Operations Manager · Mid-level · ~5 yrs

Faisal Qureshi

Senior Operations Manager

Professional summary

Operations manager with 5 years optimizing supply-chain and service operations across e-commerce and 3PL logistics. Owns end-to-end process improvement — from value-stream mapping to KPI governance to SLA recovery — and consistently converts inefficiency into cost, time and quality gains. Leads cross-functional teams of 10–15, manages a vendor base worth crores, and applies Lean/Six Sigma to make wins stick.

97%

On-time dispatch (from 88%)

₹2.3Cr

Annual vendor spend cut

18k+

Orders shipped per day

Skills

Operations

Process optimizationS&OPCapacity planningSLA managementInventory controlDemand forecasting

Lean / Six Sigma

Six Sigma Green BeltValue-stream mappingKaizenDMAICRoot-cause (5 Whys, Fishbone)5S

Vendor & cost

Vendor managementContract negotiationProcurementBudgetingCost controlRFP/RFQ

Tools & leadership

Power BISAP MM/WMAdvanced ExcelTeam leadershipStakeholder managementAgile/Scrum

Work experience

Operations Manager · Cartelo (D2C e-commerce)

Aug 2022Present

Gurugram

  • Lead fulfilment operations for 4 warehouses shipping 18,000+ orders/day, owning the KPI scorecard for fill rate, on-time dispatch and cost-per-order across a 14-person team.
  • Re-engineered the pick-pack-ship process using value-stream mapping and 5S, lifting on-time dispatch from 88% to 97% and cutting cost-per-order 19%.
  • Renegotiated contracts with 12 logistics and packaging vendors, reducing annual spend ₹2.3 crore while tightening delivery SLAs to 48 hours.
  • Introduced a demand-forecasting model that cut excess inventory 27% and reduced stockouts 31% across top SKUs.
  • Mentored 3 team leads and ran weekly Kaizen huddles, building a continuous-improvement culture that closed 40+ floor-level improvements in a year.

Assistant Operations Manager · Meridian Logistics (3PL)

Jun 2020Jul 2022

Mumbai

  • Managed inbound and outbound operations for a 90,000 sq ft distribution center handling 30+ enterprise clients under contractual SLAs.
  • Led a Six Sigma DMAIC project on order accuracy, raising it from 94.2% to 99.1% and avoiding ₹40L/year in returns and re-shipments.
  • Built KPI dashboards in Power BI that gave leadership daily visibility into productivity, dwell time and SLA breaches.

Featured projects

−16% last-mile cost
OptiRoute — last-mile cost program

A route-optimization and carrier-mix initiative across 4 metros.

  • Drove a carrier-rationalization and zone-skipping program that cut last-mile cost 16% without hurting delivery SLAs.
Process optimizationVendor managementCost control

Education

MBA — Operations Management

2020

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Specialization in Supply Chain & Operations · First Class

Certifications

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

ASQ (American Society for Quality) · 2022

APICS CSCP — Certified Supply Chain Professional (in progress)

ASCM · 2026

See the work in 3D

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