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Chinaza Okpechi

Boston,MA

Summary

Passionate senior product manager with experience leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, launch and manage consumer-facing and enterprise solutions. Blends engineering skills with extensive Agile/Scrum experience, a marketing orientation and analytical abilities to evolve product strategy.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Manager

McKinsey & Company
02.2023 - Current

Healthcare Analytics Asset: optimizes external spend on supplies for healthcare providers

  • Spearheaded the launch of the firm’s healthcare analytics product across the 4 largest healthcare providers in North America, increasing the asset’s revenue by over 200% in a year
  • Agile coach: Implemented a host of agile methodologies and ceremonies to ensure the backlog is well-groomed and prioritized in a roadmap communicated to stakeholders and clients.
  • Application stability: Prioritized performance improvement strategies including caching and code refactoring, resulting in a 70% decrease in page load times and allowed the asset to onboard new clients with over 10x the usual data volume.
  • Releases and Deployment: instituted a monthly release process for newly developed features with code freezes, QA checks and production releases, ensuring smoother deployments and fewer application bugs
  • Data workflow optimization: Collaborated with data engineering teams to optimize data ingestion workflows using data bricks with automated data quality checks, reducing bug occurrences by over 60%

Tax & Customs Asset enables local governments to assess and optimize their tax and customs processes

  • Introduced QA Processes: Led a significant refactor of the data quantitative pipeline and implemented quality assurance processes to ensure data accuracy and product reliability

Sector Competitiveness Asset: empowers economies to evaluate opportunities in sectors

  • GenAI Implementation: Defined the asset’s strategy for implementing generative AI as a capability. Defined the structure of prompts that will enable users generate insights more efficiently

Senior Associate

Amgen
06.2021 - 02.2023
  • Led efforts to develop new SKUs of a revised drug formulation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
  • Conducted various tests to ensure drug integrity during the manufacturing, transportation, and administration process
  • Created a strategic 3-year roadmap for end-to-end drug development and marketing based on regulatory guidelines
  • Initiated the adoption of various automation equipment to ensure testing accuracy and optimization of full-time employee hours.

Senior Product Manager

Cleave Pay
01.2020 - 12.2022
  • Led the development of a consumer payments platform that enabled users to split payments across various debit/credit cards
  • Enhanced the merchant API experience through rapid experimentation, resulting in 27% MOM growth
  • Enhanced the design and functionality of the checkout integration API, optimizing images and accelerating load time by 15%
  • Executed a go-to-market strategy through strategic partnerships with hundreds of e-commerce merchants and platforms
  • Collaborated with UI/UX and engineering teams to refine the product experience and increase retention by 11%.

Process Engineering Co-op

Ashland Specialty Ingredients
07.2018 - 12.2018
  • Formulated new processes for product and raw material optimization
  • Increased SKU revenue by 7% by transferring and scaling the product's manufacturing process from lab scale to pilot plant
  • Monitored and analyzed the process performance data to ensure its smooth running and mitigated any process deviations.

Education

Master of Science - Chemical Engineering

Northeastern University
Boston, MA
12.2020

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Northeastern University
Boston, MA
12.2020

Gordon Certificate in Engineering Leadership -

Northeastern University
Boston, MA
08.2020

Skills

  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Figma
  • Adobe Suite
  • Go-to-Market Strategies
  • Competitive Analyses
  • Pricing strategy
  • Product marketing
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Project Management
  • Market research
  • Process Optimization
  • User experience design
  • Statistical Analysis

Timeline

Senior Product Manager

McKinsey & Company
02.2023 - Current

Senior Associate

Amgen
06.2021 - 02.2023

Senior Product Manager

Cleave Pay
01.2020 - 12.2022

Process Engineering Co-op

Ashland Specialty Ingredients
07.2018 - 12.2018

Master of Science - Chemical Engineering

Northeastern University

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Northeastern University

Gordon Certificate in Engineering Leadership -

Northeastern University
Chinaza Okpechi