Shankar Viswanathan
30 yrs @ P&G FMCG, Ecommerce, Globalization,
About
I am deeply passionate about transforming businesses and organizations to create sustained winning results. I have also developed deep experience & expertise in digitization and ecommerce in virtually all market situations and trade structures. I am committed to being a force for good to improve lives of the community, employees and creating a better environment; have been a champion of ESG. I get excited and have expertise in transforming all stages of business models – led and transformed businesses across several generations & formats of retail including digital & Ecommerce; start-up, emerging, developed & developing economies. I lead, I enable, I build & I partner by accelerating the development of strategic frameworks, grooming talent, and building foundational capabilities across all parts of the business: sales, marketing, media, supply chain, IT, analytics, and insights. These interventions have consistently delivered best in class results in the industry & world-wide. I am also a deep believer in the potential & power of people. This has led me on the journey to become an Executive & Life coach and a deep practitioner and teacher of Yoga and Mindfulness. This has never been more important than now and has helped me to lead with compassion, care, empathy with an exceptional commitment to coaching, mentoring, and enabling a healthy life-work balance & well-being. I practice; I learn; I teach, and I give to make everyone better. Recognized as one of most experienced global executives with diverse global/regional and emerging/developed & large-complex/start-up markets experience. Lived and worked in India, USA, Russia/ Ukraine / Belarus, Vietnam, Singapore, and Philippines. Led and managed business in 38 countries and adapted exceptionally well to each culture. Expertise in leading large, inclusive, diverse, dispersed global/regional multi-functional / multi-cultural teams. I am very active in the start-up eco-system. Am deeply engaged and invested in Start-ups across Asia & US. I am an ambassador at she1K / ChiefX and investor at Angel investing. Have made 13 start-up investments & am actively engaged in the eco-system. I will be mentoring & advising them soon. Build strong relationships internally & externally with all stake holders. I am a true believer in “Business is Relationship & Relationship is Business.” I operate with the highest standards of excellence, huge capacity, and resilience; possess a strong sense of curiosity, authenticity, responsibility, deep empathy & sense of humor. I just enjoy what I do!!
Experience
30 Yrs @ Procter & Gamble (P&G) Leading E-commerce and Asia Pacific
• Tripled sales and doubled profitability in 2 years with exceptional leadership share growths. Contributed to 50% of region’s growth. Best performing digital commerce business globally and on track to become a $1B business by 2025. • Started up e-commerce businesses across all key markets of Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa and created successful business models to profitably win in all categories. • Developed new business models to win in all forms of digital commerce such as Pureplay; Brick & Click; Last milers; Quick & Social Commerce, and disruptive emerging platforms. • Created and developed digital Direct to Consumer (eDTC) eco-system for the region, best-in-class in the industry world-wide.• Tripled sales and doubled profitability in 2 years with exceptional leadership share growths. Contributed to 50% of region’s growth. Best performing digital commerce business globally and on track to become a $1B business by 2025. • Started up e-commerce businesses across all key markets of Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa and created successful business models to profitably win in all categories. • Developed new business models to win in all forms of digital commerce such as Pureplay; Brick & Click; Last milers; Quick & Social Commerce, and disruptive emerging platforms. • Created and developed digital Direct to Consumer (eDTC) eco-system for the region, best-in-class in the industry world-wide. Skills: Digital Media · E-Commerce · Supply Chain Management · IT Strategy · Strategic Thinking · ESG · Global Cross-Functional Team Leadership · Business Transformation · Leadership · Coaching · P&L Management
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Brian
Great call! No B.S straight to the point feedback on how I could be improving. Loved this, and scheduled a second call already. It's how to find people that don't beat around the bush!
Rahul
Shankar was very good in understanding our value proposition to build up the D2C product studio, and gave me valuable insights and routes we could take as an organization to bring new brands to the market. I would love to engage more with him for his hands on understanding of marketing brands especially in figuring out go to market strategy and managing omni channel partners etc.