Rahul Shinde
Founder, Home Kouzina Private Limited
About
• Extensive professional experience in all aspects of strategy, operations, building brands & organizations and business development across diverse geographies (US, Europe, Asia & India) at consumer centric Fortune 500 companies • History of influencing both internal and external stakeholders across all levels to achieve business objectives; track record of balancing conflicting expectations whilst achieving key deliverables and in the process also building strong business organisations and business relationships • Professional journey which is founded on strong consumer instincts, analytical skills and solid operations & commercial understanding while managing large organisations • Technology champion having demonstrated how technology advancements can help the business by redefining business models, operational processes and most importantly upgrading customer experience and engagement. • Closely work with the stakeholders of the brand both at a local and global level to develop the financial and business strategies in both emerging and developed markets. Unique blend of franchisor and franchisee experience
India
Gurugram
Restaurants
Business Strategy, Retail Management, Operational Planning, Business Transformation, Portfolio Management, International Growth, Analytics, Strategic Planning, Supply Chain Management, Forecasting, Leadership, Team Leadership, Change Management, Strategy, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Management, Analysis, Competitive Analysis, Retail, Store Management
Experience

Founder, Home Kouzina Private Limited
Gurugram, Haryana, India

General Manager KFC Greater Asia
Singapore
• Responsible to steward KFC brand in some of Asia’s largest markets (Japan, Indonesia, Korea) and emerging ones (Myanmar and Mongolia); $2B in sales from about 2000 restaurants • Lead the individual markets down a path of brand growth through a regional team of experts •Drive strategic 3/5 year plans in each markets with clearly aligned KPIs as well as levers; intrude as necessary if execution fails to meet agreed objectives. Create ownership and/or leadership changes after continued inability to drive growth potential • Additionally, primary contact for KFC China (division of Yum China, a publicly traded company) and KFC’s largest operator in the world; focus on aligning brand evolution and new unit growth • Leading the business through the COVID pandemic. Obtained committed growth from the markets and driving ownership changes in one market; significant org changes in Singapore office to build the org to drive our 1000 day plan

Executive Director
Gurgaon, India
• First at Yum, in a leadership capacity, to work at a Franchisee; DIL is India’s largest Yum franchisee and owned by family trust with promoter as Chairman; Responsible for the KFC, PH and local brands businesses; Thought leadership to emerging businesses (Costa, Food Court) and responsible for on-boarding of new brands and M&A for Yum brand restaurants in India and overseas • Rebooted entire KFC and Pizza Hut organisations to focus on sales driving ops execution and sustained new unit growth; Partnered with the Yum brand teams to onboard new talent into key roles (Head Ops, HR, Marketing, Digital) to pivot the organisation towards a more digital driven accelerated growth. Challenge involved transforming way information is absorbed, decision making, installing new processes and committing CAPEX towards modernisation; motto was to build org at par with Yum! • Key achievements: Secured Yum equity stake in DIL; DIL purchased rights for KFC restaurants in South India markets; kicked off the process of DIL filing for its IPO (IPO September 2021); DIL grew from 60 KFCs at EOY 2017 to 235 EOY 2020 and on track to reach 500 by EOY 2023

Chief Financial Officer
Taco Bell Global, Yum Restaurants

Managing Director, KFC Indian subcontinent, Yum Restaurants India
Delhi NCR, India
• Working on the exciting challenge to turnaround the KFC Indian Subcontinent business and drive explosive growth in the country. Vision is to be the largest QSR in sales, footprint, profit, growth and in the process build a consumer category in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh • Key highlights thus far have included establishing a new brand strategy, introducing a new franchise partner to accelerate growth, repositioning the brand, transforming KFC brand standing on social media, transforming talent in the organization, redefining the role of operations as a driver of consumer experience and accelerating technology investments for consumer connect as well as team member experience • Driving aggressive sales on the back of Alternate Channels like Online Sales (OLO, app, aggregators) and Corporate/ Institutional Sales reflecting KFC’s vision to be the largest QSR • Leading and Institutionalizing KFC’s unique culture that’s filled with energy, optimism and fun • Launched “Add Hope” - an initiative to improve lives of the less fortunate. Current focus is on fighting child hunger (20 million meals by 2020) and training of hearing and speech impaired individuals to help get mainstream jobs (1 out of every 15 KFC restaurants to be specially abled operated)

Chief Operations Excellence Officer (KFC- Great Britain)
London, United Kingdom
• Led a complete rethink of the KFC operating platform and developed the kitchen of the future which is now getting rolled out globally. This included step changing “how we cook” as well as how information technology is utilized within a restaurant to enhance consumer experience • Broadened the appeal of KFC within UK by leading and launching a partnership with Starbucks to sell Seattle’s Best Coffee brand within KFC • Partnered with field operations and franchise partners on leading talent development and changing the focus of operations from process oriented to consumer experience oriented

Director - Corporate Strategic Planning
Dallas, Texas, USA
• Developed long-term strategy defining Yum’s market specific ownership structure • Led Yum’s annual and 5-year planning process to identify growth areas internationally • Initiated Yum’s entry into key growth geographies especially in emerging markets

Director - Corporate Strategy
Dallas, Texas, USA
• Primary transformation lead within the organization across key initiatives sponsored by the Board – marketing media mix optimization, setting up an analytics function for financial and merchandising analytics and supply chain network restructuring • Developed new store formats and assessed opportunities in new geographies including international entry; led consumer research as well as real estate strategy • Led team responsible for restoring performance of stores in small town markets; identified changes in store assortments and in-store experience; prioritized markets based on competitive intensity and developed shortlist of specific merchandising initiatives which were rolled out in 2011

Engagement Manager
Chicago, Illinois, USA
• 10+ Fortune 100 clients across a spectrum of consumer companies. Led teams responsible for identifying, and in most cases rolling out, efforts to realise topline growth as well as savings • Instrumental in bringing mathematical models and application of Operations Research tools to McKinsey. Models advanced the thinking in inventory management and supply chain across multiple client engagements • Led the knowledge development for “Granularity of Growth” initiative and led multiple client facing assignments for international and category expansions in the consumer goods sector • Key leader in two sub practices – supply chain and growth strategy
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