Sr. Manager- Projects
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Total years of experience :19 years, 10 Months
Successfully leading multiple Global projects on Enterprise Quality Management System implementation for Life Sciences clients; Preparing and monitoring Project Plan and Stage Gates, managing Project Risks/Issues/Dependencies/Change Management and reporting project status to stakeholders.
Engaging client to gather software requirements/business rules, align them with functional and technical requirements and ensure alignment with development teams.
Leading cross-functional team; Co-ordination across all teams on day-to-day operations. Focusing business objectives and tracking progress to ensure project milestones are completed on time, within budget and with the desired results.
Ensuring business requirements are timely & accurately Captured, Configured, Tested, Validated and Delivered.
Reviewing various project documentation as per GAMP5 guidelines, such as Validation Plan, Functional Risk Assessment, Functional Specification, Design Specification, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Operational Qualification, Training Manual, etc.
Managing a motivated team of over 21 technically skilled members; involving work assignment, performance management and skill development.
Meeting financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
Working on plan and estimations for SOW’s, RFI’s and RFP’s.
Leading multiple projects for TrackWise, Enterprise Quality Management Solution, implementation for Life Sciences clients; successfully conducted more than 15 customer requirement gathering workshops.
Leading 5 member Business Analyst team to capture business requirements for TrackWise implementation.
Extensive travel experience, both domestic and International and comfortable working with and in different cultures.
Working as a single point of contact between customer and delivery team for all interactions related to business process understanding and implementation.
Responsible for project related documentation like Functional Requirement Specification, Requirement Tractability Matrix, Training manuals, etc.
Led business transformation projects to automate shop floor data collection(Mobile Solution) for large manufacturing companies.
Presales:
- Responsible for creating techno-functional solutions to business challenges for clients in multiple industries (Automotive, Pharmaceutical, FMCG, Heavy Engineering).
- Product demo and technical advice to prospective customers-Decision Makers/Senior Executives.
Conducted market research to list out competing companies in Supply Chain software market; analyzed and proposed new features and functionalities to our existing offerings.
Conducted market research for a new business opportunity “Track and Trace Technology” for Pharmaceutical industry; prepared business plan and worked with development team to build solution.
Corporate level Strategic Initiatives:
- Led corporate initiative to deploy Enterprise Risk Management framework to identify risk and opportunities at operational as well as strategic level.
- Successfully prepared and implemented corporate Intellectual Property Strategy & Process; provided companywide awareness trainings on IPR.
Successfully stabilizedproduction of four new Earth Moving equipments- optimised processes, reduced man hours and created SOPs.
Led a motivated team of 60 workmen and 3 managers and set benchmarks in productivity. Responsible for Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost, Delivery and Morale (SQPCDM) for the Assembly Shop.
Quality improvements:
- Led more than 50 key quality improvement initiatives, both vendor quality and in-house quality, resulting in reduction of defect rate by 50%.
- Improved Product and Process Quality to provide world-class Constructive Solutions to the customer by leveraging TBEM (Tata Business Excellence Model), TPM, and QMS.
Productivity Improvement - Achieved productivity improvement of 35% in Soil Compactor and 25% in Motor Grader models through continuous process improvements and elimination of different wastes.
TPM Circle Leader-Implemented TPM activities comprising 5S, visual factory, Kaizens, problem solving, efficiency mapping, , suggestion generation and multi-skill building.
Processes:
- Conceptualized, executed and finalized the assembly process for 4 different models.
- Created standard operating procedures (SOP) to achieve standardization of processes and aid easy workmen induction.
Project Team Leader for New Product Introduction- Transit Mixer:
- Selected to lead a 5 member cross functional team to initiate end to end manufacturing activity for the new product
- Visited Serviplan Plant in Spain to aid knowledge transfer of assembly processes to India with customization.
- Worked closely with multiple functions to crystallize CAPEX requirement, indigenization, design modification, process planning and manpower requirement to help commence production of the new model.
Trained end users on SAP R/3 (PP Module); led data correction activity in Bill of Material & Master Database.
Successfully implemented ISO 9001 standards and OHSAS 18001 in the Assembly shop.
Prepared manufacturing strategy for TATA Wheel Loader for new manufacturing facility, Kharagpur.
PGPEX-VLM – One Year Full Time Residential Management Program with Focus on Manufacturing and Supply Chain from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (Jointly with IITM & IITK)
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from REC/NIT Durgapur