Head - Product Management
SAFRAN Morpho,
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Mar 2011 - Present (7 years and 2 months)
Product Management Head with a focus on Morpho's Biometrics Products Portfolio (devices & software)
India representative for Safran Innovation Award 2015 for Product/Technology Category (out of 516 nominations across the world).
Key responsibilities:
-Building the market vision and articulation of customer needs for the next generation products or for evolving existing products
-Involved right from market needs to product definition and product realisation from "concept to manufacture/release"
-Managing the existing portfolio and defining roadmaps for the existing and new products
-Define and manage the product development budget for the region
-Manage product development team (centre of excellence for Terminals) in Noida for mobile as well as fixed terminals and related apps development.
-Product evangelisation and trend spotting
-Business development for strategic opportunities in BFSI, Government as well as Security BU
-New product introduction in existing or new market segments through customer education, proof of concepts and demonstration of key technologies
-Promote global standards adoption in the region for biometric products
-Manage product compliance and certifications as per local and global norms
-Manage relationships with key stakeholders in Govt (standards advocacy, partnering on technology PoCs, whitepapers) as well as Private sector (for alliances, co-development, product integration,..)