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Kranthi Kumar

Kranthi Kumar

Product Manager
Hyderabad,Telangana

Summary

A Market Savvy Product Leader with 14 years of experience, looking to pursue a challenging role as a Product Manager to provide effective solutions of scale that will be beneficial to the organization and its growth in the market.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4046
4046
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Lead Business Analyst, Product Owner

Carelon Global Solutions
02.2020 - Current

Client: Elevance Health.

  • As a Product Owner, I proposed a solution and implemented the UM Status Tracker, which would provide real-time status updates of prior authorizations and appeals as they travel across multiple systems throughout their life cycle. This solution greatly reduced the customer complaints and reduced the maintenance costs by 25%.
  • Supported Smart RFI recommendations engine, which would provide the top 10 recommendations of the RFI documents to providers and intake staff, reducing turnaround time for making decisions on UM cases.
  • Implemented the cost transparency US Federal mandate will provide our members with the estimated cost of likely episodes of care, tailored to their health benefits.
  • Implemented an application to extract and analyze key information from competitor benefit documents such as Schedule of Benefits and Summary of Benefits and Coverage, enabling effective comparison with Elevance Health standard plans. This functionality facilitated more informed benefit plan selection, supported strategic adjustments to product offerings, and helped the sales team better meet market needs.
  • Implemented various AI-related proof-of-concept use cases, including LLM-powered Generative UI integration for PEGA applications, LLM and OCR-driven document extraction, and process automation for grievance and appeal systems, as well as finance payout audit processes, demonstrating innovative solutions to enhance efficiency and automation across multiple business functions.

Sr. Business Analyst

Experis IT Pvt Ltd
05.2019 - 02.2020

Client: Franklin Templeton Investments.

  • Associated with the Enterprise Client System (ECS) which is the central repository for US, International and Institutional client data housing dealer branch, rep, firms, financial advisors, contacts, and institutional clients.
  • Assisted the business users in getting hands-on the product (ECS).
  • Conducted Business demos for ECS explaining the features which were built as part of the requirement.

Lead Business Analysis

Ness Technologies
07.2018 - 02.2019

Client: S&P Global Inc.

  • As a PMO Business Analyst, I have coordinated with the Product Owners of various S&P Global verticals to customize the project portfolio management tool as per their need, this has improved the hard savings by 40%.
  • Documented business requirement documents, mockups, end user product guides, governance decisions and tracked action items for future governance.

Technical Consultant/Business Analyst

Prolifics Corporation Limited
10.2015 - 06.2018

Client: McKesson Corporation

  • Associated with Vistex for SAP contracts as a consultant to implement custom reports and enhancements for P2P and O2C processes. Collaborated with the Product Owners and clients to gather requirements for the same.
  • Prepared business requirement documents and functional related documents.
  • Monitored the resource utilization and other team metrics.
  • Designed manual, automated test scripts and test data.

SAP Consultant

Future Focus InfoTech Pvt Ltd
10.2014 - 08.2015

Client: Viridor

  • Interacted with the Viridor stakeholders to understand and gather requirements related to Waste and recycling and integrated custom ERP packages into their standard Business.
  • Implemented custom reports and SMART forms as per the customised packages implemented.
  • Prepared the Technical specification documents and implemented code based on the approved Technical Specifications.

Associate Consultant

Quelabs Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 09.2014

Client: Nippon Paints, VST Industries and Del Monte Foods

  • As an ABAP programmer, had participated in Modification of user defined reports in MM and SD modules using various ABAP development workbench tools.
  • Modified standard layouts with SAP Script.
  • Used tools such as SQL Trace (ST05), Runtime Analysis (SE30) to improve performance of coding.
  • Resolving Issues raised in Solution Manager.
  • Preparation and Compilation of Unit Test Plans.

Education

Global Certification in Product Management -

INSAID

MBA -

Sikkim Manipal University
04.2001 - 03.2014

B.E - Electronics and Communications

K.I.T.S
Ramtek, Nagpur

Skills

Product Management

Design Thinking

Stakeholder Management

Business and Competitor Analysis

Qualitative and Quantitative Research

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Certification

AHM250

Timeline

Lead Business Analyst, Product Owner

Carelon Global Solutions
02.2020 - Current

Sr. Business Analyst

Experis IT Pvt Ltd
05.2019 - 02.2020

Lead Business Analysis

Ness Technologies
07.2018 - 02.2019

Technical Consultant/Business Analyst

Prolifics Corporation Limited
10.2015 - 06.2018

SAP Consultant

Future Focus InfoTech Pvt Ltd
10.2014 - 08.2015

Associate Consultant

Quelabs Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 09.2014

MBA -

Sikkim Manipal University
04.2001 - 03.2014

Global Certification in Product Management -

INSAID

B.E - Electronics and Communications

K.I.T.S
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