About

Karan Arora is a highly skilled and experienced Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Swiggy Instamart. With over 12 years of experience across various domains and challenging roles, he attributes his success in the corporate world to his leadership skills, go-getter attitude, cross-functional collaboration, ethics, problem-solving abilities, analytical skills, and ultimately his ability to understand the ever-evolving organizational and customer needs. Karan's specialties include supply chain management, brand alliances, management consulting, go-to-market strategy, business plan formulation, market research analysis, product marketing and management, strategy marketing, and industry experience in IT consulting, enterprise application integration, and electronic data interchange (EDI). Prior to his current position, Karan has worked as an independent consultant in supply chain management for FMCG retail and pharma, where he assisted in supply chain design for India's biggest offline retail pharmacy and advised on setting up an offline convenience category retail chain start-up. He also served as the Head of Supply Chain Operations at Medlife, India's largest e-health platform, where he managed end-to-end supply chain operations, improved delivery times by 85%, scaled up network capacity by 10x, and increased last-mile productivity by 300%. He also spearheaded productization and implementation of new SCM systems, achieved noteworthy increment in order fulfillment, and initiated 2-hour express delivery in major cities, a key differentiator from the competition. Karan holds an MBA degree in Marketing from S P Jain and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. He possesses a diverse range of technical skills, including senior software engineering, research scientist, integration, Java, software engineering, SQL, Spring Boot, Spring, Jupyter, ML, and web. With 14.78 years of relevant experience, Karan is a valuable asset to any organization. He is a strategic thinker, an excellent communicator, and a results-oriented leader who can drive growth and profitability for any business.