afzal khan, Product Director

afzal khan

Product Director

Adidas

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Master's degree, Marketing ,Strategy and Operations
Experience
13 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 2 Months

Product Director at Adidas
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since October 2022

• Handling a team of 4 Product Managers, 6 Product Owners and team of 40 in scrum teams
• Leading product development programs of $120mn investment for global geographies
• Handling Product Data Mgmt/PIM roll out for content syndication, increase sales funnel & conversion
• Stakeholder management with Directors, Vendors, VP’s for strategy and business roadmaps for product

Senior Consultant at Infosys Consulting
  • India - Bengaluru
  • March 2018 to October 2022

British Petroleum
• Driving Upstream strategic initiative-Low Carbon, Wind Energy, Digital innovation valuing $1.7Bn
• Working with C-suites to implement vision to favorable outcome and portfolio management
• Product Manager/Owner for tracks using data analytics to reduce the CAPEX, OPEX and Spend
Siemens Healthineers
• Application Manager & Product owner for critical application dev. process using Agile framework
• Leading team of IT specialist in implementation and providing advisory
• Manage CR’s, product roadmap, stakeholder management, control standards and SOX compliance
Hitachi PG
• Client and stakeholder management with CXO for new product and integration
• Product owner for application, feature development, liaison between business, IT teams
• Translated features into user stories, handled product backlog, prioritizing and sizing ABB
• Multimillion $ deal for divestment of ABB-Hitachi PG transition of E2E IT apps, portfolio, licensing
• Lead team of 30 with multiple functional teams of application, SOX and SIAM implementation
• BPM optimization and digital twin for ABB - through Celonis
Honda, Japan
• GTM strategy to set up swappable batteries for Two /Three wheelers EV for Indian market, $1Mn
• Developed alliances between Honda - Indian vendors for IC cards, M2M sim, payment gateways
Cisco, USA
• Designed customer success management platform for Control Tower r orchestration
• In-house Business Analytics, Automation, AI, ML, Gainsight tools, to inc. adoption, dec. churn
• Lead team of 12 Consultants for Change Mgmt. of Digitalization using dynamic QR ~ $2Mn
• 5G business case specialist, worked as Product owner, BA on multiple projects of clients
• Dev. & implemented strategy for Cisco GTM / Sales Comm. & Incentive
• Worked on Deal Mgmt., Territory Mgmt., Portfolio rationalization by implementing RPA solution
• Design Thinking for MVP; Dev. Blockchain proposal for SW license, Smart-Contract, ledgers
• Bizz. Solution - TOTAL-France dynamic QR-code, JOTUN’s farmer’s app, BUNGE’s SCM optimization

Corporate and Institutional Marketing and Sales at Cadbury -Mondelez International
  • India - Delhi
  • September 2017 to November 2017

Worked as Corporate and Institutional Marketing and Sales Intern
Achieved the desired goals set out by Cadbury International
Generated revenue of INR 600, 000 in span of 2 months
Closed 6 deals with corporate houses and retained the existing clients

Project Manger/Business Development Manager at TecSignal
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2016 to September 2016

• Responsible for delivering projects against agreed scope, budget, schedule & customer expectations. Doing this whilst supervising, directing & motivating teams of multi-discipline contractors & employees.
• Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.
• Providing strategic direction during the implementation stages.
• Monitoring staff & team performance

Pre Sales Network Planning and Desinging Engineer and Technical Consultant at Baud Telecom Networks
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2014 to April 2016

• Working as Consultant in Pre Sales Division for IP Active Networks
• Network Design & Planning for Wireless network heat maps for Third expansion of HOLY MAKKAH

Technical Consultant at Gait Analysis Lab
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 2014 to May 2015

• Technical Consultant for Gait and 3D Motion analysis lab for equipments Vicon, Qualysis, Noraxxon etc.

Researcher/ IT Manager / Senior Software Engineer at king abdulaziz university (kau)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2012 to September 2014

Project #3: Kinect Motion Analysis for rehabilitation
• Used Microsoft Kinect XBOX for developing and deploying C# code, project was funded by King Abdulaziz University with a grant of SAR 350, 000
• Developed software is being used in Gait Analysis Lab Jeddah for clinical physiotherapy
Project #2: NAO Robot (Aldebaran Robotics)
• Actively worked as researcher for NAO Robot implementing new features to NAO Robot, project was funded by KACST with grant of SAR 500, 00
• Developed features for NAO robot and provided training for same in Saudi Arabia
Project #1: Saudi Electricity Company
• Worked as Associate consultant for the supply chain management of Saudi Electricity Company, project was funded by KACST with a grant of SAR 750, 000

Software Engineer at Wipro Technologies- Nokia Siemens Networking
  • India - Hyderabad
  • December 2009 to November 2011

 Worked as a L3 technical analyst and Maintenance project for Nokia Siemens Networks product NSN-SGSN. Have In-depth knowledge about the NSN product NSN-SGSN.I was involved in handling emergencies reported due to network failure, worked on live network, root cause analysis and handling client meetings. I was involved in coding, problem reporting, analyzing of problem reported by customer, testing of application using various tools.
 Worked as R&D engineer for NSN-SGSN Maintenance project , providing solution to SGSN problem occurring on various interfaces and SGSN product as whole, Creating analysis report, designing customer document, source code review, developing code for the patches of source code, providing solution to arising pronto, Designing low level code document. Resolving the cases of clients when it arises and giving them solution to there proble

Education

Master's degree, Marketing ,Strategy and Operations
  • at Management Development Institute
  • March 2018
Master's degree, MS in Computer Engineering
  • at King AbdulAziz University
  • July 2013
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Engineering(Computer Science)
  • at AEC
  • July 2008

1. Got placed in WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES as a project engineer in my 3rd year 2. I was the Topper of my College. 3. Won third prize at paper presentation at VDRIT,Haliyal on the topic "Brain computer interface" on 26th March 08. 4. Won 2nd prize at intercollegiate fest held at NAMAMIT, Nitte, participated in General quiz on 4th April. 5. Won 1st prize at “SPARK08” in Story writing held on 5th May 08 in our college. 6. Won third prize at fashion show held in Manipal Institute of Technology held on 13th March 08. 7. Presented a paper on UML in my final semester. 8. Got a score of 87 percentile in CAT 2008. 9. Qualified for Top UK universities for MSc but couldn’t go as I couldn’t clear the VISA requirements. 10. Worked as Trainers in Anjuman Engineering College for my juniors in developing skills for interview. 11. Qualified for National Defence Academy twice but couldn’t get the recommendation for armed service. 12. Was the founder of community forum in my college and president of it . 13. I got a score of 96 in TOEFLibt. 14. Conducted counseling for students taking admission in FEDUNI, Varanasi

Specialties & Skills

Supply Chain Management
Marketing Research
Consulting
Business Planning
Business Strategy
GSM /GPRS
UMTS /3G
Blockchain
Marketing Automation
Supply chain management
Marketing Strategy
Operations Management
Management Consultant
Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt- KPMG
Business Strategy and Planning
Brand Strategy
Lean six sigma Black belt - KPMG

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

ITIL (Certificate)
CELONIS (Certificate)
CSPO (Certificate)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (Certificate)
Ipsotek (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2015
Sig Sigma by KPMG (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2017
GSM , GPRS ,Telecom Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
Valid Until:
October 2010