Arobind Balakrishnan, Management Consultant

Arobind Balakrishnan

Management Consultant

McKinsey & Company

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2017

Business Technology Office
•Defined country wide digital product platform with 9 products (e.g. Payments, Rewards) and financial model (> $1 bn valuation) for investor pitch
•Created strategy and organization design for the Chief Digital Office of leading UAE bank, covering more than 200 use cases across wholesale, retail and back office
•Designed the cyber security strategy for a major middle eastern country to enable secure cyberspace for business and citizens
•Recommended detailed IT architecture (in data, middleware, CRM) after due diligence to enable digital transformation of innovative Kuwait based bank
•Designed and developed analytical RM sales tool for corporate banking division of market leading bank in Saudi Arabia as part of wholesale banking strategy
•Created governance, operating model and future state smart city ICT architecture of a major middle-eastern city through benchmarking, expert interviews and hackathons

Manager at STANLEY BLACK & DECKER
  • United States
  • August 2010 to August 2017

Margin Excellence
•Defined 5-year IT road maps by working closely with CIO and leadership team, developed acquisition templates resulting in above average 10% inorganic growth
•Rolled out major account promotion planning(MAPP) application in global markets resulting in improvements of $1.1M SGM, $2.6M working capital and $120K SG&A efficiency
•Initiated global complexity management project (AWS Big Data) for SKU rationalization across 100+ distribution centers and plants, targeting $20M cost savings over 3 years
•Envisioned and built global analytics solution from 6 different ERP systems for $6B division; released to ~200 users, received performance excellence award for this global effort
•Designed price volume mix and margin banding for major accounts, resulted in an average 3% ($1.3M) revenue increase in US and $3M in CA
•Engineered companywide system to process over 100M invoices/day Global BI Leader - Industrial Automotive Repair, 2010-2014
•Recruited and mentored 6 team members, established a global 24X7 support team, organized kaizen events, achieved over 30% productivity improvement in processing tickets
•Created analytical model for SKU rationalization for reducing excess production, resulting in $2M incremental sales and inventory savings
•Led global projects to capture and utilize voice of customer and data, implemented agile project framework, resulting in more data driven decisions throughout the company

Sr. Consultant at MARLABS
  • United States - Maryland
  • May 2010 to August 2010

Designed & developed enterprise data warehouse for 5 universities under the client, by streamlining the ETL process and best practice implementation

Technology consultant at COGNIZANT
  • United States - Ohio
  • August 2004 to May 2010

Technology implementation across various clients, primarily in USA under various domains

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at University of Michigan
  • May 2017

Bachelor's degree, Engineering
  • at University of Kerala
  • May 2004

Specialties & Skills

Business Analysis
Cloud Computing
Project Management
Data Warehouse Architecture
IT Strategy
BANKING
BENCHMARKING
DUE DILIGENCE
FINANCIAL
MARKETING
MICROSOFT OFFICE
MIDDLEWARE
ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS

Languages

English
Native Speaker
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Native Speaker