Sai Varma
Manager - Business Strategy
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Strategy professional with 3+ years translating business ambitions into measurable outcomes across GTM execution, market analytics, project management and cross-functional performance management. Currently driving multi-city expansion from the CEO's office owning territory-level planning, segmentation, campaign execution and C-suite MIS reporting across 5 metros. Combines a strategist's thinking with an operator's execution: building forecasting models, conducting end-to-end business diagnostics, and delivering dashboards that drive decisions.
Experience
Manager - Business Strategy at Techno Paints & Chemicals Private Limited (2025-12 – Present)
- Architected a 5-city GTM strategy (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad) aligning resource allocation, budget deployment, and KPI reviews to organisational mandates, achieving full market activation within 6 months and unlocking ₹35 Cr in order value across locations.
- Built a dual-layer demand forecasting model combining top-down market-sizing across 5+ geographies with a bottom-up, data-backed SKU-level approach for Hyderabad market improving forecast accuracy, enabling sharper budget prioritisation, and surfacing the highest-opportunity territory segments.
- Led end-to-end business diagnostics across buyer cohorts, generating countermeasures that lifted campaign conversion rates from 2.8% → 4.5% in six months through targeted frameworks and A/B testing.
- Built and maintained weekly MIS dashboards and campaign performance trackers in Excel & Power BI by delivering real-time C-suite visibility into 10+ concurrent strategic initiatives.
- Designed cross-channel performance tracking (email, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, on-ground) achieving email CTRs of 29% vs. 22% industry average and LinkedIn CTRs of 4.9% vs. 3% industry average.
- Implemented A/B testing frameworks for messaging and channel selection, iterating on campaign variables to continuously improve performance metrics against benchmarks.
- Served as the central coordination point between CEO, Directors, branding, digital, and field sales teams translating strategic mandates into executable workplans, resolving cross-functional dependencies, and ensuring zero slippage across 10+ concurrent GTM initiatives.
- Institutionalised a weekly C-suite reporting rhythm building Power BI and Excel dashboards that converted raw campaign, territory, and pipeline data into decision-ready performance narratives, directly influencing budget reallocation and go/no-go calls on strategic initiatives.
Assistant Manager – Projects at Sai Bioenergy Pvt. Ltd. (Subsidiary of VSLP) & VS Lignite Power Pvt. Ltd. (VSLP) (2023-03 – 2025-11)
- Owned planning, budgeting, and execution oversight for ₹10 Cr+ renewable energy project portfolios, coordinating cross-functional teams of 10–35 members and achieving 95% on-time project completion.
- Designed and implemented process-tracking systems and MIS dashboards in MS Project & Advanced Excel, reducing material delivery delays by 18% which is because of the planning and enabling real-time decision-making across multiple project tracks.
- Optimised project workflows and reporting automation, delivering a 40% cost reduction and ~20% throughput improvement across multi-project environments.
- Worked directly with President, CEO, and Chairman presenting market insights, execution proposals, and performance reviews for strategic decision-making on new project opportunities. Received a funding of ₹20 crores for the project.
- Designed and executed B2B GTM strategy for industrial energy solutions, building buyer-segment messaging frameworks that drove enterprise client pipeline growth across new territory verticals.
- Drafted and governed stakeholder agreements (MoUs, SLAs, NDAs, LoIs) ensuring alignment across engineering, vendor, and leadership stakeholders on project scope, deliverables, and risk mitigation.
Education
Master of Business Administration in MBA – ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad (2021-06 – 2023-02)
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering – Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology (2017-06 – 2021-05)