Rohit Rajdev

Build a Data as a Service organization from the ground up with a focus on turning Mondelez into a data driven organization with a target to deliver 250MM in cost savings by 2023

• Established clear and competitive goals, growth roadmaps and strategic business plans.
• Manage Core competencies and culture to drive Data for Growth & Value
• Lead cross-functional team of Data Managers and Data Owners across business
• Responsible for managing Enterprise Data asset and overall strategy of Data as a Service organization
• Implement Hub and Spoke model to drive self-service model
• Build and drive culture of Data as corporate asset “Treat Data as Money”
• Built high performing team from ground up of Data Architects, Data Modelers, Data Engineers and Data Ingestion
• Rolled out data ingestion framework using Colibira and custom ingestion tool for simplified data ingestion streamline
• Implemented Data Change Board to ensure all projects, products development follow standard data mapping
• Built and implemented strategy for DataOps model for agility and faster route to market
• Strategies and implementation of Data Governance Framework
• Provide operational and development support to Data & Analytics and Data Science community
• Present to C-suite, steer-co and Data Council board on Quarterly, Monthly basis
• Influence senior stake holders across business on data strategy, data operations
• Drive, educate and build a culture of Product than Project mindset
• Enabled revenue generation by pursuing partnerships, sourcing funding and capitalizing on market opportunities.
• Set and oversaw financial and business management structures.
• Established worldwide Data Governance & Standard policies.
• Directed staff and managed annual capital budget.
• Implemented company policies, technical procedures and standards for preserving integrity and security of data, reports and access.
• Evaluated expenses and set appropriate budget levels.
• Managed and organized internal communication to hold staff accountable to priorities.
• Set, enforced and optimized internal policies to maintain responsiveness to demands.
• Researched, proposed and implemented vendor agreements to decrease costs and improve services.

• Nominated as High-potential, Watch-lister employee for 2020
• Leading organization through covid-19 crisis, which has so far produced following results:
• Zero disruption in collaboration and communication across globe. Enabled Board meetings seamless to online Board meetings.
• Launched collaboration product in matter of 4 days resulting in Latin America workforce to collaborate across 10 different countries, impacting over 2000 employees in matter of 4 days (Covid-19 impact)
• Held employees accountable, established Change Control Board which protected organization against cyber threats.
• Initiated the first crisis management scorecard programs & dashboards for Sr. Leadership to measure & act in real time in response to Covid-19 business impact
• Delivered global tracker for Global HR team to track cases of Covid-19
• Managed spike in services demand while keeping SLA and Support queue to Zero tickets by ensuring rapid response approach that also catered to high priority issues across regions including VIP support
• Delivered 150+ live events across Globe since March 2020 till date.
• Negotiated contracts with vendors that resulted in savings of $2.1M savings
• Built a Cost Management Strategy and Framework resulted in decreased expenses & cost savings by 10% for 2020
• Managing budget of $40.5M and staff of 44 employees across Globe
• Delivered 4.1M savings since 2020
• Built start-up culture by designing and implementing “0365 Labs” (fail-fast, start-up design thinking to innovate and roll out new products to meet Business demands in more agile way)
• Implemented DevOps culture to bring more efficiency and cost effectives in Product rollouts and Route to market while upskilling team and building lead organization resulting in cutting RTM by 60% and cost savings in reduction of 3 resources
• Instrumental in creating standard policies, operational frameworks and governance structures for new product rollouts
• Implemented Crisis and Communication Management
• Implemented reporting, tracking and resolving items to manage Technical Debt that resulted in 30% reduction in less than year
• Implemented return to work app to manage employees/contractors to return to office to be used by Workplace & Travel Services which resulted in workforce coming back to office and meeting regulatory guidelines
• Conceptualize Smart Meeting Rooms using AI and Machine Learning
• Conceptualize Safety and Security Application to improve workplace & factory safety
• Implemented Workplace Analytics along with Microsoft to improve productivity resulting in raising employee productivity by 13%

