Prem Shankar

Prem Shankar

Product and technology professional with 7+ years across PwC, Accenture, and Henkel, driving digital transformation and B2B e-commerce for global businesses. As Product Owner, led product strategy and cross-functional teams for a business-critical enterprise platform, scaling it across 6+ countries. Brings strong stakeholder management, with experience defining platform KPIs and using metrics to drive product and business decisions.

Work Experience:

7.5 Years

Industry:

Consulting | FMCG & E-Commerce | Technology

Function:

Consulting & Strategy | IT & Systems Management | Product Management

Work Experience

Henkel (German multinational chemical and consumer goods company) | Bengaluru

Product Owner

  • Product Owner for Henkel’s enterprise API platform, the central layer connecting global business systems, governing 60+ APIs, 20+ applications, and 1M+ daily transactions at 99.9% availability.
  • Owned the platform roadmap, backlog prioritization, and sprint planning process, balancing business requirements, technical priorities, and platform scalability objectives.
  • Led architecture for a global B2B e-commerce platform (1,500+ products); designed a reusable template-based framework enabling rollout across 6+ countries, cutting deployment effort by ~60%.
  • Led a team of 5 developers responsible for development, support, and governance API platform processing over 1 million daily transactions, maintaining 99.9% platform availability while ensuring rapid issue resolution and continuous service improvement.
  • Designed an end-to-end payment integration between SAP and Citi, automating payment initiation and reconciliation, eliminating manual tracking for sales teams.
  • Defined platform KPIs and governance standards; presented platform performance, roadmap priorities, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.

Accenture (global professional services company) | Bengaluru

Team Lead - Technology Consulting

  • Led integration architecture and delivery for a global digital transformation program at a leading FMCG company, consolidating three legacy platforms into a unified solution.
  • Conducted solution design workshops with client stakeholders and competing vendors, helping secure a transformation program valued at over $1M.
  • Partnered with business stakeholders, architects, and cross-functional teams to define integration strategies aligned with business
  • Served as SME for sales and solutioning teams, supporting 15+ RFPs and proposals that contributed to securing over $5M in new business.
  • Led development of a migration-acceleration tool, managing a team of 4 and delivering the first prototype within one month, with an estimated 30% reduction in migration timelines.

Senior Analyst - Technology Consulting

  • Built enterprise solutions for 5+ global clients across FMCG, food & beverage, oil & gas, and retail, translating business requirements into scalable transformation solutions.
  • Implemented monitoring and automated recovery across 100+ integrations, reducing time to detect and resolve issues by ~20% and integration failures by ~10%.

PwC India (professional services firm) | Kolkata

Associate - Technology Consulting

  • Delivered enterprise integration solutions for clients across 4+ countries and 5+ industries; architected 30+ interfaces in a large-scale HR transformation, unifying employee data from 100+ systems into a single source of truth.
  • Automated payroll reporting and account provisioning for ~15,000 employees, cutting payroll processing time by ~40%; standardized solutions into reusable accelerators adopted across clients.
Accomplishments
  • ACE Individual Award – Received ACE Growth Catalyst Award at Accenture for exceptional contribution in project.
  • STAR R&R Award – Got awarded at PwC for exceptional dedication, and ownership toward successful project delivery.
Education
  • B. Tech(Agricultural and Food Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Certification
  • Certificate of Completion: Determinants of Capital Structure - Applied regression and time-series modeling techniques to analyze variables influencing capital structure.
Extra-curricular
  • Core Team Member, Student Welfare Group – Organized orientation and mentorship programs, conducted academic support sessions, and led student welfare initiatives to enhance engagement and campus experience