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Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Location
London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
September 20, 2021
Nahin is an experienced consultant whose passion is to deliver company-tailored programs from strategy to execution while providing sustainable benefits. He has demonstrated strong analytical skills and extensive expertise in strategy, transformation, PMO, stakeholder, product, and portfolio management in his career. Nahin’s achievements include creating business cases for change in technology, media, telecommunications, retail, healthcare and finance industries, and local governments.
Project Highlights
5G in B2B Sectors
Spearheaded the project from strategy to execution with projected revenues of over £800 million in five years. Achieved a buy-in from all business stakeholders and built it into the budget.
Product Simplification Program of a £24 Billion Portfolio
Developed the group-wide product portfolio with strategic recommendations on £120 million investments and closure on legacy products to drive savings of £390 million.
Expertise
Work Experience
Senior Product Strategy Manager
2018 - 2021
BT Group
- Worked with a cross-functional team to deliver a 5G B2B business case worth £800 million over five years. Achieved a sign-off and agreed with sales directors to build into the five-year business plan. Influenced £2 billion 5G network rollout plans.
- Developed BT Group’s product portfolio taxonomy of £24 billion in revenue and a shadow product and profitability model to help drive the strategic investment decision-making with BT Group’s executive committee members.
- Led research on the autonomous drone market in the UK, developed a product strategy for unmanned traffic management to address £780 million market opportunity, and devised a go-to-market strategy with a strategic partner.
- Designed and developed product launch operations for health products, 100% digital-led customer journeys, and a just-in-time supply chain for efficient inventory management.
- Developed BT Group's edge computing product and commercial strategy with an identified value opportunity of £20 million in two years.
Strategy Manager | Strategic Initiatives
2018 - 2018
BT Group
- Delivered a strategic business improvement program worth £200 million built into the budget, conducted commercial due diligence on BT Group’s sports assets, and created DCF financial driver model for scenario analysis.
- Developed a workplace transformation strategy with more than £120 million in efficiencies for BT Group to consolidate from 750 to 50 office locations in the UK. Forecast the total labor resource (TLR) and site strategy requirements.
- Led contractor spending strategy with £83 million budget to incentivize effective delivery with 100% increase in capacity of streamlined end-to-end processes and 20% cost efficiency on budget.
Project Manager
2016 - 2017
BT Group
- Delivered a robotics automation project for BT Group HR with 92% efficiency across offshore back-office teams.
- Created a dynamic forecasting and planning model for effective resource allocation of a critical system transition.
- Introduced and delivered a civil engineering avoidance program to reduce contractor spending by £9 million from the £50 million budget in three months.
Founder
2015 - 2016
Chalo Taxi
- Conducted market research and identified a gap in the market worth £33 million annually. Created product vision and product strategy.
- Took a new product to market by creating wireframes, customer journey, and process design single-handedly.
- Led a three-people development team to create a product roadmap and started developing a web app.
- Exited and closed the startup due to significant investments from competitors to expand into the market gap identified as it was infeasible to continue burning capital.
Senior Associate Consultant
2014 - 2016
PwC UK
- Coordinated training for 3,000 PwC UK staff, which was the largest transformation program within the company.
- Headed a team of three associates that identified £40 million savings through the digital transformation at London Borough of Lambeth.
- Created an MI dashboard to track and deliver a 20% productivity increase at a call center of a large retail bank in Poland.
- Delivered £5 million in savings via contractor management and created an MI dashboard to track the £100 million procurement transformation program.
- Built a complex financial and operational simulation model for NHS trusts during strategy and secondment.
Project History
5G in B2B Sectors
Spearheaded the project from strategy to execution with projected revenues of over £800 million in five years. Achieved a buy-in from all business stakeholders and built it into the budget.
• Led virtual workshops with more than 60 colleagues across BT Group to gather 5G use cases
• Created a prioritization framework to shortlist six use cases for focus
• Led a cross-functional team of four people to develop the value propositions
• Developed a business case in close collaboration with finance teams
• Presented findings and business opportunities to three ExCo members and gained a sign-off
• Created a prioritization framework to shortlist six use cases for focus
• Led a cross-functional team of four people to develop the value propositions
• Developed a business case in close collaboration with finance teams
• Presented findings and business opportunities to three ExCo members and gained a sign-off
Established National Critical Control Point for Drones in the UK
Headed the evaluation of BT Group's drone strategy in the UK and developed the key strategic point for the company to pivot in the future. This strategy resulted in a £10 million investment with a partner to establish BT's position in the UK market.
• Collaborated with the innovation scouting team to shortlist key vendors.
• Initiated contact, led joint workshops with vendors to identify market
opportunities, and conducted deep research on vendor ambition for the UK market.
• Developed negotiation guidelines in line with technology and commercial teams.
• Initiated contact, led joint workshops with vendors to identify market
opportunities, and conducted deep research on vendor ambition for the UK market.
• Developed negotiation guidelines in line with technology and commercial teams.
Product Simplification Program of a £24 Billion Portfolio
Developed the group-wide product portfolio with strategic recommendations on £120 million investments and closure on legacy products to drive savings of £390 million.
• Developed a detailed product portfolio map of all 140 products across BT Group for the CFO.
• Built a "fully loaded" shadow product profitability model for all products.
• Provided recommendations on product closures, investments, and continuation strategy across BT portfolio using a product lifecycle framework and profitability.
• Coordinated technology release schedules to determine optimal customer migrations and define product closure targets to bank savings.
• Built a "fully loaded" shadow product profitability model for all products.
• Provided recommendations on product closures, investments, and continuation strategy across BT portfolio using a product lifecycle framework and profitability.
• Coordinated technology release schedules to determine optimal customer migrations and define product closure targets to bank savings.
Operation Design of a Digital Health Solution
Steered the design and development of a health product to deliver 100% digital customer journeys. Gained external certifications for customer service and established a just-in-time production and delivery process.
My task was to create the launch operations with a view on scaling to one million subscribers by year two.
• Led workshops with the product design teams to understand requirements from the customer journey point of view and critical notification points.
• Detailed a process design with the logistics and supply chain teams to understand current constraints and developed solutions that meet requirements.
• Agreed on SLAs from suppliers with our prepackaging requirements.
• Developed three tiers of customer support requirements to meet an external accreditation.
• Conducted the test runs with a new process and iterated as required. This process, used during the trial, was successful and was handed over to the operations manager ahead of launch.
• Led workshops with the product design teams to understand requirements from the customer journey point of view and critical notification points.
• Detailed a process design with the logistics and supply chain teams to understand current constraints and developed solutions that meet requirements.
• Agreed on SLAs from suppliers with our prepackaging requirements.
• Developed three tiers of customer support requirements to meet an external accreditation.
• Conducted the test runs with a new process and iterated as required. This process, used during the trial, was successful and was handed over to the operations manager ahead of launch.
Education
2010 - 2013
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics
University of Warwick - Coventry, UK
Certifications
DECEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
Certified Scrum Master
APMG International
MARCH 2014 - PRESENT
PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification
APMG International
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