Yash Gupta

Associate Partner

Worcester Park, England, United Kingdom14 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in IT modernization and digital transformation strategies.
Proven track record in vendor management and cost optimization.
Strong leadership in guiding teams towards strategic outcomes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a BFSI expert with a strong focus on digital transformation and agile methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile MethodologiesMarket AnalysisVendor ManagementDigital Transformation

Other Skills

Application Performance ManagementBusiness AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceBusiness-to-Business (B2B)CC++Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)Cloud ComputingCommunicationConsultingContract NegotiationCost BenchmarkingCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Engagement Management

About

Gartner's Associate Director with over two years of experience specializing in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) domain. Contributed to IT modernization, cost optimization, and digital transformation strategies, leveraging agile frameworks and fact-based technology assessments to deliver impactful solutions. Expertise includes vendor management, Target Operating Model (TOM) design, and application performance management. Adept at guiding leadership teams across global markets, including the U.K. and Europe, to achieve strategic outcomes through data-driven initiatives. Passionate about fostering innovation and creating scalable solutions that support organizational growth and resilience.

Experience

14 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Gartner

6 roles

Associate Director - Banking, Financial Services & Insurance

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

PresentationsNegotiationAgile MethodologiesCommunicationMarket Analysis

India CoE Practice Head (Applications) | Associate Director

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

PresentationsNegotiationAgile MethodologiesCommunicationMarket Analysis

Team Manager | Senior Consultant

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Feb 2022 · 10 mos

As an Engagement Manager developing proposals and delivering projects for clients spanning across IT transformation, cost optimization, vendor management & negotiation, digital roadmaps basis fact-based application & technology assessments, Agile or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) implementation
Subject Matter Expert of Function Points (FP) with experience in developing performance management models and measurement techniques applicable to software development and maintenance
Running multiple internal initiatives related to knowledge management, revenue management, Intellectual property (IP) & asset development and community engagement

PresentationsCommunicationMarket AnalysisVendor ManagementDigital Transformation

Sr. Consultant | Application Strategy | Practice Manager

Mar 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

PresentationsCommunicationMarket Analysis

Consultant | Application Strategy | Practice Manager

Promoted

Mar 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs

Led a high performing team of 9 Consultants and achieving double digit revenue growth.

PresentationsCommunicationMarket Analysis

Associate Consultant

Mar 2015 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs

First consultant hired for Gartner Consulting India in 2015; successfully delivered pilot project with a global telecom giant and anchored the CoE in the Indian territory. Assisting Global Leads in identifying new opportunities using data analytics to scale the overall revenue

PresentationsCommunicationMarket Analysis

Sponsifyme

Product Manager

Apr 2015 – Jan 2016 · 9 mos · India

SponsifyMe was a Business World accelerated startup (B2B) which helps brands engage their target audience via Events and calculate ROI/ROO of experiential marketing spends.
Involved in all phases of product roadmap, right from defining the core product strategy to requirements and offering. Managed in-house tech team
Pitched business idea at various national level events and won multiple prestigious business plan competitions including IIT Delhi Startathon in 2015. Got selected in top 30 start-ups out of 1000 start-ups at “Let’s Ignite” by LetsVenture and secured a place in BW Accelerate batch 2 organized by Business World
Interacted with C-level executives and marketing heads of various organizations to understand their pain points and accordingly adapted the offering. Got 300 Brands onboard as regular customers

Unitedhealth group

Software Consultant

Jul 2011 – Feb 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Attending workshops/ CAB meetings for discussing the release scope of enhancements/changes
Maintaining a release repository that manages key information such as build and release
procedures, dependencies, and notification lists
Creating and managing documentation for the project workorders, breakfixes or any other
Changes. This includes the creation of Design document, Technical Specification document,
UAT Testing, Deployment plan document
Developing queries, procedures and functions for reports
Automating manual process and developed solutions following Agile framework
Solving high priority incidents and Problem Tickets within SLA
Managing Client relationship and handled urgent business user requirements
Technical/ Functional Consulting of Emptoris application to business users
Performance tuning on already existing SQLs
Monitor and handling WebMethods Feeds and related issue
Monitor and handling feeds issues, scheduled through automation tool – TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler)
Providing support and handling War Room situations