Global Governance and Regional Project Leader
General Electric
Total years of experience :21 years, 5 Months
Global Operations provides shared services support to all GE Businesses. Handled multiples roles including:
• Global Governance Leader - Drive PMO process standardization and compliance
• Regional Simplification Leader - Drive culture of Lean and continuous improvement
• Regional Project Leader - Lead strategic projects for business transformation
• Regionalization Leader - Program Management for strategic supplier
Key highlights
o Led project management for global transformation of shared service organization in Africa, Middle East and Turkey encompassing 600+ employees across ~30 countries
o Spearheaded Lean/Process improvement for the region facilitating Lean workouts and training diverse, geographically dispersed team
o Created and led flexible, project-driven, 30+ member "Simplification Committee" of SMEs across Africa, Middle East & Turkey successfully delivering on 50+ process improvement projects
o Played pivotal role in organization change management, partnered with key stakeholders and coached multiple teams to plan, lead and implement strategic transformation initiatives
o Collaborated with process owner for transformation of Operating model of 100 + employee Accounts Payable team resulting in operating cost reduction of 20%
o Led project management for disposition involving 50+ Legal Entities across 28 countries collaborating with cross functional team - Finance/Supplychain/HR/IT
o Led project management for GEs strategic initiative of setting up All Women Delivery Center in Saudi Arabia, first of its kind initiative in the country. Exceeded target by 100% employing 200+ women in the center within one year
o Lead multiple dimension of the setup, including contract structuring, transition management, budgeting, performance monitoring, mobilizing global scope for execution from the center
o Program management of 75 member 3rd party team including performance management on cost, quality, speed; redesigning billing structure resulting in USD 90k saving; cost saving through process improvements of ~USD 120 k
Achievement
o “Best Team of the Year” for exemplary teamwork and execution on plan for Saudi setup during 2015
o “Annual Individual Award” for individual contribution across multiple areas during 2018
Quality and Sourcing
o Black Belt for Pricing, Sourcing and Operations functions, responsible for identifying and driving process improvement solutions
o Reduced revenue leakage of ~ USD 1 MM by implementing changes in customer service process and designing intelligent decision-making tools
o Collaborated with Sourcing Leader to conceptualize, develop, train and deploy Pan India Sourcing policy and procedures, increasing process adherence to 80%
o Led initiative to reduce cycle time for supplier payment by integrating fragmented process and eliminating NVAs resulting in turnaround time improvement by 75 %
o Conducted supplier evaluation and negotiation and optimized engagement from 23 to 2 suppliers
o Developed business performance management metrics and dashboards enabling business intelligence reporting and performance measurement for Sourcing
o Trained over 150 employees on basic Lean Six Sigma concepts
Achievement
o Awarded ‘Best Project Award’ and ‘Extra Miler Award’ for reducing revenue leakage for business and formulating and deploying organization wide Sourcing policies
Business Process Outsourcing and Off shoring (BPO&O) Research
o Core team member for the NASSCOM-McKinsey Report on IT/IT Enabled Services industry in India
o Design industry-wide framework to benchmark Operational Excellence in IT Enabled Services industry
o Conducted extensive research involving leading outsourcing organizations in India for operational benchmarking
o One of the authors of the 2006 Nasscom McKinsey Report on IT/ITES Services in India - Inaugural copy by Prime Minister of India
New product development
o Responsible for working with multiple GE Businesses and functions to identify learning needs
o Identified target market size, budget and proposed customized solution to meet business requirement
o Worked with multiple teams to build prototypes for Sales Force Effectiveness training through Simulations
o Generated leads internal and external for launching of Simulation product
Information Management Leadership Program (2 year program across 4 GE businesses)
• GE Corporate - India - Conceptualized and developed platform to create repository of application developed pan India by the various IT development centers to enable leverage of existing applications
• GE Industrial Systems - US - Executed Green Belt project to improve the backup process at the Datacenter reducing data leakage, digitized processes to host servers at the GE Industrial Systems Datacenter
• GE IT Service - India - Developed business case for launching Server Management Shared Services from India center. Carried out financial analysis, feasibility analysis, drafted budget proposals and developed business plan for launching service
• GECIS - Lead a 3 member team for eMatrix PLM support