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London, GB

London, England, GB

In my role as Global COO, I have ownership for the global operating model and to ensure it is set up to be simpler and more efficient in how the brands work with their customers, suppliers, and partners. I am also responsible to build strategic sourcing partnerships, drive vendor led innovations, future-proof the supply chain and logistics operations.

London, England, GB

• In my role as the President for Asia Pacific, I owned the business’ APAC strategy and lead the commercial, product, marketing, and operational teams in the region. As a member of the Pentland Brands Executive team, I.
• delivering a flexible supply chain strategy across product development, materials, sourcing, and supply planning (create & source products that our consumers love and want to buy, and do it in a way with the least.
• using data and technology to fuel growth and drive transformation
• Change & Transformation office
• governance, digitalisation, and continuous improvement of the global operating platform
• Global Centre of Excellence for core operating processes and analytics that powers our brands and regions

London, England, GB

In this role, I was responsible to ensure our consumers worldwide discover and engage with our family of brands in a digital world, leading Pentland's Global IT, Innovation, eCommerce, Digital Experience, Digital Marketing and Data & Analytics teams.

London, England, GB

• As the Global IT Director (CIO), I was responsible for leading Pentland's global IT agenda by driving strategy, implementation and support for core business applications, digital, marketing & emerging technologies.
• Build a technology vision, data strategy and cyber security strategy that will enable our brands to differentiate in a most competitive market environment.
• Provide leadership across the company to continuously deliver against most ambitious objectives
• Execute global growth strategies, M&A, Post merger synergy capture, technology build-out, and rapidly scalable technology & data platforms in a complex, high-volume and, information-intensive environments
• Manage digital transformation & business innovation using technology & data
• Build and operate a world-class and agile digital foundation, based on deploying latest technologies supporting customer-centric interaction

London, England, GB

• In this role that involves multiple brands and geographies, I was responsible for,
• Engaging and building relationships with key business stakeholders and Exec members
• Providing thought leadership to global business-IT strategy. This includes partnering with the business using internal & external commercial knowledge and insight to define business solutions & innovation opportunities
• Project management office (PMO), Pentland architecture board, strategic architecture, data strategy and IT led business transformation & change management.
• Defining governance models, solution delivery road-map and service delivery approach to support and enable business growth
• Providing leadership and building a high performing motivated global application function covering ERP (SAP AFS & S4 Fashion), IBP (SAP IBP, SAP BPC, Hyperion), CRM (Salesforce), B2B & B2C Commerce (SAP & Salesforce.

London, England, GB

• In this role at Pentland Brands that involved multiple brands and geographies, I capitalised on all my previous IT expertise and leadership skills, but on a global scale,
• Managing, defining and implementing a global Architectural know-how & technology road-map for the IT Supply Chain (SAP, CRM, Retial & Commerce), DevOps (Technical Operations, Application Development, UX) and the.
• Ownership of the strategy, governance and operations covering ERP (SAP AFS & S4 Fashion), CRM (Salesforce), B2B Commerce (SAP Hybris) & B2C Commerce (Salesforce Commerce Cloud & Shopify), Retail (Eurostop), Digital.
• Responsible and accountable for Functional Design, Technical Design, delivery, application maintenance and Core Systems Operations.
• Working closely with senior business stakeholders in the commercial, supply chain & digital functions to understand the business strategy and help shape the enterprise architecture & project delivery road-map that.
• Managing global teams and setting-up of an offshore development centre.

London, England, GB

• In this role at Pentland Brands, I was responsible for,
• Setting-up & managing the application development & integrations team
• Complete ownership of application development & integration within the enterprise (Inc. SAP)
• Defining the delivery approach, processes, governance structures and operation support plans for the area of responsibility
• Responsible and accountable for Functional, Technical & Integration designs, development delivery and operations support.
• Defined the enterprise integration architecture framework covering A2A, B2B, Cloud & IoT integration.

Windsor, England, GB

• During this relatively short time at British Gas on a contract & permanent capacity,
• Worked on multiple end-to-end solution implementations within enterprise applications & digital.
• Successfully completed a SAP ISU & CRM implementation for BGB (British Gas Business).
• Supported several digital & business transformation initiatives at BGB in the role of a digital enterprise architect alongside managing the BGB SAP integration & technical team.
• Played a key role in setting-up & managing the integrations team within BGB and, defining the service delivery model, processes, governance structures, change process, deployment guides and operation support plans as a.
• This role involved close working with senior business stakeholders.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• During this time at Wipro, I have worked for several large & mid-sized organisations spanning across various geographies and industry sectors to,
• Provide consulting support, thought leadership & project management support for large transformation programmes & other major system implementations
• Managed architecture & project delivery for multiple business units
• Contributed to building the SAP competency center in terms of support for sales (focused on the EU geography)
• Managed a team of experienced development, integration, support & functional consultants.
• Mentored & coached emerging talent and helped build the ESOA (Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture) competency centre during its early days.

During this period of time, I had the opportunity to work for a few start-ups in a part-time capacity. This experience gave me exposure into every area within a business covering brand management, product, marketing, sales, customer service, operations, finance, and technology. It was during this period that I realised how innovation is truly driven by.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Mechanical Engineering

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