Prabhat Ranjan

About Prabhat Ranjan

A technology and digital transformation leader with over 20 years of experience in Healthcare, Network Infrastructure, Managed Services, Disaster Recovery, Data Center Management and leading Service Organizations. Has a proven record of designing a successful digital/technology strategy and executing on them. Driven by curiosity to identify opportunities and then leverage technology, data and automation to deliver the competitive advantage for the organization. Led multiple global and complex technology transformation programs, cloud first strategy, efficient & proactive service operations, innovative and future ready solution design and delivery, M&A including divestments and organizational change management to deliver on strategic goals.Has experience in leading and setting up large operation and delivery teams/offices from ground up and scaling them to deliver on the global capability/service centre strategy for over a decade now. Has extensive experience in forging offshore and external partnerships to delivery scalable, agile and global delivery capabilities.Prabhat is currently excited and inspired by the potential of GenAI when coupled with capabilities of lowcode/nocode platforms to drive citizen based development of digital business solutions.

Experience

1. Executive Director - Clinical Data Tech Platforms

   Novartis

   Jul 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   I lead the end-to-end modernization of Novartis’ clinical and operational data landscape. My mission is to dismantle the friction of legacy infrastructure and replace it with a \"Process-First, AI-Ready\" ecosystem that accelerates the delivery of life-changing medicines.Strategic Pillars of Transformation- 3 Dimensional Strategy: Driving a paradigm shift in clinical excellence by retiring decade-old legacy systems in favour of a 3-dimensional framework: prioritizing Process Optimization, ensuring Scalability, and embedding AI/Agent-enabled capabilities- Next-Gen Clinical Stack: Orchestrating a fully integrated transformation of Protocol Authoring, EDC, CDR, MDR, and SCE. By leveraging \"best-of-breed\" SaaS solutions in landscape mode, I am focused on drastically reducing clinical trial cycle times- Unified Operational Ecosystem: Scaling a competitive advantage through the integrated deployment of Veeva Vaults across CTMS, Safety, and Regulatory functions, creating a seamless thread of data across the development lifecycle- The \"Moon-shot\" Data Strategy: Architecting a unified data platform for Drug Development that simplifies our global tech footprint while delivering advanced insights and analytics. This platform serves as the launchpad for \"moon-shot\" initiatives, utilizing AI and autonomous agents to solve complex drug development challenges that off-the-shelf SaaS products cannot address.

Education

• Indian School of Business

  Master of Business Administration

  2018 — 2019

Skills

• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• People Management
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• IT Service Management
• Managed Services
• Change Management
• Project Portfolio Management
• Telecommunications
• IT Outsourcing
• Service Delivery
• Profit Center Management
• IT Management
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Process Improvement
• Business Process
• Bpo
• Global Client Management
• Resource Management
• Sla
• Business Strategy
• Vendor Management
• Transition Management
• Project Management
• Incident Management
• Pre-Sales
• Offshoring
• Management
• Team Building
• IT Strategy
• Program Management
• Outsourcing
• IT Operations
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Requirements Analysis
• Data Center