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Himansu Sekhar Das

DGM - AGRATAS (A TATA Enterprise) CEO’s office || IIM Calcutta || Corporate Strategy || Operational governance || Product Management || Ex. OLA || Ex. TVS || Ex. Hero ||

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Agratas
Dec 20241 yr 10 mosPresent

India UK and USA

• Own end-to-end execution of CEO-led strategic initiatives across GTM, localization, power strategy, partnerships, and business planning during a critical scale-up phase, translating high-level vision into structured 12–24 month execution roadmaps. • Convert strategic priorities into detailed workplans, KPIs, RACI ownership matrices, and governance cadences, ensuring accountability, budget discipline, and on-time delivery. • Build and manage granular Gantt trackers and executive dashboards, proactively identifying bottlenecks and driving cross-functional resolution across manufacturing, SCM, finance, and strategy. • Established unified stage-gate and governance frameworks, reducing project cycle times by 25–30%and improving decision transparency at leadership level. • Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CEO, preparing board briefs, investor decks, and structured decision notes while prioritising matters requiring direct intervention vs delegation. • Represent the CEO’s office in internal strategic forums and external discussions with consultants, OEM partners, and suppliers, successfully driving 40–60% localisation and accelerating technology onboarding by 20%. • Support preparation for Board meetings, investor discussions, and strategic negotiations, providing market intelligence, financial insights, and competitive positioning inputs.
Ola Electric
Apr 20249 mosDec 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

•Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals. • Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables • Responsible to manage project budget & resource allocation. • Develop communication strategy with stakeholders and establish communication plan • Lead and coordinate with Project stakeholders (cross-functional/internal/external) • Responsible for providing executive decision-making data analysis on quality, cost, delivery & performance • Establish consistency by deploying uniform Standards/ Processes/Procedures across program • Fix the monitoring & escalation mechanisms to manage the unresolved issues in program levels/ Establish a communication feedback process between projects for effective status monitoring/ lessons learnt & experience sharing
TVS Motor Company
May 20222 yrsApr 2024

Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India

• Define objectives and scope of a project and get project approval from management. • Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan • Prepare Risk & Mitigation Plan, review & take actions to mitigate the risks • Finalize cost & contribution targets. Review cost management plans & take corrective actions • Prepare management design reviews & seek management approval / change evaluation approval • Continuous PDCA on NPD process to improve QCD • Providing countermeasure & tracking for product related problems.
National Aluminium Company Limited - NALCO
Feb 20222 mosMar 2022

Damanjodi, Odisha

Potential Benifits Assessment & SCM of Government E - Market Place (GeM)
Career Break
Mar 20211 yr 1 moMar 2022

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

For pursuing 1 year full-time MBA (PGDM)@ IIM Calcutta
Hero MotoCorp
May 20191 y 10 moMar 2021

Jaipur

TVS Motor Company
Jun 20162 y 10 moApr 2019

Hosur

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Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

20211 yr2022
KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech, MECHANICAL (AUTOMOBILE)

KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

20124 yrs2016

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Headline

DGM - AGRATAS (A TATA Enterprise) CEO’s office || IIM Calcutta || Corporate Strategy || Operational governance || Product Management || Ex. OLA || Ex. TVS || Ex. Hero ||

About

An automobile enthusiast and a progressive professional with enriching experience in the fields of Strategy & planning, Governance, Project management, Operation management, Supply chain management & Digital Transformation. Focused on solving problems through innovation, analysis, and cross-functional collaboration.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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openai

ChatGPT

Work experience

Deputy General Manager - CEO's Office @ AGRATAS (A TATA Enterprise) at Agratas, Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, India UK and USA, • Own end-to-end execution of CEO-led strategic initiatives across GTM, localization, power strategy, partnerships, and business planning during a critical scale-up phase, translating high-level vision into structured 12–24 month execution roadmaps. • Convert strategic priorities into detailed workplans, KPIs, RACI ownership matrices, and governance cadences, ensuring accountability, budget discipline, and on-time delivery. • Build and manage granular Gantt trackers and executive dashboards, proactively identifying bottlenecks and driving cross-functional resolution across manufacturing, SCM, finance, and strategy. • Established unified stage-gate and governance frameworks, reducing project cycle times by 25–30%and improving decision transparency at leadership level. • Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CEO, preparing board briefs, investor decks, and structured decision notes while prioritising matters requiring direct intervention vs delegation. • Represent the CEO’s office in internal strategic forums and external discussions with consultants, OEM partners, and suppliers, successfully driving 40–60% localisation and accelerating technology onboarding by 20%. • Support preparation for Board meetings, investor discussions, and strategic negotiations, providing market intelligence, financial insights, and competitive positioning inputs.

Senior Manager - Strategy & Planning at Ola Electric, Apr 2024 - Dec 2024 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, •Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals. • Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables • Responsible to manage project budget & resource allocation. • Develop communication strategy with stakeholders and establish communication plan • Lead and coordinate with Project stakeholders (cross-functional/internal/external) • Responsible for providing executive decision-making data analysis on quality, cost, delivery & performance • Establish consistency by deploying uniform Standards/ Processes/Procedures across program • Fix the monitoring & escalation mechanisms to manage the unresolved issues in program levels/ Establish a communication feedback process between projects for effective status monitoring/ lessons learnt & experience sharing

Senior Manager (Product & Programme Management - BMW Motorrad Projects) at TVS Motor Company, May 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India, • Define objectives and scope of a project and get project approval from management. • Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan • Prepare Risk & Mitigation Plan, review & take actions to mitigate the risks • Finalize cost & contribution targets. Review cost management plans & take corrective actions • Prepare management design reviews & seek management approval / change evaluation approval • Continuous PDCA on NPD process to improve QCD • Providing countermeasure & tracking for product related problems.

Management Intern - ( Supply Chain Management & Procurement Strategy) at National Aluminium Company Limited - NALCO, Feb 2022 - Mar 2022 · 2 mos, Damanjodi, Odisha, Potential Benifits Assessment & SCM of Government E - Market Place (GeM)

Professional development at Career Break, Mar 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, For pursuing 1 year full-time MBA (PGDM)@ IIM Calcutta

Assistant Manager at Hero MotoCorp, May 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 y 10 mo, Jaipur

Senior Engineer at TVS Motor Company, Jun 2016 - Apr 2019 · 2 y 10 mo, Hosur

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech, MECHANICAL (AUTOMOBILE), KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology