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Nilanjana Roy Choudhury

Nilanjana Roy Choudhury

Bangalore,India

Summary

Experienced Project Manager & Product Specialist in Specialty Chemicals, Pharma & Healthcare domains, Executive General Management from IIM Bangalore, M.Tech from IIT Delhi & PMP from PMI USA. 14 years of experience in product management, program management with a strong track record of delivering business impact through end-to-end product development, marketing and execution of complex projects applying analytic techniques and domain knowledge across technology platforms and domains

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Product Specialist Marketing, Project Manager

MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions (MAES),
Bangalore, India
01.2021 - Current

· Handling all aspects of product lifecycle management from product inception to product positioning

· Performing market research and competitive analysis, gap to propose new product development (NPD)projects

· Interviewed customers in multiple geographies to determine customer needs, challenges. Prepare product specification based on customer requirements for R&D and Engineering teams

· Manage multiple operation 7-member, cross functional teams to create overall project plan, timeline and budget for numerous new product development (NPD) & raw material projects; Collaborate between scientists, regulatory, GPEG engineers, commercial & quality teams. Finalize NPD documentation following APQP as per IATF 16949.

· Manage C-suite stakeholders globally. Received multiple Winner circle awards in recognition of identifying opportunities and bringing multi m$ business

· Monthly update steering team about project progress and propose phase closure for projects.

· Responsible for successful launch of 4 products in Photo Voltaic and Electronic Assembly Material market in last 1.5-year

· Collected feedback from customers after product launch and incorporated their feedback to future iterations of the product.

· Analyzing data to forecast product line performance for building portfolio roadmap. Determining high potential customers for upsell and cross-sell by evaluating customer sales and firmographic data

· Handled new product acquisition and product positioning based on product performance in current portfolio

· Preparing portfolio of regional and global reports & dashboards, and generating actionable recommendations based on financial, product, customer, and salesperson performance metrics using Stratum & Atlas Salesforce database

· Creating Technical Bulletins, Product Flyers, Product Manuals and other product related collateral

· Responding to ad-hoc commercial queries on product/technical knowledge

· Using multiple analytics and project management tools such as Stratum, Atlas Salesforce, MS Excel, Power BI, QlikView, MS Project, SharePoint

· Responsible for resolving raw material change issues for products

· Prepare Project Charter, define project scope, track deliverables, monitor project progress. Manage change to project scope, apply change management strategies to project along with team members, facilitate training as needed

· Defining and presenting project success matrix, timeline and presenting monthly and quarterly performance to leadership in R&D, Marketing & Quality. Manage stakeholders ensuring project objective is met.

Assistant Program Manager

MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions
Bangalore, India
05.2015 - 08.2021

· As a Project lead, oversaw a portfolio of electronic assembly materials and joint development portfolio of projects across several divisions such as electronic communication, automotive segments, PV technologies

· Organized steering team meeting to review projects and took part in strategic decision for the success of projects. Presented executive summary reports on project outcomes for leaderships on a regular basis

· Conducted project portfolio review meetings, identified risks and issues, and communicated action items to action owners

· Managed several global projects strategically, successfully led a team to implement strategy to win back $10M annual revenue from a prime customer by competing with an approved competitor

· Led a program in PV Technology, identified opportunities worth $1.2M

· Analyzed operational metrics performance across R&D projects over 5 years. Prepared scorecards for leadership and recommended actions such as fast tracking, risk mitigation, resource utilization etc.

· Generated R&D project cost sheet, timelines, risk matrix. Allocated resources and managed stakeholders in successful delivery of various technical development and new development projects

· Designed & delivered a SharePoint development program, leading cross functional teams (R&D, IT) to migrate legacy technical database to SharePoint. This led to ease of access to documents, archival and retrieval of technical information for entire organization

· Leveraged existing SharePoint infrastructure and knowledge to design site taxonomy and assign database access in SharePoint sites. Facilitated training on SharePoint for entire R&D team and upskilled the entire team

Product Steward, Assistant Program Manager

MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions (MAES)
Bangalore, India
08.2020 - 03.2021

· Served as a Chairperson of the Product Stewardship Council (PSC), responsible for resolving high impact issues affecting the quality or availability of the raw materials used in the products because of regulatory changes, customer policies and supplier business practices.

· Developed & implemented strategy to resolve global issues related to the intellectual property/trade secret information disclosure of certain products as required by customers, suppliers, business partners, regulators or other governing bodies.

