Kapil Vashist

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led multiple high-impact product initiatives at Tesco.
  • Achieved significant annual savings through innovative solutions.
  • Strong background in user-centric product management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager in E-commerce with a strong focus on logistics and delivery solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementAgile Methodologies

Other Skills

Cross-team CollaborationProblem SolvingResearchPublic SpeakingFacilitationWireframingUser StoriesKey Performance IndicatorsNon-Functional RequirementsDesign ThinkingCommunicationMarketing ManagementKanbanJiraSQL

About

👨🏻‍💻I am a Product Manager currently working in Transport Team within Fulfilment at Tesco where I own 3rd Party Logistics Platform which enables Tesco to partner with our trusted 3rd parties to deliver orders as promised no-contact. In my current role, I am responsible for both instant deliveries like Whoosh as well as scheduled deliveries like Grocery Home Shopping via Tesco App 🎓Basically, I am Computer Science & Engineering graduate from NITK Surathkal with strong technical background who appreciates user-centric product approach supported with analytical data and facts. 🗣️Being great at taking initiatives, I thrive to understand the problem in detail and drive it with the team to deliver the business value & the best of experience incrementally for the customers in a fast paced environment making strong relationships with stakeholders and exciting them throughout the journey. 📝Seen by many as extremely organised, I am great at keeping the things structured and moving, ensuring great visibility to all the relevant stakeholders to keep everyone aligned. 🤝Enthusiastic, positive and sympathetic, I radiate warmth and fellowship. As a team member and natural leader, I play the role of an excellent mediator who brings boundless energy to the table and motivates others with contagious enthusiasm ✈️Outside of the work, I like to socialise and enjoy the company of people. I am hobbyist photographer with keen interest in travelling and making good relationships with the people I meet on the journey.

Experience

9 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Tesco

5 roles

Product Manager (Transport - 3rd Party Logistics)

Promoted

Aug 2025Present · 10 mos

  • 👉🏻 Launched scheduled slots proposition for Whoosh by leading the end-to-end cycle from discovery to rollout whilst collaborating with cross functional teams across business, engineering, design, programme, delivering £22M annual revenue
  • 👉🏻 Led the integration and rollout of Just-Eat with Tesco to unlock more population coverage for Whoosh in UK, with annual benefit of £7M
  • 👉🏻 Reduced the fraudulent refunds by protecting the Whoosh order delivery via PINCODE in Ireland, reducing CTO from 5% to 0.9% WoW
  • 👉🏻 Led the transformation of an engineering team from Budapest (Hungary) office to Bangalore (India) office, establishing new ways of working with the renewed scrum team, reducing operational noise from ~80 tickets to ~20 tickets per week
Product ManagementAgile MethodologiesCross-team CollaborationStakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingProduct Strategy

Product Manager (Transport - Final Mile Order Delivery Planning)

Dec 2023Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • 👉🏻 Crafted the vision, strategy & identified short-term and long-term opportunities for the final mile delivery planning by working very closely with business stakeholders, fulfilment delivery managers and online customers.
  • 👉🏻 Tested an adaptive scheduling - order resequencing algorithm in 5 fulfilment locations & then scaled the solution to 350+ stores in UK, resulting in savings of £750K annually
  • 👉🏻 Led the product-market fit analysis & launched our strategic delivery planning solution to 3 additional countries in Europe, enabling the decommissioning of the legacy system, saving £80M
  • 👉🏻 Saved £2M annually by personalising the time-at-door for each customer as Tesco delivers millions of orders every day in UK
Product StrategyAgile MethodologiesCross-team CollaborationProblem SolvingResearch

Product Manager (Transport - Vehicle/Driver Allocation & Order Tracking)

Promoted

Aug 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • 👉🏻 Established purpose, vision, strategy for both “Van/Driver Allocation Service” and “Order Tracking API”
  • 👉🏻 Led the quarterly OKRs setting for both the teams and continuously measuring the KPIs
  • 👉🏻 Drove the two scrum teams simultaneously and passionately improved the ways of working to make the teams efficient to deliver the outcomes
  • 👉🏻 Saved time of Dotcom Managers by 10 times by improving accuracy of driver data for allocations which led to 10 times reduction in manual addition of adhoc drivers on Fulfilment platform across 350 stores in UK
  • 👉🏻 Saved £10,000/month, improved ‘Did you feel informed’ metric by 5% by building & rolling it the order-updates (out for delivery & driver nearby) notifications for both GHS & Whoosh customers which were previously sent by 3rd party delivery service providers
  • 👉🏻 Trialed & Rolled out Late Van Notifications with 98.5% accuracy for GHS customers served via 350+ UK stores, reducing Contact to order by 40% (0.5 to 0.2)
Product ManagementCross-team CollaborationStakeholder ManagementAgile MethodologiesPublic SpeakingFacilitation

Associate Product Manager (Enterprise Application - myProduct : Develop)

Nov 2020Aug 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Drove standardisation and digital transformation of the activities that are involved in the retail food product development cycle on an enterprise tool called ‘myProduct: Develop’.
  • Increased efficiency of users by achieving 80% reduction in the email-traffic that used to take place to manage one major activity of product development process before standardising it in the system.
  • Increased the adoption by 6 times by onboarding external suppliers & partners on the tool who work with Tesco colleagues for launching own label food products.
  • Launched an in-app comment/chat system to enable collaboration among stakeholders to improve their ways of working & increase colleagues’ & partners’ satisfaction.
  • Set up the google analytics platform to track the usability, measure the outcomes and make data-led decisions.
  • Led on end-to-end ownership of multiple features, launched their MVP and then iteratively released enhancements based on the concept of ‘test & learn’
  • Streamlined Agile ways of working across engineering and design teams and led on all the day to day ceremonies and incremental sprint releases.
  • Created the roadmap for the next 2 years by running workshops with users & stakeholders of multiple disciplines across different geographies to iron out dependencies and priorities in collaboration with fellow Product Manager, UX Designer & Tech lead.
Product ManagementAgile MethodologiesCross-team CollaborationStakeholder ManagementPublic SpeakingFacilitation

Graduate Software Development Engineer

Aug 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Started as a Front-end developer and worked on developing a portal called ‘Tesco Help’ which is an efficient and friendly colleague-facing platform that addresses their queries & concerns.
  • Gradually, started to work along with Product Management team to be involved in the bigger picture and to understand why we are doing what we are doing.
  • As an aspiring Product Manager, I led the discovery, designing and tech validation of an epic to provide help to colleagues in the language that they prefer and understand better.
Agile MethodologiesCross-team CollaborationPublic Speaking

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IELTS TRAINER

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Karnal, Haryana

  • Worked as an IELTS Trainer, training students in all 4 modules. Actively participated in managing the academic curriculum with the IELTS Coordinator.
Public Speaking

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

Summer Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on researching the architecture of Bixby for Samsung mobile phones
  • Presented ROS Framework to the robotics team

Mda ithub infotech private limited

Project Trainee

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Karnal Area, India

  • CGRS : Complaints-Grievances-Resolution System:​ ​A Windows application (using JAVA & MySQL).

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Executive Member

Aug 2016Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mangalore Area, India

  • Active Member of CODE SIG in IE-NITK for 3 years which involved organising Computer-Science based Activities for juniors and doing and managing the current IE projects.

Education

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2019

Arya Senior Secondary School Gharaunda (Karnal)

12th — Science

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Arya Senior Secondary School Gharaunda (Karnal)

10th

Jan 2011Jan 2012

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