Operations Leader · India

Gaurav Partap
Singh Minhas

PMP® · McKinsey Forward Alumnus

Twenty years of turning ambiguous, high-volume operating environments into disciplined, scalable functions. Across telecom, digital platforms, and EdTech.

"Structure Where There Is None."

Operational Turnarounds Service & Platform Operations Vendor Governance AI-Augmented Operations

Based in Faridabad · Gurugram · Delhi NCR, India

Gaurav Partap Singh Minhas
Gaurav Partap Singh Minhas
Senior Operations Leader
20+
Years of Operations Leadership
2.5M
Customers Impacted at Airtel
187
Countries, Platform at Veera
₹5Cr
Annualized Savings Delivered
30
Days to Clear a 90-Day Backlog
9K
Engineers Impacted Nationally

About

Built for complexity.
Wired for results.

I am a senior operations leader who has spent two decades walking into broken, ambiguous, high-volume environments and walking out with systems, teams, and frameworks that actually perform.

"Experience gets you in the room. But the work gets you the outcome."

My career spans Bharti Airtel, Harappa Education, and Veera. Across every assignment, the mandate has been the same: create structure where there is none, govern what others cannot, and deliver at a scale that moves the business.

PMP® Certified · Above Target, All Domains (2026)
McKinsey Forward Alumnus · Strategic Leadership Program
Selectively exploring senior leadership roles · Open to India and global remote roles

Operational Turnarounds

Entering broken environments, diagnosing root causes fast, and building operational infrastructure that holds under pressure and scales with growth.

Service & Platform Operations

End-to-end ownership of digital and service platforms. From CMS and rewards infrastructure to CPaaS vendor ecosystems and global OTP delivery across 100+ countries.

Vendor Governance

Multi-partner ecosystems across geographies. Vendor selection, SLA enforcement, performance governance, and accountability frameworks that stick.

AI-Augmented Operations

Integrating AI tools and workflows into operational processes to accelerate decision-making, automate triage, surface patterns, and strengthen service quality. Applied across platform operations, customer experience, and vendor analytics.

Experience

Two decades of operating at scale.

2023 – 2026

Veera

Director, Product Operations

Remote, Gurugram · Consulting from Apr 2025

  • Built operational backbone for a platform scaling to 2M+ registered users across 187 countries with 300K+ verified wallets.
  • Governed rewards catalog, CMS platform, global OTP infrastructure, and Web2-to-Web3 migration end-to-end.
  • Introduced AI-assisted workflows for redemption analytics and inventory optimization.
Web3Digital PlatformGlobal Ops

2021 – 2023

Harappa Education

Associate Director, Product & Content Operations

Delhi · B2B & B2C

  • Cleared a 90-day content publishing backlog in 30 days. Led a 23-member combined team across in-house and outsourced units.
  • Managed operations and CX for 50,000 active learners across two business lines.
  • Reduced delivery variance by 40% through cross-functional governance restructuring.
EdTechContent OpsCX

2017 – 2021

Doaba Public School

Head, Administration | PRO and Liaison Management

Hoshiarpur, Punjab · Institutional Leadership

  • Owned end-to-end institutional operations for a 2,700+ student campus and served as the primary liaison across 10+ government departments, navigating complex regulatory, electoral, and public-event mandates with firmness and diplomacy.

2004 – 2017

Bharti Airtel

National Lead, Fault Repair & Operations Manager

Gurugram / National · B2C Broadband

  • Owned national fault repair for 2.5M subscribers across 20+ circles, impacting 9,000 outsourced field engineers across Alcatel Lucent and Telesonic. Delivered INR 5 Crore savings and 20% efficiency gain.
  • Built the broadband reactivation function from zero. Scaled recovery volumes from ~200 to ~1,600 per month. Achieved #1 national ranking.
  • Advanced through 7 years in frontline operations before national mandate. Deployed IVRS across 16 cities, activating 135 dedicated hotlines.
TelecomNational Scale13 Years

Consulting

Bringing operational clarity to your
most complex problems.

Available for consulting engagements where senior operations leadership is needed to diagnose, restructure, or scale a function. I work with startups, scale-ups, and established enterprises.

Operational Diagnostics & Turnaround

Audit broken functions, identify root causes, and implement frameworks that restore performance fast.

Platform & Program Operations Setup

Build operational infrastructure for digital platforms, vendor ecosystems, and cross-functional programs from scratch.

Governance & Performance Frameworks

Design KPI systems, SLA structures, and governance cadences that give leadership real visibility and accountability.

Selectively exploring senior leadership roles

Let's build something that actually works.

Whether you need a senior ops leader on a full-time basis or a focused consulting engagement to solve a specific problem, I am open to the conversation.

Open to Senior Director Operations, VP Operations, Head of Operations, and Director Product Operations mandates across Delhi NCR, India, and global remote.