Organized & facilitated regular meetings with key representatives from R&D, Legal, Regulatory, Supply Chain and Product Marketing to discuss implementation of key strategies. Led to closure of 180 critical requests in 3 months

Associate Research Scientist

AstraZeneca India Pvt.Ltd.
Bangalore, India
06.2009 - 04.2014

· Worked in the R&D team, with cross functional teams of Chemists, Biologists & DMPK scientists, dedicated to discovering new chemical entities for the treatment of neglected disease (e.g., Tuberculosis, Malaria) for the developing world. Contributed to publishing of scientific papers, patents filings.

· Delivered on R&D project for fast-killing and long-acting antimalarial series and developed Triaminopyrimidine, which later became a clinical candidate for malaria. This work was published in Nature Communications and granted patent for the R&D group.

Delivered on project for Anti- Tuberculosis series, Quinolinyl Pyrimidines, a Potent Inhibitors of NDH-2 as a Novel Class of Anti-TB; This work was published in ACS Med. Chem. Lett

Senior Research Chemist

Chembiotek
Kolkata, India
11.2008 - 06.2009

· Led a team of 3 in drug delivery projects. Managed end-to-end project management, quality control, communication, and relationship with multiple international clients.

· Performed Business Development activities and networked extensively with potential clients and brought more business in the account

Industrial Placement Student

GSK
Bangalore, Bangalore
09.2007 - 08.2008

  • Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.

· Was chosen as one of the 15 Indian students to work as an Industrial Placement Student under UKIERI (UK INDIA Education and Research Initiative Program). Received two Bronze Awards in recognition of contribution of green initiative & delivering speech in FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office)

· As a research intern, in rCEDD (respiratory Centre of Excellence in Drug Discovery), performed literature and patent search. Synthesized drug like organic molecules in the R&D laboratory

Education

Executive General Management Program -

Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore
03.2019 - 01.2020

Master of Technology - Modern Methods of Chemical Analysis

Indian Institute Of Technology
Delhi
06.2005 - 06.2007

Master of Science - Organic Chemistry

University of Delhi
New Delhi, India
06.2003 - 06.2005

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

Miranda House, University of Delhi
New Delhi
06.2000 - 06.2003

PMP From PMI, USA -

PMI USA
11.2014 - 11.2014

Project, Program & Portfolio Management -

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Bangalore
09.2017 - 09.2017

Skills

Program management

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Accomplishments

  • Received Winner Circle Award for successfully leading and delivering PV Innovation project in the year 2020
  • Received Winner Circle Award from MAES to successfully leading cross-functional team of R&D, IT SharePoint, and IT Lotus Notes team to strategize the migration & smooth transition of legacy technical database from Lotus Notes to SharePoint in 2019
  • Received Winner Circle Award from MAES for successfully leading and delivering a program, to meet the demanding requirements of photovoltaic industry in 2018
  • Received Winner Circle Award from MacDermid Assembly Electronic Solutions(MAES) for successfully leading a team to design and implement strategy to win back $10M annual revenue in 2017
  • Received Bronze Award (£200 cash) and a certificate from GSK pharmaceuticals for facilitating two green initiatives within rCEDD – namely, energy saving timers and green solvents in 2007
  • Represented all Indian Industrial Placement students and spoke on “My experience of working with GSK, UK through UKIERI” in the Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO). Received Bronze Award (£200 cash) and a certificate from GSK pharmaceuticals for the same in 2007

Timeline

Product Specialist Marketing, Project Manager

MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions (MAES),
01.2021 - Current

Product Steward, Assistant Program Manager

MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions (MAES)
08.2020 - 03.2021

Executive General Management Program -

Indian Institute of Management
03.2019 - 01.2020

Project, Program & Portfolio Management -

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
09.2017 - 09.2017

Assistant Program Manager

MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions
05.2015 - 08.2021

PMP From PMI, USA -

PMI USA
11.2014 - 11.2014

Associate Research Scientist

AstraZeneca India Pvt.Ltd.
06.2009 - 04.2014

Senior Research Chemist

Chembiotek
11.2008 - 06.2009

Industrial Placement Student

GSK
09.2007 - 08.2008

Master of Technology - Modern Methods of Chemical Analysis

Indian Institute Of Technology
06.2005 - 06.2007

Master of Science - Organic Chemistry

University of Delhi
06.2003 - 06.2005

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

Miranda House, University of Delhi
06.2000 - 06.2003
Nilanjana Roy Choudhury