Amit Walia, Digital portfolio product manager

Amit Walia

Digital portfolio product manager

Johnson Matthey

Location
Great Britain (UK) - London
Education
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
Experience
25 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 3 Months

Digital portfolio product manager at Johnson Matthey
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since April 2023

• Manage a portfolio of digital products for sustainable green energy solutions (blue/green hydrogen, sustainable aviation
fuels) aimed at improving lead generation, conversion through to monetisation, retention. Lead teams across JM, EY,
Zensar & other vendors.
• Develop and drive digital transformation strategy and roadmap with focus on value based outcome, time to market
and key performance indicators.
• Form hypothesis, run discovery and validation, evaluate qualitative/quantitative feedback and data, optimise and
iterate to improve funnel metrics

Principal Digital Product Manager - Digital acquisition, Digital tools, Personalisation at HSBC
  • United Kingdom - London
  • April 2019 to February 2023

• Lead Digital propositions for HSBC global public websites across c40 markets.
• Drive digital transformation, personalisation, growth and adoption working closely with global market leads, stakeholders
across proposition, marketing, legal/compliance, operations, analytics. Lead scrum teams and vendors.

Key Responsibilities:
• I own and lead (1) Digital tools proposition (Financial calculators, Search, Product comparison, Branch finder and customer focussed Decision tree engine) and (2) Digital customer journeys for lending products (credit cards, loans, mortgages & insurance).
• Create product evolution strategies, develop product roadmaps, act as a value maximiser by prioritising, collaborate with cross functional teams to define user centric & commercially viable digital customer journeys/products, run optimisation tests, make decisions to unlock business value.

Key Achievements:
• Led and launched ~70+ global tools across 21 markets surpassing KPI metrics goals we had set, with increase to 3.07m tool interaction visit, ~91% uplift in tool interaction rate, ~58% uplift in app intent rate and ~25% uplift in conversion, saving ~£4.4m+ overall.
• Led and launched multiple lending customer journeys with ~10% uplift in conversion funnel paving a path to iterate and optimise further and build relevant, dynamic experiences for customers, across various markets.
• Led and launched customer journey personalisation use cases to enable surfacing of dynamic content yielding +58% uplift in app start & 44% uplift in app submit across devices.
• Led and launched Expat website and UAE International section with redesigned, customer centric journeys & templates across all strategic products underpinned by reusable design patterns, fully integrated content platform and content APIs for full content management & syndication

Senior Digital Product Manager - Staff digital solutions, Digital transformation and adoption at HSBC
  • United Kingdom - London
  • April 2018 to February 2019

Lead proposition for e-sign solution adoption, expansion and evolution with focus on understanding evolving business needs working closely with global markets and operational stakeholders as well as manage in-house and agency scrum teams.

Key Responsibilities:
• Product manage and deliver new cloud based omni-channel digital solution by integrating Adobe AEM and Sign, from ideation to delivery, so as to fit HSBC Wealth business needs keeping in mind its global reusability.
• Identify opportunities in new business areas to gauge product relevance & rollout Adobe esign in these markets tailored to their business needs.
• Articulate need for product improvement to bridge gap between business problems and technology enablers.

Key Achievements:
• Increased adoption and global footprint ie: c200 journeys on-boarded to go paperless leading to 25% uplift in customer conversion, 60% improvement in completion rates, ~£12m revenue increase, ~£1m in material cost save.

Digital Product Owner / Manager - Digital servicing, Digital experience at Barclays
  • United Kingdom - London
  • August 2014 to March 2018

Deliver multi-million dollar investment digital proposition to revamp Help & Support (H&S) section with focus on serving
contextual content and improve customer experience with clear business outcomes - https://www.barclays.co.uk/help/

Key Responsibilities:
• Drive strategy for search and an intelligent, contextual & relevant customer contact digital feature.
• Articulate product needs to leverage new CMS capabilities and deliver responsive & intuitive proposition informed by analytics & SEO.
• Responsible to scale H&S proposition for our colleagues in Branch, Telephony and other channels.

Key Achievements:
• H&S (customers facing) - successful platform migration, c £1m cost saving p.a., ~25% increase in self-serve click-through rates.
• H&S (staff facing) - 100% uptake of product by frontline staff, 40% content optimisation, improved CSAT.

Digital engagement and business change manager at Sky
  • United Kingdom - London
  • July 2013 to July 2014

Lead the assessment, feasibility and delivery planning within the Online & Digital eCommerce platform business change team ie: Introduction of new digital propositions (products/services), Customer Experience changes, launch of new business proposition, change management for existing products/services.

1. Impact assessment across multiple Online sales and service Agile scrum teams.
2. Requirements elucidation for high value proposition, regulatory and discreet (NDA’ed) projects.
3. Managing solution recommendations and influencing architectural guidance based on roadmap.
4. External & Internal stakeholder management and peoples management.
5. Facilitate creative workshops ie: user journeys, wire framing, proof of concepts, usability testing.
6. Senior management Gate reviews and submissions.
7. Handholding delivery.

