Siddesh Gowda Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru

• End-to-end ownership of pricing home & apparel products at enterprise level to achieve long term profitability by identifying price improvement opportunities & partnering with Merchants, Strategy Leads and Product.
• Identifying products to be competitively priced across different markets in US and taking effective price decisions and effectively maintain price consistency by putting similar items in line group
• Solved high complexity problems and streamlined the process by leveraging structured techniques, automation & performing deep dive analysis to provide insights on effectiveness of pricing strategies during the peak
• Effectively built & managed best practices & team governance for the business/process and provided strategic solutions to key areas across pricing and competitive intelligence
• Successfully trained & on boarded new TMs with process knowledge, organization behaviours, responsibilities & mentored them by giving hands-on working experience, which enabled them to swiftly take over the.
• Restructured a complex and extensive item issue template with technical reason codes for online process that led to a significant increase in the percentage of issue closures from 40% to 100% in Q4

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the shop right operations team and created process gains by collaborating with Product & Engineering teams to come up with process improvements which resulted in financial savings & reduced process steps which.
• Ensured we have reliable price signals in the comparable matches in at least one of our competitive data sources for items to be able to actively price them in the US retail market
• Created documentation and best methods such as huddles, EOD reports, metrics trackers, metadata change trackers etc. for each process & brought clarity to the workflow and recorded data for further training and.
• Led the price execution operations by managing and executing all the 88,000 items by ensuring on time delivery with 100% accuracy
• Introduced an automated excel template for sanity checks which caught 3,400 items with incorrect prices going live on site.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Handled tasks impacting items setup process such as Target media Network, LOOP in collaboration with fulfillment centers
• Owned the Beauty division and overall health of product launches and Data Validation of information submitted by the vendors/buyers for the items on site and stores
• Trained International vendors like Unilever, Kimberly Clark & Conair Corporation on target’s image policy & process best methods for launching their respective items on Target post business award
• Worked in tandem across teams to roll-out of new tools /technologies for 100+ team members

India

• Owned End to End item setup in target systems for the grocery & essential products
• Worked with stakeholders to ensure products are setup up with accurate information & are 100% ready for writing purchase orders without any delays
• Successfully remediated the on site content like – Soft Bullets, Long Copy, Product title, Guest Facing Brand, Crumb Trail for more than 3000 pre-existing target.com items
• Represented the team as a SPOC for newly rolled out business tool Pipeline & recommended enhancements for the betterment of the tool which in turn led to incorporation of the features that are being used by 120+ TMs

Masters Of Business Administration, Human Resources Management And Services

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance And Financial Management Services