ASHISH BATRA

Total Space: 450K Sq. ft. APJ & India

Key Achievements and Role & Responsiblities

• P&L Budget: Opex: USD 28 MN | Capex: UsSD 35 MN
• Joined as Sr Manager to manage India, APJ Workplace Services and moved to manage Global Workplace Services for Interim
• Global Workspace Optimization -Optimize workspace design and space utilization, resulting in a 20% increase in overall office efficiency and cost savings.
• Expansion of Pune,India Office. 300 K SQFT
• Designed & Setup Research Development Lab
• Consolidation & Setup of New Office Beijing, China 40 K SQFT & Shanghai 20 K SQFT along with 40K SQFT in Dublin, Ireland.
• Expansion of Office Space in Tokyo, Japan 15 K SQFT

Space Planning: Efficiently managing the physical workspace, including office layout, seating arrangements, space monitoring.

Cost Management & Workforce planning: Controlling and optimizing the budget for workplace-related expenses, such as rent, utilities, maintenance, new office set up Capex.

• Drove multiple site utilization planning not limited to lease negotiations and lease structuring.
• Optimize Real Estate cost by $ 4 MN savings by implementing space planning metrics.
• Monitored market conditions and competitor activities to inform business decisions by working with Service Partners like CBRE, JLL, CnW.

Crisis Response and Business Continuity: Developed and implementing business continuity plans during unforeseen events, such as the global pandemic, and maintaining seamless operations.

Change Management: Managing the transition to new workplace strategies or locations, including employee communications and adaptation.

Facilities Management: Overseeing the maintenance and operation of the workplace, ensuring it is safe, functional, and comfortable.

Employee Experience Enhancement : Cultivated and maintained relationships to promote positive work culture resulting in improvemnet on Employee Engagement score from 3.5 to 4.2

Technology Integration: Developed and presented new ideas and conceptualized new approaches and solutions by implementing various Technologies Robin, Move In Sync App for Transportation & HOST for Employee Experience.

Compliance and Sustainability: Ensuring all “Statutory Compliances”pertaining to Infrastructure are secured and maintained.

Ensuring that the workplace meets health and safety regulations and achieved 15% reduction in organization carbon footprint.

• Enabled consolidation of Offices with total space 500K SQFT
• And 4K+ employees in one Campus
• Conserved USD 2.5M cost & enabled 5+ years cash flow from Rent & Facilities Operating Expense.

• Administered New Office Leasing and Delivered projects with space of 450K SQFT
• Efficiently managed outsourcing of Pan India sites to JLL.
• Conserved USD 1M of operational saving by revisiting FM model for Uber India
• Saved USD 14M from 'CAPEX' projects
• Managed & Led $40M Capex Budget for New Office Projects.