Sounak Ojha

• Collaborated with stakeholders to define product requirements and user stories for complexity reduction agenda
• Generated reports detailing progress against goals set by business units
• Developed product roadmaps to help guide the development of new products.
• Worked closely with engineering teams to ensure feature specifications are understood and implemented correctly.
• Prioritized features in order to maximize impact while meeting budget constraints.
• Process Optimization: Identifying and implementing process improvements to streamline SKU management and reduce complexity.
• Helped coordinate testing to verify quality and usability of new product features.

• Managing projects from medium to high complexity.
• To deliver business change in relation to the platform services and offerings, in line with the strategy.
• Maintaining product backlog prioritization.
• Own the financial tracking and delivery of projects for CPS.
• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment across more than one project.
• Effectively balancing the introduction of change with business as usual.
• Escalation point for any project issues and risks, and the interface between the service providers and Unilever internal teams.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives as they relate to improving project delivery.
• Manage resources (internal and vendor), schedules, and financials. Management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful, on-time project delivery.

Manage the day-to-day project activities, resources, and chair the project management team meetings.

Manage estimates and a detailed project plan for all phases of the project.

Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment, demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.

Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities.

Own the relationship from a project delivery perspective with Unilever's key suppliers.

Provide key stakeholder updates on portfolio progress.

Ensure continual improvement and total customer satisfaction to customers and stakeholders. Developed project plans that included timelines and deliverables, identified resources needed, and estimated costs for each project.

• Facilitated the change control process to ensure efficient handling of requests related to scope modifications.
• Identified opportunities for automation within existing processes in order to improve efficiency.
• Assessed vendor capabilities prior to selection, based on cost analysis data points such as price quotes and service level agreements.
• Communicated regularly with stakeholders about project objectives, scope changes, timeline updates, and resource allocation adjustments.
• Acted as a liaison between business users and technical teams in order to develop solutions that meet customer needs.
• Performed risk management assessments to identify potential risks associated with the project tasks or deliverables.
• Monitored the progress of the project by tracking activities and resolving issues that arose during the execution phase.
• Created status reports detailing progress against timeline milestones and budget constraints.
• Coordinated with stakeholders, customers, vendors, and team members to ensure the successful implementation of projects.
• Managed large-scale IT projects from conception to completion, ensuring all deadlines were met.
• Conducted meetings with team members to discuss project goals and objectives as well as assign tasks and responsibilities accordingly.

1. Project Manager – Manage/lead medium to complex customer IT transforming projects hosting multiple Client LOB’s delivering projects which include data center migration, network connection refresh, server commission, decommission, migration applications integration maintenance & migration , DC migration and DR Recovery ;

2. Determining, monitoring and reviewing all project economics to include costs, operational budgets, staffing requirement, resources and risk.

3. SPOC for the business as well as DXC regarding budget, scope, quality and schedule of the projects.

4. Planning, scheduling, monitoring and reporting on activities related to project.

5. Planning, directing and coordinating the team’s activities to manage and implement project and/or interrelated projects from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage.

6. Responsible for regular customer and internal project status, review meetings and project financial reporting.

7. Leading the project team in determining client requirements and translating requirements into operational plan.

8. Leading the Change implementation thereby reviewing the ECM plan and monitoring the resources and activities till closure.

9. Managing the entire project life cycle including the resolution of risk and issues.

10. Advising senior management on project management capabilities and risk.

11. Ensuring Project deliverables and performance metrics are achieved by meeting the required quality standards