Samit Roy

About Samit Roy

More than 17 years of experience focusing on knowledge and content – designing strategies to implement knowledge experience processes for globally dispersed teams. Successful track record of organizing, leading and executing projects involving cross-functional and global teams – Learning, Research, Marketing, SMEs, IT, Quality, etc. Executive Profile: • Functional Leadership: Set and implement stakeholder focused vision for knowledge management practice. Define the strategy with long-term objectives, experience in engaging with global partners and businesses for collaborative projects and identifying knowledge solutions. • Process Excellence: Work with stakeholders across the shared services functions to identify areas of improvement (by conducting CSAT survey) and further strengthen delivery capability. Skilled in handling the concepts, processes, and policies to facilitate the process of knowledge capture and drive efficiency. • Internal Communications: Proficiency in preparing strategic communication plan and using various channels of communication to facilitate knowledge exchange/content awareness

Experience

1. Global Industry Lead for Chemicals & Natural Resources (Knowledge Management Practice)

   Accenture

   May 2018 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Responsibilities: • Architect content management strategy including identifying priorities, knowledge gaps, developing action plan (curate, develop and mature content) to address gaps • Define ways to incorporate agile principles to improve knowledge experience aligned to practitioners’ needs and organization’s priority areas • Define knowledge delivery strategy by understanding content usage data, content penetration trends, site adoption and then building meaningful content activation programs Highlights: • Introduced Knowledge Management based intranet (on WordPress) for Accenture’s Chemicals & Natural Resources businesses people across geographies working on 150+ new projects every month). Focus on user engagement and collaboration. People and process mapping tightly integrated with other platforms for knowledge sharing and reuse. • Startup aggregator platform to access and evaluate Accenture offerings. Designed events to enable practitioners on multiservice offerings and socialize GTM assets via content promotion and engagement activities. • Transformed KM’s perception of a support function to a strategic enabler • Collaborated with the organization’s Learning & Development community to implement and introduce a competency framework to ensure the Practitioners are finding and engaging with the current and the most meaningful content

Education

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  1996 — 1999

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science

  2000 — 2004

• Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

  Executive Program, Product & Brand Management

  2022 — 2023