Manas Das

Director - AI Products & Analytics @ Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

About

I build AI products for regulated industries — pharma, petrochemicals, life sciences, manufacturing. 14 years turning complex business problems into production AI systems that people actually use. Currently: Director, AI Products & Analytics at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, owning the AI function for the $1B+ US commercial business. Multi-agent agentic platforms driving portfolio intelligence and commercial actions across 50+ AI agents. Commercial intelligence suite generating $40M+ in actionable opportunities. Led a 25+ cross-functional team through multi-release product execution — 3% topline impact, company excellence award three consecutive years. Previously: Founding team of the AI Center of Excellence at Reliance Industries ($100B+ conglomerate) — shipped 15+ AI applications across 6 business units. Before that, enterprise transformation consulting at EY and IBM. AI product leadership in complex, regulated environments is what I do — pharma, financial services, healthcare, industrial tech. MBA, IIM Calcutta. B.E. Electronics, Jadavpur University. Princeton, NJ.

Country

United States

City

Lawrence

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Product Management, Product Management, Generative AI, Product Strategy, Multi-agent Systems, Product Leadership, AI strategy, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Stakeholder Management, Data Science, Computer Vision, Product owner, Data Governance, Conversational AI, AI Solution Evaluation, Project Management, Management Consulting, Business Analysis

Experience

Director - AI Products & Analytics

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

2022-9 - Present · 4 yrs

Princeton, NJ

Own the end-to-end AI function for the $1B+ US commercial business — strategy, roadmap, data infrastructure, multi-agent LLM products, and agentic portfolio intelligence Built multi-agent agentic platforms driving portfolio intelligence and commercial actions across 50+ AI agents. Commercial intelligence suite generating $40M+ in actionable opportunities and defending $100M+ in existing business Led 25+ cross-functional team through multi-release product execution across 4 global business units — 3% topline growth on $1B+ business, company excellence award three consecutive years Manage DSCSA serialization compliance via SAP ATTP for North America. Unified 4 siloed enterprise platforms via cloud data lake, automated 50+ data processes

Business Engagement Lead - Analytics

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

2020-4 - 2022-8 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Hyderabad

Leading large-scale Analytics and Digital Platform interventions and process excellence for North America Generics Business

Judge - AI and Innovation Category

The Stevie® Awards

2023-2 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

New Jersey, United States

Reviewing and scoring AI powered business ideas based on Usecases, Value Proposition, Achievements and Competitive Advantage created.

Mentor

CareerCarve

2022-9 - 2024-10 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Guiding and Coaching top-tier MBA students to prepare for placement interviews

Manager, Business Advisory (PI SC&O)

2019-10 - 2020-4 · 7 mos

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Led Supply Chain Optimization projects for a large industrial client

General Manager, Strategy & Data Science (promoted from Deputy GM)

Reliance Industries Limited

2016-11 - 2019-10 · 3 yrs

Mumbai Area, India

Founding team of the AI Center of Excellence at a $100B+ conglomerate — established the AI function, recruited teams, defined operating model across 6 business units Shipped 15+ AI applications end-to-end across petrochemicals, retail, life sciences, R&D, treasury, and manufacturing — from problem framing through production deployment and user adoption Products shipped: ML yield optimizer (% Yield improvement on $6.2M/yr plant × 8 units), NLP patent classifier (10 days → 30 minutes), AI pricing recommender to 300+ retail outlets (95% accuracy), computer vision quality control (2-3% efficiency gain on 6-7M tons/yr)