Feb 2022 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Mar 2021 – Feb 2022 · 11 mos

Oct 2016 – Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Responsible for helping countries of Metro Cash and carry and Business Units within Metro AG with their transformation journey with the focus on People, Process and Technology in that order, to create value and engagement.
• I am also responsible for designing complex problem solving concepts using , Business process re-engineering, Lean, 6 Sigma, Data Analytics, Agile, Scrum, Design Thinking and Robotic process automation and deploying them for various countries and supporting them with their transformation journey. I help countries and organisations create a bottom up culture with high employee engagement and result focus. The projects bring sustainable and tangible results (financial) in areas like, supply chain, operations, delivery, finance, human resources etc.,. contributing to top line or bottom line.
• Creating multi dimensional concepts for transformation and complex problem solving, senior leadership workshop design, leadership coaching, stakeholder management, program governance, project management, capability building and value creation are some of the key tasks that I perform everyday.
• The team comprises of Black belts, Lean experts, Data specialists, Machine learning engineers and Transformation specialists from Germany and India. Also support a Matrix organization of Transformation leaders in Metro countries.
• Have extensive experience in global teaming, in setting up cross functional cross geography, high performing teams using state of the art recruitment practices, new ways of working, best in class performance measurement systems and employee experience.

Feb 2011 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Germany

• Support new Business initiation - Facility selection, Vendor management, Business case creation/analysis, Financial benefit calculation, Strategy development (recruitment, training, retention etc.,) and transfer of tasks from over 20 countries.
• Support business stabilization - Customizing and implementing various highly effective Management and Quality governance framework (Lean Management, 6 Sigma, TQM, Change Management, Project Management etc.,)
• Head a department of highly engaged and motivated Global Team that makes it “Possible”

Oct 2005 – Sep 2009 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Part of the Lead team that deployed Service Parts Management, a state of the art warehouse ERP system to various Caterpillar warehouses, dealers and suppliers across the world. In this role I had the accountability for successful role out of the IT system and related people change management elements such as communication, learning and reinforcements elements from Change readiness assessment, top Leaders on-boarding, Organization communication strategy to employee training.
• Have transitioned over 200 successful projects within the 6 Sigma framework over 3 years resulting in over $50M in business unit sales by growing the shared services division from zero to more than 300 full time employees. Was also involved in the Org set up and Operations of the unit.