Naren Nandakumar

About Naren Nandakumar

At Amazon, the focus of my role as Category Leader spans three dynamic business units—Automotive, Outdoors, and Business-Commercial. With an IIM background and a profound grasp of business growth strategies, I take pride in my proven track record of P&L ownership across 0-1 journeys at Snapdeal, Setting up Large appliances at Amazon, Scaling Kitchen, Home improvement. Dabbling at Retail operations at Amazon JV - Appario where I created brands like boAt, Noise & scaled JBL, Bose, Sony driving growth, efficiency.My recent trysts include the successful scaling of Vehicles, Solar product, and Hospital supplies business at Amazon underpinned by my expertise in identification & scaling new categories. Fostering growth for D2C brands like Qubo, Ugaao, re-creating new partnerships with offline first brands like Chetak, Jawa, Jio leveraging omni-channel.Additionally, I lead Events for Amazon India and closely partner with Marketing, Operations, Prime, Business teams to ensure smooth delivery of \'Great Indian festivals\' which is envisioned to acquire new customers, boost Prime experience and generate scale for our sellers via customer interest.

Experience

1. Category Leader - Automotive, Commercial (Biss), Outdoors (Lawn & Garden)

   Amazon

   Jun 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   I lead 3 business units at Amazon IN - Automotive, Outdoors and Business-Commercial. Pet projects - Scaling Vehicles, solar and medical business on Amazon.My responsibilities encompass - Long range Category building efforts, Seller growth strategy formulation, P&L ownership, Marketing and new customer acquisition, Operational excellence, Event planning and execution, Global and local brand partnerships.

Education

• Baldwin Boys High School

  ICSE, Science

• Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

  PGDM, Marketing, Strategy

• Bishop Cotton Boys school

  XII Std., PCMC

• B. M. S. College of Engineering

  B.E, Information Science

Skills

• Business Planning
• Crm
• Sales Operations
• Business Analysis
• Pricing
• Financial Modeling
• Vendor Management
• Product Management
• Sales
• Retail Category Management
• Business Intelligence
• Product Strategy
• Product Planning
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Marketing Strategy
• Business Development
• Strategic Planning
• Cost Benefit
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Category Launch
• Team Management
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Market Analysis
• Management
• Training
• Cost Analysis
• Business Analytics
• Leadership
• Process Improvement
• Analysis
• Key Account Management
• Marketing
• Competitive Analysis