Saurabh Thirani Email & Phone Number

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Participation in establishing the foundation the transformation office within BFS. Development of Solution Families (comprising of market facing digital narratives aligning to market trends and subscriptions) for for the Future of Advice and Next Generation Payments and support for the accelerator program for identification of viable market driven digital solutions for build-out.

Kolkata Area, India

Practice Lead for the BFS Ops-IT practice. Focus on augmentation and enrichment of expertise on Enterprise Automation spanning Robotics Process Automation (RPA), systems of intelligence, and AI-ML. Responsible for leading a GTM to serve business imperatives of our larger BFS customer base.

Kolkata, India

Managing the Bid Development Office for a strategic Banking and Financial Services client. Responsible for end-to-end management of medium/large strategic bids including management and coordination with stakeholders in the sales, marketing and delivery organizations through the bid cycle; including solution development, participation in estimations, development of output based pricing models, and financial modeling. Led pursuit of several complex deals including commercialization, asset monetization, gain-share models, unit and transaction based pricing constructs, self-funding pricing models, rate card development, and development of complex financial constructs including joint ventures, people transition, and captive acquisitions. Supported over $4.5 billion of bids between 2012-2016. Participation in optimization and transformation initiatives to improve margins and mind-share for existing accounts.

Kolkata, India

Technology tracking and analysis of emerging computing areas. Area of investigation include Cloud Computing. Business Development pertaining to opportunities in the Cards and Payments space.

Kolkata Area, India

Pivotal role in incubating and establishing a Content Management and Portals horizontal within Cognizant. Contributed in winning key start-up accounts and overcame initial challenges of starting a new line of business with limited client references. Active participation in IT based consulting, developing new business ideas, forging alliances, hiring and training. Incubated and led the Enterprise Search and Retrieval practice as a new line of business. Lead in developing new business ideas and solutions such as Structured Product evaluation frameworks, Structured Solution Envisioning Workshops, Information Architecture, Solution Accelerators for Enterprise Search, and Experience Management Framework for support organizations. Alliance lead for Cognizant’s search oriented technology partners. Negotiated and closed key alliances with ISV's (Autonomy IDOL and FAST Search and Transfer) and spearheaded several joint go-to-market programs. Project Lead for several consulting projects. Strong track record delivering results to Fortune and blue-chip companies including Wachovia, Sallie Mae, Western Union, Autodesk, Novell, Ace Insurance, Pfizer, mJunction amongst others.

London, United Kingdom

Provided Business Relationship Management for American Express Financial Services Europe Limited in developing a Wealth Management offering through 13 work-streams. Key responsibilities included participation in project definition, planning and tracking; liaison with business and delivery teams for requirements analysis and collation, knowledge transition, UAT and user training activities. Proposed recommendations towards platform improvements and enhancements.

Chennai Area, India

Lead Analyst for the development of Cognizant's Knowledge Management platform - ChannelOne. Responsible for developing and executing a go-to-market strategy to take offerings around Knowledge Management and e-Learning to Cognizant’s client base. Participation in pre-sales support.

Entrepreneurial stint in developing and managing an online site - VisionMBA.com.

Kolkata Area, India

Early career as a management trainee. Responsible for providing support services for project implementation in the Steel and Wire & Wire Ropes Businesses across the Centralized Purchases and Marketing functions. Made improvements of the centralized procurement process for bid evaluation through automation. Brought about incremental savings of INR 10,00,000 in FY 2000 though streamlining the discount policy for the alloy and steel business. Made demand projections for the wire and wire ropes business in the face of fluctuating demand though detailed analysis of historic sales figures.

Pgdbm, Systems, Marketing

Internship: Cognizant Technology Solutions, India, Summer Internship Programme, 2001. Secured offer for employment in recognition.

B.Sc., Economics (Hons)

Ranked 2nd in St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and 4th overall in Calcutta University. Was awarded scholarship for academic excellence.