Leading IT agenda in the Northern Europe & France business units, partnering with business units leaders to drive growth through enabling data & tech. This includes strategic alignment and developing multi-year capability road-maps, IT portfolio delivery and value realization, operational support and productivity delivery, security, risk and compliance.

Lead IT agenda in the North West Europe & France, partners with business units executives (GM, CFO, Commercial Directors, Supply Chain Director etc.) to ensure that all aspects of Information Technology meet current and future needs and are an integral part of business growth plans. This includes strategic alignment and developing multi-year capability roadmaps, budget and trade-off management, IT portfolio delivery and value realization, operational support, security, risk and compliance.

Supports all aspects of business and IT interfacing inclusive of demand shaping, value creation and achievement for a Europe and Sub Sahara Africa geographical cluster (sector) and Commercial business function primarily Trade Promotion Management / Optimization and Sales Execution. Aligns sector IT strategy to global IT strategy, assesses impact of changes to sector business objectives and manages sector business partner relationships. Owns the sector/function solution agenda end to end from initiation to execution and business leverage. Serves as a strategic partner to the sector/function’s most senior business leaders, delivering innovative solutions that drive differentiating business capability for the business.

Accountable for delivering the Data/BI Solutions within the EER Transformation Program, lead Data and BI COEs, Sector and Local Solutions teams to deliver end to end Information and Analytical solutions on time to budget that meet local business requirements leveraging SAP PIRT BW/BEX, SAP BODS/BOBJ and Teradata MDM/EDW as the core platforms, comply with Global Enterprise Architecture standards and enable the PepsiCo Operating Model. Influence end to end business requirements so that realistic and deliverable plans are developed.

Was accountable for delivering the DTI (Data-To-Information) Solutions work-stream within the EER Transformation Program. Led Data and BI COEs, Sector and Local Solutions teams to deliver end to end Master Data Management, Reporting and Information solutions for the Russia SAP Commercial transformation program leveraging global platforms (Teradata, SAP, Workflow engines) and securing comonality of solutions and ability to adopt accross EU Sector. Russia was a pilot platform where Master Data Management and Information solutions was successfully deployed and expansion to Europe markets and adoption started. Talented team people has been consolidated within project team, developed and integrated into EU Data and Analytics organization to keep Data and Analytics Sector wise program running

Responsible for the end-to-end life cycle management and on-going custody of the Russia DTI common solutions portfolio consistent with BST Operating Model and Russia Business Requirements.Operate across multiple organizational dimensions, lines of business and platforms (SAP/PIRT, common solutions, legacy applications and technology) to design and deliver DTI solutions that would support short term and strategic requirements of the Russia Market

Manage a deployment of SFA common European platform for indirect sales (SAP programm). E2e project management + project transitioning to business rollouts (Knowledge Transfer, People transitioning, open items' Negotiation)SAP Programm short Assignments - managing transformation and improvement of SAP vs legacy DSD integration (the offending business area), driving Risk/Issue/Change management agenda ( development/deployment and ownership of RIC procedures)

Managing projects in different functional areas (COMS/OPS). E2e project planning and execution - capturing Demand & Business Case prep, managing of X-functional and Multinational resources/Vendors, relashionship with Sponsors/Stakeholders, Finance tracking, leading Go Live & Hypercare activities, Reporting and Communication. People management - developing direct reporters (subordinates).

Senior Consultant/Team Lead in a set of CPM projects (BI and Financial Planning and Consolidation). Led a small group of consultants through e2e solution deployment – dev-t of Functional and Technical design, system build and Configuration, EU training, Go Live prep and Post go live support.

BI/DW developer, e2e development of XML based data collection tool as a part of EDW (Technical design and programming), EU training and tool’s rollout, building up an EDW data upload interfaces (ETL)