Sunil Arolkar
Senior Product Owner | Automotive & Business Analysis
Salary / Daily rate
Brussels, Belgium
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Product Leader with 15+ years transforming automotive OEMs through digital innovation and strategic product management. Led successful product launches at Daimler, MAN Trucks, and Volkswagen Group with proven GTM expertise. Ready to drive your automotive tech initiatives from concept to market success.
Work experience
Lead Consultant
Infosys
Jan 2019 - Jul 2025
6 years 7 months
Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium · On-site
Lead Consultant Automotive- Domain Consulting Group Product Owner/ Proxy Product Owner/Business Analyst. Defining functional requirements; Elicit, capture, analyse and document business requirements, creating detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the business function. Drive and own backlog grooming and management, prioritize the iteration and drive acceptance testing and delivery of iteration. Decompose business epics and stories into system level stories. Drive alignment across stakeholders including business Owners, senior Business sponsors, technical teams.
Deputy General Manager- Product Marketing
MAN Truck & Bus SE
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
8 months
Pune, Maharashtra, India
MAN Trucks (Subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group) Spearheading the overall accountability of leading and managing the product marketing, ensuring optimum success of product placement and adoption. Leading and developing product roadmaps for all products in conjunction with the management team. Devising effective strategy for positioning, promotion and selling of the products. Collaborate with Sales, Engineering and Operations to ensure effective delivery and support of products and services.
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd.
Jul 2013 - Jan 2018
4 years 7 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Head Product Management Group
May 2017 - Jan 2018
9 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Capture and Manage Product requirements and enhancements for product roadmap planning of BharatBenz range of products. Lead analysis of customer and product metrics to determine the right product and feature set. Assimilated feedback from customers, channel partners and other stakeholders to launch market demanded offerings. Business case evaluation for new product introductions. Expanded the presence of BharatBenz products into special applications. Internal Capability building support to sales team in developing & pitching products in to new applications. Designed and rolled out training programs for BharatBenz and retail sales team. Identified emerging skill needs, training requirements and conceptualized programs accordingly.
Divisional manager- Product Management
Feb 2016 - May 2017
1 year 4 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Determine market opportunity, identified product gaps and planned ahead. Track & analyzed industry data to define product road map for BharatBenz. Formulate business case for the new products projects. Gather & evaluated external stakeholder feedback through extensive interactions with customers, dealers and retail sales team. Monitor new/existing product performance through trials, customer driven tests and validate the value created by BB products. Resolve Product issues- collaborated with R&D, Customer service, Quality management to identify and develop solutions.
Senior Manager Product Marketing
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
1 year 9 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Product Strategy: Captured & defined market requirements partnering with customers, field sales and product management team to improve current products & develop new ones. Sales enablement: Developed and provided the sales team with resources to improve sales efficiency and achieve sales business plan. Internal consulting: Drove the market and segment penetration projects pan-India to ramp up volumes. Developed sales enablement tools such as sales argumentations, performance testimonials, ready reckoners etc.
Senior Manager GTM & Product Launch
Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
1 year 1 month
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Defined Product positioning & messaging- thru detailed market segmentation, business drivers, pricing landscapes. Product launch: Plan, manage and execute product launch in alignment with the GTM strategy. Developed & drove strategies to establish BharatBenz as leader in product technology & market approach innovations. Sales approach implementation: drive the implementation of BharatBenz way of selling Pan-India Formulated business plans for new dealers & new command areas.
Area Sales Manager
Volvo Trucks India
Aug 2009 - Jul 2013
4 years
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Responsible for sales management & business development for Mumbai, Goa, Indore & Bhopal. Key Responsibilities: Responsible for the sale of Heavy Duty premium European Trucks Sales Management, Business Development, Marketing Management, Dealer Development, Key Account Management
Deputy Manager Marketing
Ashok Leyland
May 2007 - Aug 2009
2 years 4 months
Mumbai, Jaipur
Marketing management, Business Development, Dealer development, Key account management
Shift Engineer
PWD Goa
Feb 2001 - Aug 2001
7 months
Panaji Area, India
Coordinating day to day water treatment plant operations, Shift management, Supervising equipment maintenance. Optimizing equipment performance, Motivating teams in optimizing their contribution levels.
Education
Kirloskar Institute of Management (KIM)
PGDM
2005 - 2007
2 years 1 month
RMCET
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
2001 - 2004
3 years 1 month
Govt. Polytechnic Bicholim, Goa
Diploma
1997 - 2000
3 years 1 month