Anirban Basu

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President -Head Supply Chain & Logistics at Jindal Steel Ltd.

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Overview

Anirban Basu is the President and Head of Supply Chain & Logistics at Jindal Steel, with 24 years of experience at firms like Dalmia Cement and PepsiCo. He specializes in data-driven supply chain transformation and operational excellence. An alumnus of IIM Calcutta and Calcutta University, colleagues describe him as collaborative, smart, and progressive.

He is passionate about leadership that is built on trust, responsibility, and mutual growth. Anirban champions people development and cultivating high-performing teams with a customer-centric approach, a theme consistently praised by those who have worked under his leadership.

He was recently recognized as one of the Top 25 Supply Chain Leaders of 2025.

Personality Overview

Generally Skeptic

Quality Focused

Features Driven

They prefer to move quickly, and expect the same from others.  They are less concerned about the product and more about its potential impact. They like to stay in control of the negotiation or defining of the terms.

Topics They Care About

Supply Chain Digitization
He has led digital transformation projects in past roles at Emami and Dalmia to build future-ready supply chains and optimize cost-to-serve models.
Integrated Business Planning
He has a proven track record of driving cost reduction and improving customer service by implementing and leading IBP processes in his previous leadership roles.
Operational Excellence
His career focus is on optimizing end-to-end supply chain efficiency to drive business growth, contribution, and overall profitability.

Media Appearances

Anirban has no verified media appearances

Work History

4-2024
President -Head Supply Chain & Logistics at Jindal Steel Ltd.
4-2019 - 4-2024
Executive Director & Head Supply Chain at Dalmia Bharat Limited
9-2016 - 3-2019
Vice President & Head Of Supply Chain at Emami Agrotech Limited
9-2015 - 9-2016
Associate Director - Supply Chain LD&T (Head Customer Service - Field Operation) -PepsiCo India at PepsiCo
3-2014 - 9-2015
Senior Vice President - COBO Supply Chain, Beverage Division, at PepsiCo

Education

2021 - 2022
Advanced Management Program : LEAD (Learn|Enhance|Aspire|Deliver) from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Calcutta University, Kolkata

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Insights For Selling To Anirban

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Make sure that you circle back fast on any action items, it wins their trust
  • Be respectful but crisp
  • Objectively showcase the impact that your product creates

DONT's

  • Do not hesitate from asking counter questions, just avoid challenging their authority
  • Avoid being too verbose
  • Don’t focus on process and rules, give the impression of being a ‘gets it done’ person

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Anirban is

  • Conviction around the impact matters the most to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Anirban

  • If they decide not to use your product, they will say no clearly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Anirban move?

  • If convinced, they can reach decisions quite fast.
  • Can Anirban take some risk or not?

  • They do not shy away from taking risks, but can be quite binary about them.

You And Anirban

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