Akshay Mutalikdesai

Akshay Mutalikdesai LinkedIn | MBA | 3 years in Product Management | ERP, Saas & e-commerce SUMMARY • Product Manager with 3 years of experience in product management and 4 years in software development across ERP, B2B SaaS, and e-commerce. • Experienced in building user centric integration products that accelerate growth, enhance user experience, and scale seamlessly. • Passionate about experimentation and solving complex problems at the intersection of tech, users, and business goals. EDUCATION • Master of Business Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore GPA 4.61/5 July 2024 - May 2025 • Bachelors-Computer Engineering, University of Pune, India Distinction July 2013 - May 2017 SKILLS • Product Skills: Product Strategy and Roadmap, Discovery, Prototyping, Pricing Strategy, GTM, Customer Journey mapping, Stakeholder leadership, Design Thinking, Requirements gathering, Market research, Agile Methodologies • Product tools: Amplitude, JIRA, Asana, Postman, Tableau, DataBricks, Figma • Technical Skills: ERP & Data Integration (SAP S/4 HANA, Informatica Cloud, EDI, APIs), SQL, Python, Advanced Excel, Power Point, Six Sigma • Certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner(CSPO), Certified Scrum Master(CSM), GCP Associate PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Decathlon Product Strategy – Circular Economy Platform June 2025 – Present, Singapore • Owned the end-to-end strategy and experimentation roadmap for Decathlon’s Buyback platform, defining pricing hypotheses and GTM pilots that drove S$300K revenue in 2 months. • Led user discovery through 200+ interviews and iterative customer surveys to uncover key friction points, built prototypes and ran A/B tests to validate solutions, boosting engagement from 44% to 65%. • Conducted user and market research to identify trends and benchmark pricing strategies for the Second-Life market. • Drove end-to-end revamp of the Buyback platform through journey mapping and feature prioritization, defined success metrics and iterated across sprints to lift conversion from 1% to 7.5% and adoption by 30%. • Led cross-functional collaboration with the CEO, engineering, design, finance and ops teams to ship high-impact features across agile sprints, turning the Buyback platform profitable for the first time since launch. Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Technical Product Manager Oct 2022 – May 2024, India • Owned agile sprint ceremonies and backlog in JIRA, defining user stories and acceptance criteria to align engineering deliverables with product outcomes. • Contributed to the development of a stock transfer product for Google, automating multi-region inventory visibility across APAC and improving supply chain efficiency by 30%. • Led SAP S/4HANA and GCP modernization program, defining migration milestones, mitigating risks, and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver a seamless transition improving system scalability and performance. Senior Analyst June 2021 – Oct 2022, India • Supported full lifecycle from discovery to the delivery of a reverse logistics product for Fitbit, enhancing the consumer returns experience while building an internal system for business teams to manage returns and inventory; streamlined warehouse and ERP integrations, reducing friction and processing time by 60%, improving satisfaction, and generating USD 100K in cost savings. Analyst June 2019 – May 2021, India • Designed and deployed a warehouse coordination system for Fitbit, standardizing data exchange with vendors, reducing silos, and improving order fulfillment experience. Associate Sept 2017 – June 2019, India • Delivered a sales order API integration product, automating 24,000 daily e-commerce orders (~USD 2.9M) into SAP, eliminating errors and delays, driving faster, more reliable order fulfillment. LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE, PROJECTS AND AWARDS Projects: Business Process Optimization Dec 2024 – May 2025, Singapore • Drove a business process improvement project with an objective to map existing processes to help business gain a holistic understanding of the business processes, identify bottlenecks in existing processes to improve operational efficiency. • Analyzed data and developed a resource allocation tool to reduce the daily operational bottleneck and saving 240 hours monthly. Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University July 2024 -Present, Singapore • VP (Operations) at NBS Executive Committee (ExCo), organized two key events MBA Olympics and Venture Capital Case Competition. Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. -, India • Ranked consistent top performer at Accenture, earning 3 promotions within a span of 5 years with multiple bonuses. • Awarded Innovation Champion Award at Accenture for creating and implementing automation solutions that resulted in cost savings of over USD 30,000.