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# Harsh Gupta on Tal

## Headline

Strategy and operations leader \| Ex\- Amazon \|Ex\-McCain \| Ex Godrej \| NITIE \| NIT

## About

As a Head of Operation Excellence and Strategy at AJIO\.com, I lead the planning and execution of strategic initiatives to optimize the performance and efficiency of the e\-commerce platform\. I leverage my strong analytical skills and supply chain expertise to identify and implement solutions for improving customer satisfaction, inventory management, and operational excellence\. My background includes over 8 years of experience in E\-commerce and FMCG industry, where I worked on projects involving demand forecasting, inventory planning, stakeholder management, critical chain project management, digital transformation, and IoT\. I have also completed multiple certifications in Excel, supply chain design, and supply chain dynamics from edX and MIT\. I hold a PGDIE degree from NITIE and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from MNIT Jaipur\. I am passionate about learning new technologies and tools, and applying them to solve real\-world problems\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

claude

gemini

meta

midjourney

openai

Chroma

## Work experience

Head of operations excellence and strategy at AJIO\.com, Mar 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Manager Operation excellence and Strategy at AJIO\.com, Mar 2023 \- Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Senior Program Manager at Amazon, Dec 2022 \- Feb 2023 · 3 mos, Berlin, Germany, I worked with World Wide benchmarking team to improved processes in first mile and middle mile fulfillment and sort centers in Germany

National Demand Planning Manager at McCain Foods, Oct 2021 \- Aug 2022 · 11 mos, Delhi, India, Lead demand planning function of McCain India\. My main responsibility involves timely delivery of products to market, leading S&OP Process and ensuring highest service levels\.

Direct Material Planner at McCain Foods, Sep 2019 \- Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Greater Ahmedabad Area, I lead Material inventory planning of Raw material and packaging Material for McCain India\. I worked closely with supply planning team, procurement and production team to generate required supplies for the company\. My performance indicators were majorly inventory management, 100 % S&OP adherence, zero production downtime and no write off\.

Regional Distribution Manager at McCain Foods, Nov 2017 \- Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bangalore, I handled supply chain for south India\. I managed distribution of more than 100 customer points from 4 warehouses\. I worked on projects such as Network optimizations, Post GST logistics planning, EDI and Internet of Things \(IoT\)\. My performance indicators were mainly logistics optimization, storage optimization and sales support

Planning Manager at Godrej & Boyce Mfg\. Co\. Ltd\., Jun 2016 \- Oct 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos, Mumbai Area, India, In Godrej I worked as project planning manager\. I was supply chain manager for construction of village electrification of most remote part of the country\. Thus, I became part of nation building\. My job was the implementation of theory of constraint in project management environment\. Based on the constraint identified I worked with external consultants to implement the solutions

Summer Internship at Lava International Limited, May 2015 \- Jun 2015 · 2 mos, Noida, Worked on project named " To benchmark process of CFA's and implement strategies to fill performance gap"\. My role was to connect with CFA's and benchmarking them with help performance indicators\. I designed a dashboard to continuously monitor the performance of CFA's as well as business units\. This helped in improving their performance by 19%\.

## Education

PGDIE, Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Management Mumbai

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

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