Jul 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Product Areas: Recruitment ( Onboarding & Off boarding), Talent Management, Learning Management, Competency Development, Performance Management & Succession Planning.
• Global Product management accountability for the entire product portfolio in the Talent Management, Co-Worker Engagement and People (HR) Insights capability areas across the Ingka Group ecosystem serving 180K+ co-workers in 32 markets. Part of the Group Digital function, I lead a team of 15+ (Sweden & India) closely collaborating with cross-functional disciplines including Engineering, HR CoE, Design, Data, Architecture, Cyber security, procurement and Finance.
• Key Accountabilities:
• Product Strategy & Roadmap
• People Empowerment, OKR Setting & Performance Management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Budget forecast & management
• Strategic vendor engagement (SaaS products)

Jun 2019 – Jun 2023 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• Providing product engineering leadership & vision for the organization also providing a strategic level of guidance in support of all product management & development initiatives. Reporting to the President of APAC region monthly.
• Facilitating product innovation initiative with key focus on Quality, Cost & Delivery; developing components in conformance to pre-set technical specifications.
• Insightful exposure in designing and managing the product development & strategy and ensuring seamless integration with client and product engineering team for product improvement and to establish product roadmap across multiple products.
• Demonstrating strong capabilities in executing multiple product development programs including need assessment, business process understanding, requirement mapping and coordinating with Product Owners, Developers and Architects for final program implementation.
• Excellent capabilities in driving product design, product vision, product road mapping and lifecycle management across various engagements including value proposition and functionality, product strategy elements, product release and training.
• Responsible for:-
• # Defining product vision, roadmap for ADP Next Gen Payroll Asia Pacific R&D team.
• # Building strong product development team for a fast pace, iterative development for AWS cloud hosted product.
• # Owning the product life cycle from requirements to product release & support.
• # Collaborating with Sales, Service & Implementation teams for product launch.
• # Transition legacy monolithic product to a cloud based SaaS product.
• Managing several cross-functional and cross-culture teams and coaching team members as appropriate to develop skills and confidence in their ability to examine work processes.
• “Received Heroic award in 2020” for successfully rolling out Beta Product to customers in Australia and New Zealand.

Aug 2015 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Provided leadership to the analytics product team in development of planning, performance & reporting solutions for world-wide finance teams in collaboration with business end users and engineering teams.
• Acted as a Product Manager - Finance transformation capabilities & business intelligence.
• Built & lead the team of product owners for Cisco P&L, Bookings and OpEx applications.
• Instrumental in influencing the cross-functional teams of IT development, IT support and data team to implement capabilities based out of India.
• Successfully Championed the India strategy of Corp finance head in 2 years.
• Provided technical direction for the development, design & systems integration from definition phase through implementation.
• Kept all the stakeholders well informed of the progress of the product proactively.
• Instrumental in finalization of technical architecture, project requirements and resource planning and playing a key role in strategic planning to assure achievement of agreed to technical and business objectives.
• # Analyzed the product requirements and delivered solution to customer.
• # Delivered new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• # Ensured effective communication between the members of the team and the customer (WW finance leadership).
• # Established Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitoring and audited to ensure team meets quality goals.
• “Felicitated with Business Impact award in 2016”.

Aug 2012 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Collaborate with the Sales (Engagement) team to provide functional insights & identify the right downstream opportunities.
• Anchoring proposals as the functional SME for IT transformation initiatives
• Driving HR Center of excellence for the consulting team for identifying and supporting HR systems & processes opportunities.
• Provide critical insight and actionable recommendations for clients dealing with vital strategic business decisions
• Played a role of sector lead for Microsoft, Inc responsible for sector growth in terms of revenue, head count and competency. Revenue/head count growth of 100+% in 8-10 months.

Dec 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Played role of recruitment manager in CORP HR for responsible for hiring 1200+ people per qtr.
• Involved in coming up with recruitment strategy & budgeting with the unit heads in Infosys.
• Trained in GPHR (Global professional HR).

Feb 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Leading a team of project managers and functional leads as part of implementing work brain HR time & attendance system for world’s largest retailer.
• Proposal anchor for Niche HR ERP product group (Kronos, Workbrain, Oracle HR).
• Instrumental in building a team from 15 to 90-member team.

Feb 2001 – Jan 2008 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Greater Boston Area

• +Techno-functional consultant in 2 Oracle Advanced benefits end to end implementations.
• + Project lead/ functional consultant for 2 oracle advanced benefits implementations.
• + Managed a team of HR Business analysts in supporting the enhancements of all Fidelity's Oracle benefits customers.
• + Techno-functional consultant in AR and OM modules of oracle applications for Toshiba, Germany.

Jul 1999 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr 6 mos