Dee Bishnu
Beaverton
Summary
Accomplished product management and technology leader with over 25 years of experience, currently overseeing Target's Owned Brand technology products and platforms.
Known for fostering collaboration and creating actionable roadmaps that yield significant business results, always with a focus on empathy, clarity, and outcomes.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Product Management, Owned Brands
Target
09.2022 - Current
- Lead technology product management for Target's $30 billion private label division, Target Owned Brands.
- Spearheading digital transformation initiatives to drive durable growth for 45 private-label brands across five lines of business.
- Lead portfolio intake, prioritization, planning, and execution of technology initiatives, with annual cost savings of $140 million and expected revenue growth of up to $6 billion by 2030.
- Manage the platform and product roadmaps for Product Lifecycle Management, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Planning, Analytics, and Wholesale B2B/ERP capabilities.
- Responsible for scaling agile and modern product management practices across the organization.
Senior Product Director of Data & Analytics, Strategic Enterprise Capabilities (ERP)
Nike
Beaverton
01.2022 - 09.2022
- Led Master Data Management, Enterprise Data Access, Reporting, and Data Conversions for the Strategic Enterprise Capabilities (SEC) program that is transforming the ERP landscape at Nike Inc., on SAP S/4HANA - MDG and Fashion.
- We replaced a two-decade-old ecosystem of seven ERP systems (including SAP ECC) with a unified and integrated ERP platform that will be a foundation for Nike's consumer direct acceleration.
Senior Director, Sourcing, Manufacturing & Sustainability Product and Engineering
Nike
Beaverton
11.2019 - 12.2021
- Promoted to jump-start and lead the first digital transformation of Nike's manufacturing landscape of over 500 factories through modern platforms, software, and connectivity.
- The outcome is a connected and resilient ecosystem of multiple Nike functions and their manufacturing partners, delivering over 1.4 billion units of Nike products on time, made sustainably, at the highest quality, and optimal cost.
- Developed and evangelized the strategic multi-year technology plan for this digitalization program, secured capital investment, hand-picked engineering talent, and delivered the industry-leading data-streaming and partner-collaboration Nike Manufacturing Backbone platform (on the Amazon and Azure cloud).
- This is rapidly digitalizing critical supply chain collaboration, visibility, resilience, and sustainability business processes that were previously powered by Excel.
- Led co-innovation with Microsoft Cross Industry Solutions to develop and demonstrate industry-leading products that combine edge computing, AI/ML, industrial IoT, and digital twins of raw materials.
Senior Director, Product Line Planning & Merchandising Product & Engineering
Nike
Beaverton
12.2017 - 11.2019
- Pioneered the development of an intelligent product line and assortment planning application suite, replacing many analog processes used to create Nike's seasonal assortment plans.
- This ecosystem of AWS-based tools includes embedded analytics and data visualization to provide a complete and compelling user experience for Nike's product merchandising teams.
Senior Director, Product Data & Analytics Platform, Product & Engineering
Nike
Beaverton
04.2016 - 12.2017
- Promoted to jump-start and lead the delivery of Nike's first enterprise big data and analytics platform for use by Product Design, Development and Merchandising.
- This AWS, Cloudera (Hadoop), Spark, Snowflake, and Tableau-based platform and data lake was able to ingest, consolidate, and serve complex data sets to a wide community of analysts and data scientists in Nike's Product Merchandising teams, replacing many silo datamarts, deskmarts, and business-owned data-gathering processes.
- Created investment plans, secured budgets, and managed technology spending to stay within 2% of annual target budgets.
- Hired and led a global data engineering team, and developed deep business engagement with the new data science community at Nike.
Director, Analytics Technology & Engineering - Product Engines
Nike
Beaverton
01.2015 - 04.2016
- Entrusted with starting a new team and platform for Reporting and Analytics necessary in Nike's Product Creation, Merchandising, and Assortment Planning functions.
- Starting from scratch, built a team of 110 data and analytics engineers deployed onshore and offshore.
