Bhaswanth Ramireddy
Charlotte
Summary
Strategic, result oriented and highly engaged Product professional with 10+ years of experience within Supply Chain and Retail Organizations with a proven track record of developing, testing, and launching new products and services, maintaining product objectives and maximizing revenue. Demonstrates strong interpersonal, problem solving and prioritization skills. Blends technology skills with extensive Agile experience, a product mindset and analytical capabilities to evolve product strategy and lead others to build world class products.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Product Manager - Inventory Planning & Replenishment
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
04.2022 - Current
- Implemented an Exceptions Management application to provide visibility, alerting and ability to action on key Replenishment exceptions leading to lost sales recapture of $65M year-to-date
- Leading the efforts to modernize several legacy applications within the Replenishment space that will lead to a reduction of $4M in Mainframe processing costs per year as a resulting of sunsetting 1500+ jobs
- Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Established a process for gathering and measuring product usage and customer satisfaction through OKRs
- Led and mentored a product management group in surpassing organizational goals
Sr Product Manager - Enterprise Inventory
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
12.2020 - 03.2022
- Led the Enterprise Inventory space within Supply Chain Tech at Lowe's to enable in-transit inventory selling to increase revenue to the tune of $40 M in FY 2021
- Developed a Reservation Engine to protect inventory for customer orders
- Supported the expansion of a Market Based Delivery Network to increase coverage and speed of truck deliveries
- Oversaw the turndown of the legacy inventory system resulting in $100K cost savings yearly
- Maintained and monitored product goals, objectives, and milestones to ensure successful product launches and improved customer experience
Sr Product Manager - Supply Chain Global Data
Walmart Inc.
02.2019 - 12.2020
- Implemented an enhanced Cost To Serve model that supports multiple sub-products centered around Waste Reduction, Product Cost Negotiations, Pack Size Opportunities, Network & Channel Optimization and Rate Prediction Engines resulting in $75 M in cost savings
- Evangelized and communicate product vision and capabilities to internal and external customers at all levels
- Defined key performance indicators and other metrics for products owned
Software Engineer III - Supply Chain Global Data
Walmart Inc.
06.2018 - 02.2019
- Led the Grocery and Regional Distribution Centers' Inbound and Outbound Freight Flow Forecasting initiative that saved about $5 M in labor costs
- Built modern supply chain visibility data systems that ingest, analyze and model huge streams of replenishment data that provide visibility for DC operations
- Implemented automated ETL processes that run daily, capturing signals to build forecasts upon
Software Engineer II
Walmart Inc.
02.2016 - 05.2018
- Enabled improvements to the replenishment engine by event driven forecast add-ons that lead to a 500 basis point improvement in accuracy for key divisions
- Collaborated in creating a data driven forecast for Grocery Distribution Centers' that facilitates labor planning and strategic hiring, cutting overtime costs
- Set up the Cloud-powered big data environment to build data science infrastructure and ETL pipelines
Rotational IT Analyst
Walmart Inc.
02.2015 - 02.2016
- Worked collaboratively in an agile IT group that supports "the intersection between physical and digital retail"
- Completed an intensive rotation program across various divisions of former Walmart Information Systems Division that included Service Operations, IT Security and Enterprise Information Management
Education
Masters - Management Information Systems
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ12-2014
Bachelors - Computer Engineer
University of Mumbai
Mumbai, India05-2013
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Product Roadmaps
- OKR & KPI Measuement
- Product Lifecyle Management
- Data-driven Decision Making
- Agile Methodologies
- Design Thinking Processes
- User Research
- Usability/Performance Testing
- Interpersonal Communication
- Mentorship/Leadership
Timeline
Lead Product Manager - Inventory Planning & Replenishment
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
04.2022 - Current
Sr Product Manager - Enterprise Inventory
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
12.2020 - 03.2022
Sr Product Manager - Supply Chain Global Data
Walmart Inc.
02.2019 - 12.2020
Software Engineer III - Supply Chain Global Data
Walmart Inc.
06.2018 - 02.2019
Software Engineer II
Walmart Inc.
02.2016 - 05.2018
Rotational IT Analyst
Walmart Inc.
02.2015 - 02.2016
Masters - Management Information Systems
University of Arizona
Bachelors - Computer Engineer
University of Mumbai
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