Thejaswini Prapulla
Barcelona
Summary
With over 10 years of experience in B2B product management, I have held roles including senior product manager, product owner, and business analyst. Throughout my career, I have cultivated a mindset of continuous learning and experimentation, constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance products and cater to customer needs. My approach is centered around understanding customer preferences and aligning products accordingly. Leveraging my expertise in product management, I consistently drive successful outcomes and contribute to organizational growth and success.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Product Manager
Yokoy
10.2024 - Current
- Focus on understanding ERP integration needs and aligning stakeholders on company's strategic priorities
- Quick wins include UI improvements to ease integration setup and Public API enhancements
- Strategically defined MVP and advanced use cases to meet the complex needs of enterprise customers for ERP integrations
- Identify and synthesize key inputs from partners, customers, internal teams & quantitative data to inform the strategic direction of the ERP integration roadmap
- Partner with Product Marketing to refine messaging and positioning, enhancing go-to-market strategies for ERP integration capabilities
- Develop a concise sales enablement one-pagers for strategic ERP connectors to support targeted customer engagement and drive revenue growth
- Strengthen partner engagement by collaborating with Partner Success Management to establish streamlined communication frameworks
Senior Product Manager (NetSuite, ERP P2P)
Oracle
05.2022 - 09.2024
- Led Accounts Payable, Credit Card Expense Management, and AP Analytics
- Led the product development of highly scalable ERP solutions (P2P) at NetSuite, a next generation ERP offering, driving automation and operational efficiency
- From ideation to execution, streamlined Accounts Payable workflows and powered customers with actionable insights through analytical dashboards, a data product for their AP process
- Improved traceability and addressed audit pain points by defining optimized allocation of payment, prepayment, credit, AP Journal for vendor bills
- Co-led the discovery and design phases of payment automation with partner integration in the AP ecosystem
- Led ERP's cross-functional initiatives within P2P; implemented Multi-Currency feature for P2P workflows and AP Journals allocation
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure a unified user experience across all product offerings
- Defined the credit card expense transaction processes in collaboration with the cash management team
- Drove product discovery efforts, integrating customer feedback, conducting market analysis, and leveraging data insights to shape product strategy and deliver solutions focused on customer needs
- Led the cross-functional collaboration to develop flexible, scalable, and user-friendly solutions that align with overall product objectives and user requirements
- Collaborate with UI/UX researchers for: Research on the ideal customer profile/user persona to gain insights & customer interviews for qualitative insights
- Information architecture, interaction design, user flow and design consistency
- Collaboration with Technical teams for the technical feasibility of features
- Share the product roadmap version that has a clear direction and timeline with an explanation of 'why' a feature is essential and the dependencies
- Clarify product requirements on epics and user stories which are linked to initiatives and feature that ladder up to objectives and the product strategy
Business Analyst, Analytics, Data & Integrations (ADI)
Nestle
05.2021 - 04.2022
- Data source mapping for the functional streams within Nestle to understand their Data needs from other functional streams within Nestle's SAP and complementary applications
- Prioritized data requests based on urgency and importance for the teams
- Managed Regular data queries for daily operations and ad hoc data queries
- Coordinated data transformation between solution architects and the functional streams
- Ensured the transformation of raw data into formats suitable for teams' consumption
- Led Prediction Analytics for supply chain optimization with resulting data models being integrated into the supply chain Alert mechanism for optimizing order fulfillment rate
- Performance metrics for assisting Supply Chain with like On-time In-full (OTIF), On time delivery (OTD), On shelf availability (OSA), First pick availability (FPA)
- Engaged Data analysts and Scientists to extract the quantitative and actionable insights
- Supplied teams with the self-service Power BI reports/formatted data as per their needs
- Team KPIs Evaluated existing KPIs for improvement strategies impact, proposed new KPIs and leveraged Power BI to provide reports to the leadership as a self-service
- Owned product backlog of Initiatives, features, epics, and user stories for the analysis of enterprise datasets
- Assisted the senior product manager in roadmap implementation
Senior Software Analyst
Aizon
01.2021 - 04.2021
- Business analysis for SaaS application, an IoT vertical
- Lead product analysis for the product enhancements and elicited qualitative insights from clients by facilitating workshops
