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title: "Sakshi Yadav - Product manager in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Sakshi Yadav, Diageo | IIT Bombay MBA’23 | Kimberly Clark based in India. AI stack includes claude, openai, and Microsoft Copilot."
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# Sakshi Yadav on Tal

## Headline

Diageo \| IIT Bombay MBA’23 \| Kimberly Clark

## About

Project Management and Digital Transformation professional with an MBA from IIT Bombay \(SJMSOM\) and experience leading global technology initiatives\. Expertise in project governance, stakeholder management, vendor delivery, risk management, business analysis, and driving enterprise\-scale digital transformation across global markets\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

claude

openai

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Product manager at Diageo, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 y 2 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading Diageo's cloud program governance, MarTech platform delivery, and compliance, spanning AWS infrastructure, data governance, and digital commerce platforms\. • As Project Manager, drove requirements gathering and defined the governance model behind Diageo's first governed AWS environment for defined use cases \(data clean rooms, global websites\), overseeing delivery of a multi\-account Landing Zone foundation\. • Built a recurring delivery cadence across internal and partner organizations, executing independently\-owned sub\-projects with accountable ownership across all governed control domains\. • Drove the AWS security and architecture requirements program to full completion, achieving 85%\+ pre\-production compliance with a CISO\-visible risk escalation framework\. • Established AWS Marketplace governance and a live billing/recharge process for cost allocation\. • Implemented a structured Service Introduction and governance process for Diageo's B2C and DCX applications, cutting the non\-compliant application backlog by 50%, achieving 100% compliance for new applications, and lifting existing applications to 80%\+ compliance — with a clear path to full SI/BAU readiness for further applications in FY26\. • Led a Data Clean Room Proof of Technology \(AWS \+ Amazon Marketing Cloud\), automating a manual data process into a daily pipeline that delivered a 42% audience match rate and 35%\+ uplift in purchase value in a live campaign\. • Leading the pilot launch of an AI\-driven Joint Business Planning platform across 5 markets, targeting a 50% reduction in planning time and $0\.5M\+ incremental NSV in FY26\.

Lead product analyst at Diageo, Jan 2025 \- Jun 2025 · 6 mos, Budapest, Hungary, • As Product Owner for the Scotch Dashboard, translated business requirements into BI specifications, validated data accuracy, and delivered a fully functional, adopted dashboard\. • As Data & Analytics Lead for a core business platform, resolved 6 critical technical issues and managed 7\+ concurrent workstreams, coordinating across multiple teams to accelerate resolution and keep the platform stable\.

Management Trainee at Diageo, Jun 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • As Consumer Risk Specialist, directed Design Authority solution assessments and led discovery sessions for a new website compliance platform, translating Legal/Ops/Security requirements into actionable development specifications\. • As Data Privacy Risk Specialist, completed Data Flow Diagram recertification across \~300 applications and encryption/retention reviews for 40\+ applications, building process guides and owning HR Privacy Risk Assessments for the team\. • As Data and Operations Consultant, managed weekly market share reporting across 4 countries and owned support for the Marketing Performance Dashboard\.

Summer Intern at Kimberly\-Clark, Apr 2022 \- May 2022 · 2 mos

Programming Analyst at Cognizant, Aug 2019 \- Jan 2020 · 6 mos, Executed 10\+ accessibility test cases against a Smalltalk\-based insurance platform, applying HTML/CSS/JS fundamentals to identify, document, and validate front\-end compliance issues across key WCAG check categories including navigation, contrast, and form usability, fully aligned with WCAG 2\.1 Level AA accessibility guidelines\. Generated 20\+ test insurance policies to validate system scenarios and edge cases across the client platform, directly contributing to an 80% improvement in overall delivery efficiency for the insurance client engagement\.

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, IIT Bombay \- Shailesh J\. Mehta School of Management

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electronics and communication, Dr\. A\.P\.J\. Abdul Kalam Technical University \(AKTU\), Lucknow

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