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title: "Chaitanya Dhawan - Co-Founder in Gurugram | Tal"
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# Chaitanya Dhawan on Tal

## 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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