Abhijeet Kumar

About Abhijeet Kumar

I am a dynamic professional with rich IT experience in Demand Management, Project, Program and Portfolio Management, IT forecasting, Application Services Transitioning, Transformation, Pre-Sales, and Team Management.* A project planner with expertise in planning, executing and spearheading various projects in compliance to pre-defined quality standards, with Key focus on Optimal utilisation of existing resources * Expertise in identifying capacity limitations & bottlenecks and process problems for taking corrective action with key focus on optimal utilisation of resources.* Holds the distinction of working with key clients from different industry sectors and geographies, viz. General Motors (Automotive, USA), Warner Bros (Media & Entertainment, USA), Sony computer Entertainment (Media & Entertainment, USA), Telenor (Telecommunications, Norway and Sweden), Telstra International (Telecommunications, Hong Kong) & Technicolor (Media and Entertainment, USA)* Proven skills in managing teams to work in sync with the corporate set parameters & motivating them for achieving business and individual goals.* An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills. Strong analytical, problem solving & organisational abilities. Possess a flexible & detail oriented attitude. Specialties: Cloud Computing, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Demand management, IT forecasting, Project Management, Lithium, Transition Transformation

Experience

1. IT Demand Lead Manager

   Unilever

   Apr 2014 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   People Manager for Demand Team - comprising of Permanent employees (Both India and UK), Multiple vendors (Service Providers and Consulting vendors) over a period of 3+years Responsible for creating, governing the detailed processes for Initiation & mobilisation of all Funded projects/programmes and Big Bets across all IT portfolios Owns the delivery of all projects coming into Portfolio with respect to – governance, risk management & financial oversight Responsible for creating effective processes across various teams and stake holders – Cloud Hosting decisions, Run cost, Service Introduction, Transition processes, Automation of clarity inputs. Create and implement process for IT Run cost capture - function wise, service wise. Help IT finance in aggregation of these Incremental Run cost. Deliver partial automation of the above using Tableau and Clarity capabilities Ensuring right level of engagement with the Service Delivery, Application Management & Service Introduction Teams to ensure projects are delivered and enter BAU with expected results. Building Future forward view (8 Quarter View of IT Demand) – Work with various level of stakeholders to gather, report and action on 8Quarter view of IT Demands. Established & enabled run impact management process across multiple service lines & finance team Effectively work with multi geography, multi-vendor teams to deliver the above.

Education

• Don Bosco Academy

  10th

  1986 — 1998

• College Of Commerce, Patna

  Isc./Bsc.

  2000 — 2006

• University of Mumbai

  MBA

  2006 — 2008