- Drive workshops and idea intake processes to actively collect, evaluate, and prioritize technology demands, delivering high-impact solutions that optimize operations.- Spearhead major IT projects in MEA (Middle East & Africa) region, ensuring timely delivery within budget and scope. - Translating business needs into actionable technical requirements, architecting solutions that consider current environment limitations.- Collaborate with senior management to influence overall business strategy and drive digital transformation initiatives.- Manage relationships with third-party vendors, global product teams to secure the best technology solutions for the organization, clearly articulating value and guiding local implementations.- Develop and execute the company’s IT strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals.- Oversee the management of IT budgets, including planning, forecasting, and optimizing expenditures.- Establish and enforce IT policies, standards, and procedures to maintain robust security and compliance.- Managing IT operations, IT budgeting, IT policies, technology implementations, e.t.c as Technology lead for Pakistan and Saudi Arabia countries.- Developing and maintaining applications, integrations, dashboards, automations e.t.c on technology stacks like Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint, SAP, Salesforce, Asp .NET, SQL, Aha, EDI, Azure e.t.c for local use of markets in MEA region.

Lead company separation as a technical expert and support in all aspects of solution design, implementation, and delivery on IT projects of Middle East & Africa region markets.• Led transition of IT systems and applications during corporate demerger from GlaxoSmithKline for Middle East & Africa markets.• Supporting and managing ASP.net applications, SharePoint portals, ServiceNow CMDB as Tech lead for business functions of MEA markets.• Manage Tech roadmap and deliveries for IT Projects, in terms of timelines, quality and cost, setting clear realistic and achievable milestones and targets for delivery in partnership with GSK global product teams and external vendors.

Led and delivered projects of IT Roadmap while acting as a liaison between IT, business stakeholders and Unilever global teams. Partnered with Supply Chain and Customer Development business stakeholders to deliver technology related projects.Achievements:• Successfully implemented B2B mobile application with the integration to secondary sales system, enabling 30K+ retailers across Pakistan to place their orders in real-time.• Led delivery of Orders management portal to capture daily orders directly from customers at a single platform.• Implemented Azure and Power BI based sales reporting solution impowering the field teams across Pakistan to have visibility on the go of daily sales and targets at the most granular level.• Developed RPA bots, Python scripts, and Power Automate flows to automate manual business operations, approval workflows, and data pipelines improving process efficiency by 85% and eliminating over 10K hours of manual effort.• Spearheaded Digital Factory solution for all 3 factories in Pakistan. This program is of Industry 4.0 concept for smart manufacturing and improved industrial value chain.• Segmented IT/OT networks at manufacturing sites, establishing cybersecurity protocols that enabled improved and secure manufacturing environment.• Led multiple integrations between Unilever global systems, local application, and external solutions

Responsible for development and support K Electric’s android based mobile applications, integrations with SAP, SharePoint and ASP.net platforms to ensure smooth business operations.Achievements:• Successfully implemented integration of KE’s 1st customer facing application KE Live. Led with vendor to develop seamless integration of KE Live application with KE’s internal platforms including SAP.• Re-designed mobile application MMR (Mobile Meter Reading) integrated with KE’s monthly billing system enabling field team to effectively conduct daily operations.• Rolled out People Connect android mobile application centralizing HR and IT related services for all KE employees within single interface.