Starting June 2024

Utkarsh Patil
+1-765-810-1705 | upatil@purdue.edu | www.linkedin.com/in/upatil

Skills:
Industry: contract negotiation, commodity management, executive summaries, business case analysis, project management, user
persona research, customer analytics, prioritization, influencing without authority, design thinking, usability, CRM, AGILE.
Software: Excel, VBA, PowerBI, Google Ads Manager & Analytics, SQL, R, Tableau, Python, ERP, JIRA, FIGMA wireframes, EFM.

Education:
McCombs School of Business, Product Management Certificate, Austin TX, Jul 2023 – Jan 2024
˗ Took an extensive 4-month bootcamp to learn latest PM skills and industry practices.

Purdue University, M.S. Industrial Engineering, West Lafayette IN, Aug 2022 – May 2024
˗ Concentrated on Supply Chain and Computation. Active member of Toastmasters club.

Experience:
Tesla Inc, Strategic Procurement, MRO and corporate services, Austin TX, May 2023 – Dec 2023
˗ Managed Transition and End-to-End Procurement, Strategy, Executive Summaries, Market Research and Supplier Development
for New Commodity, $250K cost avoidance, 5% baseline reduction, 50% procurement TAT improvement.
˗ Standardized Spares and Industrial Supplies and Services Procurement into Automated Purchase Platform.
˗ Negotiated National Food Procurement costs through Group Purchase Orders and contract restructuring, 14 % savings.
˗ Assessed market position for Corporate Services Suppliers via RFPs, $4M cost avoidance.
˗ Initiated Contract Negotiation Playbook for faster Stakeholder Responses to reduce contract negotiation TAT.

Future Group, Supply Chain Operations and Business Analysis, India, Jun 2019 – Jul 2022
˗ Drove National logistics budget (~ $2 million) to optimize supply chain operations and meet KPIs for 5 commodities.
˗ Led a team of 6 people to drive 24% vehicle utilization improvement, $174 K savings.
˗ Set up end to end billing process for Automobile Merchandise logistics via process study, framework setup, testing, exception
handling, process training and framework handover.
˗ Assisted in integration of tracking feature in company’s TMS system by cross functioning with suppliers and stakeholders.
˗ Automated tracking reports using MS VBA, 15% tracking improvement.

Projects:
Junior Finance (B2C), New App Development, Sep 2023 – Sep 2023
˗ Identified Product Vision Statement; Empathized with customers and used value proposition canvas to pitch solutions.
˗ Developed prototype wireframe, product roadmap, sprint plan. Prioritized user stories devised launch plan for MVP.

CarXchange (B2C), Website Optimization, Dec 2023 – Dec 2024

˗ Drafted an AB testing, sales, operations, and marketing strategies for an auto retail business, inventory reduction by 20%.
˗ Structured inventory data in SQL. Prepared Tableau stories and presented hypotheses and action plan to leadership.

Dream Prep Academy, Google NMI Marketing, Feb 2024 - Present

˗ Running a Google Ads campaign to improve website traffic and customer enrolment with different bidding strategies.

Allison Transmission, Data Science Consulting, Jan 2023- May 2023

˗ Analysed spatiotemporal data & developed KPIs for logistics optimization using GIS, GeoPandas in an AGILE framework.
˗ Consulted Stakeholders through project duration and presented initial findings at “The Data Mine Symposium”.

Daniels School of Business, Data Analysis for Indiana Manufacturers, Jan 2023 – May 2024
˗ Identified major importers by visualising 5 M rows of data for manufacturing industries to reshore and boost local economy.
ARDL, Lander design for University CANSAT Challenge, Jan 2018 – Jun 2018
˗ Engineered lander separation mechanism and tested descent rates by changing parachute designs to mimic mars landing