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SNAHIL AWADHIYA

Bangalore

Summary

Strategic Product Manager with over 19 years of experience in managing complete product lifecycles and driving digital transformation in Life Sciences and Manufacturing sectors. Expertise in Agile methodologies, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional team leadership. Demonstrated ability to define and launch impactful digital products that achieve measurable business results.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Group Project Manager

Infosys
Bangalore
04.2025 - Current
  • Product Manager for 3+ global LIMS solutions (TCV: $500K–$2M each), driving end-to-end product delivery with 95%+ on-time, within-budget execution, and alignment to customer value goals.
  • Managing a $10M+ portfolio with an 8% year-over-year margin improvement through reusable frameworks and delivery optimization.
  • Defined MVP strategies and Agile release plans for product modules, reducing UAT cycles by 25%.
  • Coached six Agile teams; improved sprint velocity by 20% to 30% through backlog hygiene and disciplined sprint execution.
  • Built a reusable product template library, cutting average project timelines by 30%.
  • Owned end-to-end resource planning for a 60+ member team; increased utilization to over 85% with proactive forecasting.
  • Introduced OKRs, Agile KPIs, and delivery dashboards; enabled data-driven decision-making across the program.
  • Partnered with client product owners for capability mapping, journey mapping, and roadmap alignment.
  • Influenced over $2 million in upsells through stakeholder engagement and solution expansion strategy.

Strategic Delivery Lead-Products

Cargill
Bangalore
12.2022 - Current
  • Managed end-to-end Program and IT Strategic delivery for multiple projects in R&D and Sustainability portfolios, overseeing key milestones, resources and dependencies
  • Project planning & delivery: Responsible, accountable and acted for the ultimate delivery, managing projects/initiatives & complex programs, mitigating risks and Impact
  • Governance & Reporting: Spearheaded governance and reporting for strategic programmes, aligning with senior leadership and ensuring compliance with global regulatory standards
  • Monitored and Progressed key aspects of Sustainability Data Backbone Program to optimize commodity movements, emissions tracking, and supply chain across Cargill, with particular focus on key milestones, resources, dependencies
  • Led cross-functional teams (30+ members across APAC, EMEA, LATAM & NA), improving project execution efficiency by 40%
  • Managed a $12M+ budget, maintaining variances within 5% while optimizing resource allocation
  • Established SteerCo governance and provided reporting to senior stakeholders for risk mitigation and performance tracking
  • Implemented Steady state checklists and Cost Vs Value framework to evaluate benefits delivered by various technologies
  • Excellent understanding of cloud concepts and related services: AI/ML, Azure DevOps, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake house : Azure databricks, Data Warehouse: Snowflake
  • Championed SAFe Agile framework adoption, enhancing project turnaround time and team productivity by 40%
  • Collaborated with business partners, PMO, delivery leads, engineers and stakeholders to develop release plans, roadmaps and vision, ensuring alignment and transparency
  • Reduced operational costs by 60% through IT support reclassification and automation initiatives
  • Exhibited excellent problem-solving abilities and sharp decision-making skills, resolving critical project issues and reducing downtime by 40%

Product Manager and Scrum Master

Novo Nordisk
Bangalore
03.2016 - 12.2022
  • Led the end-to-end management and seamless Program delivery of LIMS and Manufacturing IT systems, ensuring regulatory compliance
  • Successfully implemented SAFe Agile Framework, enhancing deliverability by 30% within a year
  • Successfully managed and navigated the organization to support project/programme objectives, utilizing knowledge of practices and processes
  • Optimized release timelines, reducing product deployment cycles by 40%
  • Managed Agile events (PI Planning, Scrum-of-Scrums, Inspect & Adapt) and Facilitated Agile COPs sharing SAFe Agile learnings
  • Enabled continuous improvements by conducting user feedback sessions, reviews and retrospectives and managed product backlog and prioritization, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals
  • Led multiple Agile teams and vendors for delivery, operations, releases.
  • Worked as a Release Train Engineer (RTE), co-ordinating between multiple teams during monthly releases
  • Implemented Automation & Continuous improvement projects: (RPA, Test automation, IT Disaster recovery and Version Control)

Service Delivery Manager and Project Manager

Tech Mahindra (Worked for GSK)
Hyderabad
02.2005 - 03.2016
  • Led Pharmacovigilance system (ARGUS SAFETY Suite) implementation for GSK, ensuring compliance with FDA, PMDA, MHRA, and EMEA standards
  • Delivered multiple regulatory compliance projects, optimizing safety reporting frameworks and reducing downtime by 40%
  • Delivered Argus product in GSK following all relevant GxP validation and compliance standards and setup 24×7 operating model
  • Delivered projects in Fixed Price and Time and material, depending on Customer requirements, while estimating the Project costs using
  • Managed a team of 20+ SMEs, ensuring 100% SLA adherence and optimizing support framework
  • Experienced working on Regulatory Requirements from FDA, PMDA, MHRA and EMEA while developing and delivering Products and Services
  • Executed successful RFPs for ARGUS SAFETY product and established COE for ARGUS safety in TechM with 50+ FTEs

Education

Executive General Management Program (EGMP) -

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Bangalore, India
01.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications

RGPV university
Indore, India
07.2004

Skills

  • Product vision and strategy
  • Agile delivery methodologies
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Market research and analysis
  • Resource allocation
  • Budget management
  • Go-to-market planning
  • Backlog management
  • OKRs and KPIs
  • AI and ML integration
  • Cloud platforms expertise
  • Cross-functional leadership

Accomplishments

  • Operational resilience, strengthened risk management processes, reducing upgrade errors, and compliance gaps by 40%
  • Stakeholder engagement, led executive-level communication and governance reporting, securing alignment across business and IT functions
  • Process optimization, improved program efficiency by 30% through SAFe Agile transformation and automation initiatives
  • Streamlined product release achieved zero downtime in monthly releases, thereby increasing 60 hours of critical system uptime per year
  • Regulatory program delivery, successfully delivered regulatory projects, ensuring alignment with global compliance frameworks
  • SLA adherence excellence, achieved 98% SLA adherence with a 15+ member team for the ARGUS SAFETY suite

Certification

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
  • SAFe5 Certified scrum master
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Introduction to LLM Models
  • ITIL- IT Service Management
  • ITIL-IT Service Transition
  • Oracle Argus Safety 7 Certified Implementation Specialist

Awards

  • ACE (Associate Continuously Excel), Consistently earned the ACE award for 3 consecutive years at TechM-GSK partnership.
  • Special Contribution Award, Received Outstanding contribution award and Certificate of Appreciation for valuable contributions to GSK- TechM Partnership.
  • POB (Pat on Back) Award, Received multiple POB (Pat on Back) awards over a period of 5 years.

Tech And Tools Skills

  • Azure Databricks
  • Oracle PL/SQL
  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Azure DataLake Storage
  • AWS
  • Azure Data Factory
  • AI/ML
  • GenAI (LLM & NLP Models)
  • Azure DevOps Boards
  • JIRA
  • Data Governance
  • Oracle Argus
  • ServiceNow

Timeline

Group Project Manager

Infosys
04.2025 - Current

Strategic Delivery Lead-Products

Cargill
12.2022 - Current

Product Manager and Scrum Master

Novo Nordisk
03.2016 - 12.2022

Service Delivery Manager and Project Manager

Tech Mahindra (Worked for GSK)
02.2005 - 03.2016

Executive General Management Program (EGMP) -

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications

RGPV university

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