Richeek Maitra

Richeek is a Strategy and Operations professional with 20+ years of experience and a proven record solving complex, high-impact business problems and developing new business models to deliver corporate profitability and long-term value.

With breadth and depth of expertise across varied company lifecycle stages (startups, growth-stage departments and established global leaders), multiple countries (U.S., India, Netherlands, Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines) and diverse functions (Lean Six Sigma, Product Management, Strategy & Transformation, Global Sourcing), Richeek has delivered $2B+ impact in last 10 years.

Richeek has a Masters in Supply Chain Management from the University of Michigan, Stephen M Ross School of Business.

Key Engagements:

• Delivered $500M+ in savings over 3 years, by building and executing sourcing strategy for $10B generic pharmaceuticals portfolio of a US distributor.
• Integrated S&OP processes for sterile injectables of merging pharma companies creating a roadmap for deploying a best of best process.
• Executed a global supply chain transformation at a diversified Pharma and Medical devices company; built a playbook of levers including competitive sourcing, cost modeling, cost to serve benchmarking and network optimization to take out freight, warehousing and channel costs for 50+ global affiliates.
• Identified COGS reduction opportunities for a global pharma and medical devices company across their generics & devices portfolio through cost modeling and direct negotiation.
• Led cross-functional teams to design and deliver life and health insurance underwriting and policy issuance app, reducing processing time by 50%.
• De-risked supply chain for top 30 OTC categories at Walmart ($5B+ sales) by developing an analytical framework for a supply risk assessment and prioritization product.
• Drove $100M+ savings for a global beauty client executing a manufacturing and supply chain transformation over 2 years.