TPGC PLACEMENT

Dear Prof Lokhande,

Hope you are doing well.

I spoke to you regarding TPG Consulting Pvt Ltd last week.

We are a Supply Chain Consulting Firm. We have been in incorporation for the last 2+ years. We would like to hire fresh graduates for the post of an Analyst from your college.

I am sending you the description about our company. Please circulate this amongst your students and let me know the number of candidates who are interested.

If you send me a list of interested candidates, then we would come on campus and conduct a test to shortlist the candidates. Once that is done, we could interview a smaller group.

I will also follow this up with a powerpoint presentation (that is large in size).

All streams in your college may apply.

THanks,

Padmini



Description of Analyst Position Offered by TPGC
What does TPGC do?
TPG Consulting Pvt. Ltd is a supply chain consulting firm located in Mumbai. TPGC is the brainchild of the partners from The Progress Group, LLC - a similar logistics consulting firm in Atlanta that has been serving clients in the United States since 1992.

Together these two firms design and improve modern warehouses for some of the largest retail companies in the world including Nike, GAP, Reliance Fresh, Reebok, etc. We are not architects instead we are software, engineering and financial people who decide how the inside of a warehouse should work. Modern warehouses are huge complex operations much like large manufacturing plants. They employ hundreds of people, use computers to control what everyone does every minute, occasionally use robotics to do the work, and someone needs to help define all of this. This is what TPG does.
What does an analyst do in TPGC?
The analyst’s role at TPGC is to support the consultant’s work related to improving the various aspects of a client’s warehouse or designing a new warehouse. As an analyst, you are expected to clean up and then analyze various forms of warehouse operations or design information. Your work mainly centres around Visual Basic, MS Excel and MS Access. Additionally, an analyst will perform time studies of existing operations to understand how much labor is associated with a process and how the process might be improved. Finally, some problems that the analyst is asked to investigate involve programming in Visual Basic, so certain analysts are asked to program occasionally.
What does an analyst learn at TPGC?
TPGC makes a large investment in all of its new employees. You will receive training and be tested afterwards on Excel, Access, warehouse concepts, warehouse operations, and the internal, proprietary tools that we use to design warehouses. The typical basic training program lasts for 5 weeks. Additionally, you will be paired with an experienced consultant to study Visual Basic and to work on our internal software for several weeks afterwards. In the past, some analysts have also been chosen to learn CAD software or to visit the United States for a short period of time in actual large scale warehouses in order to better understand how they operate, as a part of their training.
What is TPGC’s work culture like?
TPGC believes a student should be looking at the culture of a selected company as much as the salary it is offering - as getting paid lots of money to work in 2000 degrees is not necessarily a good deal. We believe our culture is unique in India and not for everybody. At our core, TPGC owners and employees truly believe that Work Should Not Interfere With Life and Our Survival Is Based on Being Friends and not just Associates.

We put these two guiding principals into practice as:

1. We attempt to have a good time at work
2. We don’t believe in formal hierarchy for hierarchy’s sake. The leaders are the leaders because they have earned the group’s acknowledgement -not because they were “crowned” by someone.
3. We treat others (especially juniors) with respect -but we are informal too
4. We admit when we don’t know something
5. We applaud good ideas better than our own
6. We deliver both bad news as well as good news without fear
7. We work 5 days a week generally and try to leave early if the work is thin, but sometimes we work weekends when client deadlines are pressing close.
8. At the end of the year you should feel you have worked on average 40 hours a week and not much more. Again, we want people to have families and a life.
What are the criteria that we are looking for in an analyst at TPGC?
First of all, TPGC is looking for a student that is a good cultural fit. Second, we seek engineering students who possess sensitivity to detail and some knowledge of MS Excel and MS Access. While programming experience is advantageous, it is not an essential criterion. Your ability to think analytically is very important of course, but even more important is the ability to communicate your analysis verbally.
What is the Career path for an Analyst?
Analysts tend to follow one of two career paths. If they are more inclined more towards programming and the support of our internal tools they can become Programmer/Analysts and ultimately Software Project Managers as their experience grows. If they are more inclined to lead the consulting business they can become Consultants and then Senior Consultants being responsible for supervising and training staff in the office as well as interacting directly with Indian and US clients on design and improvement projects.
What’s in it for an analyst?
A starting CTC of Rs. 3 lakhs per annum. This includes the take home salary, a bonus that you are entitled to at the end of one year of working with us and an optional bonus that is based on your individual performance and how well the business does as a whole. As you become more important to us, we want to make sure we keep you happier; it only makes sense. Furthermore, annual increases are granted to keep salaries market competitive and to reflect cost of living increases. Surprisingly, we ask our employees to suggest salary increases based on known market rates. We don’t want people to leave TPGC over pay. If they must leave, we want them to leave because they don’t like our culture or they want to pursue some other kind of career.
Who should you have to contact?
If this type of company sounds interesting, we encourage you to contact Ms. Padmini Madarapakam Pagadala (padminimp@theprogressgroup.com) in Mumbai, the General Manager for TPGC’s offices there.


Prof. P.S. Lokhande
Head Dept of I.T. & TPO
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