Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

• Global Enterprise Architect for Unilever's Procurement -
• Responsible for technology choices impacting a procurement portfolio of over €30 Billion. Unilever holds Gartner Supply Chain Masters status (2025) - the highest tier in Gartner's Supply Chain Top 25. Shaping the future of Unilever Procurement technology through adoption of AI and ERP transformation.
• Procurement GPT - Procurement AI Transformation
• Responsible for the architectural decisions behind Unilever's ambitious programme to leverage AI and Generative AI across Procurement. Shaping what aims to be an industry-leading AI capability for procurement teams - applying hands-on agentic AI expertise to influence technology choices, solution design, and deployment strategy.
• Project MIRAI - ERP Transformation
• Driving the procurement agenda within Unilever's strategic global ERP transformation programme. MIRAI aims to harmonise, simplify, and modernise core business operations through a "fit to standard" approach that integrates Agentic AI to boost efficiency and standardise operations worldwide. Responsible for procurement technology and architecture decisions within this programme.
• Procurement Technology Portfolio
• Responsible for technology choices across Source-to-Invoice processes for Unilever's global procurement teams. Shaping the technology landscape that enables procurement operations at scale.

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

• Accelerating the adoption of Agentic AI across Unilever's global technology organisation — moving from pockets of testing to organisational transformation. Leading by example.
• Personal Agentic AI Mastery
• Invested 1,000+ hours in hands-on agentic AI development over 18 months . Within Unilever, proficient across approved enterprise platforms including Copilot Studio, Copilot Agent Builder, and ChatGPT Enterprise. Built multiple agents across the spectrum - knowledge agents, transactional agents, and productivity agents - for procurement, sustainability, and personal productivity.
• Agentic AI Thought Leadership for Unilever
• Shaped Unilever's agentic AI direction through architecture, governance, and strategic positioning. Designed and deployed the Procurement Agentic AI architecture for Unilever - recognised by Gartner as a leading example of leveraging AI for productivity. Contributed to Unilever's Responsible AI Principles, Agentic AI Principles and Guardrails.
• Organisational Agentic AI Upskilling & Agentathons
• Delivered in-person and virtual agentic AI upskilling sessions to 500+ resources across business and technology leadership and operational teams. Conducted multiple agentathons with different domain teams - designed and delivered in partnership with Microsoft and Google teams - to help teams upskill on agentic AI principles and build utility agents.
• Agentic AI Community of Practice
• Launched the first-of-its-kind Agentic AI Community of Practice for Unilever's technology organisation - bringing practitioners, experts, and enthusiasts across the globe together in one forum.
• Agentic AI Upskilling Plan
• Responsible for curating, designing, and deploying an Agentic AI Upskilling Plan for the global technology teams of 2,000+ resources. The aim: transform Unilever's technology teams for the agentic age.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Responsible for shaping Unilever's technology and data road map to help meet corporate goals and regulatory Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosure norms. Subject Matter Expert on sustainability technology, data and architecture.
• Sustainable Technology Strategy Lead - Responsible for identifying technology and solutions to help Unilever lead the sustainability domain. Partner global Unilever teams across Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Marketing, Legal and Analytics in delivery technology products to meet their ESG goals.
• Lead co-innovation with Unilever strategic big-tech partners. Represent Unilever in industry bodies and consortia focused on creating and designing global ESG data and technology standards for the consumer goods industry.
• Sustainability Enterprise Architect - Serve as the Enterprise Architect for global sustainability solutions in Unilever. Responsible for creating Unilever's end to end Sustainability Technology architecture across technology and data teams. Lead and influence Buy vs Build decisions for individual ESG capabilities.
• Review product pitch(s) from start-up and scale-up companies focusing on Sustainability and ESG.
• Sustainable Technology Evangelist - Conceptualized and launched Unilever's Net Zero Squad for Technology with a focus on help technology teams achieve a net-zero goal as well.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

• IT Business partner to the Sustainable Sourcing team helping with Unilever Compass goals towards Deforestation Free Supply Chain and 100% Sustainable Sourcing.
• Responsible for landing the technology architecture to help Supply chain teams achieve the sustainability goals around Traceability and Transparency.
• Design & Deployment of Unilever's end to end Geospatial Platform on Google Cloud. Aimed to detect deforestation and pre-empt any risk to Unilever supply chains
• Lead design, development and deployment of global scale systems to help with traceability in bulk commodities like Palm, Soybean, Forestry. Blockchain powered "Mass Balance" based traceability in supply chains.
• Integration of Location data with conventional data sets to detect Origin of raw materials sourced
• Design and deploy enterprise scale analytics capability to link procurement metrics to brands powering their journey to be most purposeful brands in world.

Apr 2018 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Lead tech initiatives for Digital Transformation across Commodity Risk Management and Procurement Data Quality. Responsible for managing Unilever's Global Commodity Risk Management system, covering a portfolio over $3 Billion across multiple commodities.
• Global Process & Technology Lead for Commodity Risk Management covering a portfolio across Energy, Soft Commodities, Veg Oils & Metals.
• Led the process to select and implement Unilever's next generation commodity risk management system.
• Design the To-Be Model for Unilever Global Commodity Hedge Operations - Trade Capture, Hedge Accounting, IFRS9 Compliance, P&L Reporting and Allocation, Cover Report
• Implement next generation Commodity Risk Management system for Unilever.
• Integration with Unilever DataLake to create decision support systems
• Design & Deploy next generation technologies for CRM - Chatbots for Trade Entry, RPA for Automation of Middle & Back Office Operations, Always on Dashboards
• Implementation of Geospatial based AI framework for Supply Demand projections
• Procurement Data Quality War Room - Led a cross functional team of data and procurement professional to improve the quality of global procurement data sets. Deployed the predictive model to identify contracts and purchases order quality issues and steps to resolve them. Improvement of data quality helped improved metrics across -
• Improvement in Automated PO Creation
• Improvement in Planning efficacy
• Reduction in Blocked Invoices
• Timely Payment Processing