Nitika is a partner at McKinsey’s Mumbai office and has been with the firm for over 11 years. She leads the Chemicals and Agriculture Practices in India. She has supported clients in the chemicals and agriculture industries on a range of topics, including strategy, operations, sourcing, pricing strategy, and merger and integrations.
In the chemicals space, Nitika brings her expertise to clients across the value chain in segments such as agrochemicals, water-treatment chemicals, carbon black, pigments, flavors and fragrances, intermediates, oleochemicals, plastic processing, packaging, and speciality-chemicals companies. In agriculture, her clients span input companies such as agrochemicals, seeds, fertilizers, and downstream agri-processing companies.
Nitika is passionate about empowering agriculture and chemicals companies to drive transformations that reduce inefficiencies and generate value through the use of digital and analytics-enabled tools.
Examples of her recent work include:
- Supporting a leading specialty chemicals company on a three-year business build partnership to drive 2x growth and rapid internalization
- Digital- and analytics-led manufacturing and supply-chain transformation for several leading chemicals players
- Driving advanced-analytics sourcing transformation for a large agri-commodity trader and processor, deploying cutting-edge use cases like yield prediction
She collaborates with several industry bodies across ICC, FICCI, and CII, convenes an annual CXO round table for agriculture companies. Nitika has also published several pieces of thought leadership on topics relevant to her expertise.