9.5+ years of expertise as a Manager in Strategy, Ops, and cross-functional team management in large-scale domestic and international infra projects worth ~$110 Million.

Key Achievements & Awards: Consistently among the organization's top performers (top 3%)

• Fast tracked into a senior role with five promotions in 9 years (avg duration: 12 years).
• Future Leaders Program – Handpicked by Business head (4/320+) to be part of Leaders Group to boost profitability in sustainable business.
• Won Process innovation award among 350 candidates for improving business processes in a Lift irrigation project, saving ~$1 Million and 30 days of project timeline.

Business Development and Strategic Initiatives

• SPOC for 50+ tenders to coordinate with five cross-functional teams and 30+ vendors, converting orders worth $97 Million.
• Assisted EVP in devising Go or No-Go market strategy (worth $90 Million) by analyzing tech, commercial, and competitor of 4 new technologies.
• Built growth strategy to increase revenues by 12% y-o-y of digital electric grid solutions by identifying growth levers for Renewable Energy and EV projects.
• Led cross-functional feasibility study to assess construction challenges of evacuating 5GW Renewable Energy from remote Leh district, driving strategic initiative of L&T.
• Led sustainability-focused projects (L&T's 1st EV infrastructure) worth $1.5 Million.
• Developed roadmap to make L&T PT&D IC carbon neutral by 2030 by introducing reforms on energy, smart technology.

Project Management

• Managed end-to-end project delivery lifecycle of multiple key strategic projects worth ~$60 million for the organization, achieving a 10% profit margin.
• Handled cross-functional teams, and managed resource planning to ensure proper resource availability and smooth project operations.
• Led engagements and collaborated with multiple work streams to ensure operational effectiveness, risk mitigation, and project target prioritization.

Supply Chain & Vendor Management

• Handled end-to-end supply chain for multiple projects including procurement, inventory management, logistics, and warehousing. Handled price negotiation, purchase/work order finalization, and vendor empanelment.
• Saved $0.55 Million in actual cost estimation by exploring low-cost components, grouping procurement, leveraging in-house supply chain.
• Persuaded 4 GMs to migrate from Just-in-Time procurement to start job ordering by forecasting the price escalation trends.
• Realized savings of $0.2 Million + by negotiating & restructuring contract terms.

Operations & Crisis Management:

• Kick-started an Execution Drive in collaboration with 15+ Project Managers and subcontractors to avoid project delay penalties worth $6.6 Million.
• Led cross-functional initiative with 15+ Project Managers and subcontractors, rapidly scaling workforce by 80% (1500 to 2800) in 2 months to avert project delay and penalties worth $6.6 Million.
• Doubled the sub-contractor workforce strength from 1400 to 2900 in half the time, avoiding potential delays.
• Realized one-time reimbursements of $0.5 Million (10% of project value) in delay claims from the client for ideal payment of overheads.

Digital Initiatives

• Spearheaded digitization of cross-functional workflows via change management, accelerating CEO's Mission through performance monitoring, best practice sharing, & rapid bug resolution.
• Conceptualized & instituted nPulse digital planning tool to design engineering, procurement & execution schedule for $41 Million, ensuring JIT delivery.
• Created re-usable digital assets to standardize certain engineering tasks, resulting in 500 man-hours savings/project, amounting to $1 Million savings YoY.
• Halved the time taken for project review and productivity analysis from 6 to 3 hours by implementing the Align digital progress monitoring tool.
• Conducted Data-driven Maturity Assessment, Benchmarking and prepared target operating model design (to-be) aligned to the business strategy.
• Reduced the time required to evaluate vendor specifications by 75%, deploying a company-wide digital tool.
• Performed current state (as-is) analysis, conducted workshops, prepared questionnaire, collected data, and identified gaps and pain points.

Product Management

• Defined long-term product strategy and developed a roadmap to achieve the vision for the ‘Digital Twin’ mobile application in alignment with business strategy.
• Spearheaded the development of the mobile application which eventually resulted in.
• automating the workflow and enhancing process efficiency by 50%.

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

• Led the off-shore Strategic BU practice to tap into emerging markets opportunities worth $ 50 Million.
• Liaised with six govt. ministries of Andhra Pradesh in coordination with international consultants and obtained statutory approvals in 6 months (avg 2 yrs).
• Achieved sales of $14 Million in FY 20-21 (5% more than target billing), systematically managing global suppliers and clients and 7+ internal platforms (90 members) for project.

Analytics & Process Efficiency

• Achieved ~27% efficiency improvement by developing a weekly dashboard leading to accelerating task planning and deviation forecasting process.
• Reduced material supply lead time by 25% from 50+ vendors by proactively overseeing material transportation issues.