Vijay Gogate
CEO | Turnaround Specialist | Retail & QSR Leader | Scaling Brands, P&L Growth & Consumer Experiance
- Role
- Chief Executive Officer - Pizza Hut Dil at Pizza Hut India
- Location
- Gurugram, HR, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vijay Gogate
A business leader with 27+ years of experience in building, scaling, and turning around consumer-facing brands across Fashion Retail and QSR. Currently leading Pizza Hut India at Devyani International, driving a strategic turnaround across a 650+ store network. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to: Turn around businesses from loss-making to profitable Build and scale brands like Hush Puppies into category leaders Lead large retail networks (450+ stores, ₹1,400+ crore P&L) Drive transformation across consumer experience, omni-channel, and operating business models I’m passionate about building high-performance teams, leveraging technology for scale, and creating-scaling brands that consumers love. Open to conversations around business transformation and growth opportunities in Fashion Retail and QSR.
Experience
Chief Executive Officer - Pizza Hut Dil
Sep 2023 — Present · Gurugram, IN
Joined to lead a strategic turnaround of Pizza Hut India, a highly recognized and legacy brand experiencing sustained decline in same-store sales, profitability, and market share over the past five years- Leading turnaround of a ₹800+ crore, 650-store business- Drove revenue, cost, and asset transformation- Improved CSAT (80% → 93%) and customer retention- Optimized cost structure and channel economics
Skills
- Distributed Team Management
- Brand Management
- Merchandising
- Project Planning
- Team Leadership
- Business Development
- Key Account Management
- Channel
- Fmcg
- Sales
- Sales Operations
- Management
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