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Vivek Rathod
Business Intelligence, transformation and assurance professional

Address: Mumbai, India LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-rathod-

Phone: +91-982-045-9158

E-mail: [email protected]

A professional with over 16+ years of diversified industry across Dairy and dairy products, Media & Entertainment, E-Commerce,
Food & Beverage, Telecom, FMCG, Transport & Logistics and Confectionery. Well versed in Business Process transformation and
intelligence, Data Analytics & Visualization, Business model innovation, Strategic Cost Reduction, Enterprise risks, Process
Automation.

Skills:
Continuous process improvement
Excellent
Risk Management
Excellent
Data Analytics, Visualization & Reporting
Excellent
Cost optimization
Excellent
Project Management
Very Good
MS Power BI
Very Good
Team Management
Very Good
Stakeholder Management
Very Good

Work History:
2023 - 02 Head: Business process intelligence, transformation, analytics, and assurance
to present Parag Milk Food Ltd | Bhagyalaxmi Dairy Farms Pvt Ltd

 Data and process intelligence:

o Design and implementation of scalable data templates across functions to ensure seamless data
access across levels in form of BI dashboards.
o Converted all manual data collation and compilation for complete functional value chain (sales,
purchase (milk & others), production, etc.) into automated MIS and analytics dashboards on MS
Power BI

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 Design and implement process changes across the business value chain and align to business strategy.
 Internal audit & controls: Managed process improvement reviews, designed & implemented control, and
transition control plans.
 Strategic cost-out: Planned, deployed, and led all activities which produced significant cost savings.
 Transformations projects end to end implemented.
- Structured Costs Out (SCOUT)
o Design, implementation and monitoring of structured cost reduction self-driven organization
wide initiative.
o Independently identified and executive cost down base of 30+ crore in first quarter of joining.
o Cost reduction across multiple functions within the organization (Logistics & distribution, milk
collection centers, production and utilities, purchases, manpower)
- DarwinBox (HRMS):
o Driving end to end implementation. Conducted all activities from vendor evaluation,
negotiation, feasibility and readiness study, in-house PMO
o Functional (entity level, business units & departments levels), organizational (roles &
responsibilities) structure reengineering and implementation across 3 manufacturing sites,
corporates office and regional offices
o Organization wide manpower assessment (department and location wise by roles &
responsibility liked to time & motion study) & downsizing.
- Sales:
o Sales function redesign and implementation along with Sales HOD and management
o DMS designing & adoption.
- Manufacturing process digitalization:
o Transformation lead representing the organization detailed the strategy for adoption and
hand-holding manufacturing team towards digitalization of cheese, paneer, curd and whey
manufacturing units.
o Identifying data pointers required to be generated at each unit which needs to be captured by
PLCs / units to track performance through root cause identification and decision making.
o Assist in revisiting the dashboard for business decision making apart from standard offering by
digitalization partner.
- Bulk milk collection (BMC) process reengineering:
o Study existing process of milk collection through own BMCs
o Identifying BMCs which needs attention by study data and its trends of collection of milk, its
quality, and payments.
o Increase in milk collection by 19% in 5 months by coordinating with process owner
2005 - 01 Assistant Manager
2018 - 01 Ernst & Young, Mumbai

 Internal audit: Managed process improvement reviews, designed & implemented control, and transition
control plans
 Strategic cost-out: Planned, deployed, and led all activities which produced significant cost savings though
productivity, quality, waste reduction improvements, and improving business processes
 Monitored implementation of recommendation along with cost benefit analysis in terms of time, effort,
and funds
 Managed large and multilocation projects
 Actively involved in identifying new business development opportunities at client and converted them
 Coordinated with various stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities and eliminate waste

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 Created and communicated project reports to management to provide visibility for the recommendation
implementation plans and benefits
 Developed training modules and trained fresher on MS Tools and MS Power BI used embedded with
process improvement approach
 Key projects handled:
- Risk based internal audit and process reviews
- Internal financial controls (IFC)
- Event risk management (EvRM)
- Enterprise risk management
- Strategic - Cost reduction and resource optimization, development of intellectual property (IP) models,
Operational strategy / customer experience journey
- Corporate Governance Framework (Clause 49)
- Development of Standard Operating Procedures (process design, process improvement and roll-out)
- Revenue assurance on Discounting and yield optimization for Ad sales;
- Digital strategy - mobile based radio and application
 Key clients: Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., Vodafone, Star News, Viacom 18, Zoom Television, Times Now,
Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., DB Corp, Ananda Bazar Patrika, Mid-Day, Amar Chitra Katha Pvt. Ltd., India
Book House, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Trendsutra Platform Services Pvt. Ltd. (Pepperfry), Smollan India Pvt.
Ltd., Torrent Pharma.

2018 - 11 Co-Founder
2021 - 11 IGNITE – Your Potential, Mumbai

 Knowledge delivery based on actual insights

 Ensure understanding of strategic and operational aspects
 Delivered content of more 1500+ Training hours
 Key clients: Global Institute of Sports Business, SP Jain School of Global Technology, Entrepreneur
Development Institute of India, Marwadi University and Jai Hind College

2018 - 12 Founding Partner

2021 - 11 CXO Dashboard, Mumbai

 SME focused pocket friendly solutions

 Dashboard reporting solutions on-the-go through interactive business intelligence tools
 Addressed process related issues, deployment of data analytics, project management office, simple excel
tools etc.
 Key projects: Project management office, Cost-out, Insolvency resolution, Process improvement & design
 Key Clients: Havmor Ice Creams, Scorpion Logistics, Cox & Kings, V Trans Logistics (diagnosis)

Accomplishments:
 Worked on developing a visionary data analytics tool: Digicube at Ernst & Young. 600 analytics scenarios| 1000+ BI dashboards
| 100+ clients onboarded.

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 Led multiple marketing campaign projects on one of India's largest FMCG company. Designed the monitored implementation -
Key tasks: concept validation, process and control design, website functionality assessment/ UAT, claim validation
 Led digital strategy project on customer data acquisition through mobile radio with an aim to reach out rural and media dark
customers for one of India's largest FMCG company
 Designed customer experience journey process for India's largest telecom operator
 Cost savings of more than INR 150 mn achieved for India's leading publishing house
 Designed and deployed a project management office for structured cost-out. Achieved a significant cost reduction of up-to 6%
to P&L for top ice cream manufacturer.
 Identified frauds / theft due to control laps amounting to INR ~5 mn for a leading publishing house
 Re-engineered, validated & monitored implementation of process for India's largest audience measurement exercise by
switching from paper pen method to digital method.
 Deep dived into the revenue leakages by studying discounting and yield across various editions and supplements. Revenue loss
identified in tune of INR 700 mn upwards
 Drove higher profitable through controlling cost and implementing best measured practices, reduced the delta between input
to output ratio across 4 sample production units with costs savings up to 15% of overall input costs
 Active member of EY RAAGA: A musical community and in-house band

Education:
2004 - 06 MBA: Business Management – Finance & Risk Management
2006 - 09 Wigan Institute of Management - Kolkata

2001 - 04 Microsoft Certified Software Engineer (MCSE): Aptech

2004 - 04 Utkal University, Odisha

2001 - 04 Bachelor of Commerce

2004 - 04 Ravenshaw University, Odisha

Interests:
 Explorer - Traveler (Road trips),
 Photography
 Playing Guitar