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Robin Simon

Robin Simon

Senior Product Owner
Bangalore

Summary

An insightful professional with 15 years of experience in the areas of Product management, User experience and Stakeholder Management. Domains: Agriculture, Consulting, Retail

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Product Owner

Yara International
Bengaluru
03.2020 - Current
  • ATFARM (Feb 2022 - Present)
  • Moved to Farmers with Large holdings in developed markets of Europe, Americas, Asia
  • Leading the product development of Atfarm's Web platforms and mobile APP
    • Responsible for the development, growth and success of digital solutions;
    • Exploring market opportunities by identifying trends and end-user needs through user research;
    • Connecting with the customer by adopting a customer-centric mindset and applying design-thinking tools;
    • Defining product strategy by aligning strategic priorities to business objectives, creating and communicating a compelling vision, and managing long-term roadmaps;
    • Enabling and supporting regional markets by guiding feature creation, managing and prioritizing backlogs;
    • Ensuring product completeness on time through team collaboration and Agile SCRUM/SAFe methodologies to meet business goals;
    • Mentoring and coaching Product Owners.


  • FARMCARE

Product for Yara FarmCare, a digital companion for broad acre farmers in developing markets:

  • Launched successfully in India in 2020; and in 2021 Kenya, Tanzania, Thailand
  • Yara's first solution to successfully digitise the farmer-retailer connect relationship in Yara
  • Addressed partnering commercial pilots with 2 of the largest banks in India to provide loans to our India users.
  • Handheld the digital user journey for a farmer ahead of the crop season all the way to post-harvest with continuous feedback and implementation cycles while adding new crops to the farmer's crop portfolio

Tools: Balsamiq, JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Miro, Trello, MS office, Mural

Domain: Agriculture, Farming

Product Manager

Maveric Systems Limited
Bengaluru
07.2019 - 02.2020

Open banking solution offerings with regulations, certifications and offerings to European and Middle Eastern Financial Instituitions

Product Manager

BuildDirect Technologies
Bengaluru
12.2018 - 07.2019
  • Contracted with Nirman Nggawe
  • Technologies, owning the seller portfolio in the Home improvement marketplace
  • For the Seller space portal to help sellers upload product SKU with the necessary onboarding and hand-holding
  • Performance maps
  • Client: Builddirect
  • Tools used: Balsamiq, Jira, Confluence, MS Office applications

Associate Product Manager

Monsanto Company (Quess Corp)
Bangalore
10.2017 - 10.2018
  • Owning Platform, Mobile App (Android) and Subscription Services
  • Lead AER (Acquisition, Engagement, Retentention strategies # Spearheaded key features of the App such as engaged Notifications, integration with 3rd parties, onboarding # Beta'd the App within regions for a quarter to receive successive acclaim from stakeholder on app stickiness to go live with the current version of
  • Farmrise # Delivery within Regions of India # Support with Content Management System Integration with Platform and
  • Mobile App
  • Tools : Balsamiq, Jira, Moqups, Trello, Drupal, MS Office applications

Lead Product Owner

Monsanto Company (Quess Corp)
Bangalore
07.2015 - 09.2017
  • Worked on the Mobile App(Android) called " FarmRise " with The Climate
  • Corporation
  • Owning the digital Platform and Mobile Android platform
  • Involved with Business delivery and Production support with multiple co- located and Offshore Scrum Teams
  • Support Product requirement along with Content Management System
  • Delivery of Business and Operational requirements from stakeholders; delivered professionally and meticulously with Architecture Review Board and
  • Development Teams
  • Drove from the IVR based platform for FarmersFIrst which encouraged registrations and engagements
  • Tools : Balsamiq, Jira, Moqups
  • Domain : Agriculture
  • Raet (contracted with Prowareness

Sr. Product Owner

Prowareness (Client Raet)
Bangalore
10.2014 - 06.2015
  • On-site product deliver with Dutch Customers(Raet)
  • Prioritise stakeholder expectations and communications into business delivery
  • Supporting with Testing and Release Management during Sprints
  • Blogging on various Scrum practices within Prowareness
  • Prioritised issues raised by Stakeholders such as Live Customer and create the Backlog effectively for Valued Business Delivery
  • Domain: Administration

Product Owner

Tesco
06.2013 - 10.2014
  • Driving development of key CSC features at Tesco.com's, centre working in an Agile Scrum environment
  • Draft, construct, develop, ship the product, review and mainten to deliver quality products within the optimum timelines Page 3 of 5 - Manage day-to-day process and agile ceremonies of translating product road-map into launched product - writing user stories, prioritizing t-shirt sizing iterations - Review and assess with Stakeholers and Engineering Team on welcoming ideas to improve quality of product and responsible for delivering the best oputput within the Release timeframe
  • Domain: Retail

Marketing Information Analyst

IBM
09.2011 - 05.2013
  • Subject matter expertise in IBM’s sales and opportunity management process
  • Ability to understand performance of business level with regards to Geo level, campaign performance and brand level observations
  • Collaborating timely with global marketing stakeholders
  • Recommend observations on problem areas and suggest potential focus areas based on Analysis, data to evaluate trends and assist business leaders/ counterparts have a wholistc picture of the business performance
  • Domain: Marketing Analyytics

Analyst

Tesco
09.2008 - 08.2011
  • Support for UK based retail giant Tesco on moderating the web based platform
  • Coordinate with design and development team to moderate web pages

Additional Information

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner certified (PSPO 1 & PSPO 2) by Scrum.org
  • Professional Scrum Master certified (PSM 1) by Scrum.org
  • Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner by Scaled Agile Inc.
  • Effective Agile Project Management with Jira by NobleProg


Education

MBA - Marketing

M. S. Ramiah Institue of Technology
04.2006 - 04.2008

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) - Taxation

Bharata Mata College
01.2003 - 01.2006
Robin SimonSenior Product Owner