Bivash Samanta

About Bivash Samanta

Accomplished business leader with over 25 years of experience in strategic planning…

Experience

1. Assistant Vice President - Business Finance, Strategic Planning (Enterprise & Home Business)

   Jio

   Apr 2013 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Prepared Pan-India Budget over $10B for all segments of Wireline division like Transport, Data, FTTX & Enterprise wings - involved detailed understanding of CAPEX, design basis & justification for BOQ+CAPEX, network optimization, management approval, monitoring & review of CAPEX expenditure, Cost Control & Analysis.Prepared Pan-India FTTx Business Plan of 55Mn subscribers covering 1608 cities for 4 years (Revenue – Capex Opex developed business models based on NPV, IRR, Payback periods for different scope with new set of roll out assumption, phasing and marketing input.Estimated and Optimized FTTx network capex budget of for 55 Mn customers in 1608 cities; implemented roll out strategy, monitored budget variances, utilization, unit costing & capex efficiency.Pan-India Capex Plan of Rs.18,524Cr for UBR based JioAirFiber for 62Mn customers & Rs.4,675Cr for 5G based JioAirFiber for 10Mn customers. Working on optimization of Capex for 1st phase roll out in top cities.Formulated strategy for rolling out various Enterprise products like ILL, MPLS, IoT, AI/ML and Big Data, prepared various business proposals to deliver these products to different kind of enterprise customers.Provided Finance support to Sales, Marketing, Product management, Home Connect & Customer service delivery teams of FTTx & Enterprise businesses for all go-to-market activities like pricing, promotions, acquisition, sales incentives, and partner payments as per business plan and within cost projections. Capex Plan for WiFi Business over 1 lakh Access Points covering cities; includes finalization of ISP and OSP CAPEX requirement, and ensuring management approval.Prepared Cable Business Plan for acquiring 5 million subscribers across top 20 cities in a span of 2 years; consists of Revenue Planning, Capex Planning & Phasing, P&L statement & Cash Flow analysis.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

  PGDM

  2006 — 2008

• Jadavpur University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Project Planning
• Service Delivery
• Pre-Sales
• Project Management
• Managed Services
• Bss
• Business Development
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Team Management
• Program Management
• Gsm
• Product Management
• Vendor Management
• Vas
• Strategy