Abhishek Tayal

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India9 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product management at Leena AI and Fashinza.
  • Achieved significant cost savings through process optimization.
  • Strong background in both B2B and B2C environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in the SaaS and E-commerce sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadershipProcess OptimizationData AnalysisCategory ManagementPnl ManagementSupply Chain ManagementWarehouse ManagementEntrepreneurshipVendor ManagementSoftware DevelopmentNetwork Engineering

Other Skills

Product LeadershipAgile Project ManagementScrumCustomer ExperienceTeam ManagementBusiness Process ManagementSQLCustomer ResearchProduct Road MappingObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)WireframingKey AccountsPricing StrategyConsumer InsightRetail Category Management

About

Professional with ~8 years of experience currently optimizing technology processes and implementation at Leena AI. In the past have dabbled in product management, category management, operational excellence and supply chain optimization. Have exposure to both B2C and B2B firms and understand working at scale as well as fast-growth entrepreneurial set-ups. Love solving challenging business problems in consumer/technology space as a PnL/Product/Business owner.

Experience

Leena ai

2 roles

VP Product Management

Promoted

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Leading a team of 10+ product and design folks who are passionate about making life easier of an enterprise employee and empower him/her to solve problems without seeking internal support from HR/IT/Finance/Procurement etc. The interface is a simple conversational virtual assistant available across multiple channels but powerful enough to automate workflows across 100+ applications, make changes to the device and provide responses to employee queries from the enterprise knowledge.
Product LeadershipAgile Project ManagementScrumLeadershipCustomer ExperienceProduct Management

Founder's Office

Jan 2024Sep 2024 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Closely working with the CTO to optimize processes for product, engineering and implementation to improve engineering efficiency and drive implementation team's ROI. Specifically worked on projects aimed at sales/marketing enablement and driving product readiness for implementation outsourcing.
Agile Project ManagementLeadershipVendor ManagementData AnalysisProduct ManagementProcess Optimization

Fashinza

2 roles

Director of Product Management

Promoted

Jan 2023Dec 2023 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Led a team of 5 PMs/APMs to productize business flows for driving efficiency & data sanity. Drove continuous product enhancement basis business feedback to save incremental ~1000 person hours monthly. Introduced audit processes on platform during order booking to improve margin, delivery predictability & reduce cancellations by 50%.
ScrumData AnalysisAgile Project ManagementVendor ManagementProduct LeadershipLeadership+7

Sr. Product Manager

Jul 2022Dec 2022 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Led 0 to 1 changes in tech platform for improving contribution of business via Fashinza's own designs. Created FZ's digital catalogue of 10k+ products by building taxonomy of 98 categories with unique templates, Modelled SKU data sourced from 20+ leading fashion brands to visualise clothing attribute trends in single dashboard to aid fashion designers.
ScrumProduct ManagementData AnalysisAgile Project ManagementLeadershipWireframing+2

Amazon

4 roles

Senior Category Manager

Promoted

Jul 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr

  • Represented entire Sports & Fitness category (~1% of Amazon.in GMV) in weekly review with VP in absence of category head for 6 months. Led contract transition for 63 vendors (27% GMV share) from Cloudtail to new retail seller within Q1’23. Directly managed the fitness equipment portfolio and improved average selling price by 15% by driving growth for premium brands and combos.
Key AccountsData AnalysisVendor ManagementLeadershipTeam ManagementSQL+4

Category Manager

Dec 2020Jun 2021 · 6 mos

  • Managed fitness equipment portfolio (~0.5% of Amazon.in GMV) within Sports & Fitness category. Improved profitability by 250 bps YoY in 2021 by
  • ● reducing national delivery costs of heavy dumbbells by 20% via 3PL partnership
  • ● additional revenue generated by selling combined packages of sponsored ad listing and real estate on category webpages
PnL ManagementKey AccountsData AnalysisVendor ManagementCustomer ExperienceSQL+5

Planning & Forecasting Manager

Nov 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr

  • Worked as bridge between sellers, business, operations to optimize inventory vs demand and reduce operational expense for Sports & Fitness category. Managed inventory placement to provide faster delivery, better selection while keeping the PnL of the business in mind. Also acted as SME in heavy network and peak event planning for broader org of 8 categories.
Inventory ManagementPnL ManagementSupply Chain OptimizationData AnalysisCustomer ExperienceSQL+1

BOLD Operations Manager

Apr 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Managed customer fulfillment and inventory management as part of DEL2 Fulfillment Center. Led 500+ associates to deliver customer delight and manage warehouse ops across BAU and sale events.
  • Anchored entire Inbound department at DEL2 FC in absence of Sr. Manager through Prime Day, Independence sale and Diwali sale events in 2019. Saved ~₹3 MM via workforce optimization projects -
  • ● inter-department cross training to optimize hiring for sale events by looking at entire warehouse requirement instead of department level
  • ● night shift workforce reduction while achieving day level targets to optimize cost of night shift bonus
Inventory ManagementWarehouse OperationsSupply Chain OptimizationData AnalysisPeople ManagementSupply Chain Management+1

A.t. kearney

Summer Associate

Apr 2017May 2017 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked on a margin enhancement project for an Indian QSR chain (₹2600 Cr annual turnover). Created macro based model to identify the lowest cost factory to store mapping basis variance of raw material prices, store level demand and logisitics cost in a network of 10 factories & 1100+ stores.
MacrosSupply Chain OptimizationData AnalysisExcel ModelsSupply Chain Management

Smart rasoi pvt. ltd.

Co-Founder

Aug 2015May 2016 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Moonlighted to build a venture in the food industry with 2 co-founders. The venture aimed to home deliver affordable and convenient ready-to-cook meal kits with fresh ingredients but shelf life of 5-7 days (via packaging solution). Existing players either used preservatives for providing long shelf lives or they were completely fresh with no shelf life at all.
  • I personally handled our kitchen and packaging vendors in Noida. We received 75% positive feedback from customers who sampled our products during live promotional events in Gurgaon (societies/corporate offices). Basis feedback, we tied up with milkbasket.com and iOrderFresh to generate traction and received 200 orders in 1st month with ₹20k+ revenue.
Vendor ManagementEntrepreneurshipPricing StrategyCustomer Research

Times internet

Product Manager

Jul 2014May 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Noida

  • Joined as a Product Manager with TOI.com for managing the Times Travel content portal present on responsive web and all 3 app platforms. Reported directly to COO and promoted to next level within 1 year. Key stakeholders apart from engineering/design team were content, marketing and ad-sales.
  • ● Optimized SEO to increase traffic from Google 6x YoY; 80% more links of product on Google’s page 1
  • ● Launched Times Travel app on iOS/Android/Windows; Within top 20 on Playstore with 30k+ installs in 1 year
  • ● Formulated strategy to launch 200+ city guide apps (paid apps having city specific content accessible offline) as a new revenue channel. 19 launched till May’16.
Product ManagementData AnalysisAgile Project ManagementDigital Advertising SalesBusiness AnalyticsWireframing+2

Qualcomm

Interim Engineering Intern

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked as en engineering intern in the WLAN department of Qualcomm Hyderabad, India. Completed 2 projects to optimize debugging process and simply code used for deployment of WLAN framework on android devices.
Network EngineeringSoftware Development

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

PGDM

Jun 2016Mar 2018

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

BTech — Computer Science

Jul 2010May 2014

GrowthX®

Product & Growth Program

Jan 2024Present

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

Exchange

Jan 2017Jan 2017

Delhi Public School Faridabad

Jan 1996Jan 2010

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