Deepanjali Kar

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ABOUT DEEPANJALI KAR

Results oriented digital Leader with over 17 years of experience, skilled in product management with domain specialization in Supply Chain, Logistics and Manufacturing. I apply my background in technology, consulting, lean six sigma methodology, agile framework, and strong domain knowledge of Supply chain, Operations planning, Warehouse Management, Production Scheduling, Production Control and Manufacturing processes to drive business process improvement and performance in complex and dynamic environments. Key strengths include: • Strategic thinking • Focus on the overall customer journey vs discrete features in isolation. • Dealing with ambiguity and proactively partnering with business stakeholders to help refine use cases focusing solely on customer outcome and business value. • Prioritization of business use cases based on customer outcome, business value and risk. • Product Roadmap Development in alignment with prioritized Business Capability Roadmap • Developing partnerships with the Business team (who own process, policy and outcome) and Technology/Engineering team (who own solution development, support and lifecycle management) to drive execution and deliver results. • Bias towards agile delivery and outcome-based execution• Influencing stakeholders through clear communication and expectation setting. Career Highlights• Led core engineering product roadmap for Rating and Quoting at CH Robinson. Partnered with divisions to commercialize capabilities for Customers and Carriers. • Led portfolio of 7 digital products within Supply Chain Engineering Capabilities at General Mills • Delivered a portfolio of digital solutions in the global purchasing value stream for capital projects (Equipment, Services, & Construction) at General Mills by making innovative use of robotic process automation (RPA) and process engineering leading to $8-10MM of capital efficiency• Led 10 supply chain transformation initiatives as part of global ERP deployment at Engineering and Manufacturing leaders Cummins and Donaldson. • Led 3 high impact six sigma initiatives at Cummins to earn Green Belt certification.