Shivendu Nadkarni

Shivendu Nadkarni is a seasoned FMCG industry veteran with a 25-year successful track record of both business leadership & organizational development. He has consistently led & delivered sustainable transformations in a variety of categories, cultures, countries & business contexts across key markets in Asia-Pacific/Africa & Middle-East.

He is an experienced ‘hands-on’ practitioner with breadth of knowledge & experience across business strategy & operations, financial management & delivery and multi-cultural organization leadership. His expertise covers whitespace entries, brand launches & turnarounds across international markets, growth acceleration & margin expansion, strategic supply chain & route-to-market changes & post-M&A end-to-end commercial & technical integration.

Over his career, Shivendu has been entrusted to lead a variety of roles that cover

• business strategy & operations including long-range planning & short-term delivery,
• construction-start-up-stabilization-expansion of multi-million dollar greenfield technical facilities – both manufacturing factories and R&D laboratories.
• leading geographically dispersed commercial & technical functional leadership teams,
• transforming organizational culture & capability to create future-ready teams & structures,
• end-to-end internal/external multi-cultural stakeholder relationship management.

Shivendu has a very approachable & learning-oriented leadership & coaching style that has evolved with complexities & challenges of (a) wide range of geographies/markets across Asia-Pacific/Africa/Middle-East with almost a decade in Japan; (b) multiple categories across impulse food & repertoire/discretionary household care goods; (c) variety of route-to-market models across modern/traditional/emerging retail channels; (d) wide spectrum of innovations across product, packaging, commercial, business model & costs; & (e) building teams & capabilities across organizational models with matrix structures within global/regional eco-systems, external partnerships with contract manufacturers & 3rd party distributors, joint-ventures, etc