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Neha Kagwad

PRINCIPAL PRODUCT MANAGER

Bengaluru

13+ years of work experience

Nike
Sep 20261 moPresent

Nike
Jan 20224 yrs 8 mosAug 2026

·       Cultivated strong stakeholder partnerships across business, engineering, and design functions, enabling alignment on complex decisions and driving successful product outcomes through collaborative leadership. ·       Earned recognition for exceptional product leadership and innovation, delivering impactful digital analytics, data platform modernization, and business transformation initiatives. ·       Leading end-to-end product lifecycle management from ideation, business case development, and requirements gathering through MVP delivery, launch, adoption, customer feedback integration, and continuous product enhancement. ·       Turned organizational ambiguity into structured execution by defining ownership boundaries, RACI frameworks, and delegation models across competing priorities; replacing micromanagement with trust-based accountability and measurable outcomes.
Accenture
Jun 20217 mosDec 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Recognized for developing web products for a large American Shipping & Logistics client, that focused on insights for talent acquisition, forecasting resource requirements, and performance optimization and generated deep insights into attrition thereby reducing attrition by 5% during my association with Accenture as an Associate Product Manager. • Successfully developed and deployed volume forecasting, capacity planning & allocation application for BPOs that resulted in direct cost savings worth $500kKUSD & indirect benefits like employee retention, friendly workplace & increase in SLA adherence to 99%. • Built an inventory optimization-focused supply chain product for a Malaysian Petrochemical giant using predictive modelling that reduced in-hand inventory and reduced cost by $1000KUSD within the first quarter of its launch.
Accenture
Jun 20183 yrs 1 moJun 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed financial & HR analytics products for global clients across diverse portfolios, while leading a 15–20-member team. • Focused on building product & business architecture considering ease of use, and relevant data insights enabling users to faster decision-making process.
Accenture
Aug 20152 yrs 11 mosJun 2018

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, and data flow/data model diagrams. • Leveraged industry tools like Jira, Confluence, AHA, and others for capturing features and epics.
Target
Oct 201410 mosJul 2015

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Drafted and maintained business requirements and aligned them with functional and technical requirements. • Analyzed consumer behavior & conceptualized them into tangible requirements.
Copal Amba (a Moody’s subsidiary)
Nov 20121 yr 10 mosAug 2014

India, Bangalore

• Enabling global investment bank re-structure their data flow in fixed income market. • Created an improved process to counterpart existing process efficiently with success rate of 80% within 5month of joining.
Northern Trust Corporation
Jul 20123 mosSep 2012

Bangalore

Neha’s AI Stack

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Education

ICFAI University

Master in Business Adminstration, Finance

ICFAI University

20082 yrs2010
Goa University

Bachelor in Business Administration, Marketing

Goa University

20053 yrs2008

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Headline

PRINCIPAL PRODUCT MANAGER

About

Product Leader | Retail Tech & Enterprise SaaS | 15+ Years in Strategy, Cross-Functional Delivery & Platform Transformation | Patent Co-Holder

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

claude

meta

metaai

openai

perplexity

Work experience

Principal Product Manager at Nike, Sep 2026 - Present · 1 mo

Lead Product Manager at Nike, Jan 2022 - Aug 2026 · 4 yrs 8 mos, · Cultivated strong stakeholder partnerships across business, engineering, and design functions, enabling alignment on complex decisions and driving successful product outcomes through collaborative leadership. · Earned recognition for exceptional product leadership and innovation, delivering impactful digital analytics, data platform modernization, and business transformation initiatives. · Leading end-to-end product lifecycle management from ideation, business case development, and requirements gathering through MVP delivery, launch, adoption, customer feedback integration, and continuous product enhancement. · Turned organizational ambiguity into structured execution by defining ownership boundaries, RACI frameworks, and delegation models across competing priorities; replacing micromanagement with trust-based accountability and measurable outcomes.

Associate Product Manager at Accenture, Jun 2021 - Dec 2021 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Recognized for developing web products for a large American Shipping & Logistics client, that focused on insights for talent acquisition, forecasting resource requirements, and performance optimization and generated deep insights into attrition thereby reducing attrition by 5% during my association with Accenture as an Associate Product Manager. • Successfully developed and deployed volume forecasting, capacity planning & allocation application for BPOs that resulted in direct cost savings worth $500kKUSD & indirect benefits like employee retention, friendly workplace & increase in SLA adherence to 99%. • Built an inventory optimization-focused supply chain product for a Malaysian Petrochemical giant using predictive modelling that reduced in-hand inventory and reduced cost by $1000KUSD within the first quarter of its launch.

Lead Product Owner at Accenture, Jun 2018 - Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Developed financial & HR analytics products for global clients across diverse portfolios, while leading a 15–20-member team. • Focused on building product & business architecture considering ease of use, and relevant data insights enabling users to faster decision-making process.

Senior Business Analyst at Accenture, Aug 2015 - Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, and data flow/data model diagrams. • Leveraged industry tools like Jira, Confluence, AHA, and others for capturing features and epics.

Business Analyst at Target, Oct 2014 - Jul 2015 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Drafted and maintained business requirements and aligned them with functional and technical requirements. • Analyzed consumer behavior & conceptualized them into tangible requirements.

Analyst at Copal Amba (a Moody’s subsidiary), Nov 2012 - Aug 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos, India, Bangalore, • Enabling global investment bank re-structure their data flow in fixed income market. • Created an improved process to counterpart existing process efficiently with success rate of 80% within 5month of joining.

Analyst at Northern Trust Corporation, Jul 2012 - Sep 2012 · 3 mos, Bangalore

Education

Master in Business Adminstration, Finance, ICFAI University

Bachelor in Business Administration, Marketing, Goa University