Aug 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Aug 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Accountable for delivery of Workday Program globally
• Managing multiple Workday projects including
• Workday Recruitment,
• Payroll Integration
• Workday HCM, Time Tracking, Absences and Integration
• Management of all Key Stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers to ensure effective governance tracking throughout the lifecycle of the project (Steering Committees, Design Boards, Project Team Meetings, Status Reports, RAID Logs etc.)
• Created detailed project road maps, plans, schedules, resource plan and work breakdown structures
• Identified and managed critical project dependencies to ensure alignment with ongoing Workday initiatives
• Defined appropriate level of project governance including Reporting lines, Sign offs, Stage Gates and Deliverables

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021 · 11 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for multiple HR projects delivery
• Built HR systems strategy to enable HR business process improvement
• Responsible for HR vendor management to deliver best-in-class HR solutions
• Presented program delivery status to Senior Stakeholders
• Ran daily scrum meetings to ensure alignment
• Delivered projects using hybrid agile and waterfall methodologies
• Accountable for multiple projects delivery and business benefits
• Key Projects delivered successfully:
• 1. Oracle HCM and Payroll 12.2 Upgrade
• 2. Benefits Implementation using Benefex Platform
• 3. Integration of Oracle HCM and Cornerstone System for Onboarding Processes

Apr 2013 – Sep 2020 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Watford, England, United Kingdom

• Led business process and requirement analysis workshops
• Led multiple projects delivery using scrum agile methodology
• Managed project delivery, budget, scope, requirements and risks
• Build IT strategy for digital channels including web
• Collaborated with service teams to define ITIL service design
• Managed RFI, RFP and vendors’ performance
• Presented stage gate checks for IT management reviews
• Project plan preparation and delivery of various work streams
• Coach change managers, technology teams to deliver change at pace
• Implemented business process improvements using IT change
• Key People System Project:
• 1. Project Phase 1 – Core HCM and Payroll Implementation
• Led the RFI and RFP Process to appoint the cloud based HR partner
• Engaged suppliers including Oracle, Workday, Successfactors, Corehr, MHR etc
• Business case approval, Stage gate governance, project plan preparation and delivery of various streams
• Successfully implemented CoreHR Payroll, Time & Absence, HR processes, Employee Relations and Mobile App roll out
• Responsible to control Capex budget of £1.2m
• Ensure alignment at director level, engagement with business owners and overall governance
• Coach technology teams to deliver projects at pace
• Project communication plans and Change management strategy formulation
• Implementation impacting more than 5,000 employees across the business
• Responsible for on time and on budget delivery for digitizing people processes across the business
• Day to day control of the program ensuring effective governance and communication
• Managed supplier performance and activities to ensure project delivery is on time and under budget

Aug 2012 – Feb 2013 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Key responsibilities:
• Run a consulting project spanning across 6 countries
• Build consensus among the country teams to adopt global master data management framework
• Direct Offshore resources to deliver IT changes
• Control project spend as per signed off SOW
• Engage country teams and respective data owners
• Take the project through client’s governance framework
• Deliver Master data management Roadmap and tactical fixes

Aug 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Key responsibilities:
• Conduct formal RFI and RFP and vendor management
• Build common Business Requirements catering to 6 different Logistic Providers
• Manage IT delivery among various work streams
• Ensure logistic providers have resources, director’s commitment and visibility
• Resolve conflicts among the Finance, Procurement, Logistics and VAT teams
• Build project scope, IT Strategy and prioritize various Roll-outs
• IT management of technical Architects and Business Analysts

Jun 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Key responsibilities:
• Conduct fitment study workshops in different countries such as Unilever Vietnam, Dubai
• Prepare the roll out plan, dependencies and a task planner
• Release planning and deployment strategy preparation
• Ensure governance & record keeping of Change Request process
• Liaise with ERP teams and Integration platform teams to align the releases
• Ensure creation of sand box and play back sessions to the country teams
• Conduct SIT, UAT and end user training for the country teams

Jun 2004 – May 2005 · 11 mos · Hisar, Haryana, India

• Key responsibilities & achievements
• Data collection from various sources
• Trend analysis on different steel grades and their different batches
• Compare test results of different steel compositions
• Presenting the findings in graphical forms
• Business partnering and relationship management with small scale Vendors