Ajitesh Singh Thakur
CEMS candidate seeking Internship/ Job opportunities
34 years old
Driving License
Professional Status
Student
Open to opportunities
Intern
Accenture Strategy
April 2017
to May 2017
- Extended a job offer, on graduation, by the company based on my performance during the internship
- Scouted & evaluated 60+ digital solutions/ technologies for cost optimization in Logistics, MRO & Facilities
- Collaborated with 4 start-ups and prepared client ready offerings & demos, pitched these to senior leadership at Acceture
Buiness Analyst (Customer Insights )
ZS Associates
July 2015
to April 2016
- Conducted Market Research for a Fortune 500 company in project worth $2.2 million across 20 countries
- Identified share growth drivers like drug efficacy and safety perceptions for $1bn p.a. blockbuster drug
- Evaluated Marketing & positioning strategy of 2 blockbuster drugs with combined sales >$3bil p.a.
- Assisted client in competitive benchmarking of upcoming product & segment identification for positioning
- Helped client achieve 3% market share growth by re-aligning promotional strategy for client’s therapies
- Saved 200 man-hrs p.a. by taking initiative of automating repetitive tasks in reporting using VBA macros
Assistant Manager (Supply Chain Management)
Hero Motocorp
July 2013
to June 2015
- Accomplished supply ramp up in a Greenfield project for 24 suppliers in 4 months to meet production plan of 2500 vehicles/day
- Trained and enrolled personnel from 24 suppliers during implementation of electronic kanban system called E-material flow
- Managed procurement of 180+ SKUs from 24 suppliers in a plant with 750,000 units p.a. production
- Improved frame supplier throughput by 10% through bottleneck analysis and hence saved 15 min/day production loss
- Planned & prevented potential losses of ₹2 million during 2 variant changeovers leading to obsolescence of 40+ SKUs
- Successfully enabled completion of critical export order of new model vehicles to Africa by leading planning, negotiation and implementation at critical supplier end
Intern
University of California - Irvine
May 2012
to July 2012
Irvine
- Assisted 2 doctoral students in experiments related to study of turbulent mixing in a model gas turbine premixer
- Ran experiments in the Wind tunnel & fabricated delicate temperature and velocity sensors
- Awarded 100% assessment score by mentor (Prof. John LaRue) for my contribution
Master's in International Management (CEMS MIM)
Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta
Since September 2017
Exchange term in Vienna University of Economics and Business
Courses: Global Strategic Management, Doing business in CEE, Scenarios of Globalization, Competitive Business Environments, Managing Globalization, Strategy and International Political Economy (Seminar)
Courses: Global Strategic Management, Doing business in CEE, Scenarios of Globalization, Competitive Business Environments, Managing Globalization, Strategy and International Political Economy (Seminar)
Current CG - 7.08/9.00, among top 20% of the class
Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)
National Institute of Technology - Hamirpur
July 2009
to April 2013
CG - 8.14/10, among top 20% of the class
- Scored 334/340 in GRE, 170/170 in QA, top 3 percentile, 164/170 in VA, top 6 percentile out of 650 k + candidates worldwide in 2015
- Scored 99.63, 99.27, and 99.35 percentile in Common Admission Test 2015, ’14 and ’12 out of ~180 k candidates
- Scored 115/120 in TOEFL, (Listening -30/30, Speaking -29/30, Writing -28/30, Reading-28/30) in 2015
- Awarded by state the 'Director-Technical Education' scholarship for securing 38th State rank in All India Engineering Entrance Exam. (Top 2 percentile in 962 k+ candidates)
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Training & Placement Representative for Mechanical Engineering batch ( NIT-Hamirpur) of 2013
Successfully got 84 campus hiring offers from 21 companies for a batch of 81 students in Mechanical Engineering. Interacted with company representatives and planned the entire on campus hiring process.
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Core Coordinator of Rotaract Club, NIT Hamirpur, 2011-12
Undertook community upliftment projects such as: Water filter distribution to 70+ slum households, biannual blood donation camps, mock tests & counselling sessions for engineering aspirants, polio vaccination awareness drives, waste collection and recycling drives etc.
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Won the 'C.D. Saklani Memorial Award for Good Conduct' in St.Edward’s school, 2007
Awarded to 1 out of 80+ High School students
- Volunteer tutor at Unnati, a student run society providing free education to underprivileged students, 2016-17
- Undertook various community service activities as part of Rotaract Club - NIT-Hamirpur over a period of 3 years, 2009-12
- Started ‘Samarpan’ along with my college friends, a fund for supporting economically backward meritorious students in my home state of Himachal, 2013
- Won Silver Medal in High Jump at College level (NIT-Hamirpur), 2013 and Gold Medal in High Jump at School level at St.Edward’s, 2005`
- Played Soccer for Section team in IIM Calcutta and for the House team in St.Edward's school.
