Amey Udgirkar

• Executed change management deliverables for global fortune 500 clients, including Stanley Black & Decker, T-Mobile and Scottish Water with a focus on large-scale technology transformations such as SAP IBP & IBM Maximo.
• Performed comprehensive change impact assessments to identify risks, challenges, and benefits, while securing stakeholder alignment through targeted communication and training initiatives.
• Designed and executed change management strategies, leadership alignment framework to facilitate smooth adoption and ensure successful transformation.
• Delivered a communication strategy and plan to engage impacted audiences, outlining the approach, target audience, channels, and tactics to deliver key messages, foster awareness and understanding, and secure buy-in for the new change.
• Created and delivered tailored communication materials (newsletters, toolkits, FAQs, sprint invites, SharePoint pages) ensuring alignment and engagement of 1000+ users with organizational goals through various channels.
• Created and set up a change agent etwork (CAN) framework, outlining roles, responsibilities, and communication plans to increase awareness, encourage the right behaviors, and ensure smooth communication between stakeholders and the core team.
• Developed a thorough Training Plan and Toolkit, including training needs analysis, curriculum, and delivery methods, to equip employees for new systems, ensuring smooth adoption and effective user capability building.
• Drafted the adoption approach and plan to assess change readiness and drive actions to address gaps. This included adoption frameworks and metrics, reporting and reinforcement strategies, and a step-by-step execution plan.
• Leveraged the Digital Acceleration Network (DAN), a Change Management analytics tool, to develop dashboards and assess key success metrics, tracking change readiness and enabling data-driven decision-making for continuous improvement.

Change Management:

• Facilitated 20+ focus groups and 10+ workshops to assess current processes and identify improvements.
• Developed change strategy for tailored communication and training, creating materials and delivering sessions on new processes, tools, and best practices.

Process Designing & Productivity Improvement

• Designed and assigned roles across the workflow, from work order release to final product dispatch, ensuring efficient production processes and streamlined operations.
• Implemented best practices like 5S and Kanban, leading a team to optimize production efficiency and scheduling of work orders in the fabrication unit.
• Improved on-time delivery (OTD) from 95% to 98%, and developed a Google Sheets platform to enhance communication across all production levels, from managers to shop-floor workers.

Achievement: Increased monthly output of the manufacturing unit by 33% in just one year.

• Conducted detailed analysis of different sourcing strategies via conducting secondary research and benchmarked with market leaders who implemented different strategies.
• Categorized HR activities based on their potential for sourcing & identified best candidates for individual sourcing strategies by developing frameworks which will help in this process.
• Developed decision and implementation framework for respective sourcing strategy and recognized vital metrics to measure the performance post implementation of strategy.
• Diagnosed the critical success factors required for successful implementation.

Achievement: Awarded Pre-Placement Offer for being among top interns in Change Management Team