Ninad Agarwal
Senior Director, Strategy & Operations, Google Cloud Platform & Technical Infrastructure
- Role
- Senior Director, Strategy & Operations - Google Cloud Platform & Technical Infrastructure at Google
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Senior Director, Strategy & Operations - Google Cloud Platform & Technical Infrastructure
Nov 2023 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US
Transformed annual planning through the establishment of Zero-based budgeting across GCP and TI PA, driving sustained margin improvements by bringing focus to re-prioritization, and key unit HC cost efficiencies (Early Talent hiring, Role, Location, and Level Planning)- Successfully harmonized disparate planning workflows by strategically connecting long-term strategy planning with annual budget planning and semester planning of engineering commitments- Led the design and implementation of an enterprise tooling solution, significantly simplifying Headcount Management and Planning by providing curated insights into HC allocation across programs- Designed and implemented a comprehensive and periodic review process for key leading indicators impacting GCP Operating Margin, collaborating with GMs, Finance, and the Cloud CEO- Transformed GCP Infra budget planning by landing an aligned budgeting framework and led the development of GCP Infra budgeting proposals (20••••22) across Capacity Planning, Cloud Finance, and Capital Engineering teams- Enabled Google Cloud’s transition to a GM model by leading the development of Product P & Ls with aligned Revenue and Cost allocation policies.
Education
Gujarat University
B.E., Mechanical Engineering
2002 — 2006
Executive Education / Stanford Graduate School of Business
Executive Education, Strategies and Leadership in Supply Chain
2016 — 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology
MS, Industrial Engineering
2008 — 2009
St. Xaviers Higher Secondary School - Ahmedabad
High School
1990 — 2002
Skills
- Process Improvement
- Management
- Business Process Improvement
- Manufacturing
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Project Planning
- Supply Chain
- Product Development
- Analysis
- Six Sigma
- Strategy
- Ms Project
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Logistics
- Supply Chain Management
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