Prem Shankar

Prem Shankar

Product and technology professional with 7+ years across PwC, Accenture, and Henkel, driving digital transformation, B2B e-commerce, and agentic AI integration for global businesses. Led product strategy and cross-functional teams for an enterprise API platform handling 1M+ daily transactions and scaled a B2B e-commerce platform 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 - Enterprise API Platform (Integration Engineer)

  • Owned the API platform that runs Henkel's core business flows across 20+ applications and global markets; accountable for roadmap, governance and reliability of 60+ APIs handling 1M+ transactions/day.
  • Prioritised the platform backlog against competing business, market and IT demands; converted ad-hoc requests into quarterly roadmap commitments, reducing integration onboarding time by 30%.
  • Architected the agentic AI integration layer connecting Microsoft Copilot agents to Henkel's internal systems, defining security protocols, reusable API templates and deployment standards with the API platform as enterprise gateway.
  • Led integration architecture for Henkel's B2B e-commerce platform serving professional salon customers across 1,500+ products, unifying customer, product and order data into a single commercial view.
  • Built a custom analytics dashboard tracking API consumption, traffic patterns and anomalous access across 60+ APIs, layering AI-based detection over manual log analysis for platform and security teams.
  • Delivered real-time order and fulfilment integration across 10+ business systems, and standardised the model into a reusable country template enabling 6+ market rollouts at ~60% lower effort.
  • Led a team of 5+ across delivery and governance, sustaining 99.9% availability on business-critical integrations.

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.
  • 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.
  • Served as SME for sales and solutioning teams, supporting 15+ RFPs and proposals helping secure over $5M in new business.
  • 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
  • KPMG Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
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