ANISH SHARMA
Bangalore
Summary
My role as a Founder's Office at WaterScience (India’s first non drinkable hard water solution's expert) encompasses,
Strategic Leadership: Guiding the company’s long-term strategy to achieve its mission and vision, ensuring alignment across all departments.
Innovation Oversight: Spearheading product development initiatives to maintain and enhance the company’s innovative edge in water filtration technologies.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlining operations to optimize productivity and maintain high standards of quality and customer satisfaction.
Market Expansion: Identifying and exploring new markets and growth opportunities to expand WaterScience’s footprint.
Stakeholder Engagement: Building and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, partners, and industry leaders.
Sustainability Initiatives: Leading efforts to promote sustainability within the company’s operations and product offerings, aligning with WaterScience’s commitment to a sustainable planet.
Brand Leadership: Upholding and enhancing the WaterScience brand, ensuring it remains synonymous with quality, reliability, and innovation in water filtration.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Founder's Office
WaterScience
01.2024 - Current
- Delivered exceptional customer service by addressing customer concerns promptly and effectively resolving issues by introducing solutions like AI chatbot to reduce customer query times by 1/4th the time.
- Boosted team productivity and morale through leadership development programs and regular feedback sessions.
- Negotiated partnerships with suppliers to reduce costs, enhancing profitability with strategic sourcing to reduce costs by an average of 10%.
- Led the strategic planning process to define business goals and ensure alignment across all departments.
- Championed continuous improvement efforts within the organization, streamlining operations for increased efficiency.
- Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth by expanding our operations into another building and growing the team for the increase in demand by almost increasing our employee strength by 40%.
- Guided team members through periods of change by providing clear communication on expectations and objectives moving forward.
- Introduced advanced technology solutions into daily operations which led to increased productivity levels throughout the company by getting systems for keeping inventory, an internal ticketing system for all the employee related queries and complaints, adding a HRMS platform to the organization amongst the few.
Product Manager
Printo Document Services Pvt. Ltd
10.2021 - Current
- Owning a SAAS product that helps large Enterprise Businesses like Google, Accenture, etc with their Gifting needs all around the world.
- Catered to 30+ clients serving more than 2,00,000+ individual unique users across 100+ countries in the year 2022-2023.
- Creating a Merchandise store platform which would solution for end to end needs from product discovery to purchase and fulfillment for Enterprise Businesses.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work using agile methodologies.
- Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
- Managing stakeholders and creating product strategy.
- Shortlisted, negotiated and implemented Information security compliances for the organization.
- Conceptualizing and deploying product features and working with cross functional teams.
- Milestone based measurement of progress and developmental milestones.
- Ensure QA before deployment which successfully reduced downtime by 90%.
- Approaching clients to understand business needs, market requirements and market landscape and relay new opportunities to management.
- Successfully integrated document user stories, specifications and product features into work orders.
- Help prioritize the roadmap to achieve product goals.
- Reviewed sales, customer concerns, and new opportunities to drive business strategy at weekly planning sessions.
Founder
Urbanstackt (early stage e-commerce start-up for traditional handlooms)(Covid-19 Affected)
07.2018 - 07.2020
- Managed the full spectrum from product procurement and sales using Shopify and Amazon and garnered community level interest.
- Curated marketing strategies to boost sales and generated double-digit growth in demand (micro-level).
- Investigated and addressed business development challenges including procurement avenues to proactively mitigate problems.
- Established, optimized and enforced business policies to maintain consistency and high-quality standards across industry operations.
- Studied market to determine optimal pricing of goods and services and to capitalize on emerging opportunities.
- Created organization's mission and vision statements for scale-up stage and inviting high net-worth investors.
Education
B. Tech - Computer Science
Christ University, College of Engineering
Bengaluru2019
Secondary School -
Narayana PU College
Bengaluru2015
High School Diploma -
Delhi Public School
Bengaluru2013
Skills
- Product Management
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Requirements Gathering and Analysis
- User Story Creation
- Stakeholder Management
- Roadmap Development
- Product Strategy
- Market Research
- Data Analysis
- Team Collaboration and Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Entrepreneurial and Innovative
- Contract Negotiation
- Organizational Structuring
- Strategic Planning
- Business Planning
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Certification
FULL STACK WEB DEVELOPMENT | Udemy
(Coursework includes full stack development with HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node, React, MongoDB, Web3, DApps amongst others)
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT | Udemy
(Coursework in strategic product management to enable a greater impact on companies and products)
• Market Intelligence
• Strategy
• New Product Development
• Life-cycle Management
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND IT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES | Google Certification
(Basics of System Administration and IT Infrastructure)
INFORMATION SECURITY | Coursera (University of London and Royal Halloway)
(Basics of Information Security)
Timeline
Founder's Office
WaterScience
01.2024 - Current
Product Manager
Printo Document Services Pvt. Ltd
10.2021 - Current
Founder
Urbanstackt (early stage e-commerce start-up for traditional handlooms)(Covid-19 Affected)
07.2018 - 07.2020
B. Tech - Computer Science
Christ University, College of Engineering
Secondary School -
Narayana PU College
High School Diploma -
Delhi Public School