Samuel K Mathew Email & Phone Number

Canada

• Team Lead for Africa Project Management Office (Africa PMO) of Unilever, handling a 4-member team achieve yearly objectives & key results• Led 30+ innovation, strategic & SAP implementation projects of Africa & Global PMO, belonging to 7 categories of Unilever across 2 continents and 9 countries• Led SAP implementation for EWM, achieving 98% process adherence & 30% improvement in warehouse efficiency.• Collaborated with project sponsors & key stakeholders to gather requirements, define features and scope.• Developed detailed project objectives, charters, and milestone gates for a 12-month SAP rollout, ensuring alignment with business goals and on-time delivery.• Aligned 15+ stakeholders from off-shore cross-functional teams to meet critical project milestones, improving collaboration by 20% through hybrid project management.• Facilitated effective collaboration between functional leads and solution architects to drive key design decisions for SAP integration, leading to 100% approval in design phase & 40% reduction in process redundancies.• Improved decision-making speed by 25% by conducting data analysis to support PMO & leadership teams.• Implemented strategies that avoided $2M in potential project delays & mitigated key project risks ahead of time.• Consistently improved team performance of Africa PMO team for project delivery from 50% projects on track in Q1 2022 to 87% by Q4 2022• Mitigated 720 days of delays in Unilever Africa projects in 2022 by recommending project-crash measures within risk tolerance to project teams• Contributed to the organization's agile transformation vision, roadmap, and strategy, playing a key role in the execution of SAFe across the organization• Facilitated agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.) with a 90% on-time delivery rate for project milestones• Standardized the PMO systems and processes including communication guides, schedules, templates, progress reporting and innovation project schedules

New Delhi Area, India

• Led the Indo-Japanese project planning and risk teams for a massive project of 4 years worth 34.3 million CAD.• improved progress rate by 33% by implementing a digital application and drawing critical insights from the connected visual dashboard.• Awarded with 6 favorable dispute outcomes, worth 7.7 million CAD & 36 months extension, from an independent Dispute Adjudication Board by collaborating with 10+ internal teams, lawyers & consultants.• Saved 330,000 CAD & 3 months of project duration by identifying, researching & pursuing an opportunity to remove excess scope of work.• Achieved positive cashflow by negotiating with client to release payments on pro-rata basis in a milestone-based payment schedule.• Developed a detailed project schedule with 3,905 activity IDs in MS Project, systematically updating delay impact & rolling schedules.• Enhanced margins and ensured cashflow by recovering the levied delay damages worth 2.1 million CAD, leading collaborations with key stakeholders viz. legal, contract & project teams.• Ensured timely project delivery, managing 10+ conflicts with client, partner firm & vendors via deliberations, contractual & legal remedy.• Streamlined project cashflow by securing leadership team's approval for 2 yearly cashflow forecasts & budgets worth 30.3 million CAD.• Designed & implemented a successful process improvement plan that saved 30 days/cycle (41 days to 11 days).• Persuaded the leadership team to approve equipment & resource allocation, management, and disengagement, based on project plans.

• Achieved client deliverables worth 1.1 million CAD – including 3 client offices & 60+ project documents, collaborating with 11 teams.• Mitigated project risks viz. liquidated damages, scope creep, cost overrun, negative cash-flow, delays in design, interface milestones, price escalation of materials, land acquisition, force majeure events, inter alia through risk management plans and submitting 500+ contractual communications.• Spearheaded daily scrum sessions, project milestone & risk management meetings with 11 cross-functional teams.• Ensured on-time & on-budget project delivery by drafting 4+ sub-contracts, manoeuvring through project risks.• Drove the project digitalization effort as the Digital Champion liaising with HQ and internal project teams• Accelerated and achieved fulfillment of client invoices by engaging and influencing key stakeholders and coordinating with multiple teams.• Collaborated with management team, 12 internal teams & 8 external stakeholder groups to remove bottlenecks & streamline client approvals.

• Coursework Assistance: Assisted an IIT Madras professor in delivering subject ‘Lean Construction Concepts, Tools and Practices’.• Lean Management Consulting: Consulted for Godrej & Boyce to enhance adoption of lean methodologies & mindset in processes.• Research Assistance: Assisted a PhD scholar in conducting durability, quality & sustainability testing of their research samples.

• Improved progress rate by 11% through a bottom-up collaborative approach called Last Planner in residential tower construction• Recommended solutions in 6 work streams after identifying 15-35% Non-Value-Adding and 25-35% Non-Value-Adding but Necessary activities• Established benchmark thresholds for productivity by analyzing DPRs of 10 vendors executing 7 work streams in 2 residential tower projects• Streamlined work flow amongst multiple vendors by developing a location-based work-front tracking and monitoring solution

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Leadership

Master Of Technology - Mtech

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech

Activities and Societies: Music Club Secretary Progressive Rock Band Vocalist