Hemant Gupta

About Hemant Gupta

Senior Information Management and Business Technology executive in the Life Sciences industry, with extensive experience across pharmaceuticals, hospitals, and healthcare organizations, including GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, and Torrent. Brings deep international experience leading global ERP and enterprise transformation programs across Supply Chain and Manufacturing, Finance, Procurement, and Sales & Distribution, alongside driving digital transformation in Commercial functions.In current role as Business Technology Leader and Regional IT Business Partner for APAC at GSK plc, drives digital, data, and AI-led transformation across Commercial, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain domains, spanning HCP engagement, omnichannel orchestration, CRM platforms, advanced sales and customer analytics, automation, and Industry 4.0 initiatives. Defines and executes regional IT strategies and roadmaps aligned with global priorities, oversees demand capture and business case development, and ensures effective change management and benefit realization. Partners closely with Commercial, Medical, Supply Chain, and Data teams to modernize engagement and execution platforms, enable personalized HCP and customer journeys, and deploy data science, machine learning, and AI to improve targeting, productivity, field effectiveness, and ROI. Also leads application and infrastructure delivery in SOX- and GxP-validated environments, standardizes IT operating models across the region, and is accountable for platform strategy, vendor selection, enterprise data integration, governance, adoption, and continuous optimization, ensuring scalable, compliant solutions and measurable business outcomes.Specialties: Global SAP Application Development, Solution Delivery and SAP Competency CenterManagement. GxP and Computer Systems Validation.Have 25+ years of experience in IT management in the following areas –- Strategy and Planning- Budget Planning and Management- People Management- Operations- Project Management- Business Process Re-engineering- Purchasing and- Vendor ManagementMy objective is to lead an IT organization to help create value and act as a catalyst in the growth of the business by making optimum use of cutting-edge technology

Experience

1. Supply Chain IT Business Partner(India & South Asia)

   GSK

   Aug 2015 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Lead Digital and Automation moving towards Industry 4 at sites and Supply Chain to drive business value and productivity. Set the agenda, derive pipeline and roadmaps to deliver. Build Digital and Agile capabilities, developing others to achieve. Enables regional/supply chain transformational change through defining and delivery of IT Strategies for theregion/supply chainEnsures IT creates and sustains tangible value to the region/supply chain through innovative ITprojects and servicesStandardizes IT model and simplifies IT activities across the region/supply chain to create a platform forimprovement and to reduce costs.Works with the business to manage IT change effectively and avoid/minimise business disruption.Represents the region/supply chain interests in IT decision makingCreates innovative solutions to business problems through IT, or alternative means, and articulates theoutcomes in business termsEnsure that the regional and supply chain/site IT Roadmaps are defined and aligned to the global ITstrategies.Capture and prioritize IT demand for the region/supply chain. Develop business case and agreeapproach with appropriate Business Process Partner to take proposals through SG0-2 for approval.Support project delivery to ensure effective business change management and benefit realization.Manage performance of IT services and projects for the region/supply chain. Escalation point forservice and project issues encountered by region/supply chains. Coach IT staff to improve theperformance management processWork with the business, adding value through innovative uses of IT (i.e. solving business challenges andrealizing new business opportunities.Develop and operate a standardized IT model across the region/supply chain

Education

• Nagpur University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics & Telecommunication

  1994 — 1998

• Software Technology Group

  Post Graduate Diploma in Client Server Technology, Oracle, D2K, Oracle Applications

• DAV Public School

  12th, HSC, Non Medical

  1987 — 1992