Akarshan Sachdeva — Product Manager

I am currently employed with Publicis Sapient in their Product Capability Group to support the Energy clients during various stages of E/CTRM Product Life Cycle. Previously, I’ve worked with Cognizant Business Consulting as a Management Consultant in the sphere of Energy and Utilities with prime focus being Business Analysis in ETRM space. I’m an MBA graduate in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. I have pursued specialisation in the field of Marketing with Strategy and Trade as Minors. In the MBA internship stint with Sony Pictures Networks, I gained deep insights into the Media/Entertainment industry and single handedly worked on an International Business assignment for strategising and formulating a market research plan for analysing the content viewing pattern of South Asian populace in US and UK. This is where I mastered the art of Coordinating work with my team-members residing in different geographies and time-zones. In the second year, I reached the finals of the the Aditya Birla Group - Economic Times Young Leaders B School Edition. The competition received applications from over 13,000 candidates from all over India and I was recognised amongst the top 0.37% (49/13000) Young Leaders of 2016. During Pre-MBA experience as a Software Engineer in Test at Toshiba Landis+Gyr, I worked in the niche Smart Metering domain where I was fortunate for getting an opportunity to work on an end to end Scalability project encompassing Requirement gathering, Design Interpretation, Product fabrication and Quality Review for one of the top power players in Japan.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in Energy and Utilities, focusing on E/CTRM solutions.

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Experience: 8 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Product Management
E/ctrm
Management Consulting
Software Engineering
Quality Assurance

Career Highlights

Top 0.37% in Young Leaders competition among 13,000 candidates
Expertise in E/CTRM product life cycle management
Strong background in business analysis and strategy

Work Experience

Publicis Sapient

Senior Product Manager (4 yrs 1 mo)

Product Manager (2 yrs 4 mos)

Cognizant

Consultant (2 yrs 6 mos)

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN)

Summer Intern (2 mos)

Landis+Gyr

Software Engineer - SQA | BA (1 yr 10 mos)

Dialogic

Summer Intern (1 mo)

CMC LIMITED

Summer Trainee (1 mo)

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Exchange candidate at IÉSEG School of Management

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) at Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology, Delhi

High School at Bal Bharati Public School

Akarshan Sachdeva

Product Manager

Gurgaon, Haryana, India8 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Top 0.37% in Young Leaders competition among 13,000 candidates
Expertise in E/CTRM product life cycle management
Strong background in business analysis and strategy

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in Energy and Utilities, focusing on E/CTRM solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementE/ctrmManagement ConsultingSoftware EngineeringQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsBenchmarkingBusiness MigrationCC++Client Stakeholder ManagementCommunicationCore JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer RequirementsDefect ManagementDelivery ManagementDesign Workshops

About

Experience

8 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Publicis sapient

2 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

Product Management
Client: A leading British Mining MNC (Metals and Commodities)
Domain: E/CTRM
Assignment: Market Data POC and Zema Implementation
Roles & Responsibilities:
Product Benchmarking, strategising, selection
Build & Design features, Releases, Innovations
Commodities SME
Business Migration
End-To-End Business Analysis
Client Stakeholder Management
Onshore User Acceptance workshop

Product BenchmarkingClient Stakeholder ManagementEnd-To-End Business AnalysisBusiness MigrationDesign WorkshopsProduct Management+1

Product Manager

Jan 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Product Management
Client 1: A leading German Power giant
Client 2: A leading British Mining MNC (Metals and Commodities)
Domain: E/CTRM
Roles & Responsibilities:
Product Ideation, Roadmap
Build & Design features, Releases, Innovations
Business/Domain SME
End-To-End Business Analysis
Client Stakeholder Management
Delivery Management (Agile Releases)
RFPs

Product IdeationDelivery ManagementClient Stakeholder ManagementProduct ManagementE/CTRM

Cognizant

Consultant

Jul 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Strategy and Technology
Vertical: Energy and Utilities
Client: Swiss Multinational Commodity Trading giant/ETRM
Part of the Business Strategizing team responsible for business migration and parallel run of a legacy ETRM system to a newly created custom ETRM system.
Product Owner for a set of modules responsible for trade capture and logistics in a custom ETRM tool

Business MigrationTrade CaptureLogistics ManagementManagement ConsultingE/CTRM

Sony pictures networks india (spn)

Summer Intern

Apr 2016 – Jun 2016 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Domain:
Marketing and Strategy
Project Title:
Analysing the Content consumption trend and changing audience behaviour for niche content in International markets
Gained deep insights into the Media/Entertainment industry
Single handedly worked on an International Business assignment for strategising and formulating a market research plan for analysing the content viewing pattern of South Asians in US and UK.

Landis+gyr

Software Engineer - SQA | BA

Aug 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Noida Area, India

I joined Landis+Gyr (A Toshiba Company) as a Graduate Engineer Trainee and was promoted to Software Engineer -SQA | BA after 3 months.
Skills:
Knowledge of QA Methodology, STLC and Software Development Life Cycle (Waterfall/Agile model).
Experience in testing Web as well as Windows based (.Net) applications on different environment.
TCP/IP Protocol testing and testing of web/windows services.
Experience in test case design, test execution and defect management using Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and Microsoft Visual Studio.
Well expertise in preparing and executing test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.
Expertise in Black Box testing.
Working knowledge of multiple databases like SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle 10g/11g.
Experience in establishing QA practices, procedures, strategies, developing appropriate process to ensure quality of product.
Ability to prioritise tasks very well and take responsibility to meet the deadlines and work on multiple test projects at the same time.
Excellent communication skills with ability to work independently as well as in a team.
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Analysis-Understanding the Requirements for QA Analysis before writing and executing varied test cases
 Tracking-Defect replication, verification, tracking and its analysis through Microsoft Test Manager package
 Execution-Carrying out various types of Manual Testing (Functional, Sanity, Regression, UI/DB, Load)
 Delivery- Responsible for timely delivery of the product or user stories to the clients across various locations
 Training-Crucial part of the training wing, thus involved in imparting various Domain specific KT Sessions