Winner. Business Leader of the Year 2022

Manoj Suryadevara

Position: Staff Product Manager
Company: Walmart Global Tech
City: Bentonville, Arkansas
Country: USA
Economic/Business Sector: Technology/Software & IT Services

Manoj has experience and expertise in developing and enhancing products, managing long-term and short-term product roadmaps, aligning business and technical needs, turning data insights into actionable initiatives, determining rollout strategy, and managing risks for Fortune 500 companies, including Fortune 1 company - Walmart.

Manoj is a Product Leader with a decade-long experience. He obtained his Master's degree from the University of Houston. He is currently working for retail giant Walmart. His product expertise is focused on strategy, execution, and leadership for multiple data products and applications. Manoj manages various product initiatives related to application and data needs from inception to completion.

His deep experience in problem-solving and critical thinking helps define use cases for a wide variety of users and impacts multiple products at scale. He currently leads the strategy and vision for new and mature products enhancing the current product and adding new product or service offerings. As a Product Leader, Manoj has a unique combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. With his background and expertise, he has a unique leadership ability to deliver complex business objectives with creative problem-solving skills.

Prior to working at Walmart, Manoj enhanced the B2B products for AT&T, Expedia, and American Express. He transformed the affiliate program at AT&T understanding the marketing trends and automating mundane manual processes. He led multiple digital transformation platforms by bringing multiple products from 0 to 1 and generating incremental revenue for the organizations he worked at with lasting impact.

Manoj Suryadevara serves as an Advisory Board member at the Dev Network and mentors new and budding product managers by judging their work in competitive events and providing professional coaching support.

Manoj Suryadevara is a senior leader in the product organization for Walmart international technology. He currently manages data products organization. The data portfolio includes integrating large data sets and focusing on data analytics activities for multiple applications.

Manoj has led multiple data products ranging from Customer data to Supply chain data and preventing fraud in e-commerce transactions. The impact of his work is at scale, with hundreds of business partners and millions of customers involved. He manages multiple international markets, including Canada, Mexico, Central America, China, and India. Also, he built and iterated on multiple data products by being part of the whole data journey from Data Engineering to Data Science. Most importantly, he builds products keeping customers, stakeholders, and users at the epicenter of the requirement.

He has developed data strategies, improving the growth of products by introducing optimization techniques and novel ways of analyzing data for targeted marketing and sales by personalization, predictive modeling, cross-selling opportunities, and, most importantly, improving the product quality and experience for customers.

Manoj recently joined 3AI as a Thought Leader and an eminent member partnering with other leaders in the area to drive the growth of Product Management and contribute to leading industry trends.

Also, he is an avid researcher in Product Management. He regularly publishes articles on product management leadership, building product roadmap, streamlining product development journey, and winning strategies. Mr. Suryadevara judges other products and is a recognized expert in the area.