# Manish Ganvir

Manish Ganvir is a remote worker on Himalayas, Vice President Sales, Business Development & Strategic Alliance at Divergent Insights, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@manishganvir

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Growth analytics and strategy leader at Divergent Insights, managing 300+ strategic opportunities annually across customer insights and commercial strategy.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 3998k+ INR |
| Job categories | Growth Analytics and Strategy Leader, Vice President Of Sales, Business Development Director, Analytics Director, Strategy Consultant |
| Skills | Growth Strategy, Customer Analytics, Commercial Strategy, P&L management, Predictive Analytics, Customer Segmentation, Market Research, Quantitative Research, Customer Experience, Voice Of Customer, NPS, CSAT, Revenue Analytics, GTM Strategy, Market Intelligence |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/dr-manish-g-6918342 |

## About

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At Divergent Insights, I lead customer insights, audience intelligence, analytics, and commercial strategy programmes across sectors including Healthcare, Pharma, FMCG/CPG, Retail, BFSI, Media, and Technology. I develop analytical frameworks and dashboards that help leadership teams track growth drivers and performance gaps.

As a freelance strategy, GTM, and execution consultant, I delivered 50+ engagements and applied AI-enabled commercial intelligence to reduce planning effort by approximately 40%. My customer engagement and retail optimization strategies contributed to 15–20% sales impact, while CX and Voice-of-Customer programmes contributed to a 20% NPS improvement.

At Market Xcel, I led Analytics, Growth & Transformation with P&L responsibility and delivered 240% revenue growth through account expansion, new client acquisition, and analytics- and consulting-led solutions. I also onboarded 20+ global clients and led teams of 100+ professionals.

At MRSS India, I scaled the consulting business by 200%+ and established qualitative research, customer experience, and analytics consulting practices that contributed approximately 50% of incremental growth. My work has spanned strategic management, market research, customer analytics, and commercial growth across multiple industries.
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## Experience

### Vice President Sales, Business Development & Strategic Alliance (current)

Divergent Insights. Jan 2025 - Present

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Lead customer insights, analytics, and commercial strategy programmes across multiple sectors. Generate and manage 300+ strategic opportunities annually, partnering with CXOs to drive growth and revenue expansion.
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Skills: Customer-Insights, Analytics, Segmentation, AI-Research, Commercial-Intelligence, Strategic-Planning, CxO-Advisory, Dashboarding

### Consultant Strategy, GTM & Execution (current)

Freelance. Nov 2023 - Present

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Delivered 50+ strategy, consumer insights, and analytics engagements across FMCG, Media, and Retail. Applied AI-enabled commercial intelligence to reduce planning effort by 40% and contributed to 15-20% sales impact and 20% NPS improvement.
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Skills: Strategy, GTM, Consumer-Insights, Market-Research, Analytics, AI-Enabled-Commercial-Intelligence, Predictive-Analytics, CX, NPS

### Vice President Analytics, Growth & Transformation

Market Xcel. Oct 2019 - Nov 2023

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Led Analytics, Growth & Transformation with P&L responsibility, delivering 240% revenue growth and onboarding 20+ global clients. Improved client retention by 50%+ and led a team of 100+ professionals.
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Skills: Analytics, Growth-Strategy, P&L-management, Predictive-modelling, Segmentation, Customer-Relationship-Management, Team-Leadership, KPI-Frameworks

### Vice President Business Growth & Insights

MRSS India. Jul 2015 - Aug 2019

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Led strategic consumer insights and engagement programmes for multinational clients, scaling consulting business by 200%+. Established qualitative research, CX, and analytics practices contributing 50% of incremental growth.
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Skills: Consumer-Insights, Consulting, Qualitative-Research, Customer-Experience, Analytics, Client-Engagement, Team-Mentoring

### Research Director

TNS India

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Directed strategic client delivery in market research.
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### Project Strategy & Market Research

IIM Lucknow

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Fellowship role focused on project strategy and market research.
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### Marketing Manager

Roche Diagnostics

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Managed marketing for medical devices and healthcare projects.
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### Deputy Chief Manager

Times of India

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Managed media and institutional client projects.
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### Sensory Manager

IFF

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Oversaw FMCG project testing and execution.
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### Senior Manager

Ranbaxy

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Led pharma market launches.
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### Project Director

IMRB / ORG-MARG

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Executed market and consumer research projects.
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## Education

### IIM Lucknow

PhD (Fellowship), Strategic Management

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PhD (Fellowship) in Strategic Management from IIM Lucknow.
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### IIM Lucknow

PGDM, Marketing & Operations

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PGDM in Marketing & Operations from IIM Lucknow.
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### IIT Bombay

B. Tech, Electrical Engineering

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B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay.
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### University of Pennsylvania

ESG Certification, ESG

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ESG Certification from the University of Pennsylvania.
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## Tech stack

- Tableau
- Salesforce
- Python
- Trello
- Asana
- AutoCAD
- Zoho CRM
- Power BI

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