Himanshu Mittal
Assistant Director @British Council
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WORK HISTORY
Assistant Director @British Council
New Delhi, IN
Generation UK-India is new programme, delivered by the British Council and partners across UK and India. Launched on 13 November 2014 by Greg Clark, UK Minister for Universities, Science and Cities and welcomed by the Indian Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani, the programme will support up to young people coming to India from the UK between 20••••20 to gain exposure, experience and skills. Functioning as a: o Programme Director managing entire operations of the programme including monitoring and evaluation of the programme. Accountable for: o Writing and reviewing partnership, bidding and key government official documents o Managing stakeholder relationship with Ministry of External Affairs, CII, OIFC, Association of Indian Universities, Corporate organisations. o Lead on Digital marketing and media communications for the programme in UK and India. o Managing a dispersed team in India and UK. o Worked with the team to successfully write a proposal for partnership worth GBP 4.5 million and the partnership was announced by PM Narendra Modi during his visit to UK in 2015. o Developing document control including documentation for monitoring and evaluation for the programme at regular intervals. o Evaluating risks associated with programme and writing risk assessments o Budget planning, forecasting and managing all financial matters of the programme. o Managing people: recruitment and selection o Participating in departmental meetings and leading meetings in order to review, discuss and report on performance, activities, issues, progress, needs, etc. o Organizing and chairing pre/post processing meetings with colleagues to discuss critical issues and recommend plan for resolution
EDUCATION
Bioengineering and Research Centre
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Applied Biology
Strathclyde University
Master's degree, Pharmaceutical Sciences
ABOUT HIMANSHU MITTAL
Expertise in- Business Development - Market Entry - India, Bangladesh and Dubai- Educational Partnerships - Project Management Body of Knowledge - Project Initiation Document - Business case - Cost-Benefit Analysis - Critical Path Analysis - Risk Management - Six Sigma/5S/Kaizen Implementation - Problem Solving - Validation - Lean Methodology - Operation Management - Team Management • Result oriented visionary executive with expertise in managing diverse range of projects such as: 1) Head of Project for merging two production departments (20••••14). Drafted Business case including project life cycle and managed the project. Successfully merged the departments and increased productivity by 60%. 2) Project assistant for setting up a new production department in my current job (20••••12). The production unit in UKNEQAS was formed in 2010 and I have assisted in Time Management, Cost Management, Quality Management, Human Resource Management, Communications Management, Risk Management, and Procurement Management. 3) Project Manager for Automating Production Activities by replacing manual activities (20••••14). Responsible for procuring automated machines, drafting specifications and tender documents for equipments of (GBP) and visited manufacturing companies internationally. 4) Project Manager for changing suppliers for consumables in order to reduce cost and increase productivity (20••••14). Drafted specifications, Validation plans for consumables and chaired meetings accordingly. • Deft in overseeing project activities from concept to commissioning stage including technical specifications, conceptualization and progress monitoring • Conversant with tools like to improve productivity, to reduce wastages, to reduce TPT (Through Put Time), to improve quality level of the product • Gained international exposure of working in Public Health England which helped in learning different working practices and increase resourcefulness • A self-motivated team player with strong communication, relationship management and problem solving skills
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