Prateek Kurkanji

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India7 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led automation of business reviews, enhancing decision-making efficiency.
  • Developed tools improving sales function performance by over 80%.
  • Achieved 100% on-time delivery through effective supply planning.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in B2B SaaS and Fintech with strong analytical and leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAi/ml ProductStrategic LeadershipSales AnalyticsProgram ManagementSupply ChainAnalyticsOperations AnalyticsDigital Marketing AnalyticsCredit Risk Analytics

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)B2B SalesBloomberg TerminalBusiness PlanningBusiness StrategyC++Campaign ManagementCapacity PlanningData AnalysisDatastudioDemand Supply PlanningDigital MarketingETL processEnglish

About

A business professional with a demonstrated history of successfully delivering outcomes, leading teams and executing multiple projects. Functions - sales, marketing and operations. Industries - Retail, Banking, e-commerce, Fintech.

Experience

Orbitshift.ai

Product Manager

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Industry - B2B SaaS (Sales acceleration)
  • Domain - AI/ML Product
  • Role - Product Manager
  • Mandate - Improving the speed and accuracy of product output and scaling (x to 10x) the product.
  • Impact - 🤐
Product ManagementProduct OperationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)AI/ML Product

Highradius

Sr. Manager, Strategy & Operations

Sep 2023Jul 2024 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Key Learnings - Strategic leadership, Vision building, alignment, & execution
  • Industry - B2B Fintech SaaS (Firm valuation - $3.1 Bn as of '21)
  • Domain - Sales analytics
  • Role - Sales Analytics Head
  • Mandate - Reporting to the COO, enable the strategy & operations team in improving short term decision making, enabling high quality performance measurement of sales function, informing long term strategy with data and building tools to enable the organisation become more efficient. Lead a 2 tier team of ~10 associates and managers.
  • Impact -
  • 1. Automated weekly business reviews for CXOs, market heads and pod leads with live data feeds using GCP infrastructure.
  • 2. Instituted an industry grade ETL process to establish sources of truth via centralized database for BI and reporting thereby reducing TaT by >80% and errors by ~100%
  • 3. Led development of tools to improve cross selling for expansion sellers, 1 click customer success reports, etc. to conserve seller bandwidth
Strategic LeadershipSales AnalyticsETL processGCP infrastructure

Amazon

Program Manager II

Jul 2021Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

  • Key Learnings - Leading medium sized teams, Structured process design and implementation, Stakeholder management, Decision making in ambiguous circumstances
  • Industry - E-Commerce
  • Domain - Supply chain
  • Role - Program Manager
  • Mandate - Improve the efficiency of ML deployment across Amazon's supply chain in US, Europe and Japan regions via implementation of Human-in-the-loop method of training. Manage supply (Amazon Robotics) and demand (GO-AI Operations) stakeholders. Owned 5+ highly complex and challenging programs (usecases) ranging from warehousing social distancing to autonomous last mile delivery.
  • Impact -
  • 1. Designed and instituted shift rotation SOP for 4000+ HC spread across 4 locations & orchestrated it 5+ times while maintaining 100% SLA
  • 2. Quadrupled utilization (16%->66%) of a moon-shot program in 90 days by refining demand prediction methods & resource staffing
  • 3. Established the short-term supply planning process leading to 100% OTD
  • 4. Managed a team of 14 L3/L4 associates with a rating of 4.8/5 manager rating (~15% higher than org benchmark)
  • Awards - Best Manager, Q1 '22; Champion Award Q3 '22; Platinum Medal Award Q4 '21
Program ManagementSupply ChainStakeholder Management

Exl

2 roles

Project Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021Jun 2021 · 5 mos

  • Key Learnings - Rapid execution, Ambiguous problem solving through first principles, Establishing trust and influence
  • Industry - Fintech ($X Bn Loan Book)
  • Domain - Operations analytics
  • Role - Analytics Consultant (Individual contributor on a POC project)
  • Impact -
  • 1. Rebuilt the predictive model for call forecasting to incorporate the post COVID impact on loan books to reduce variance by >66 %
  • 2. Streamlined the workforce management process using an automated excel based tool for 400 HC across multiple locations across America
  • 3. Converted the pilot within a quarter into a full time engagement for EXL for a team of 4.
AnalyticsPredictive ModelingWorkforce ManagementOperations Analytics

Assistant Project Manager

Jun 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Key Learnings - Big data analytics, Corporate communication, Team leadership, Complex problem solving
  • Industry - Luxury Fashion Retail ($XX Bn Revenue)
  • Domain - Digital marketing analytics
  • Role - Analytics Consultant leading a team of 3 analysts
  • Impact -
  • 1. Built 3 tools, all of which featured in the top 7 utilised analytical tools for the client within 6 months of joining
  • 2. Built a novel advertising dashboard that enabled ad performance measurement (ROAS via MTA) across platforms, reduced TaT by 90% for >$XXX MM digital marketing spend across AdWords, DV 360, FB, Oath etc.
  • Award - Mastermind Q4 '18
  • Industry - FIntech ($X Bn Loan Book)
  • Domain - Credit Risk Analytics
  • Role - Analytics Consultant leading a team of 3 analysts
  • Impact -
  • 1. Identified incorrect/under-served segments worth ~$XX MM (2% of yearly loan originations)
  • 2. Developed borrower credit verification strategies during and after COVID (90% loan origination drops)
  • 3. Built a predictive US economy recovery model to inform the revival plan using live health, traffic, regulations and employment statistics
  • Award - Employee of the quarter, Q3 '19
Digital Marketing AnalyticsCredit Risk AnalyticsData Analysis

Ibm

Internship

Apr 2017Jun 2017 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

  • Key Learnings - Survey design, administration and analysis, Fundamentals of B2B sales
  • Industry - IT
  • Domain - Enterprise Software Sales
  • Role - Intern
  • Impact -
  • 1. Analysed data for 20 $X MM deals to identify product-revenue mix across 6 Business Units, 8 quarters
  • 2. Employed balanced scorecard, strategy map to spot problem areas and suggested KPIs, solution roadmap to the sales leadership
Data AnalysisB2B Sales

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2018Present

ESCP Business School

Master in Management

Jan 2018Present

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor's degree — Civil Engineering

Jan 2016Present

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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