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LOHIT AHUJA

LOHIT AHUJA

Program & Portfolio Leadership| IT Strategy & Consulting| Digital Transformation
Open To Relocation

Summary

Lohit is a strategic IT leader with 12 years of industry expertise in managing, maintaining, and partnering with business to ensure optimum balance of technology and business processes to Impact and enhance the revenue. Hands on Experience in managing corporate IT, building/leading high-performance teams & leading complex programs as part of Digital Business Transformation across emerging technologies for various industries such as Healthcare, aviation, FMCG. Played key roles in implementing AGILE Ways of Working, leveraging the best practices of SAFE & SCRUM & implementing plans to improve service delivery standards. Skilled in evangelizing program management methodologies across the organization including leadership, and supporting multi-cultural teams across geographies (US, EU, LATAM, CAN & JAPA) to implement best practices and achieve business goals. Led organizations to define & implement IT strategy, vision aligned with business goals & successfully managed and developed global & cross functional teams and successfully built business partnerships to govern IT roadmaps and portfolio for business facing IT groups.

Key Expertise

  • Strategy & Leadership Global Applications Ownership,
  • Support & Management
  • Budget Forecasting & P&L
  • Project & Program Management
  • Change Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Supplier/Vendor management
  • IT Business Process Automation/Optimization & proven track record of HMM savings generation for BU’s,
  • Agile Product Management
  • IT Strategy Consulting People & process Leadership

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Sr. Manager-Global R&D Applications

Merck Group
Bangalore
08.2022 - Current
  • Leading a 40 membered R&D IT applications team and managing R&D applications portfolio
  • Work with Business Partner’s and R&D community across the globe to implement IT solutions that benefit the Merck business groups
  • Contribute to R&D Digitalization Roadmap
  • Implement end to end solutions and define the operational processes while ensuring security, compliance, and performance of Merck R&D’s on-premises and cloud environments
  • Leading Organization Effectiveness efforts to streamline key business process and generate cost & time effectiveness
  • Managing R&D IT budget and negotiating vendor contracts & license agreements

Manager-Digital Consulting & Delivery

DuPont Sustainable Solutions
Gurgaon
09.2021 - 08.2022
  • Digital Projects Delivery (Emerging Markets)
  • Leading design of IT solution landscape and roadmap to ensure strong digital/IT capabilities for India markets
  • Manage development and implementation of Digital solutions based on business and technical requirements for ORM & OPEX Clients
  • Work closely with business Consultants & Account Managers to derive business strategy, directions and provide consultancy on Digital solutions for various clients and prospects
  • Ensuring maximum ROI for India markets business by development & delivery of boutique digital Solution for clients across emerging markets
  • Work with Business and Leadership groups to drive digital strategy while partnering closely with internal stakeholders to define, prioritize and execute on digital transformation priorities
  • Playing the role of a digital adoption manager to oversee the company’s digital strategy and identify ways to help people learn new technologies and make sure teams know how to use digital tools to their full potential

Service Delivery Manager ( Digital Workplace)

Sanofi India Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai
01.2020 - 09.2021
  • Successfully lead the enterprise-wide roll-out & adoption of Microsoft Office 365 & Klaxoon
  • Capturing key metrics like adoption, issues raised, ease of use & ensure post roll out support to Business users including post development trainings, workshops & manuals for better adoption project adoption across the org
  • Globally conducted 400+ user’s training for better utilization of Microsoft Office 365 tool for plant process improvement & resulted into 30% project conversion in first quarter
  • Worked as Global Product Owner for the Digital Collaboration tools and managing the global project pipeline
  • Ensuring application support and maintenance services for the Services in accordance with agreed service levels
  • Proactive service planning for Digital Workspace Tower through tracking and analyzing the trends in incident & problem tickets
  • Identify specific areas for improvement in service delivery
  • IT Service Delivery – integrating the Digital Workspace Service Lines to ensure that all global and regional services are delivered in accordance with agreed service levels, continuously minimizing the probability and impact of any unplanned service interruption.

Agile Product Manager

Boeing India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
03.2018 - 02.2020
  • Successfully lead development and delivery (MVP) of Boeing Next-Gen Learning Management suite for Boeing Commercial Services
  • (10 MN $ + project value)
  • Managing Product Backlog and ensuring that impediments are resolved at most priority
  • Responsible for taking Epic, dividing into stories, Prioritization after assigning points (Consulting Development lead), analyzing dependencies & post development impact
  • Leading team of 30+ Developers and managing scheduling, work allocation, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and ensuring financial objectives of LMS project are met within timeliness
  • Standard Project Deliverables though AGILE methodologies project initiation, current state analysis, future state design, process design, implementation, and project transition/closure.

Application Delivery Lead (Innovation &Technology

General Mills India
Mumbai
01.2012 - 03.2018
  • Managing the IT Applications portfolio for the ITQ organization & aligning the business priorities with broader IT roadmap
  • Successfully Lead multiple efforts for business process standardizations/improvements across GMI India production plants
  • Successfully lead team of 10+ Business Systems Consultants and lead the Digital Business Team from India
  • Successfully led multi-million dollar’s projects and delivered thousands of man hours savings thus adding HMM value to the ITQ BU
  • IT-Business Partner for Innovation Technology & Quality (ITQ) Business unit
  • Leading & Defining the IT Strategy for the Reporting & Analytics (BI Tools like Spotfire, Tableau) work stream for Mfg
  • Business Unit
  • Always strives for process standardization and streamlining of application by identifying re-usable components and eliminating redundant processes, managed multiple process re-engineering projects to improve and consolidate end-to-end service processes, restructured communication flow across R&D & Mfg
  • BU thus cutting down paperwork/manual work by ~75%
  • Partner with leadership teams to identify digital transformation opportunities
  • Develop and centrally administer portfolio of heterogeneous digital initiatives while maintaining a CSAT > 95 % for the ITQ BU for 5+yrs of tenure
  • Key competencies are to align business objectives with technology solutions to achieve business automation
  • Ensuring support to other functions like HR, Supply Chain by understanding their business processes and proposing available solutions.

Technical Support Engineer

Cimon Software Pvt. Ltd
Ahmedabad
01.2011 - 12.2011

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Deakin University
Cloud Campus
03.2020 - 03.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

RGPV University
Bhopal
04.2006 - 04.2010

Skills

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Timeline

Sr. Manager-Global R&D Applications

Merck Group
08.2022 - Current

Manager-Digital Consulting & Delivery

DuPont Sustainable Solutions
09.2021 - 08.2022

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Deakin University
03.2020 - 03.2022

Service Delivery Manager ( Digital Workplace)

Sanofi India Pvt. Ltd
01.2020 - 09.2021

Agile Product Manager

Boeing India Pvt. Ltd
03.2018 - 02.2020

Application Delivery Lead (Innovation &Technology

General Mills India
01.2012 - 03.2018

Technical Support Engineer

Cimon Software Pvt. Ltd
01.2011 - 12.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

RGPV University
04.2006 - 04.2010
LOHIT AHUJAProgram & Portfolio Leadership| IT Strategy & Consulting| Digital Transformation