Karan Khanna

MBA Candidate, Kellogg | Strategy, Product, Analytics | ex-Fractal

Evanston, Illinois, United States

About

Experience

  • Fractal (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • Senior Consultant
      Sep 2022 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      • Deployed as a Product Manager within the client organization to scale an in-house TPO product across markets in Europe & Australia • Led a 6-member cross functional team of engineers, data scientists, and visualisation experts to scale the product, optimizing $3.1B in sales promotions; improved sales ROI from 0.57 to 0.89 • Planned and facilitated sprint ceremonies while managing and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure timely and high-quality delivery • Partnered with Product Owner and RGM leads across markets to drive adoption, aligning priorities and enabling consistent execution across regions • Designed supplemental analytics tools to identify SKU-level cannibalization, informing pricing and product decisions • Enhanced validation workflows, improving accuracy of P&L projections and promotion profitability forecasts

    • Consultant
      Apr 2019 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      • Ideated and led the creation of an exec level dashboard as part of a pilot project for the global Supply Chain Leadership Team of a Beauty, Personal Care & Cosmetics CPG major. The project was hugely successful resulting in the highest possible NPS of 10 and the account growing 10x within the year • Implemented RTM solutions with the Customer Development team of a Global CPG Conglomerate on a program in the Indonesian market to derive insights from POS transactions in the Traditional Trade market. These insights were used by the field teams across the country to build promotion and stock replenishment strategies. The program catered to stores forming a $70M market and the analytical solutions I built helped my client grow 1.5% faster than the market

    • Associate
      Oct 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

      • Automated daily, weekly, and monthly sales reports, thus saving 480 man-hours annually and streamlined the reports by aligning all regional sales managers to a standard report calculation methodology - thereby improving governance of the $1B Indian arm of a Confectionary Multinational • Awarded the Quick on the Block award by Fractal for driving impact within 3 months of joining

  • Data Science Intern at Edelweiss Financial Services
    Jul 2017 - Sep 2017 · 3 mos

    • Predictive modelling for alpha strategy generation - created a model from scratch for a single stock. Achieved a 60% price movement prediction accuracy and a healthy equity curve simulation • Automating daily market monitoring activities

  • Design & Development Intern at Remsons Industries Ltd
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2016 · 4 mos

    • Designed an ergonomic, 5 speed, cable-operated, construction vehicle gear shifter to withstand one million cycles • Conducted a feasibility study to manufacture a die cast ball joint in house, proposing an estimated 71% cost reduction for the component • Responsible for drafting production drawings for mechanical control cables

  • DJS Racing (3 yrs 11 mos)
    • Co-head of Suspension
      Jul 2015 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr

      • Designed and tested 35% lighter carbon fibre composite structures which were incorporated into the suspension system of DJSR03 • Successfully mentored 15 people to refine the existing suspension & steering models

    • Head of Steering
      Aug 2014 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

      • Optimised the car’s steering geometry for steady state cornering at 1.5g • Designed the rack & pinion system, giving the team design flexibility, and verified gear meshing by rapid prototyping before implementation • Incorporated carbon fibre in the rack & pinion housing of the next car, and coupled with aluminium usage, achieved a weight reduction of 43% • Developed computational algorithms to be used by the successive team • Successfully mentored 7 people to refine the existing steering model

    • Brakes Design Engineer
      Aug 2012 - Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      • Co-designed and manufactured various components of the Braking system of the college's Formula Student Racecar meant to compete at Formula SAE, an engineering design and project management competition, the largest of its kind in the world. • Actively aided in the manufacture of other sub-systems of the car.