Kumar Shah Email & Phone Number

Gujarat, India

India

Working with GEP Worldwide as a Senior Manager in their Product Management Group with a focus on Procurement product lines including Shopping experience, Guided Buying, Request, Approvals, Order, and Receipts documents as part of the P2P process.● Work with multiple Fortune 500 clients to understand their business requirements and work with product owners to translate into functional stories for product development. Coordinate product development across all the teams from Catalog to Receipts and deliver a holistic solution. ● Maintain product roadmap and sprint plan for multiple product documents taking into account feedback from clients, services organization, and company goals.● Develop concept notes, business requirements, and prototypes for product enhancements concentrating on Procurement and Budget to Pay product.● Lead the product effort for release of new Budget to Pay product into the market.● Grow and nurture team of product managers, product owners and analysts. Work with them to drive their growth within the organization and help them deliver successful products within the Procurement space.Major Projects/Achievements:► Delivered multiple and successful client go lives by meeting our commitments and delivering value for our customers.► Successfully launched new AI based catalog search implementing paradigms such as lemmatization, stop-word removal, fuzzy search, history based relevancy.► Budgets to Pay Product - Oversaw complete development of Budget to Pay product from concept stage, writing the requirements, working with UX team on prototyping and tracking through full product development lifecycle.► Improved Customer satisfaction with Procurement product by 25% from in 2020 compared to 2019.

Gujarat, India

Worked with Basware as an independent consultant in charge of operations for the North American Product Management team from India. As part of this role, responsibilities included:● Run Product Management operations, leading meetings, planning team tasks for the sprint, working with other departments for cross-functional goals and overall making sure that the product development cycle runs smoothly.● Work with clients to understand their needs and get feedback on our requirements and product vision. Incorporate both internal and external feedback to make sure we are always delivering the best value with each release.● Develop business requirements concentrating on Purchasing, Inventory, and Assets functionality. Ensure new functionality is ready for market and introduce innovation to the product.● PM Lead for integration Procurement solution with various distinct solutions at Basware including for AP Automation and the Network while looking at the functional design from a procurement perspective.Major Projects/Achievements:► Successful launch of new combined end to end solution combining best in breed Procurement and AP Automation solutions with the largest Network leading to an increase in sales and ARR.► Tracking and delivering on client commitments that lead to increase in overall NPS scores YoY.► Delivered market innovations in Procurement product such as AI based chat-bot, PO Aggregation, new intelligent shopping experience, Material Transfer functionality for the O&G Industry, etc.► Increase in positioning of the solution on various industry analyst reports from Gartner, Forrester, and Spend Matters.► Made sure quarterly and annual goals are being tracked properly for whole product management team and delivered on them.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Basware acquired Verian in April 2016.Basware is the global leader in providing networked purchase-to-pay solutions, e-invoicing and innovative financing services.As part of Senior Product Manager Role, responsibilities included:● Run Product Management operations, leading meetings, planning tasks, working with other departments for cross-functional goals and overall making sure that the product development cycle runs smoothly.● Develop business requirements for functionality related to Procurement, Invoicing, Accounts Payable and Spend Analytics solutions. Participate in R&D sprint cycles to ensure on-time and high quality delivery of updates.● Work with clients to understand their needs and get feedback on our requirements and product vision. Incorporate both internal and external feedback to make sure we are always delivering the best value with each release.● Analyze competition solutions, keep up to date on new functionality in competing products.Major Projects/Achievements:► Launch of brand new Spend Manager solution with enhanced self-service reporting and spend analytics capabilities for our clients. It contained expanded reporting capabilities for clients to analyze their data in various ways along with a library of pre-installed KPIs that any procurement & finance department may need.► Focus group sessions to get feedback on planned enhancements and overall product roadmap. Focus groups conducted with clients, internal employees and external market.► Lead product manager for our maintenance pack solution delivery team. Worked with scrum master and team lead to smooth out processes to improve quality and quantity of changes delivered.► Made sure quarterly and annual goals are being tracked properly for whole product management team and delivered on them.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Basware acquired Verian in April 2016.● Develop business requirements for functionality related to Procurement, Invoicing, Accounts Payable and Spend Analytics solutions. Participate in R&D sprint cycles to ensure on-time and high quality delivery of solutions.● Work with clients to understand their needs and get feedback on our requirements and product vision. Incorporate both internal and external feedback to make sure we are always delivering the best value with each release.● Review of incoming solution defects and customer suggestions to prioritize, define expected behavior and coordinate with R&D team for proper delivery of fixes.● Work with marketing to refine product marketing materials, participate in analyst activities, create presentations for webinars and conferences.● Analyze competition solutions and create competitive evaluations for use during sales process.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Implementing P2P and Invoice Automation SolutionsHelping Clients develop, implement and better their business processesIntegrating with 3rd party ERP/Accounting systems

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Implement and Develop EDI Solutions, 3rd party software integrationWork with clients to design solutions geared to their business processes

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Participate in Software Development using ColdFusion, SQL, .Net

Greater Chicago Area

Patient Info Web Application Development using ASP/SQL