Karan Kakkar
Senior Product Manager at Publicis Sapient | IIM Kozhikode | SAFe POPM
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Business Development🤝
Client Management🤝
Team Management💻
IT Consulting💻
Agile Methodologies
Gurugram, India
Senior Product Manager with 8+ years of experience building B2C and B2B products in the BFSI and Hospitality domain. Worked with Publicis Sapient and led growth initiatives for web, E-commerce, and business intelligence platforms. Skilled in product strategy, client engagement, market research, and agile methodologies. #ProductManagement #DigitalStrategy #FinancialTechnology
Senior Product Manager, Publicis Sapient
October 2022 - Present
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Product Manager, Publicis Sapient
June 2018 - February 2022
Gurugram, Haryana, India
- Business Team
- Suncorp Group
– Insurance Digital Sales Team (Largest Banking & Insurance Firm in Australia)
- Suncorp Group
– Insurance Digital Sales Team (Largest Banking & Insurance Firm in Australia)
Product Manager/Iteration Manager/Scrum Master, Publicis Sapient
January 2020 - September 2020
Team Member, InsideIIM.com - Konversations.com - KiRa9 Edumedia
March 2017 - December 2017
Mumbai Area, India
- Serving as one of the student team members of insideIIM.com among 15 students selected across tier-1 business schools of India
- As a paid intern responsible for content creation, distribution and other executions of the online platform
- Applying analytics for effective content strategy execution
- As a paid intern responsible for content creation, distribution and other executions of the online platform
- Applying analytics for effective content strategy execution
Summer Intern (IT and Marketing Strategy), Animika Studios
April 2017 - May 2017
Bangalore
- Conceptualized Digital Marketing Strategy and Execution Roadmap for Miracle Drinks’ new product
- Devised Brand Marketing, Customer Acquisition and Product Development Strategies for clients
- Designed Website Content and Layout Strategy for 7 clients across different business domains
- Streamlined IT development processes and estimation methodologies increasing efficiency by15%
- Devised Brand Marketing, Customer Acquisition and Product Development Strategies for clients
- Designed Website Content and Layout Strategy for 7 clients across different business domains
- Streamlined IT development processes and estimation methodologies increasing efficiency by15%
Live Project: Business Consultancy, Blue Star Hosiery and Industries
January 2017 - May 2017
New Delhi Area, India
- Conducted organizational reviews to identify strengths and weaknesses and to evaluate operational effectiveness
- Made recommendations based on emerging trends, expansion opportunities, competitive threats, the viability of outside business partners, and internal business processes
- Established and reviewed key strategic priorities and translates them into actionable and quantitative plans increasing sales by 25%
- Made recommendations based on emerging trends, expansion opportunities, competitive threats, the viability of outside business partners, and internal business processes
- Established and reviewed key strategic priorities and translates them into actionable and quantitative plans increasing sales by 25%
Software Engineer, 3Pillar Global
July 2014 - June 2016
Noida
- Team Leader, User Interface Innovation and Development (Equinox
- com)
- Spearheaded a team of 9 in the delivery of 5 projects from estimation, design, development to completion
- Mentored Personnel on client businesses and technologies such as Big Data, AWS and Google Analytics Project Management, performed Agile Estimation exercise for more than 7 customer projects
- Drafted road map for projects after considering priorities of corporate managers, programmers and clients Business Process Management, established the Knowledge Management process for projects
- Conferred role of Single Point Of Contact for all stakeholders within 9 months of joining the company
- com)
- Spearheaded a team of 9 in the delivery of 5 projects from estimation, design, development to completion
- Mentored Personnel on client businesses and technologies such as Big Data, AWS and Google Analytics Project Management, performed Agile Estimation exercise for more than 7 customer projects
- Drafted road map for projects after considering priorities of corporate managers, programmers and clients Business Process Management, established the Knowledge Management process for projects
- Conferred role of Single Point Of Contact for all stakeholders within 9 months of joining the company
Intern, Steel Authority of India Limited
June 2013 - August 2013
SAIL, Delhi
- Analysis of the Turnover System from Finance Directorate, SAIL Corporate Office 2013
- Optimized the time for configuring new incoming data into the ongoing project system
- Analyzed and compared the performance of SAIL with its major competitors
- Performed in-depth analysis of the team’s business activities and project requirements
- Optimized the time for configuring new incoming data into the ongoing project system
- Analyzed and compared the performance of SAIL with its major competitors
- Performed in-depth analysis of the team’s business activities and project requirements
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Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
2016 - 2018
Kozhikode
IT and Marketing
Engineer's Degree
2010 - 2014
Computer Science and Engineering
