Gargi Kumari

Consulting Manager at Cognizant with 8+ years across strategy, product and brand marketing. Took a microapps product for John Lewis Partnership from a scored backlog of ideas to 80,000 users and 20M+ runs a year, and led the business case that won a £250K engagement against Big Four competition.

Former

Nestlé brand manager, hands-on with AI.

Right to work: Indefinite Leave to Remain (no sponsorship required)

Consulting Manager at Cognizant Consulting (2022 – Present)

Promoted from Consultant and Senior Consultant

• At Cognizant, for John Lewis Partnership, lead the intranet microapps giving shop partners one view of sales targets, deliveries and training, used by 80,000 partners with 20M+ runs a year.
• Turned a 30-idea wish list into a Jira roadmap scored with RICE against company KPIs, then used beta feedback to redesign one microapp, helping raise mandatory-learning compliance by up to 2.5 points.
• Ran a product expo explaining the microapps in plain business language to 100–150 people, which brought in 30+ new ideas, and presented them to JLP's CIO.
• For Springer Nature, led the business case for an AI process-mining solution to revenue leakage and presented it to the VP of Products. It won a £250K engagement against Big Four competition.
• Built the market sizing and ROI case for Cognizant's agentic AI solution for the $46.5B exhibitions industry: a $600M serviceable market and $30M obtainable within two years.
• Planned the Microsoft operating system upgrade for 50,000 Waitrose devices with an automated schedule, finishing three months early and avoiding about £1.8M in licence costs.

Strategy & Innovation Consultant at Lothar Bohm Associates (2021 – 2022)

• Built Purina's omnichannel fresh pet food strategy for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, with financial models and scenarios on the size of the prize and the cost to play.
• Built the evidence for Purina's North American innovation territories, interviewing 50+ people and running the workshop that prioritised white spaces, leading to 30+ concepts.
• For Reckitt (£14B revenue), built Aerogard's go-to-market strategy for India and Latin America and restructured the Mortein and Aerogard portfolio, presented to the Chief Category Officer.

Brand Manager, Nestlé Pure Life at Nestlé Waters (2018 – 2020)

Promoted from Marketing & Strategy Apprentice (alternance with ESSEC)

• Supported Raise the Bar, one of Pure Life's biggest Asia and Africa campaigns, from agency creative to CMO sign-off. It reached 1M+ impressions; brand health rose about 2.5% on the previous campaign.
• Built Pure Life's performance reporting file from scratch (sales by market and channel, Nielsen data, brand health) and prepared its P&L budget reporting. The file became the team's standard template.
• Built Pure Life's SEO playbook with an agency and presented it to Nestlé Waters' CEO. It contributed to about 7% sales uplift in the Middle East home & office delivery SKU.
• Took ownership of Brand Week, a €3M event for about 1,000 marketers, at two weeks' notice.

Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte USI (2015 – 2016)

• Tested IT system and SOC controls and improved processes in risk assurance for retail, financial services and insurance clients.

MSc in Management in marketing and strategy – ESSEC Business School (2017 – 2020)

Exchange semester (MBA programme) – UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering – The NorthCap University (formerly ITM University) (2011 – 2015)