Delivery manager & Business process engineering at Sky
  • United Kingdom - London
  • December 2011 to June 2013

Deliver strategic change in support of Sky’s corporate goals w.r.t. product/service launches. Role was business facing in Customer Service Experience & Operations team and remit included (but not limited to),
1. Project manage business and operational readiness activities for product launches and service propositions
2. Trials Manager on a HVP (high value proposition) programme
3. Business Analysis and Process engineering involving stakeholder Identification and management across various business areas ie: sales, marketing, Online, operations, technology.
4. Drive change with focus on customer experience across RTM's (route to markets) with impetus on multi-channel customer journeys, operating model and Online user journeys.

Sr. Project Manager and Client Engagement at Zylog Systems (Europe) Ltd
  • United Kingdom - London
  • February 2011 to November 2011

1.Product Consulting and Delivery of strategic product and app offerings for service management area.
2. Presales for business expansion in new markets and regions.
3. Business Analysis to aid organizations streamline business processes and reduce costs on operations.
4. Part of the go-to market strategy team to sell and implement the modernization framework, for transformation projects, in partnership with industry big players (IBM/Oracle).

e2e Delivery/Release Manager at BT Openreach
  • United Kingdom - London
  • April 2008 to January 2011

Delivered e2e IT solution, involving 40+ systems, using SCRUM project methodology (Agile). Each phase was worth millions and was part of delivering BT Superfast Fibre Broadband (SFBB) from conception to a working E2E FTTx product within 8 months. This was followed by successful internal trials improving the CT (cycle time) and RFT (right first time) and enabling the next phase of large scale trials in Milton Keynes. The story has received BBC coverage, link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11566065

CRM Consultant, Solution designer at BT Wholesale
  • United Kingdom - London
  • April 2006 to March 2008

Requirement capture, design and deliver organisational strategic solutions so as to align with the key objectives of system rationalisation and transformation and achieve a convergent IT systems estate.

eCoX being a BT Wholesale's CRM platform, project encompassed adherence to the equivalence conformance (EOI) as a result of BT's regulatory undertakings with ofcom.
Responsible for leading the component design and delivery of the existing CRM system to make it EOI compliant.

CRM Analyst & In-Life Service Management at BT Wholesale
  • United Kingdom - London
  • September 2003 to March 2006

Responsible to service manage the Electronic Customer Order (eCo) and Field Sales and Marketing (FSM) applications for BT Wholesale which were their strategic CRM platform. It is an instance of Siebel which has been developed and customised for the needs of BT Wholesale. It is used to place Orders/track progress/store customer inventory/product information and provide sales support and customer care. eCo is also integrated with numerous interfaces (COM Siebel applications) which form a part of the overall architecture and are closely knitted with Siebel.

Various profiles - Technology and Delivery at Tech Mahindra ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 1999 to August 2003

Joined as graduate and moved on to serve various roles in technology and delivery

Jan99-June99 - Post recruitment joined as graduate and underwent 6 month comprehensive academic programme in IT systems, design, processes and management.
Followed by delivering high value projects working in various roles, in India and United Kingdom, across different lines of business in BT, as below,

Business Analyst for BT Openreach (sub-con by TechM)
Lead Solution Designer for BT Openreach (sub-con by TechM)
CRM Design & Delivery Lead & Coordinator for BT Wholesale (sub-con by TechM)
CRM In-Life Service Management for BT Wholesale (sub-con by TechM)
CRM consultant, BT Retail (sub-con by TechM)
Tech lead, BT Retail (sub-con by TechM)
Developer, BT (sub-con by TechM)
Broad-vision COTS product consultant, BT Syntegra (sub-con by TechM)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at Mumbai university
  • December 1998

Specialties & Skills

Optimisation
Research
Agile Project Management
Product Design
Product Management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

SEO Foundations from Linkedin Learning (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2023
Digital Marketing Foundations from Linkedin Learning (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2022
Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap from Linkedin Learning (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2021
Product Management: Building a Product Strategy from Linkedin Learning (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2021
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon web services (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2023
Valid Until:
April 2026
PRINCE2 foundation examination from APM Group (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2007
Foundation certificate in Business analysis from BCS, The chartered institute of IT (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012
Certified SAFe 4 practitioner from Scaled Agile, Inc (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2019
Valid Until:
June 2020
Certified Professional scrum product owner from Scrum.org (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2017
Certified SAFe 4 Product owner/Product Manager from Scaled Agile, Inc (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2018
Valid Until:
November 2019
Certificate course in VPs and Directors of product management: Finding excellence from Udemy (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2022
Certificate programme in management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumb (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2004
Online Certificate course in Customer led change design thinking from Stanford online (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2021
Certificate course in management essential from Harvard business school online, UK (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2019

Hobbies

  • Emerging tech, Racquet sports, Cycling, Theatre, Creative arts, Travel.