Konstantin Kozhemyakov
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Successful leader with proven accomplishments in driving growth and increasing profits. Articulate and driven with high energy and engaging personality. Hardworking team builder motivational in maximizing personnel performance and surpassing business objectives.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager
Lowe’s
11.2021 - Current
- Engage in collaborative efforts with stakeholders, designers, analysts, and engineers to define product requirements and establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Maintain close collaboration with cross-functional teams throughout the entire product development lifecycle, from research and analysis to ideation, planning, execution, deployment, and iterative improvement
- Take ownership of the product backlog, ensuring its alignment with project objectives
- Assess and prioritize initiatives based on their strategic significance and business value
- Partner effectively with engineering and design teams in sprint planning, daily standup meetings, retrospectives, resource allocation, and project management to drive roadmap execution
- Leverage qualitative and quantitative data analysis to generate fresh ideas and testing strategies aimed at enhancing the user experience
- Deliver transparent project updates and post-launch progress measurements to a diverse business audience, ensuring alignment with company objectives
- Determine feature and improvement priorities by analyzing data and considering customer requirements, industry benchmarks, and business goals
- Interact with internal stakeholders, including top-level executives, to collect requirements and guarantee harmony with the broader business strategy
- Advocate for design principles that prioritize the user's perspective, guaranteeing the platform delivers an outstanding and user-friendly experience
- Establish and oversee key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the CMS endeavor's success
- Triage customer feature requests from various channels.
Digital Product Manager
Optum
04.2021 - 11.2021
- Align product road-map with business strategy and support service delivery
- Prioritize features and bugs using the Aha platform and build a backlog on a regular basis
- Manage the Contentful CMS to make necessary content changes on the site
- Oversee the development and implementation of new features until go-live
- Collaborate with outside design agencies and developers to ensure successful project completion
- Use Miro Visual Platform to document existing and design new flows.
Digital Product Manager
Medline
10.2018 - 04.2021
- Play a key role in the setup of the supply chain between customers and Medline using different procurement systems such as Ariba, Coupa, JAGGAER, and many others
- Create backlogs, prioritize requirements, and develop technical scopes for the development team
- Manage customer success for more than 4,000 organizations and drive a prioritized product roadmap that enables personalization and segmentation, and responds to customers’ needs while also delighting them with a differentiated experience
- Maintain relationships with over 60 vendors and partners
- Prioritize tasks that aim to decrease setup times from weeks to minutes
- Foster relationships with customers, vendors, and product management teams to define and write user stories and acceptance criteria
- Provide business and technical support to customers throughout the integration process
- Work with internal department stakeholders to prioritize and plan project execution and required resourcing requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to gather business requirements
- Partner with the UX and analytics team to enhance the product's usability and performance
- Analyze product performance and customer feedback post-launch and respond quickly to diagnose and resolve issues.
Business/Systems Analyst
Medline
08.2011 - 10.2018
- Manage 3rd party vendors to develop, implement and support B2C applications on Magento 2.0 integrated with SAP
- Identify scopes of work
- Maintain, revise and track enhancements and bugs using Jira
- Follow agile methodology in software development
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) for assigned applications and act as main point of contact
- Manage online training sessions, presentations, and meetings for all levels of business
- Test site enhancements prior to lunch, write test cases
- Work with developers to address issues
- Manage PunchOut process that enables customers to connect to Medline's online catalog
- Work with various Procurement systems on PunchOut catalog integration including Coupa, Hybrent, Lawson, Ariba, JAGGAER, ESM, Unimarket, Coupa, OnCare, and many more
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to gather requirements, develop and deploy new capabilities
- Develop close relationships with US based and overseas 3rd party vendors and customers.
Education
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) -
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
Lake Forest, ILBachelor of Science: Computer Science -
University of Illinois
Chicago, ILSkills
- Product management
- 3rd party vendor collaboration
- Teamwork / Collaboration
- Uses analytics to monitor product KPIs
- Customer focus
- Product Performance Analysis
- Strategic Planning
- Customer Behavior Analysis
- Agile and Scrum methodology
- Jira, Confluence, Aha!
- API, site analytics, SEO
- Miro, PowerPoint, Visio
- Agile/Scrum methodology
- Experience with various CMS: osCommerce, Magento, ATG, Contentful, WordPress
- Brand Building
- Competitive Market Analysis
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
Timeline
Product Manager
Lowe’s
11.2021 - Current
Digital Product Manager
Optum
04.2021 - 11.2021
Digital Product Manager
Medline
10.2018 - 04.2021
Business/Systems Analyst
Medline
08.2011 - 10.2018
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) -
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science -
University of Illinois
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