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Ashana Singhania

Product Manager
New York,US

Summary

Ashana is a management professional, currently working as a Product Manager with American Express. She has handled multiple priorities, with a bias for action and genuine interest in professional development. She has been a team player and effective communicator with strong analytical problem solving and organizational abilities. She has the ability to produce best results under pressure and meet deadlines consistently.

Overview

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years of post-secondary education
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years of professional experience

Work History

Digital Product Manager - Amex Savings

American Express
New York, NY
02.2021 - Current

Responsibilities as Product manager - Customer Experience for AmEx Savings:

  • Manage features and functionality that span the customer lifecycle from account creation through funding and management, across both self-service and call center- supported channels.
  • Analyze product performance to create data-driven product roadmap and manage prioritization of product backlog to deliver optimal banking experience for our customers while driving critical business outcomes.
  • Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
  • Oversee Coordination with back office and call center communication strategy, talking points, training and procedures

Product Development Manager

American Express
New York, NY
09.2019 - 02.2021

.Responsibilities as part of Int'l Commercial Card lending team, Global Commercial Services:

  • Manage the road map, prioritization, and lead end-to-end product development for multi-market lending capabilities with focus to shape the product vision and long term strategy,.
  • Oversee the creation of a series of lend treatment and channel strategies that reinforce the borrowing flexibility of AXP products such as Installments, Open and closed ended loan products and flexible payment options to meet working capital needs.
  • Manage the development of a suite of International commercial MIS and ensure consistent reporting and trend analysis for existing lending constructs globally.
  • Partner with platform teams to assess back-end synergies with a focus on building reusable products across LoBs.
  • Reviewed product development operations, including budgets, expenditures and research and maintained internal product knowledge database.
  • Leveraged industry trends and competitive analysis to improve customer relationship building and mentored local personnel on best practices and protocols to maximize productivity.

Product Manager

American Express
Gurgaon, Delhi NCR
06.2018 - 09.2019

Responsibilities as part of Scope and Sequence function & Product Manager for Global Servicing Portal Portfolio:

  • Managing Scope of functions spread across 19 markets and explore possibilities for further expansion for multiple LOB's such as Consumer, Small Business, Corporate and Commercial.
  • Lead and support various activities across the life cycle of a project to include status calls, scope definition, prioritization, delivery activities, deployment.
  • Providing input to help shape the business process and user experience by supporting platform migrations and providing efficient alternatives for old processes to optimize cost.
  • Own and manage the Program backlog, review and manage EPIC, Capabilities, Features with Acceptance Criteria via Rally and JIRA tools.
  • Influence, lead and communicate to all levels across a broad range of partners and stakeholders and Drive adoption and usage of servicing portals in international markets.

Operations Lead/Project Analyst

American Express
Gurgaon, Delhi NCR
02.2016 - 06.2018

Responsibilities as Content Expert and Project Analyst for Operations:

  • Collaborate with Compliance, Technologies, Operations, Customer Experience and the Small Business and commercial groups to streamline processes for US market.
  • Partner with technologies and led initiatives around automation of inventory – Increasing the closure by 40%, reducing the CTR by 60%, significantly reducing the full time employee (FTE) hours.
  • Support training for the new hires and managed Floor Support, Coaching & Feedback and Quality Monitoring as SME.
  • Provide reports on aspects of ongoing projects such as interdepartmental synergy, redundancy, production bottlenecking and perform deep dive analysis for specific business problems for senior leadership.

Founder

Bend The Trend
Delhi, New Delhi
07.2015 - 02.2016

Started my own venture with launching a trend driven fashion accessory store for women.

  • Cultivated forward-thinking, inclusive and performance-oriented business culture to lead industry in innovation and push progress. Conducted research on emerging trends within industry and capitalized on finds to develop new products, services and strategies. Established, optimized and enforced business policies to maintain consistency and high-quality standards across industry operations.

Education

MBA - Business Management

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
Mumbai
01.2017 - 12.2019

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Delhi
Delhi
05.2012 - 06.2015

Skills

Product Performance Analysis

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Certification

Certified SAFe® 4 Product Owner/Product Manager

Software

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Word

Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio

Share Point, Confluence, Cornerstone

JIRA, Rally

Multiple Internal AXP Platforms

Accomplishments

  • Super Achiever - Awarded to top 1% colleagues annually
  • Consistent Achiever - Awarded to top 5% Colleagues quarterly
  • American Express Brand Value Ambassador - Recognizing efforts for various projects and process improvement initiatives

Timeline

Digital Product Manager - Amex Savings

American Express
02.2021 - Current

Product Development Manager

American Express
09.2019 - 02.2021

Certified SAFe® 4 Product Owner/Product Manager

03-2019

Certified SAFe® 4 Practitioner

01-2019

Product Manager

American Express
06.2018 - 09.2019

MBA - Business Management

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
01.2017 - 12.2019

Operations Lead/Project Analyst

American Express
02.2016 - 06.2018

Founder

Bend The Trend
07.2015 - 02.2016

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Delhi
05.2012 - 06.2015
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