• Analyze Data Management, Analytics & RPA capabilities for Workplace & Travel Services (Real Estate, Fleet, Travel & Expense)
• Build training, activation, adoption program for cross-functional, end-users and supplier teams (CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Sodexo) on Analytics, Machine Learning, RPA and 3rd party tools
• Define & Analyze KPI and Key success factors for Analytics and RPA practice to help drive savings in Real Estate, Contracts, Utilization & Operations
• Define Workplace & Travel Services Business Data Lake on Cloud in line with Unilever Data Strategy
• Lead & Manage a cross functional team across service lines (Real Estate, Travel, Security, IT, and GPMO)
• Delivered Disaster recovery strategies for Cloud Programs (Azure, SharePoint, MS Teams)
• Delivered a Service Model, SLA for service delivery operations
• Delivered a release management program from DevOps
• Define & build road-map and long-term data management & transformation strategy for Workplace & Travel Services
• Build capabilities and relationship with multiple partners to deliver Machine learning, Cognitive insights, Analytics, RPA and chatbots (supervised learning models) with Capgemini, Accenture, Mindtree & Cognizant
• Build predictive analytical models for utilization and financial forecast
• Hire and manage talent for Data, Analytics & RPA
• Build a team on principles of inclusion and though leadership
• Technologies/Skillset used: Python, R, Microsoft Luis framework (Chatbots), UiPath, Agile/Scrum programme delivery, Scala, Microsoft Azure factory, Machine Learning Models using Amazon SageMake, Microsoft Azure machine learning studio/services, VoiceFlow (NLP), Cognitive insights and computer vision models using Microsoft AI framework

• Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer interest data.
• Oversaw internal product team employees and vendor partners.
• Managed relationships with business partners, stakeholder and internal customers.
• For MS Team, MS Flow, MS Form, SharePoint (0365) & Azure Hosting
• Built internal product road-map and long-term strategy for products
• Continually assessing voice of customer, market trends, opportunities and threats to define product strategy across Global Unilever
• Built internal Analytics Capabilities to help with product adoption and activation
• Reports also provide gap analysis on product adaption
• Reports were built using PowerBI Dashboard
• Built Road-maps to turn desired customer experience into major product release
• Created and executed launch plans for new products and features
• Work closely with product group and customer success team at Microsoft
• Analyzed and monitor key performance metrics to ensure product performance, and continually optimize operational efficiency including cost and product administration reduction efforts
• Defined & analyzed a Conference application built on MS Teams and Communication sites to be used during global Unilever Conferences across the globe (Successful rollout of solution for CEO forum, Change leaders conference, HR Forum, IT Leadership forum)
• Rolled out training programs for end-users
• Built a world class activation and adoption programs in advance of products and feature launches
• Building a MS Teams based solution to be used across Town halls
• Migration of 235+ applications, 105,000 users
• Programme manager for the digital employee migration program
• Migration of legacy application to cloud
• Work closely within Microsoft Product Group to influence and raise customer voice to MS Products teams –MS Kiazala.

• Recruited, trained and retained a high-performing all women software development team in Unilever
• Supported HR and Recruitment teams to determine high potential candidates
• Built strategies alongside HR to make opportunities for female candidates such as flexible & work from home opportunities
• Late-hour working policies
• Managed expectations and got buy-in and support from VP
• Got an award – “New Faces of Leadership”
• Presented IT strategies and initiatives to top 200 executives including Unilever CEO, Paul Polman
• 85% reduction in Application development and deployment time by automating application development lifecycle strategies
• Lead and transformed traditional development team into a DevOps team using Microsoft stack
• Brought down release to market time by ~28%
• Spearheaded the Cost Savings program to bring in savings of £320k savings from Collaboration Service line which also resulted in 23% of Operations (OPEX) savings on a year on year basis
• Managed 64 resources across Vendor teams and internal team- a team of Architects, Developers, Business Analyst, UEx, Project Managers, Trainers and Application Management.

• Lead the team in digital transformation planning and implementations (SAP to SharePoint/Azure, SharePoint to Sharepoint online) – (Clients: Southern California Edison, City of Irvine)
• Lead the team of developers in setting up Project Management Office & SharePoint (Clients: CDC, Amtrak technologies, Ontario Ministry of Education, City of Kwartha Lakes)

• Lead and managed corporate intranet and web based applications for Marketing and Finance.

• Office processes using Project Server for the Engineering team to rollout Cloud based datacenters for Global 0365 Programme.

• Built dashboards for HR to help analysis ROE and reports for succession planning
• Built data analytical tools & reports for senior leadership to understand Capital (Capex) and Operational (Opex) spends and trends.

• Built Tagging application for farms and government to track Cows, Sires across Canada
• Built membership driven web application for Farmers and government field agent to provide updates, government regulation data for storage and record keeping and sharing among government agencies.

• Developed the first FOREX application for Thomas Cook Canada
• (For customers to buy Forex from Thomas Cook over internet)
• Developed a gift basket catalog driven internal web application for Bank of Montreal
• For employees to buy and send gift baskets
• Developed a calendar and business card design application for ReMax Canada.

• Built shopping cart applications for e-commerce portals (clients: Military.com, redenvolpe.com)
• Tech lead for development of extranet and intranet site of Ecolab
• (Intranet – my.ecolab.com, Extranet – suppliers.ecolab.com)