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Education
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Certification
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Sivadas Y

Sivadas Y

Thiruvananthapuram Taluk

Summary

  • PMP Certified
  • MBA In Operations
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
  • Project Transition & Management
  • Process improvement strategies
  • Exposure to Risk planning & mitigation
  • 20+ years of experience in world class BPO environments
  • Played leadership roles in Corporates & Startups
  • Played a vital role in transitioning, sustaining & scaling up the business
  • Lead the business operations' digital transformation during the Covid-19 pandemic situation

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Vice President - Operations

Phykon
Thiruvananthapuram Taluk
12.2018 - Current

Strategy Leadership & Business Planning :

  • Support the executive leadership team in achieving strategic goals, with overall accountability and responsibility for day-to-day operations management.
  • Collaborate with the CEO to deliver innovations and excellence.

Operational Excellence:

  • Oversee all aspects of company operations to ensure alignment with deliverables, timelines, and performance goals.
  • Continually monitor, evaluate, and optimize financial performance.

Relationship Management/Partnering:

  • Interact regularly with key payors to manage projects, ensure customer satisfaction, and onboard new customers.
  • Identify strategic opportunities to enhance customer experience, operational processes, technology, and risk management.

Strategic Planning:

  • Develop and execute short and long-term strategies to drive innovation and operational efficiencies, partnering with Product and Engineering teams.
  • Establish success measurements and sustainability plans to track progress against strategic priorities.

Change Management and Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Lead organization-wide change management initiatives, fostering cross-team collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
  • Provide broad, multidisciplinary stakeholder management to ensure alignment with organizational goals and objectives.

Operational Oversight:

  • Define, develop, implement, and evaluate strategic plans and organizational goals to ensure operational excellence and continued viability.
  • Identify and implement new processes, emerging technologies, and systems to improve organizational effectiveness.

Team Leadership and Development:

  • Lead and manage business operations, billing, and other operational functions, ensuring high standards of customer service and efficiency.
  • Influence, recruit, train, develop, and coach a high-performance team, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Financial Management:

  • Achieve financial goals while maintaining quality and compliance standards, with oversight of the Operations budget.
  • Create insightful reports and effectively convey information to internal and external stakeholders, contributing to strategic and operational plans.

Advisory (New Business and Transitions):

  • Identifying the business problems, proposing solutions, RFI/RFP formulation, and overseeing the presales cycles of the organization.
  • Provide thought leadership, financial decision making, and proposing the recommendations to the board.
  • Evaluate the P&L, Cash flow statement, and Balance sheet to formulate appropriate financial strategies for a financial year and propose recommendations.

Manager - Operations

Phykon
11.2013 - 11.2018
  • Was Managing an SCM order processing KPO business for an Australian-based FMCG giant, an American-based CCTV security inbound call center operations, and Australian-based Energy outbound call center operations.
  • Revenue management, client engagement, transition of businesses, and risk planning.
  • Suggesting continuous process improvement for cost optimization and enhancing value of services.

Assistant Manager - Operations

HCL
10.2010 - 06.2013
  • Managed day to day operations, performance monitoring, reporting & streamlining of the banking process at offshore
  • Served as primary liaison between client & multiple internal stakeholders - Communicated with customers, senior management and the team on the progress, day to day operations and growth opportunities respectively
  • Timely service delivery with required quality standards
  • Identified the pain points in the process and resolved them systematically with the help of PMO & Corporate quality team

TeamLead

RR Donnelley
02.2003 - 08.2010
  • Worked for a UK based investment banking client, US based Real estate client and US based Securities Litigation client and a US based Medical Billing client during this tenure
  • Performed many roles starting from an Associate role to a Team Lead role.
  • Undergone prestigious11 month Leadership development program of RRD called "Chrysallis"

Medical Billing Assistant

Nittany Decision Services Pvt.Ltd
07.2001 - 07.2002
  • Part of a medical billing team and worked in UB 92, HCFA forms
  • Processed claims, analysed rejections, corrected and reprocessed medical claims for insurance companies/ Claim provider

Education

Certified Project Management Professional -

PMI
12-2017

MBA - Operations

BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY
09-2013

Six Sigma Black Belt -

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
11-2011

Diploma in Systems Management -

NIIT
10-2010

Fast track Management Program - A leadership development initiative

RR DONNELLEY
07-2008

Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Chemistry

GOVT. CHITTUR COLLEGE
06-1999

Skills

People Practice/Advocacy & Compliances:

Formulated set of practices, policies, systems and processes to drive culture

Part of the team that derived organizational values

Built an inclusive, positive and growth work environment

Handled multi location teams and driven performance consistently

Ensured that the voice of the employee is heard and act as the voice of the employee at times

Business Acumen:

Understand the core business principles, vision, internal & external operations and the goal of the organization

Designed training programs in line with business needs, vision of the company (for the next 5 years) and pulse, skillset of the employees

Designed leadership training program for tenured employees in collaboration with external stake holders to build skilled talent pool

Adapted different business models considering the feasibility and profitability (or ROI)

Employee Engagement & Satisfaction:

To build high performing and well-balanced team, built skill matrix, promoted Friday fun activities, Monthly get together

Initiated Rewards & Recognition (R&R) programs to appreciate the exceptional work done by the team members

Formulated performance Incentives, quarterly bonus programs to motivate the mid-level leads

Designed a Buddy program for the newly joined employees to assist them to understand the policies and culture of the organization

Proposed an inflation-based pay hike management system

Talent Acquisition & Assimilation strategy:

Identified precise strategies for resourcing and redefined the hiring process

Defined KPIs in line with Company goals, communicated upfront to Employees to bring transparency, and provided training, tools to implement it effectively

Collaborative and transformative mindset:

Integrated diverse perspective to drive success, transformation and build strong team dynamics

Problem solving Approach:

Found creative solutions to challenges by thinking critically

Time and people management:

Prioritized tasks (both individual and team) and met deadlines efficiently

Built emotional intelligence by understanding and managing emotions of the self, while recognizing the emotions of others

Communication and Reporting:

Articulated ideas crisply, confidently both verbal and numerical and been an active listener

Promoted Management by exception to build confidence and effective use of time of the stakeholders (especially top leadership)

Resolved communication difficulties within the organization

Performance management:

Designed the appraisal process, performance improvement plan, employee grievances addressal, separation procedure & exit formalities

Change management:

Walked the team through the Change management process (Especially during Covid-19 pandemic phase) - Prepare, Plan, implement, embed and review change

Hobbies and Interests

  • Tennis
  • Violin
  • Swimming

Accomplishments

  • Most valuable employee Awards - 2014,2015
  • Value awards (Ownership) - 2016,2017
  • Milestone Award - 2023

Certification

  • PMP
  • Six Sigma BlackBelt

Languages

Malayalam
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Tamil
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Kannada
Beginner
A1

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Assistant Vice President - Operations

Phykon
12.2018 - Current

Manager - Operations

Phykon
11.2013 - 11.2018

Assistant Manager - Operations

HCL
10.2010 - 06.2013

TeamLead

RR Donnelley
02.2003 - 08.2010

Medical Billing Assistant

Nittany Decision Services Pvt.Ltd
07.2001 - 07.2002

Certified Project Management Professional -

PMI

MBA - Operations

BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY

Six Sigma Black Belt -

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE

Diploma in Systems Management -

NIIT

Fast track Management Program - A leadership development initiative

RR DONNELLEY

Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Chemistry

GOVT. CHITTUR COLLEGE
Sivadas Y