Rishyendra Kumar P Email & Phone Number

Dubai/Bangalore

Leading product teams across Search & Merchandising,Commercial, Supply chain, Last mile, Marketplace, People and Finance domains. Driving digital transformation and technology enablement at Landmark group

Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden

Helsingborg, Skåne County, Sweden

Bengaluru Area, India/Bentonville

• Built an global Omnichannel order fulfillment system across 4 geographies and 7000+ Walmart stores servicing 9 B USD ecommerce business to provide integrated customer experience in the inventory management.
• Led a global product team of business and technical resources focused on defining and delivering a competitive and differentiated Store fulfillment platform to our customers to improve convenience and experience.
• Drive and define the vision, roadmap, business impact assessment,OKR's and KPI measurement of the individual products to the overall product roadmap

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area/Bangalore

• Responsible for defining, leading and building critical products related to Merchandise Planning (Size & Case Pack Optimization) to improve the forecast accuracy
• Develop Product OKRs and corresponding metrics to track and control health of the product and business impact

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Drive Merchandise modernization presentation, a major program to support the growth strategy by offering personalization and market specific visual planograms that supports Targets growth Strategy.
• As a Product lead, I was responsible in driving the product strategy & roadmap,outcome and KPI's, stakeholders management and vendor evaluation. Driving product and engineering teams through agile and product.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Define the product roadmap of the Merchandise Presentation and Assortment Planning domains
• Drive product discovery sessions, user research including Surveys & Contextual interviews to define Product Persona, User Journey Mapping and define the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) in alignment with Product goals and.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Driving business analysis team,customer discovery workshops, POC's to build a 25M$ Next Gen strategic inhouse Planogram optimization program which consists of Planogram generation and Assortment Analysis applications.
• Collaborate with SME's, Merchants,Data Scientists to define features,use cases based on Merchandising Strategies, Individual Store space footprints and Fair Isaac Rules Engine to capture exception rules.
• Lead analyst for rules based optimization track aimed at building automated versions of planograms using linear Programming based Optimization Engine resulting in workload reduction by 35%, down from 68% and saving 30%.

Bangalore Area, India

• Building and leading the Merchandise Planning teams in India. I have played an instrumental role in defining the overall Global In house strategy that comprises of transition management, process definition, hiring.
• Led teams across hard line categories at Target India in analyzing sales trends to develop future forecast, building sales history models and creating Assortment Packs for optimum inventory allocation, maintaining In.
• Forecasting & Demand planning for all 18,000 stores for all divisions across categories. Driven projects to drive forecast accuracy by 5% across critical departments resulted in sales improvement of close $30M USD.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Develop go-to-marketing strategy comprising of Store and category launch,communications, and promotions of across Convenience, Supermarket, Specialty and Hypermarkets formats in Andhrapradesh
• Responsible for defining Assortment and pricing strategy per competition and catchment analysis across all formats including organized and unorganized Retail segments
• Created and implemented many marketing programs and managed store teams in driving merchandising and instore communication resulting in footfalls by 18% and avg ticket price by 22%.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Drive bottom line sales by creating customer experience,marketing and brand campaigns that generates loyalty,drives customer footfalls and increase the avg ticket size.
• Created and executed many campaigns like Down under Fest, SKD, Fast Forward Festival, DYD, Parikrama and other loyalty and theme oriented events resulting in increase of customer foot falls by 18% and avg ticket size.
• Designed & executed marketing campaigns like Shop ‘n’ Tour which has contributed 31% sales, has ended in achieving ever highest sale in the unit

Masters Certificate, In Business Analysis

Mba, Marketing & Retail Management

Activities and Societies: • Student body Committee • Management Meets Team • Debate and Think & Speak on your feet Team • I was a part of.

Bsc, Physics & Electronics