Dhanaganapathy Madhavan

Corporate Strategy and Innovations Manager with 5+ Years of Experience in achieving desired goals of building non-linear growth & high-yielding portfolio of Food & Agri-Based Companies

Profile Summary:
® As CEO Direct Report, focused, passionate & strategic leader, offering diverse & accomplished experience in creating strategic blueprints, modelling, implementing, & handling 6 Financial & Trade Solutions and 1 Strategic Business Unit (SBU), and spearheading strategies to reduce the cost of capital in the corporate culture.

® With experience serving in Food & Agri-Based Industry, has a strong foundation of leading the development of frameworks, strategies, and policies implemented successfully that endeavour high impact of savings and growth from an organizational strategy perspective.

® Specialized in Strategic Sourcing, onboarding different Farmer Cooperatives Policies, formulating Exponential Organization Strategies, and developing multiple Product Innovations.

Noteworthy Accomplishments:

Currently working as Corporate Strategy and Innovations Manager in Chennai-based Samunnati Finance and Samunnati Argo Solutions. With a primary responsibility of developing Sustainable Finance & Trading solutions, has achieved a few noteworthy accomplishments as follows:

o Achieved an additional increase in the net yield of 4.5% by structuring trade finance for Agri and Food enterprises with precise demand modelling & price analysis for risk mitigation.

o Reduced the Cost of Capital of SBU by 2.7% by implementing innovative product solutions and through Strategic Partnerships with Commodity Management players.

o With the help of effective negoLaLon skills, onboarded 60+ Farmer Coopera1ves as suppliers for 5+ crop value chains. o Successfully pilot tested the Strategic Financial solutions worth $15mn annual target to 10 customers in just 8 months. o Increased net operating profit by 116% in Sourcing 15,000+ MT commodities worth $5mn and enabled the organization to achieve 10 SDG through Cooperatives sourcing and capacity building
o Initiated Sustainable Value Chain Management through 20+ coopera1ves as exclusive suppliers of Millets, making the organization a dominant player in millets.

Samunnati Finance and Samunnati Agro Solutions - Corporate Strategy & Innovations Manager - Direct CEO report:

Responsible for strategizing the operational working of the company by involving in crucial decisions for the smooth functioning, revenue generation, profitability, and growth:

Develop and institute financial & trading policies and procedures, with the CEO spearheading the ways to apply the policies on the grass-root level in order to onboard the farmers as direct suppliers to the organization

Plan a projected Strategic Blueprint of the financials for R&D to build non-linear growth & high-yielding portfolio

Formulate a 3-year OperaLonal roadmap for the new entity incorporating measures, finance & trade strategies, and operations of SBUs for the successful running of the enLty right from its pilot year.

Set organizational goals on a short-term & long-term basis by coordinating with the sales team to develop high-quality business strategies and plans. Ensure that the strategies are implemented promptly during the tenure.

Set KPIs and deadlines to measure progress. Coordinate with internal teams for tracking the progress.

Operates as a critical member of the corporate team for strategic planning involves. Schedule & A>end client meetings to create SBUs, and carry out negoLaLons along with sourcing strategies, to optimize the profit percentage & reduce the cost of capital.

Design, Develop, and Launch value chain dynamics to achieve solutions for external business problems and to make the most of the potential opportunities for profitable growth and development of the business.

Evaluate quarterly and annual funds allocated vs expenses from MIS reports, generate and take full responsibility for Profit & Loss Statement.

Godrej Agrovet Limited - Management Intern - Commodity Procurement

During the internship, was responsible for carrying out thorough market research incorporating seasonal & trend changes in the Demand & Supply of 4 Commodities.

Researched & developed a Price Analysis tool with higher stability in Multiple Regression.

Kalanjiyam Paddy Commission Centre - Consultant: Procurement & Trade Strategy

Trained & guided the team in developing procurement strategies for major procurements & negotiation strategies required for complex contracts to develop a strong vendor network.

Implemented procurement policies with systems analytics to support tendering, contract management, spend analytics, and vendor performance management.

Manage inventory, created SOPs, monitor purchase orders & consumables on SAP, & resolve problems related to the supply chain.

Achievements:

Onboarded around 200+ Farmers Group by implementing prompt sourcing strategies.

Increased net operating profit by 80% with annual handling of 5,000+ MT of commodi1es.

MBA: Food And Agribusiness Management (PGP-FABM)

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Ahmedabad May 2019 to Apr 2021

IIM Ahmedabad is India's best Business School. PGP-FABM has been consistently ranked number one in the world among the managerial programs that cater to this sector, by Eduniversal, Paris, France

Bachelor of Technology: Industrial Biotechnology Aug 2012 to Apr 2016

Government College of Technology - Coimbatore || Specialization in Food Molecular Biology