltammetry to detect prebiotic action in a particular bacterial system - Kinetically modelled the metabolic pathway for a particular bacterial system to predict optimal experimental conditions and minimize the number of experiments to be done

Unilever Leadership Internship Program (ULIP) at Unilever, May 2018 - Jul 2018 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Among 2 students in India in Supply Chain profile who were awarded the Pre-Placement Offer for excellent performance - Worked with Unilever Engineering, the team responsible for providing engineering solutions to all Unilever's international businesses. - Provided Engineering design to increase the maximum factory throughput in Home Care Blown Powder Portfolio(Surf Excel, Sunlight etc.) - Detailed equipment and process proposals gave a potential 23 weeks worth of extra factory production annually

Internship Coordinator at Students' Placement Office, IIT Kanpur, Mar 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo, Kanpur, India, - Structured & spearheaded a team of 50 company coordinators to manage complete recruitment procedures - Streamlined the placement & internship process in a 3-tier team for 1200 and 600 students respectively - Accomplished 25% YoY increment in job offers and 22% YoY increase in number of Pre-Placement Offers - Achieved 30% YoY increase in recruiters with 110+ new firms such as BlackRock, Rubrik and Nomura

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Executive General Management Program, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

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