Didula Perera Email & Phone Number

As the Head of Operations at Insighture, I lead and oversee the critical functions to drive operational excellence, ensuring all business functions are carried out smoothly across People & Culture, Finance, Marketing, Talent Acquisition & Growth, Legal and International Operations. With a focus on fostering an empowered, collaborative culture, I’m dedicated to building structures that support both our rapid growth and commitment to excellence.I align operational strategy with Insighture’s vision, optimizing processes, and leveraging cross-functional collaboration to create a resilient, agile organization. From managing end-to-end financial operations and strategic People initiatives to enhancing our talent pipeline and scaling our international presence, I aim to make a positive impact that fuels sustainable growth for us.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Providing leadership for SLASSCOM operations, which involves development and implementation of operational policies and promoting culture that encourage performance. Involved in employee performance evaluation and supporting them in achieving KPIs and delivering their best. Support in employee capacity management within the organization to make sure we deliver the activities and initiatives successfully. Support to manage good employee relations by maintaining positive, constructive employee relations, friendly work culture to keep employees loyal and more engaged in their work.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Performing a key role in capacity and skills-building programs by panning, developing & rolling out island-wide capacity-building initiatives. Closely coordinating various stakeholders ranging from government sector parties like ministries, schools, universities, and private sector parties such as industry associations, IT/BPM member companies, and donor organizations in delivering these programs.Creating communication strategies for the projects and managing press and social media to gain the initiatives' best outreach.Building and managing volunteer teams from member companies, partner institutes and university student bodies to execute the projects successfully.Ongoing Capacity Building Programs;1. TechKids initiative for school children to teach them programming in an exciting and meaningful way. Website - www.techkids.lk2. Future Careers BRIDGE program targeting passionate and talented youth to enter the IT industry even if they do not have a degree in IT. Website - www.futurecareersbridge.net3. LEAD program conducted in collaboration with AIESEC Sri Lanka for undergraduates in IT and related streams to improve their tech skills and soft skills - www.aiesec.lk/lead/4. Regional IT awareness programs – to popularize IT Industry and IT education among the school students, teachers, and parents.Uva IT BPM Week 2019 - bit.ly/ITweekUvaGalle IT BPM Week 2018 - bit.ly/ITweekGalle

Responsible for end-to-end handling of programs and events planned to up-skill IT/BPM Industry workforce. This includes Financial Management, Branding, marketing, PR and press, overall event management, liaising with all stakeholders, including speakers for events (local and foreign), universities, and government institutions.1. Conferences organized;SLASSCOM People Summit – A premier conference for forward-thinking People Managers in the country- People Summit February 2018 - bit.ly/PeopleSummit18- March 2019 - bit.ly/PeopleSummit19- January 2021 - bit.ly/peoplesummit21- SLASSCOM Quality and Business Excellence Summit 2019bit.ly/slasscomQS2019- SLASSCOM RPA Conference 2019bit.ly/RPAconference2019- Work in IT Sri Lanka 2019 – networking eventbit.ly/workITSL2. Surveys conducted;- Industry Compensation and Benefits Survey 2018, 2019, 2020- Employability Skills survey to identify the talent gaps in fresh graduates entering the IT companies.

Supported in developing, managing and monitoring Communications and Marketing strategy for the unit.Provided branding and event management support to all the events. Managing and monitoring Social Media. Provided creative ideas for content marketing. Collaborated with web development vendor to create and maintain the www.ppp.treasury.gov.lk website (Official Public Private Partnership website)Developing and maintaining effective relationships with media.

Worked with the Nestlé Infant Nutrition business group as the Business Analyst for their branding, marketing and promotional activities. Products managed under this business group - NAN, LACTOGEN, NESPRAY, CERELAC & NESTUMHad the opportunity to work with a cross functional team from marketing, finance, sales and South Asian regional business unit in performing this role. Responsible for recipe evaluations, profit & loss analysis, monthly performance reporting presentations and margin improvement activities for the above mentioned brands.

As the Brands Assistant for Home Care Category, got involved in branding & consumer promotion handling for brands like Sunlight, Surf Excel and Vim. Was held responsible for reviewing channel marketing activities, performance reporting, analysis and communicating the same with the field. Coordinated branding activations with creative & media agencies. Campaigns managed; Vim Dream Kitchen campaign, Surf Excel Washing School engagement activation, Rin Bright Star quiz and Sunlight Vesak campaign.

Msc In Strategic Marketing

Bsc Marketing Management (Sp), Business Management, Second Class Upper Division

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