• Streamlined monthly IT Performance report creation process, validating inputs from across organization, automating 60% report. • Reviewing IT performance with CIO monthly, collaborating with cross-functional domain leaders, analyzing trends and gaps.• Managed global offsite for 12 LT members, planning logistics, vendor connects, and facilitating strategy and leadership sessions. • Led Workforce strategy and Org design workstream as part of a global transformation program, driving change management, developing fit for future org design, and aligning closely with the leadership to decide on resource footprint and upskilling.• Led talent market assessment of 17 locations, generating key data-driven insights and trends, informing the workforce location strategy and capability investment decisions, amidst a global restructuring program affecting the entire organization.• Orchestrated end-to-end strategy development, covering 12 business functions, aligning with enterprise and division strategy, and providing governance mechanism along with a tool kit for managing strategy on an ongoing basis at a function level.• Led global transformation and restructuring of the organization, covering org design, operating model, and change management.• Developed Make vs Buy strategy creating six decision levers producing a framework for IT leadership to make capability sourcing decisions and accordingly fine-tune supplier and location footprint strategy, simplifying capability management at business level.• Led skill profiling program for 2500 associates across 50 countries, generating data-driven skill-gap insights, optimizing learning pathways and capability investments; led workshops with people managers to drive critical skill building initiatives.• Developed a branding strategy for IT division, creating one narrative aligning with the enterprise, placing focus on next-gen capabilities, providing playbook for the leadership team for boosting Employer Value Proposition.

• Led execution of workforce transformation across 11 functions generating cost-savings of USD 300 mn, aligning with business functions, managing key stakeholders, and driving change and communication, leading a team of 7 people across 5 locations.• Directed roll-out of 120+ Culture & Learning sessions in 25+ locations, curating content, designing agenda, training the trainers, and managing core team of 5 people, thereby achieving 80% registration rate and 7% increase in quarterly culture score.

Represented Novartis at the One Young World leadership conference in Munich in 2021 and became a global ambassador of the OYW leadership community, comprising young leaders across all fields and countries.

• Led a high-risk technology stack migration project of a business-critical global platform for regulatory information, collaborating with 5 cross-functional teams, saving USD 500k by delivering on time, and enhancing system speed and performance by 3 times.• Delivered a product upgrade, gathering and documenting business requirements, reviewing system and data architecture, designing process workflows and logic, and testing integration, performance, and usability, while leading a team of 8 developers. • Launched Internship Program as a site level initiative at Novartis. In 2 years, increased 3x batch size across 7 business verticals. • Conceptualized, branded, and launched WE Talk – knowledge sharing forum at Novartis. Trained speakers in story-telling format, engaged audience. Scaled to site level across all verticals, with 5x more audience.

• Designed a global product for managing drug regulatory information and Health Authority submissions at HQ and country level, integrating workflows across 90 countries, working as part of a 12 member core team in Agile delivery model.• Led a team of 6 developers to build and validate automated testing suite for fast and robust incremental product development.

• Designed and delivered a global staffing product by standardizing HR workflows for various resource types, enhancing process visibility and reducing bottlenecks, leveraging Appian BPM platform; handled business delivery, requirements gathering & testing.• Contained client crisis situation by leading a team of 4 and delivering 7 days of work in 3 days • Designed automated reporting solution for a consumer banking application providing key metric information in real-time • Designed DB architecture for financial risk assessment application paving the way for complete application design • Trained more than 30 people on Appian Business Process Management platform and coached 5 new senior team members • Developed java based website after learning how to code in 3 weeks