Headline

Strategy & Operations - PwC US Advisory | IIT Bombay’25

About

Darshan is an engineering graduate of IIT Bombay and a consultant in PwC US Advisory based in Bangalore. He works on operations and commercial strategy for large global companies across enterprise technology, life sciences, robotics and distribution. The work is usually a version of the same problem: a business is making decisions on numbers it does not trust, and someone has to rebuild how those numbers are produced. That has meant redesigning inventory and working capital forecasting for a multi-billion-dollar hardware supply chain, sizing markets and designing monetization for an advanced robotics platform, and building analytical tooling through to production use in bioprocessing. Outside client work he builds his own tools, mostly around supply intelligence and applied AI. He is most drawn to problems where strategy and building are the same job rather than sequential ones.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

gemini

github copilot

Work experience

Experienced Associate at PwC Acceleration Centers, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 y 2 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Sized the global opportunity for an advanced robotics portfolio using a bottom-up labour-substitution model spanning 7 industries, 45 countries and a 12-year horizon, decomposing industry workforces into roughly 300 tasks to build a TAM/SAM/SOM funnel that underwrote a first-of-kind North American manufacturing investment decision • Diagnosed why best-in-class robotics hardware had not converted into a scalable business, scoring 7 competitors on capability versus commercial maturity and running a 12-interview expert programme, then recommended a Robot-as-a-Service model and pricing path to close a 2 to 4 year gap against the market's shift from CapEx to OpEx procurement • Built a SKU-plant inventory entitlement model across 25,000+ material-plant combinations for a bioprocessing manufacturer, decomposing $167M of net inventory into safety stock, cycle stock and above-entitlement pools, and developed the working capital case for a ~$37M reduction converting to ~$2.2M of recurring EBITDA • Designed and built a Python-based decision-support tool that screened 3,000+ open purchase order lines worth $36.1M across an 18-month horizon, integrating eight source systems at material-plant grain and producing line-level disposition recommendations with $4.8M of identified benefit • Redesigned inventory and working capital forecasting for a multi-billion-dollar enterprise hardware supply chain as part of a three-workstream transformation, decomposing the balance into five forecastable categories and running the data availability assessment across 29 elements that determined which predictive models were feasible

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Arya Gurukul International College of Science and Commerce