- APIs: Identified and documented API endpoints to be exposed
- Defined business analysis OKRs: Based on the OKRs cascaded from the top
- Developed prototypes (Wireframes) to present product ideas to the executives
- Collaborated with technical teams to understand the technical feasibility of the proposed solution
- MVP: Created Epics, user stories for a minimum viable product
- Guidance on Agile Scrum: Mentored the team on agile scrum practices and ceremonies
Business Integration & Architecture Sr Analyst
Accenture Solutions
08.2016 - 05.2019
- Company Overview: Owned Accenture's financial Products, P2P; owned 'Supplier Management Portal' & Invoice Processing applications
- Product implementation: Ownership of 'Supplier Management Portal' & Invoice Processing applications implementation for 10 clients across the globe by bringing digital transformation in their business
- Owned change management Led change request implementation of these two applications for 80+ clients
- Discovery workshops to understand Customers business and customize our product according to their needs
- Along with architect, led the integration related discussions on how our applications can be integrated with their ERPs
- Product demos to the potential customers on how our applications add value to their business
- Product vision as a guide: Prioritized initiatives and participated in roadmapping with group product manager, owned the product backlog and & led the Implementation in Sprints
- Feature fit: Evaluated the new features fit into the product with UX, architecture and development teams
- Managed product backlog Created initiatives, features, epics and user stories with acceptance criteria and UML diagrams
- Foster Communication Incorporated the collaboration between project stakeholders by facilitating communication and removing roadblocks
- Co-ordinate with Testing team Verified test case scenarios and assisted team in understanding the requirements
- User Training: Assisted clients in understanding the solution/software and in performing the UAT
- Assisted support team: Extend support in handling the issues that raised after deployment
- SAP Support and Maintenance Project (ERP) - temporary project took care of master data integration for suppliers/materials in the procure to pay space between ERP and master data central repository
- Owned Accenture's financial Products, P2P; owned 'Supplier Management Portal' & Invoice Processing applications
Business Analyst
CSSI
06.2016 - 08.2016
- Process mapping: To document and explain the existing business processes and identify areas of improvement
- Gap analysis to Identify the gaps between current processes and the desired processes
- Prepared & conducted surveys: Documented questionnaire to elicit requirements and insights
- Created risk analysis document: Preparing risk analysis document
- Prototyping: Created low-fidelity wireframes for a prototype and presented it to the executives for the early feedback
Business Analyst
Parexel International
09.2013 - 06.2016
- Role: Acted as a Business Analyst to bridge the gap between IT and business
- Requirement elicitation: Interviewed clients to understand the business process that must be associated with the application design & elicited requirements
- Use cases development: Created use cases to define the system functionality and the user behavior
- Documentation for the development teams: Documented business requirements, converted them into functional specifications and created UML diagrams to describe the process flow and on how user interacts with the application
- Reporting and data Analysis: Conducted data analysis on large data sets using MySQL and Excel
- Created dashboards with Tableau to present insights
- Data modeling: Worked on conceptual entity relationship diagrams for the database design
- Usability testing: Tested the final application for Usability to verify whether all the user requirements were addressed efficiently
- End user training and documentation: Delivered end user training materials and presentations on how to use the application features
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
JNTU
Anantapur, India05-2013
Skills
- Product launches
- Product roadmaps
- Strategic planning
- Product development
- Design thinking
- Business case development
- Market research analysis
- Customer research
- Go-to-market strategy
- Data-driven decision making
- Competitive analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
Certification
· CCBA (IIBA) International Institute of Business Analysis Certified Business Analyst, Certified Scrum Master, Certification ID: 931302
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Yokoy
10.2024 - Current
Senior Product Manager (NetSuite, ERP P2P)
Oracle
05.2022 - 09.2024
Business Analyst, Analytics, Data & Integrations (ADI)
Nestle
05.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Software Analyst
Aizon
01.2021 - 04.2021
Business Integration & Architecture Sr Analyst
Accenture Solutions
08.2016 - 05.2019
Business Analyst
CSSI
06.2016 - 08.2016
Business Analyst
Parexel International
09.2013 - 06.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
JNTU
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