Karthik Narayanan P

Lead Supply Chain Optimization Technology team for Asia Pacific stores, including India, Japan, Middle East, and more

• Led Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) team for Amazon India • Responsible for improving inventory availability closer to customer (for faster deliveries and lower cost) while also improving inventory efficiency

• Led product strategy, roadmap and execution across 25+ seller facing initiatives in 18+ countries. • Innovated multiple solutions to coordinate Amazon and third-party sellers global supply chain during COVID-19 pandemic • Optimized third party seller inventory, lowering Amazon’s fixed cost investments in fulfilment centers/warehouses

• Responsible for building customized inventory management solutions for third party sellers in India • Managed a team of product managers, business intelligence engineers and scientist to deliver results on multiple fronts

• Responsible for a suite of products to optimize inventory, helping third party Sellers increase sales while also improving the efficiency of their inventory • Launched multiple greenfield systems and solutions, working through a full product life cycle including conception of the idea, product launch, delivering business results and continuous improvements

• Responsible for managing products and solutions to enable global selling for third party Sellers leveraging Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) services. • Managed roadmaps, prioritization, dependencies, and worked closed with software engineers to launch multiple software products and systems on time.

• Led watches and eyewear category on Amazon.in • Managed a team of 7 highly talented vendor managers, instock managers and site merchandizers • Worked with 100+ brand and vendor relationship including premium, bridge and luxury brands such as Luxottica group, Fossil, Titan group and more.

• Led Watches Category for Amazon.in as a Vendor Manager. Responsible for increasing selection of watches and improving availability for Amazon.in customers • Over the 20 months, increased product selection grew 6X, including choices from top brands such as Titan, Fossil, Armani and others.

• 1 out of 18 nominated members; Jointly responsible for placing 1100+ students across 3 batches • Head, Skills & Training: Led a team of 5, coordinated with 6 clubs in 700 students’ preparation • Consult Committee: Converted 14 new firms for final/summer recruitment, across 3 domains • Negotiator: Solely responsible for negotiating & collecting offers from 35 firms during placements • Volunteer Management: Identified & managed 100+ volunteers over two recruitment processes

• Recognized as the ‘Best Live Project’ at BAML, FID-Sales; appreciated by the top management • Received Excellent rating; directly interacted with 4 business heads, 25 officials (8 Divisions) • Proposed market entry strategy for currency futures for clients; analyzed business feasibility • Identified business revenue potential of $21 million with annuity of $1.66M & 3 year breakeven

• Ranked “excellent” for the performance throughout the year by the reporting manager • Engineered solutions for over 100 worldwide customers by resolving 20 catastrophic issues • Collaborated with 3 international client side consultants to resolve 3 critical client issues • Part of exclusive 5 member Gx team: Enhanced and designed 4 different products • Member, Core development Team, Diameter (a latest evolving Voice Over IP protocol) • Mentored 2 new team members and helped in their technical induction into the team • Only person to be recognized as Star of Cisco in the first year of employment itself • Fixed 100 issues(9 release-blocking, 36 deploy-critical) in Gx interface to ensure timely delivery

• Among the top 12% of the batch at IIM Ahmedabad; among the top 15 students in 5 first year courses • National Winners out of 329 teams in Asian Paints Canvas across 10 top B-Schools • TAS Excelsior, IIM-B: Represented IIM-A in Strategy domain; Rank 3 across all IIMs • Airtel Euttopia: Rank 2 out of 106 IIM-A teams, business simulation competition

• Consistently ranked in top 3 of the department in all 8 semesters; secured 9 or above GPA in all semesters • Secured the highest possible grade (10/10 - S grade) in 31 out of 69 courses during under graduation • Secured 99.87 percentile out of 107,086 candidates in Computer Science stream, GATE 2010