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Nishant Joshi
Applied: PMRank #13 of 45 PM applicantssquad_2@pg27.mesaschool.co+91 98228 71056pm_08_nishant_joshi.pdf
PM
60
ReviewSPM
48
Below the lineBrief · PM
The candidate is a Product Manager with three years of experience in B2B procurement SaaS, preceded by nearly two years as a management consultant working on supply chain and logistics client engagements. The candidate earned their ranking through solid contributions in logistics operational exposure from mapping freight procurement and carrier management across eight plant locations, along with demonstrating self-started process initiative by introducing fortnightly customer discovery calls that their team adopted. The candidate's biggest gap is the lack of direct, hands-on experience executing day-to-day freight operations, as their logistics exposure has been limited to advisory process mapping rather than running frontline workflows.
Probe in interview
- Can you describe a specific situation where you had to directly handle a live, day-to-day freight or logistics breakdown on the ground rather than analyzing or redesigning the workflow from an advisory perspective?
- Can you share a detailed example where you independently identified an operational or product pain point, designed a solution without prior direction, and successfully persuaded peer product managers or teams to adopt it into their standard workflow?
- Can you provide an example of a major product capability that you owned entirely on your own from concept to launch, where you held the final decision-making authority without product management layers reviewing or approving your choices?
PM rubric (applied role)60.0 / 100Review
| Criterion | Score | Weight | Points | Evidence | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PM-1 Hands-on logistics operations experience | 3/5 | 30% | 18 | Spent 14 months on a freight and logistics management project for a large FMCG company — mapped freight procurement, carrier management, and freight audit processes across 8 plant locations | Worked closely with logistics client processes in consulting but never personally performed day-to-day freight operations. |
| PM-2 Builds from observed pain; peers adopt it | 3/5 | 20% | 12 | Introduced fortnightly customer calls as a structured practice; previously discovery happened only before roadmap planning | Shows one self-started process change adopted by the team, meeting the anchor for one example. |
| PM-3 Sole ownership with no layer in between | 3/5 | 20% | 12 | Reports to Head of Product; owns 1 feature area autonomously, co-owns 2 others with a parallel PM | Candidate owns a module/feature area within a larger team reporting to a Head of Product. |
| PM-4 Discovery directly with operators | 3/5 | 15% | 9 | Led discovery for a freight rate benchmarking feature by speaking with logistics procurement heads at 6 client companies | Conducted discovery with procurement heads (buyers/managers) rather than frontline logistics operators. |
| PM-5 Candour: kills, post-mortems, owning what went wrong | 3/5 | 15% | 9 | Shipped an integration with 3 ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Tally) that unlocked 12 enterprise accounts that were blocked on integration requirements | Mentions fixing a blocker affecting accounts, but names no explicit outage, kill, or personal failure. |
SPM rubric (other role)48.0 / 100Below the line
| Criterion | Score | Weight | Points | Evidence | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPM-1 Hands-on logistics operations experience | 3/5 | 25% | 15 | mapped freight procurement, carrier management, and freight audit processes across 8 plant locations | Consulting process mapping provided close work with ops teams without doing the hands-on operations job. |
| SPM-2 Senior-most owner, no one above them in the function | 3/5 | 25% | 15 | Reports to Head of Product; owns 1 feature area autonomously, co-owns 2 others with a parallel PM | Acts as sole owner of a feature area while reporting to a Head of Product above them. |
| SPM-3 Turns fixes into standing practice | 3/5 | 20% | 12 | Introduced fortnightly customer calls as a structured practice; previously discovery happened only before roadmap planning | Introduced a structured discovery practice adopted during their tenure, but with no evidence it runs without them. |
| SPM-4 Judgement under pressure, stated plainly | 1/5 | 15% | 3 | none | The CV follows a success-only narrative with no mention of hard calls, failures, or decisions under pressure. |
| SPM-5 Grows people who then get promoted | 1/5 | 15% | 3 | none | There is no evidence of managing, mentoring, or growing team members in the CV. |
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Redacted CV (exactly what the model saw)
[REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] · Mumbai [REDACTED] Professional Summary Product Manager with 3 years in B2B SaaS, preceded by 2 years in management consulting with exposure to supply chain and logistics clients. MBA from IIM Kozhikode. Comfortable working with operationally complex clients — spent 14 months on a freight and logistics process redesign project at Deloitte. Looking to build closer to the problem. Work Experience Product Manager Procol Technologies (Procurement SaaS, Series B), Gurugram · May 2022 – Present — Owns the vendor management and auction module — used by procurement teams at 80+ manufacturing, pharma, and logistics companies — Shipped an integration with 3 ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Tally) that unlocked 12 enterprise accounts that were blocked on integration requirements — Led discovery for a freight rate benchmarking feature by speaking with logistics procurement heads at 6 client companies — the only product feature I have owned where I had genuine prior context from the Deloitte engagement — Reports to Head of Product; owns 1 feature area autonomously, co-owns 2 others with a parallel PM — Introduced fortnightly customer calls as a structured practice; previously discovery happened only before roadmap planning Consultant Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai · Jul 2020 – Apr 2022 — Worked on supply chain process redesign and digital transformation projects for manufacturing and logistics clients — Spent 14 months on a freight and logistics management project for a large FMCG company — mapped freight procurement, carrier management, and freight audit processes across 8 plant locations — Built process maps and gap analysis reports; presented findings to VP Supply Chain and VP Finance; was in the rooms where the decisions were made but not the one making them — One engagement at a 3PL: mapped warehouse inbound and outbound processes for a network redesign project Education MBA, Operations & Finance · Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode · 2018–2020 B.Tech, Industrial Engineering · VJTI Mumbai · 2014–2018 · First Class Skills & Certifications Product management · Procurement & supply chain · Process mapping · JIRA · Figma · SQL · Excel · Miro Pragmatic Marketing Certification (2022)