- Reclaimed many silo data stores, and delivered a data platform in six months, including data ingestion, governance, and Tableau-based visualization.
Director, Portfolio & Project Management - Product Engines
Nike
Beaverton
09.2013 - 12.2014
- Tasked with leading a $50M+ yearly portfolio of technology programs, projects, and releases for the Product Engines at Nike.
- Implemented portfolio intake, prioritization, capacity planning, and agile execution of technology initiatives.
- Developed a unified portfolio, hired and managed program managers, and pioneered the use of Agile (Scrum + Kanban) in all projects.
- Secured capital investments and managed large budgets, forecasts of Opex and Capex spend on labor, software, and contracts.
Director, Data & Integration Engineering
Nike
Beaverton
08.2012 - 09.2013
- Promoted to manage the data and API engineering team for a high profile two-year program that delivered Nike's first Category-based Product and Price management platform.
- Hired, managed, promoted, and retained engineering and operations staff who delivered trusted data repositories, and ETL/Real Time data integration solutions to multiple projects.
Senior Manager - Data & Integration Engineering
Nike
06.2010 - 07.2012
- Promoted to manage the data and API engineering team for all software and reporting used by Nike's Product Line Management, Product Creation, and Merchandising business processes.
Principal Architect - Master Data Management
Nike
06.2006 - 05.2010
- Promoted to lead the implementation of Nike's first MDM platform.
- Led the platform and vendor selection, including procurement, customization, and integration of SAP MDM and its API.
- Held a seat on the SAP Influence Council for Master Data Management, and collaborated with industry peers to guide the SAP MDM roadmap.
Principal Engineer - Product Master Data Management
Nike
06.2003 - 05.2006
- Promoted to act as the Principal Data Engineer for Product and Reference Master Data, for the Nike Supply Chain program.
- Advised all engineering teams across the enterprise, BI, global sales, and direct to consumer functions.
Lead Engineer - Product Data Integration
Nike
08.2000 - 05.2003
- Hired to design and lead the data engineering of Nike's first Product Master Data hub, as part of the Nike Supply Chain program.
- Delivered a successful custom MDM solution on Oracle to ingest, consolidate, harmonize, govern, and deliver product data to ERP (SAP), Planning (i2), CRM (Siebel), WMS, Reporting (BW), and Nike's store systems.
- This hub is still in use by Nike, after 20 years of production.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - BE - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
Pilani, IndiaMaster of Science - Computer Software Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, INSkills
- Technology product management
- Technology portfolio and program management
- Analog to digital transformation
- Strategy development and planning
- Product roadmapping
- Technology execution methodologies
- Software and data engineering
- Enterprise architecture
- Technology budget management
- Vendor relationships and contracts
Websites
Timeline
Head of Product Management, Owned Brands
Target
09.2022 - Current
Senior Product Director of Data & Analytics, Strategic Enterprise Capabilities (ERP)
Nike
01.2022 - 09.2022
Senior Director, Sourcing, Manufacturing & Sustainability Product and Engineering
Nike
11.2019 - 12.2021
Senior Director, Product Line Planning & Merchandising Product & Engineering
Nike
12.2017 - 11.2019
Senior Director, Product Data & Analytics Platform, Product & Engineering
Nike
04.2016 - 12.2017
Director, Analytics Technology & Engineering - Product Engines
Nike
01.2015 - 04.2016
Director, Portfolio & Project Management - Product Engines
Nike
09.2013 - 12.2014
Director, Data & Integration Engineering
Nike
08.2012 - 09.2013
Senior Manager - Data & Integration Engineering
Nike
06.2010 - 07.2012
Principal Architect - Master Data Management
Nike
06.2006 - 05.2010
Principal Engineer - Product Master Data Management
Nike
06.2003 - 05.2006
Lead Engineer - Product Data Integration
Nike
08.2000 - 05.2003
Bachelor of Engineering - BE - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
Master of Science - Computer Software Engineering
Purdue University