1. PRACHIR DHANDHANIA
Contact Number: +91-9008155335
E-Mail: dhandhania.prachir@gmail.com
SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
Product Management
Industry Preference: IT/Business Analytics/Project Consulting
PROFILE SUMMARY
 A qualified professional with over 11 years of experience in:
- Product Management & Strategy - Solution-Product Consulting - Business Analytics
- Application & Process Engineering - Pre-Sales - Liaison & Coordination
- Procurement
 Presently associated with Eka Software Pvt. Ltd., India as Senior Product Manager – Commodity Analytics Cloud
 Skilled in and managed Enterprise Software Product Management, Business Analytics Product Management, Cloud
Analytics and On-prem solutions.
 Skilled in business process re-engineering, delivery of solutions to clients, multiple products in various domains and
verticals to serve the market
 Gained experience in handling marketing operations to stimulate growth and realize organizational objectives
 Abilities in delivering a dynamic breakthrough in managing design & development of products
 High integrity & energetic leader with proven ability in quality assurance and product development to deliver quality
services to clients / customers
CORE COMPETENCIES
Product Management and Strategy:
 Conceptualizing plans for a product/ line through market research, competitive analysis, pricing, customer engagement and business
planning
 Identifying areas for growth and creating strategic product line roadmaps to help drive adoption of the product and
differentiating features for the same
Marketing Operations:
 Recognizing new streams for revenue growth & developing plans to build consumer preference and exploring marketing
avenues to effectively build consumer preferences & drive volumes
 Spearheading market intelligence activities for ascertaining market trends, influences & competition and utilizing market intelligence
information
Reporting & Documentation
 Understanding business process and documenting the same
 Maintaining change requests and functional specification document and releasing notes and online help to customers
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since Sep’11 Eka Software Pvt. Ltd
Assignments Handled/ Deputations:
Feb’14-Jan’15 Eka Software Pvt. Ltd., Australia as Senior Product Manager – CommoditySiteManagement
Since Sep’11 Eka Software Pvt. Ltd., India as Senior Product Manager – CTRM
Since Jun’15 Eka Analytics, India as Senior Product Manager – Commodity Analytics Cloud
Key Result Areas:
 Managed and delivered multiple product releases without delay and won customer implementation appreciation for past
couple of years.
 Working on the strategy of new Business Analytics platform offering (Commodity Analytics Cloud) for the Analytics
product to provide the fitment and user stories for the prospect market.
 Accountable for managing CTRM product for metal and mining. Also managing Eka product line for Commodity Site
management.
 Managing the product and domain within short span of time and working with different teams to understand the business and
taking the product to next level with focused approach from project to product view with planned releases
 Upgrading customers a single code base in order to minimize support cost and upgrade strategy
 Coordinating with Development Team, QA and Testing for the solution for the delivery and development
 Implementing requirement to the Technical Team (communication and presentation)
 Handling marketing which includes white papers, marketing collaterals and competitive analysis
 Working on sales and support, conducting UAT and workshops with customers and product consulting, demos,
customizations - Pre-Sales/Sales support with tenders/RFPS

2. Highlights:
 Workingtowards strategizing the Analytics productroadmap.
 Delivered multiple releases and go live with new customers as well product upgrades with current customers without delay and
90% QApass.
 Successfully build theproduct from conceptionand deliveredthe product on time withgoing liveoveraduration of 2years
 Generated successfully revenue 12% for the company from the product and made it cost effective with profit shown of
10% YoY till 2016. This has grown to 17% in 2017.
 Merit of being among the top rated employees and won award as a team and individual contributor. This can be shown as my
career graph in Eka and previous companies.
Sep’09-Sep’11 Griha Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as Senior Manager (Senior Business Analyst)
Key Result Areas:
 Worked on UI and Use case definition using wireframes and UML
 Coordinated with Sales and Operations team to understand the requirement in the market
 Helped clients with project road maps and established key milestones along with sales teams
 Assisted the company to develop the skills from a non-software company to software one with team, deliverable SLAs,
challenging environment
 Handled a team of 40 with different skill sets
Highlight:
 Successfully developed software products for in house maintenance to reduce the resource cost by 40% with net ROI of 22% for
firstyear withcontinuous growth in productivity withreduced cost. andalso catered outsidemarket as a service
Oct’06-Sep’09 Ariba Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as Business Analyst/Solution
Consultant/Application Engineer
Key Result Areas:
 Coordinated with Account Executives all over the globe for understanding the requirement and presenting the same in form
of a process for the clients and customizing the solution to fit in their process accordingly
 Worked on Business Analytics for Ariba clients to show benchmarking on various dimensions and measures. Toll used was excel,
oracle. This has helped a lot to prove the ability to save (potential saving opportunity) from their current spends (spending
patterns).
 Implemented Ariba Product on client’s requirementsuch as sourcing, procurement, contracts management, invoicing, etc.
 Worked with the Solution Strategy team in US (Onsite) to present the deep functionalities of the product and the process
specific to the client industry which can be defined as middle tier between the engineering and the user for the clients
 Involved in the information benchmarking and producing reports on the basis of the data gathered from clients
 Trained and educated clients on the Ariba solutions
Highlight:
 Successfully built POCs for showcasing the savings achieved over the software using the benchmarked data
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Jul’05-Oct’06 3iInfotech Ltd., (formerly called ICICI Infotech), Bangalore as Business Analyst in Product
Management
Highlights:
 Successfully envisaged a downloadable version of the existing product which was selected for development and was
developed as a product
 Implemented successfully channel partner strategy for marketing the existing product in Northern Region in two months only
 Successfully designed a product which is an executable one and easily implemented without any support that will be sold
along with the hardware with channel partners
ACADEMIC DETAILS
2005 M.B.A. (Marketing/Systems IT) from R. A. Podar Institute of Management, Faculty of Management
Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
2003 BCA from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
IT SKILLS
 Well versed with:
o Database : Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access with SQL/PLSQL knowledge
o Tools : Excel, Ariba Analysis, Business Objects and Tableau
o Languages : OOP on Java, Dot Net
o Applications : MS Office Suite

3. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES & OTHER ACCOLADES
 Received:
o Eklavya Award for individual performance in Eka multiple times
o Best Team Award for team performance multiple times
o IP creation
o Eka – Metal Valuation Model
o Ariba – Saving Opportunity Model
o Griha – CCM (Commodity Cost Model)
o 3i – infotech – VedaLite (Lite/Self installable version of Recruitment Software)
 Ranked Holder in High School, College and Professional Studies
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 29th October 1980
Address: H403, Ozone Evergreens, Haralur Road, Bangalore - 560102
Languages Known: English and Hindi
Location Preference: Bangalore