Arun Jaya

Global Product & Platform Lead at Unilever | Last Mile Delivery | Distributor Management System| SFA| Distributive Trade |Unilever Market Place|

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

Product Leader specializing in building and scaling supply chain solutions for the distributive trade. Proven ability to define product vision, prioritize features, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful results. Key achievements: -Led product strategy and execution for dynamic delivery optimization, scaling the solution from POC to 1000+ distributors across 7 markets, impacting a $4B business and achieving $4M in annual cost savings and 80% next-day delivery for 1.7M retailers. -Managed product roadmap for a distributor management system and SFA platform supporting a $7B business and 33,000+ field sales representatives. Go-getter with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for building great products. Let's connect

Experience

  • Unilever (12 yrs)
    • Global Product and Platform lead -Transport Management System | Distributive Trade| UMP
      Jan 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

      TMS -Dynamic Delivery Optimization capability driven from POC to pilot and scaled to 1000+ DTs | 7 Markets | 4 billion business| 1.7m Retailers in 4 years delivering 4m$ last mile cost savings per year and achieved next day delivery of 80% in all key markets. Driven the digitisation of last mile, route optimisation from POC to scale up to handle dynamic planning for orders coming at any point of time & optimise cost to serve.

    • Integrated Trade Promotions Execution Delivery Lead - Indonesia and Thailand
      Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs

      Integrated Promo Planning, Promotion Execution & Claims Management for Indonesia and Thailand-live 900 DTs with significant value unlock & TO growth.

    • Global Product Owner -Distributor Management System ,Secondary Sales Automation | Senior Manager
      Sep 2016 - Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Product Owner of distributor management system, SFA across 6 Countries collaborating with 7 partners,7 billion business. - 1300+ Distributors | 10K+ Distributor Users | 33K+ field salesmen to manage secondary sales of Unilever Distributors.

  • Thomson Reuters ()
    • Real Time Platform Project Manager
      Feb 2011 - Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Specialist -Exchange Traded Instruments
      Jul 2006 - Jan 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    • Market Analyst/Senior Analyst
      Mar 2005 - Jun 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos