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ishan Vidyarthi

ishan Vidyarthi

Hyderabad,Telangana

Summary

Accomplished Product Manager with a demonstrated proficiency in defining, propelling, and aligning product solutions with market fit. Proven track record of spearheading the development and successful adoption of new products and capabilities. Adept in defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap, while meticulously prioritizing and refining product backlogs. Skilled in establishing robust success metrics and KPIs for comprehensive evaluation. .

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Regional Product Head

H&M India Business Tech
Bengaluru, Karnataka
12.2021 - Current
  • APAC
  • Define and propel the product solution, ensuring its alignment with market fit through strategic planning, customer research, and iterative product development
  • Lead the development and successful rollout of new products, capabilities, and changes to existing features to drive value realization within the APAC region
  • Support countries with setting up budget, resources, communication, training, and change management
  • Products and Feature Delivered
  • Click & Collect, BOPIS, BOPSS, ORIS, Omni-Warehouse
  • ORIS & BOPIS implementation resulted in annual revenue increase of 10 %
  • Dynamic stock availability across channels and Market Places
  • (6%)
  • RFID implementation with shrinkage reduction to < 3% and revenue uplift by 5%
  • Driving the end to end roll out of marketplace Integration and setting up SOPs.

Senior Product Manager

Lowe's India
Bengaluru, Karnataka
11.2020 - 12.2021
  • Defined the product vision, strategy and roadmap with key milestones
  • Responsible for thorough review, refinement, and prioritization of the product roadmap along with setting up success metrics and KPIs ensuring clear targets for evaluation
  • Served as an internal resource on digital experience with emerging technology for omni-channel retailing
  • Products and Feature Delivered
  • Worked on Demand Driven value network to determine the recommended # facings of products in stores and implement the space strategy
  • Reduced the sales loss by 7 % and increased shelf productivity by 5%
  • Worked on shelf connected replenishment Model (PMIN to Supply chain Integration)
  • Helped SCM to optimize the orders based on presentation Minimums
  • Reduced the out of stock of items by 10% (both for local and imported items).

Manager

M.H Alshaya, Enterprise Solutions
Kuwait city, Kuwait
10.2018 - 11.2020
  • Set up S.O.P for Retail Planning & execution process
  • Oversaw the implementation of Solutions of JDA and Oracle
  • Driving the SIT and UAT
  • Worked with Brand heads and IT BPO to drive business needs & devise solutions.
  • Increased Margin contribution by 2-5 % points
  • Reduced out of stock and maintained correct WOS.
  • Reduced Markdowns and optimized the pricing strategy

Product Owner/ Functional Architect

JDA Labs
Hyderabad, Telangana
10.2015 - 09.2018


  • Translated requirements into product specifications
  • Drove backlog grooming and sprint planning process with Scrum teams
  • Responsible for communicating business requirements- in form of use-cases, acceptance criteria, and JIRA stories
  • Worked closely with tech and UX/UI team to translate requirements into product specifications

Manager

Citixsys Tech Solutions, Product
New Delhi
06.2015 - 11.2015


  • Acted as the main contact for the functional and technical team
  • Responsible for successful implementation of I vend suites of products.

Senior Business Consultant

JDA Software
Bengaluru, Karnataka
01.2013 - 06.2015
  • Lead Functional design sessions and workshops in defining and designing JDA Enterprise Planning implementations
  • Active member/lead design session with retailers'/key business stakeholders
  • Developed a template for Retail Planning based on Retail & Cost Method of accounting.

Product Manager

Oracle India Pvt limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka
04.2012 - 01.2013
  • Key player in conceptualization, design, development of a retail price and lifecycle management system

Senior Business Analyst

Nexgen Technology
Bengaluru, Karnataka
11.2009 - 03.2012
  • Requirement gathering, analyzing & feasibility study
  • Prepare Functional design docs, Traceability Matrix and Test Cases
  • Managed end to end implementation Retail Planning Solutions

Retail Planner

Creative Portico
02.2008 - 11.2009
  • Implemented retail merchandising strategies that focus on customer satisfaction & bottom- line accountability


Education

Artificial Intelligence for Leaders (Texas McCombs) Certification in Digital Product Management -

University of Houston

Digital Transformation - Channel Strategy and Management

BCG & Univ of Virginia, Tuck School of Business

MBA in Retail and Supply chain - Retail, Supply chain, Technology

National Institute of Fashion Technology
Kolkata
06.2006 - 06.2008

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Business Transformation
  • SAFe & Agile
  • SaaS
  • Design Thinking / UX
  • Retail Consulting
  • Business Analysis
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Technical skills
  • Microservice Architecture
  • DevOps
  • Gherkin
  • Python/KNIME
  • Jira & Confluence
  • MS Visio

Accomplishments

    Retail Transformation Award M.H Alshaya Co
    • Client satisfaction award Schurman Retail Group (US)
    • JDA Performer for Q2 2013
    • All India toppers in NIFT
    • Best Diploma Project in NIFT

Timeline

Regional Product Head

H&M India Business Tech
12.2021 - Current

Senior Product Manager

Lowe's India
11.2020 - 12.2021

Manager

M.H Alshaya, Enterprise Solutions
10.2018 - 11.2020

Product Owner/ Functional Architect

JDA Labs
10.2015 - 09.2018

Manager

Citixsys Tech Solutions, Product
06.2015 - 11.2015

Senior Business Consultant

JDA Software
01.2013 - 06.2015

Product Manager

Oracle India Pvt limited
04.2012 - 01.2013

Senior Business Analyst

Nexgen Technology
11.2009 - 03.2012

Retail Planner

Creative Portico
02.2008 - 11.2009

MBA in Retail and Supply chain - Retail, Supply chain, Technology

National Institute of Fashion Technology
06.2006 - 06.2008

Artificial Intelligence for Leaders (Texas McCombs) Certification in Digital Product Management -

University of Houston

Digital Transformation - Channel Strategy and Management

BCG & Univ of Virginia, Tuck School of Business
ishan Vidyarthi