Kedar Rahalkar
Growth Lead - Agentic AI I Gen AI | Cognitive Automation | Data Science - Banking, Cards & Payments, Mortgage Markets North America
- Role
- Growth Lead - Banking & Financial Services at Cognizant
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kedar Rahalkar
A process oriented & financially astute Management Consultant with 15 years in helping organizations use Lean, 6 Sigma, Analytics, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and BPM to sustainably grow revenue and reduce cost & risk. Notable advisory work includes - 1) Helping NYSE listed Fortune 500 Bank launch Robotic Process Automation (RPA) across service lines - Automation Assessments, Cost Benefits, Change Management 2) Helping NYSE listed Fortune 500 Payments Org operationalize Shared Services strategy - location identification by comparing 10 cities in emerging markets, Operating Model selection (Horizontal Service oriented COE/Factory model vs. Customer Account Oriented Vertical model, Org structure, managerial span, support functions) 3) Helping a European Wealth manager use Lean to streamline People Supply Chain and reduce recruitment time by 30%- Lean training & projects identification, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Process Cycle Efficiency (PCE) baseline, Waste Identification 4) Helping an American Health Care Insurer conceptualize 6 Sigma initiative within Software Testing division - 6 Sigma program planning, training material development, classroom coaching, projects identification 5) Helping NYSE listed Fortune 500 Custodian Bank use Lean within Technology division - Lean program planning, training material development, classroom and WebEx sessions 6) Helping a NASDAQ listed Fortune 500 Logistics provider streamline warehouse staff forecasting - Time & Motion studies, standard norms, forecasting, staffing, scheduling 7) Helping a British Telco secure revenue opportunity by using Analytics within order management operations comprising staff, by reducing lead time by 25%, rework by 50%- unstructured data to structured data, cleansing, Pareto & trends, Root Cause Analysis 8) Helping a British Utilities company map their processes using BPM standards 9) Helping a British Life Insurer design Outcome based Transaction pricing model to variablize cost
Experience
Growth Lead - Banking & Financial Services
Mar 2025 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US
Education
Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
2012 — 2013
Savitribai Phule Pune University
B.E., Electrical
1996 — 2000
IMDR, Pune
Diploma (part-time), International Business/Trade/Commerce
2004 — 2005
Skills
- Business Process Improvement
- Tqm
- Change Management
- Robotics
- Management
- Quality Assurance
- Process Consulting
- Business Strategy
- Business Analysis
- Management Consulting
- Process Management
- Program Management
- Lean Manufacturing
- Process Excellence
- Business Process Design
- Iso 9000
- Strategy
- Consulting
- Process Engineering
- Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Quality Management
- Six Sigma
- Pre-Sales
- Balanced Scorecard
- Business Process Mapping
- Iso
- Training
- Operations Management
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