Gaurav Puri

Background

About Gaurav Puri

Gaurav Puri is a Director at Ernst & Young US LLP with around 15 years of Industry and Consulting experience. Gaurav has a proven track record in serving clients across Consumer-Packaged Goods, Retail, Telecom and Utilities sectors. His expertise lies in driving Strategy and Transformation engagements that align with long-term growth and operational excellence. His domain expertise lies in the areas of Supply chain Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, Network optimization, Complexity reduction, Governance and KPI control tower. He has also delivered engagements for Commercial Excellence, devising Growth strategy, Product invocation and Digital commerce acceleration. Gaurav is focused on driving C-suite agendas from strategy, design through execution leading to $ multi-million benefits through cost take-out, working capital reduction, margin uplift, sales growth, product innovation and strategic M&A. He works closely with steering committee members and client Cross-functional teams by setting up Transformation management office that tracks implementation of initiatives, measurement of OKR’s KPIs and publishing reports to management teams. Over the past decade at EY, Gaurav has ascended from Senior Consultant to Director, accruing vast international experience by working with global clients across the United States and EMEIA region. He was awarded EY’s ‘Better Begins with You’ award for Exceptional client service. Before EY, he has 5+ years of experience in Sales and operations domain at fortune 100 companies like Nestle Foods, Vodafone and Indian Oil Corporation with P&L ownership and supervisory responsibilities.