Nanju Nanjappa

Strategy & Commercial Leader

London, GB.

About

A highly accomplished Strategy Manager with over 8 years of experience in GTM, commercial strategy, and digital transformation across consulting and corporate environments. Proven expertise in leveraging AI-driven insights and data analytics to optimize operations, drive significant revenue growth (up to 9% sales uplift), and reduce customer acquisition costs by 35%. Adept at leading complex initiatives, managing strategic partnerships, and delivering board-level recommendations that translate into measurable business impact.

Work

Pivot & Co. (boutique strategy advisory firm)

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Strategy Manager – GTM & Commercial

London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Summary

Directs AI and GTM commercial strategy engagements for a boutique advisory firm, delivering data-driven solutions that optimize market performance and accelerate growth for diverse clients.

Highlights

Directed AI & Agentic readiness engagement for a $15bn+ professional services client, applying the SIGNAL framework to evaluate capability gaps, build risk models, and deliver a board-level AI adoption roadmap.

Developed MMM-based analysis for an FMCG client, isolating ROI across digital, influencer, and offline channels, leading to spend reallocation that delivered a +9% sales uplift in pilot markets and scaled to 4 additional markets.

Engineered a global influencer strategy for a leading skincare company, managing strategic partnerships with data tech vendors to define unified KPIs and deploy dashboards steering €2mn+ in media allocations.

Designed and scaled a data-driven GTM playbook for a beverage company, enabling 12 market companies to reallocate spend dynamically, driving a 7% sales uplift and 35% lower customer acquisition cost.

Deloitte Consulting (Monitor)

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Senior Strategy Consultant

Paris, Île-de-France, France

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Summary

Advised major European clients on market entry, operational restructuring, and digital transformation initiatives, translating complex data into actionable strategies that drove significant cost savings and product simplification.

Highlights

Shaped the market entry and operating model for a French hotel group's JV, synthesizing executive interviews and customer data into a blueprint defining organizational design, GTM strategy, and initial capital allocation.

Constructed cost simulation dashboards using quantitative modeling to quantify nearshoring and offshoring savings, underpinning a €15mn+ operational restructuring decision for a major European insurer.

Delivered a digital-first operating model and 87% product simplification across 6 markets for a major trade credit insurer by leading a global product harmonization program and redesigning the customer claims journey.

BNP Paribas

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Portfolio Strategy & Performance Analyst

Paris, Île-de-France, France

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Summary

Managed commercial operating models for €4bn+ lending portfolios, leveraging forecasting models and KPI dashboards to enable real-time decision-making and enhance portfolio performance.

Highlights

Owned the commercial operating model for €4bn+ lending portfolios, building forecasting models and KPI dashboards that enabled real-time decision-making and improved portfolio performance by 5% (€6mn) over peers.

BNP Paribas

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Commercial Strategy Associate - Innovation & Digital, CDO Office

Paris, Île-de-France, France

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Summary

Supported the CDO's global digital transformation strategy by evaluating innovative business models and developing commercial enablement tools to accelerate proposal turnaround.

Highlights

Supported the CDO's global digital transformation strategy by evaluating digital-first business models and building commercial enablement assets (pitchbooks) that accelerated proposal turnaround and scaled bid delivery.

Amazon

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Commercial Strategy Analyst (Transaction risk)

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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Summary

Optimized commercial operations for Amazon UK and US digital media sales, reducing risks and improving efficiency through data-driven analysis and scalable automation.

Highlights

Optimized commercial operations and reduced counterfeit and copyright infringement risks for Amazon UK and US digital media sales by executing pricing analysis, category planning, and scalable automation.

Education

ESCP Business School

Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Master in Management (MiM) - Programme Grande École Strategy and GTM Specialisation

Courses

Immersion in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Technion

Achieved Merit Scholar status

Managed projects as Junior Enterprise Project Manager

Bangalore Institute of Technology

Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering

Courses

Graduated with First Class Distinction

Chaired SAE Collegiate club

Captained Team Stratos at Baja SAE India & S. Korea

Languages

English

French

Hindi

Kannada

Skills

Technologies

Advanced PowerPoint, Advanced Excel, Implementing AI-driven efficiencies, Agentic AI, Vibe Coding.

Strategy & Operations

Strategy & Operations, Go-to-Market, Digital Strategy, Value Consulting, Sales Operations, Program Management, Partner Management, Integrated Business Planning, Storyboarding analysis into narratives, Stakeholder Management.

Interests

Volunteering

Ville de Paris, Olympics & Paralympics 2024.

Hobbies

Gardening, Pottery, Triathlon training.