Arpan Beohar

About Arpan Beohar

Enterprising leader offering 18 years of national & international experience in New Product Development & Management, Operations Management, Project & Program Management, Strategy Consulting, and Team Management across Banking, Payment, & Telecom sectors - SME across Credit & Debit Cards Payments, Digital Banking, Payment Gateway, VAS Services (Boarding, Dispute, Loyalty etc.) and managing technology behind card payments & digital banking; technocrat with rich exposure across IT & business aspects of Merchant Acquiring and Card Issuing Solutions - Product Management: o Capabilities in playing an advisory role to customers and prospects and Consistently focused on instilling a highly effective product development roadmap o Experienced with Go-to-market, pricing, market research and product management (PME, Studio), agile and waterfall methodologies - Strong understanding of new technologies and the competitive ecosystem; which has helped in defining and delivering successful solutions to market - Scrupulous in identifying and articulating the need for change in how the product works, and to facilitate that change; conceptualized new processes to eliminate defects in the earlier ones - Insightful expertise in Program Management and directing all phases encompassing budgeting, planning, vendor selection & execution; implemented program plans within preset budgets & deadlines, formulated operating budgets to ensure optimum utilization of available funds towards the accomplishment of overall objectives - Proven excellence of working in leadership roles in delivering value to global businesses with an insightful knowledge & exposure in exercising thought leadership, driving innovation, digital & business transformation, building global teams, & enhancing revenue- Experienced in managerial activities entailing rendering technical leadership & guidance to the team, planning, scheduling tasks, holding discussions with different functions & management for reviews & analysis, project progress monitoring and delivery as per quality, time & budgetary norms

Experience

1. Director Product Management and Innovation

   Mastercard

   Feb 2016 — Present · Pune, IN

   Managing New Product Development including Go-to-Market initiatives, market research, product collaterals, workshops & competitor analysis, and opportunity identification• Facilitating requirement scoping, gap analysis and evaluating design/alternatives, resolving issues and improving process/performance • Making creative recommendations to expand product base and vision• Determining roadmap and prioritizing the backlog of work to meet the vision in a timely manner to meet market and customer demands• Developing project plans, estimating time requirements, establishing deadlines, monitoring milestones, tracking project lifecycle, reporting issues that impact project progress to both client & top management• Collaborating with other Product Owners, System Engineers, Developers & Testers to define features and technical user stories; delivering value engineered services on schedule and at predicted cost• Outlining project requirements, scope, goals, cost, deliverables, and sign-off from key stakeholders

Education

• Scrum Master

  CSM, Scrum Master

  2015 — 2015

• Guru Gobind Sing Khalsa

  Higher Secondary, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics

  1986 — 1991

• Govt Autonomus Science College

  BSc, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics

  1991 — 1994

• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

  Post Graduation Diploma in Telecom Management, Telecom

  1996 — 1998

Skills

• Project Management
• Payment Card Processing
• Credit Cards
• Payment Systems
• Payments
• Relationship Management
• Business Process
• Start-Ups
• Business Relationship Management
• Crm
• Debit Cards
• Business Strategy
• Business Development
• Vendor Management
• Strategy
• Mobile Payments
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Banking
• Team Management
• Business Analysis
• Requirements Analysis
• Management
• Product Management