VIKRANT YADAV

Experienced Senior Product Manager with 7 years of expertise at Zepto, skilled in aligning products with core values to drive sustainable growth. Proficient in bridging technology and scale, I leverage my deep understanding of processes and technologies to identify optimal interventions for scalable solutions. Specialized in quick commerce, focusing on process optimization, stakeholder collaboration, and team leadership for consistent results aligned with organizational goals.

E2E Warehouse Management ( 0 to 1) ( 1.25 Million USD)

• Led a diverse team comprising 12 Backend Developers, 6 Frontend Developers, 1 Designer, and 6 QA Engineers.
• Orchestrated the development effort spanning 9 months, involving extensive collaboration and coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
• Conducted 20+ brainstorming sessions with cross-functional stakeholders to identify gaps in the existing Warehouse Management System (WMS), engaging Operations, Planning, Finance, and Business Design departments.
• Prioritized use cases, authored 15+ Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), and facilitated walkthroughs to ensure organizational alignment on project timelines.
• Designed migration script logic and spearheaded the seamless transition of stores from third-party WMS to the internal system, completing the overall changeover in just 3 months.
• Recognized with an Exceptional rating in the annual appraisal cycle for leading the end-to-end product development and delivery within a remarkable 1-year timeframe.
• Key benefits achieved include enhanced system reliability, an 18% increase in process benchmark efficiency, a significant infrastructural cost goodness of 65 Paisa at the Cost per Order (CPO) level for an order volume of 15 million monthly orders, and a noteworthy reduction in time to market for new features, unlocking quarterly cost benefits of Rs 2 at the CPO level, translating to 1.25 million USD per quarter.

No bag delivery ( 2.9 Million USD )

• Introduced the innovative concept of paperless delivery, allowing customers to opt for No Bag Delivery at the cart page to reduce paper bag consumption.
• Developed an end-to-end technology solution to implement and scale the initiative while preserving optimal customer experience metrics.
• Conducted a successful 2-week pilot at 10 stores to refine the customer order journey, resulting in streamlined processes.
• Achieved significant cost savings, with an overall Cost per Order (CPO) goodness of Rs 1.75 at an order volume of 15 million per month, translating to savings of 2.9 million USD since inception.
• Notably, the concept was subsequently adopted by Swiggy, validating its success and impact on the industry.
• Team composition: 2 Backend Developers, 2 Frontend Developers, and 1 QA Engineer, completed in 4 weeks.

Inventory Slotting tool ( 0.25 Million USD )

• Developed an automated inventory slotting tool to optimize picking speed and storage efficiency by adhering to space and storage principles.
• The algorithm incorporated various factors such as SKU velocity profile, ideal storage location, rack height optimization, physical coordinates, SKU classification, stacking factor, and capacity constraints.
• The algorithm dynamically adjusted for seasonality, new SKU additions, and changes in velocity profile, generating system tasks for inventory reconciliation.
• Implementation of the automated planogram led to an 18% increase in Outbound picking Items per Person (IPP) and a 16% increase in Inbound IPP, resulting in a Cost per Order (CPO) goodness of 45 Paisa.
• Team composition included 5 Backend Developers, 2 Frontend Developers, and 2 QA Engineers.

Inhouse Cafe Tech [ AOV improvement of Rs 20 for cafe stores]

• Developed an inhouse tech to sell Cafe SKUs aling with groicery orders.
• Salient features - Introduced Kitchen display system (KDS) to allow parallesied packing as against to serialised packing in grocery division, inventory management system to support ingredient and finished good concept.
• Helped achieve zepto to scale this program to 50 + stores with average cafe OPD to 150+ resulting in average AOV [Average order value] improvement of Rs 20. Plan is to scale it to 150+ stores by end of July'24.
• Team composition included 3 Backend Developers, 3 Frontend Developers, and 1 QA Engineers. [ Overall 2 months effort ]

• Building End-to-End supply chain to enable the Fullfilled-by-Zepto business model where Zepto will mamage seller's inventory instead of buying it.
• Supply chain to enable Zepto to sell ecommerce inventory like electronic goods, kitchen utilities, fashion accessories and many more.

• Awarded Academic Excellence Merit Scholarship of ₹12K from Army Welfare Education Society ['09]
• Secured 99.02%ile of 4.79 lakh candidates in IIT JEE; 99.25%ile of 11 lakh candidates in AIEEE ['12]
• 1/12 out of 150+ to participate in International Level competition-BAJA with 400+ team participation ['14]
• Finalist (top 15 out of 965) in Product design competition- organised by Finlabs India Pvt. Ltd ['20]
• Among 1/6 to be selected for 4 month STEP program at NEOMA Business School, France ['20]

• HOD Off Road ATV, Spearheaded team of 4 members to represent IIT Roorkee at BAJA- SAE India competition, Indore ['14], Optimized car weight by 5%; Introduced fox suspensions and enhanced vehicle damping performance
• Placement Team, Amongst 35 members selected from a batch of 470, instrumental in getting 57th batch placed in record time, Coordinated successful placement process of 400+ students across 70+ companies via 2800+ GD/PIs