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Shankar Sanyal

Ex - McKinsey & Company Expert in Strategy & Ops

Can work in or around Gurugram, Mumbai

  • 28.4646
  • 77.0299
  • Suggested rate £581 / day
  • Experience 7+ years
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Location and workplace preferences

Location
Gurugram, India
Can work onsite in your office in
  • around Gurugram and 50km
  • Around Mumbai and 50km

Preferences

Project length
  • Between 3-6 months
  • ≥ 6 months
Business sector
Would prefer:
  • Energy & Utilities
  • Agriculture
  • Automobile
  • Aviation & Aerospace
  • Consulting & Audits
+8 autres
Would prefer to avoid:
  • Banking & Insurance
  • Software Publishing
  • Wine & Spirits
  • Video Games & Animation
Company size
  • 11 - 49 people
  • 50 - 249 people
  • 250 - 999 people

Verifications

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Languages

  • English

    Fluent

  • Bangla

    Native or bilingual

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual

Categories

Skills (8)

Shankar in a few words

Shankar is an Ex - McKinsey & Company Expert in Operation - Capital Productivity, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Manufacturing domain. He has 9 years of management consulting experience across five continents, sixteen countries in global top companies. Before consulting, he has worked for 11 years with Maruti Suzuki Ltd, a leading automotive manufacturer, and with Delhi Airport, 60 million passenger brownfield project completed in record 37 months. Currently, Shankar is working for Softbank vision-funded hospitality company i.e., OYO Room as Vice President responsible for project execution, operation, and maintenance of all the verticals i.e., Hotels, Co-living, Co-working, and Cloud business

Experience

Consultant indépendant

Hospitality

Project Manager

Gurugram, India

March 2021 - Today (1 year and 11 months)

Technical Textile Business Strategy, Go To Market Strategy
Supermarket Growth Strategy
Business Planning Market analysis

MCKINSEY & COMPANY - McKinsey & Company

Consulting & Audits

Senior Expert

City of London, United Kingdom

October 2010 - March 2018 (7 years and 5 months)

Joined India office in Oct 2010 as Specialist, promoted to an Expert in Jul 2013; worked across multiple geographies with key responsibilities of independently leading projects for clients and building capital productivity practice

Key Projects delivered
Domain - Strategy:
• Crafted a transformation strategy for an iron ore company in west Australia to reduce the project cost by 8% and squeeze the project timeline by 3 months, 10% reduction
• Worked on non-aero revenue strategy for an India’s 2nd largest Airport to enhance the annual revenue by USD 120 million by proper allocation of space and carrying out detail retail layout designing
• Devised a corporate strategy and business plan for the largest EPC Company in the Middle East to create a holding company and to divide the business into four key verticals for future growth
Domain - Infrastructure sector:
• Implementation of lean construction tools for cost reduction by 8% and project acceleration by ~ 3 months of road project in Doha, Qatar
• Development & implementation of lean construction tools for EPC clients across the world
• Business process outsourcing of 250+ F&A, sale of real estate subsidiary companies, and premium land
Domain - Capital projects:
• Business case optimization by carrying out the peer review, market demand analysis, and setting up owner’s project monitoring office for a detail feasibility study for a $ 27 billion Oil & Gas downstream refinery in Vietnam
• Capital cost reduction for a refinery project 12% for a Japanese EPC client working for Saudi Aramco
• Contracting strategy and value engineering to identify 30% cost reduction opportunity for a USD 6.5 billion integrated phosphate mine undergoing detail engineering in the United Kingdom
Consulting Corporate strategy business strategy Change management Project Management Supply chain Smart Contract Lean management Procurement

OYO Hotels and Homes

Hospitality

Vice President

Gurugram, India

May 2018 - February 2021 (2 years and 9 months)

Joined in May 2018 as self-operated operation head to build a new business vertical from scratch to ramp up growth
Primary Responsibilities:
Project management, Operation, and maintenance of 20,000+ franchise business hotels, 1400+ self-operated hotels, 600+ Co-living, 40+ Co-working spaces, and Cloud kitchen across India
• Leading a strong in-house capability team of 800+ subject matter experts, engineers, and technicians
• Strategic advisor to develop technology, business plan, and international growth for all the companies
Start-up Project Management Business development Business model Strategic planning

Education

  • Osaka University

    KKC

    2001

    Japanese manufacturing strategy

  • Master of Business Administration

    IGTC / AHK Germany

    1999

    Strategy and operation

  • Engineering

    VNIT, Nagpur, India

    1997

    Mechanical

Certifications 

  • MS Office
    Informatics
    1998
  • Airport Planning and Operation
    MIT
    2007