Aasheesh Talwar
Leamington Spa
Summary
Product leader with a proven track record of driving growth and delivering exceptional user experiences. Skilled in digital product strategy, execution, data strategy, and analytics for informed decision-making.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Product Manager/Expert
McKinsey & Co.
London, India
06.2020 - Current
- Leading 3 Enterprise products (0-1/concept to reality) for Risk mitigation, communication and end-to-end document management.
- Leading strategy, innovation and execution as part of the Technology & Digital Strategy team for 3 products (Tech stack – React.js, AWS Glue & Snap logic for ETL, KAFKA for real-time exchange of data, SharePoint for collaboration, Mongo DB for unstructured data and AWS S3 for long-term storage solutions)
- Leading a high performing, cross functional team (24 data engineers and full stack developers along with 2 design experts)
Sr. Product Manager & Category Head
Sadhan Enterprise (I) Private Limited
India
05.2019 - 04.2020
- Collaborated with former McKinsey colleagues to establish and grow Sadhan, a B2B start-up specializing in first and last mile transportation for air travelers.
- Key contributor in building an effective digital operation from inception in collaboration with executives, including the CEO (formerly a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co.), CTO, and CDO. Contributed to strategic planning efforts for both internal digital processes as well as securing lucrative partnerships with leading flight aggregators.
- Key contributor in establishing and launching digital products from scratch, resulting in revenue realization within a timeline of less than 6 months.
- Developed comprehensive product roadmaps to ensure alignment with business goals and customer needs.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, sales and operations teams to define requirements for new products.
- Provided guidance on best practices related to user interface design, usability testing and analytics tracking.
Principal Consultant
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
India
06.2017 - 09.2018
- Principal Consultant (Digital Transformation) to Ministry of Home Affairs (Govt of India) for a strategic initiative and launch of CCTNS (Crime and Criminal tracking network system) – a data-intensive digital product to track crime and criminals across India (28 states and 8 UTs).
- Partnered with top-level bureaucrats in addressing issues and devising strategies for improving processes such as reporting crime, escalation process management, 24-hour helpdesk support optimization across metrics and success measurement.
- Devised big data strategies and implemented designs to handle intricate data structures and governance models
- Led a team of 9 high performing data consultants and directly interacted with hundreds of senior stakeholders.
Digital Technology Specialist
McKinsey & Co.
Middle East, US, and Europe
12.2015 - 05.2017
- Led Data Transition strategy for an Oil & Gas major in Middle East
- Strategy & Digital Expert for up-selling for an Automobile major in Europe
- Digital Transformation at Telco major in Middle East - Led a team of data engineers - Teradata, Angular.js experts and built an application
- The application recommends optimal capex and data network rollout strategy based on customer data usage pattern
- Supported enterprise business of a large telco recover 90% of bad debt (~400 M USD) using analytics and created controls to prevent future bad debt
- Transformed annual budgeting process for a tier-1 CSP that saved annual capex requirement by ~1 Bn USD
- Used Zero based budgeting and advanced analytics to build an investment prioritization platform that processed large amount of user, network, billing and costing data to create business cases at mobile tower level that helped prioritize investment
- Driven “change” at client –coached client in getting smarter on the tool highlighting key differentiators and value adds in comparison to status-quo
- Agile Coach for client IT for a Telco major in Middle East
- Worked as a Data Architect for a Pharmaceuticals client (US) - included understanding client data, data Ingestion on AWS Redshift & hands on with Alteryx and AWS S3.
Associate Consultant, Solution Architect
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
India, NORDIC and UK
10.2010 - 11.2015
- Led a huge transition program – data technology and people for an automotive giant in UK
- Led pre-sales & pricing team for Manufacturing vertical in NORDIC – was responsible for end-to-end solution and pricing, won multiple, million-dollar proposals.
Senior Software Engineer
NIIT Technologies Limited
India, and UK
07.2006 - 10.2010
- Led a team of 5 database developers
- Database developer for an Insurance product widely used in Lloyd's and London market for Insurance and Re-Insurance
- Worked at client for business analysis and converting use cases into data queries/stored procedure logics.
Education
Certificate Program in Sustainability -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02.2024
B. Tech, Computer Science -
GLA Institute of Technology and Management
05.2006
Skills
- Complex Problem Solving
- Strategic Planning
- Internal & external stakeholder management
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Product and data strategy
- Product Development/Execution
- Design Thinking
- Agile Methodologies
- Data architecture
Certification
- Professional certificate program in Sustainability from MIT, 2024
- Azure Fundamentals, 2021
- AWS Architect Associate, 2016
Industries served
- Insurance
- Travel
- Manufacturing
- Government & Public Sector
- Firm Functions (Risk, Legal & Finance)
Hobbies and Interests
Aasheesh plays Premier League Cricket, watches Football, and plays Snooker in his free time. Learning about Sustainability is also his interest that keeps him busy on quite evenings.
Timeline
Sr. Product Manager/Expert
McKinsey & Co.
06.2020 - Current
Sr. Product Manager & Category Head
Sadhan Enterprise (I) Private Limited
05.2019 - 04.2020
Principal Consultant
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
06.2017 - 09.2018
Digital Technology Specialist
McKinsey & Co.
12.2015 - 05.2017
Associate Consultant, Solution Architect
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
10.2010 - 11.2015
Senior Software Engineer
NIIT Technologies Limited
07.2006 - 10.2010
Certificate Program in Sustainability -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B. Tech, Computer Science -
GLA Institute of Technology and Management
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