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Shardul Mhetre

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in driving customer engagement strategies.
  • Proven track record in business development and P&L management.
  • Strong leadership skills demonstrated through multiple sales contests.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B E-commerce Product Manager with expertise in customer engagement and business development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementCustomer EngagementBusiness DevelopmentP&l ManagementApplication Development

Other Skills

Business StrategyCommunicationClarityKey Account ManagementSalesforce.comAgile MethodologyCompetitive AnalysisDemand PlanningKey Account DevelopmentSPSSSQLTeam ManagementStakeholder ManagementSales & DistributionChannel Program Management

About

Shardul is working as Senior Product Manager, handling customer engagement charter for Amazon's B2B Business. He has worked with Amazon as a Business development manager for Automotive, Home-Outdoors and Kitchen categories, scaling the customer inputs and driving growth for these categories. Prior to Amazon, Shardul has led the buy-side efforts for Healthcare devices category at Flipkart. He has successfully grown the business in an offline heavy category in quick time by improving end to end customer journey – product discovery, availability, presentation and delivery of the products by developing new brands and scaling existing brands on Flipkart. Working as Area Sales Manager with Samsung for 3 years, he has handled sales & distribution for some parts of Rajasthan. He learnt the nuances distribution & team management in this role. He excelled in his responsibilities and demonstrated his leadership skills to win multiple sales contests and accolades. Prior to MBA he has worked with Akamai Technologies, as an Application developer engineer, where he was part of 3 member team for implementation of Remedyforce- a ticketing solution for the enterprise. Shardul is an analytical, hands on individual. He raises the bar on ownership and is driven to deliver business objectives by problem solving and improving the experience for his customers, partners and stakeholders.

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
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Current Experience

Amazon

3 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

May 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Driving Customer Engagement Charter for Amazon India's B2B business (Amazon Business)
Business StrategyCommunicationProduct ManagementCustomer Engagement

Senior Category Business Development Manager

Dec 2021Jul 2022 · 7 mos

Clarity

Category Business Development Manager

Sep 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Flipkart

Category Manager

May 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Business development and P&L ownership for the healthcare devices category
  • Responsible for Brand Relations, Key Account Management, Selection, Customer Acquisition and Conversion
  • Strategic brand alliances : responsible for margins, TOTs, monetization through marketing spend
  • Improved the bottom line by building business through marketplace, on-boarding brands for brand ads leading to create category salience on portal
  • Improved end to end customer journey – product discovery, availability, presentation and delivery by improving selection, SMR analysis and SLA improvements
  • Increased market share significantly by on-boarding new brands and developing niche verticals
  • Ramped up and grew the business in an offline heavy category by keeping head heavy approach and creating value for both sellers and customers
Business StrategyBusiness DevelopmentP&L Management

Samsung electronics

2 roles

Manager - Exclusive Channel

Promoted

Jan 2018May 2018 · 4 mos

  • Selected to manage the exclusive channel for Rajasthan and Haryana
  • Revived the growth in exclusive channel through localised and digital initiatives
  • Increased the profitability of exclusive channel - working capital management and increased accessory business
  • Implemented the "Experience Enhancement Project" to deliver superior customer experience in the brand stores

Area Sales Manager

Jun 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Responsible for achieving business targets within the assigned territory
  • Plan and implement the most effective dealer/distributor network for placement of Samsung products
  • Monitor trade investments/account receivables to manage the credit cycle of dealer and distributor
  • Driving Key account management, business planning with partners for account growth
  • Perform Competition analysis to form sales strategy and increase market share
  • Designing BTL marketing initiatives for buzz creation of new products; managing new product placement
  • Work closely with marketing team to optimise the utilisation of company assets: manpower, hard assets (boards, fixtures, demos, dummies etc.)
  • Educate dealer/distributors regarding Samsung policies, directions, schemes etc. through variety of means
  • Work closely with service function for effective after sales support of customers
  • Work closely with head-office for demand planning, pricing and promotion
  • Liaison with the third party vendors for faster execution, NBFC players like Bajaj Finance, Home credit, Capital First

Akamai technologies

Application Software Developer

Jul 2012Jun 2013 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Remedyforce Helpdesk solution on Salesforce: Worked on 72 CRs following agile methodology, worked on discovery, development, go-live post go-live phases; developed use cases for organizational training
  • Performed Business Process Re-engineering across divisions for Helpdesk migration on Salesforce.com
  • Relationship survey processing for NPS calculation: reduced support effort by 70% by applying JIT (Just In Time) logic to incoming responses
  • Customer Notification Solution: A solution for escalation managers of Akamai to reach out to customers in case of service incident; simplified the user experience by addition of new functionalities

Ispg technologies india pvt ltd

Business Analyst Trainee

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos

  • Performed requirement analysis for website design solutions.
  • Designed CMS solution for websites needing frequent updates from the web administrator.
  • Learnt nuances of web marketing using PPC, SMO and SEO.

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2013Jan 2015

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Engineer’s Degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV

Science

Jan 2000Jan 2007

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