Aarish Nissar
Senior Product Manager
Noida,UP
Summary
Strategic Senior Product with 9 years of experience leading product-market strategy and supporting implementation of innovative products for unique niches. Creative strategic planner with product value and impact assessment prowess. End-to-end product leader successful bringing products from inception to rollout with efficiency and speed.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Product Manager
KPMG
Noida
10.2021 - 02.2023
- Monitored market trends and competitor performance and analyzed gaps to update promotional strategies and maximize sales.
- Developed Product Vision, Strategy and Road Map to design products to cater to business needs using innovative technology to expand cost-effectively.
- Clearly defined user stories and acceptance criteria, Reviewed and approves large requirements (Epics) and smaller requirements (Stories) based on product/feature strategy.
- Maintained prioritized product backlog based on defined business value, aligning with Product Strategy and resource capacity.
- Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer interest data.
- Worked closely with finance team over various provisioning / allocations and defined Strategy for Zero-based budgeting and Expense tracking, while tracking Financial Control metrics for Product and Engineering Department.
- Oversaw internal product team employees and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners.
- Liaised with sales and marketing team to collect customer feedback, incorporating into subsequent production runs and development lifecycles.
- Increased new client acquisition through targeted initiatives.
- Led Product Development Life Cycle from lead generation through to monetization and retention while focusing on flywheel to improve conversion rates at every stage of funnel, by incorporating quantitative analysis and user feedback by forming hypotheses, running experiments to optimize results.
- Created mockups/UX prototypes and partnered with designers for various MVPs, to build best-in-class platform capabilities and customer experience
- Developed marketing plans and strategy to promote specific products to target demographics.
- Developed Products on Computer Vision, AI, and Machine Learning based Algorithms for Organization with new age Technology at focus.
- Managed cross-functional reliability team that reduced product failures at customer sites by 18%.
Product Manager
OLX Autos
Gurugram
10.2020 - 10.2021
- Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
- Collaborated with sales, marketing, and support teams to launch products on time and within budget.
- Reviewed sales, customer concerns, and new opportunities to drive business strategy at weekly planning sessions.
- Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
- Drove team with business expansion, geographical expansion, product launches, and growth initiatives using Strategic and Digital Marketing.
- Conceptualized, Developed, and Implemented the Product Strategy "Dealer Wallet" across Asia & Latin American Countries ensuring Solving Multiple operational issues open for many years.
- Increasing overall adoption of Financial methods by 32% on Quarterly Basis.
- Worked very closely with OTC, PTP, Dealer Financing on Ensuring Process Excellence, Change Management, and Process implementation, Thus De- bottlenecking any open items.
- Developed strategy and roadmap for key product/business area, managing team of developer, data and design persons.
- Data informed decisions to contribute towards vision of products and translate that into roadmap. Thus, building measurability and set north star goals and metrics.
- Discussion with customer and target audience to figure out supporting features or entirely new products which will help us move closer to vision and business objectives.
- Build data hypothesis and execute them in lean manner constantly validating along way.
- Worked as process specialist for high visibility customer authentication initiative across multiple digital channels in agile framework following BPMN standards.
- Collaborated with development team, business stakeholders and mission product owners to discover usability concerns and functional gaps.
Product Manager
AB InBev
Bangalorw
04.2018 - 10.2020
- Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
- Collaborated with sales, marketing, and support teams to launch products on time and within budget.
- Creation of Connected POCs and Bud Spaces for Enhanced Customer Experience. -Delivering More than $ 3Million Saving through Implementation of Automation and Digital Transformation.
- System Implementation for End-to-End Tracking for OFS to Sales Order Closer with 100% Compliance on Permits and Dispatch.
- Implementation of New Payroll System for all Brewery and HUB to ensure Centralization at HUB Office -Implementation for Systems and checks and Controls to ensure Reporting of Number for Single Source of Truth.
- Implementation of CDP and Bud Experience, Enhancing Customer Journey, and Generating useful Customer Insights.
- Managing cross-functional initiatives, having a combined investment of INR 125 million, with partners & Users across geographies
- Built foundation for Analytics using Azure Cloud & Qlik sense platform to deliver accurate insights for sales, supply & finance teams– using dynamic dashboards & extracts for reporting automation, which led to 200 man-hours saving monthly and enhanced experience
- Launched Sales Audit Mobile application in CY19 July, and leading India Salesforce project in CY 19, for field sales process transformation
- Launched Bottle Dashboard as high Visibility Project for Finance Function to Understand Impact of Cost on Reusability of Bottle and Return Injection rate in System.
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies
Mysore
12.2014 - 06.2017
- Collaborated with clients to determine need and devise appropriate software and hardware solutions.
- Performed root cause analysis to provide resolutions for production issues.
- Streamlined troubleshooting processes to improve system support and enhance communication between support team and end-users.
- Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components.
- Awarded 2 fast-track promotions in 18 months (avg. of 30 months) from key-account role to strategy due to good problem-solving ability
- C.E.O.’s Recognition letter: Rated in the top 1% of 800+ employees for contributing to Five Year Growth Plan development, Strategic Planning & Development.
- Implemented Business Process Re-engineering with partners for efficiency gains, facilitating savings of INR 30 million
- Partnered with marketing to develop point-in-time campaign to prioritize spends of INR 140 million Business Transformation Projects: (Molina Health Care)
- Organized, planned and documented Execution of Applications for Obamacare Implementation
- Conceptualized and implemented solutions in MS SQL, Informatica and Oracle Platform.
- Conceived & Implemented Automation Framework & QA Process for Marketplace Domain
Education
MBA - Supply & Operations, Finance And IT
NITIE
Mumbai 07.2017 - 03.2019
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering
BBDNITM
Lucknow 08.2010 - 03.2014
Skills
Business Analysis
Certification
CPM - Certified Product Manager
Timeline
Certified Scrum Master
11-2021
Senior Product Manager
KPMG
10.2021 - 02.2023
Product Manager
OLX Autos
10.2020 - 10.2021
CFA Level 3
08-2020
CPM - Certified Product Manager
08-2019
Product Manager
AB InBev
04.2018 - 10.2020
MBA - Supply & Operations, Finance And IT
NITIE
07.2017 - 03.2019
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies
12.2014 - 06.2017
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering
BBDNITM
08.2010 - 03.2014
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