Sohil Laad

About Sohil Laad

Seasoned transformation leader with expertise in Global Delivery, P&L management, IT strategy and roadmap, Automation, Setting up off-shore IT Services, Mentoring/Coaching, Workforce Transformation/Upskilling, Service Operations. Technology leader with more than 20+ years’ experience in Global Software and IT business. Gone through formal hands-on workshops / training / certifications in Executive Management courses. Flawless delivery record implementing many complex programs and transitions between shores. Played customer facing roles in US & UK. In Syngenta, was accountable for the delivery of a multi-year program of migrating the entire SAP landscape to Amazon Cloud. This SAP on AWS migration was a success for the Syngenta Global IT department. Aside from improvements in system availability and performance, operations costs have gone down by 28 percent. Other success stories included: implementing the first in-house Agile delivery model on Drupal technologies and lead the operations/deployment of Enterprise wide rollout of ServiceNow as a One Stop Shop for all IT services. In previous company, was accountable for delivery of large Total Outsourcing contracts with scope covering Service desk, Infrastructure, applications, and transformation programs. Also responsible for cost, quality, delivery & customer satisfaction. Demonstrated customer centricity and delivery excellence in increasing the account size, which eventually won the “Best Account Growth” and “A Team” awards.

Experience

1. Head SAP Operations & Technology

   Syngenta

   Apr 2014 — Present · Pune, IN

   Entrusted with the responsibilities of designing and implementation of SAP overall architecture including hardware sizing validation and optimizing the infrastructure based on business requirements.• Overseeing development of technology plans and roadmaps for change initiatives, targeting organization wide change including transformation through digitisation, re-definition of products and services and focus on customers.• Preparing policy in compliance with IT vision and roadmap, identifying key business gaps and delivering solutions.• Providing a new direction and thought leadership, developing & implementing strategies while managing the overall productivity of the global team. Constantly working towards designing and implementing Strategies and SAP Solutions for meeting organizational requirements and growing business needs.• Carrying out detailed planning and scheduling to ensure seamless delivery of the project as per the delivery matrix.• Developing delivery teams and providing inspirational guidance & efficient leadership to achieve excellence. • Gathering & defining business requirements while managing the risks to improve business processes, thereby contributing to enterprise architecture development from a business needs point of view through business analysis & map processes.• Developing a project-level plan that achieves the business case, establishing the critical business success criteria & closely managing the business within the critical success criteria during project life cycle.• Working with engineering team to define & implement development methodology, standards and practices consistently throughout the organizationAchievements• Credential of receiving “2Musketeer Project Awards” (2015, 2016) for APAC region• Felicitated “Long Term Incentive (LTI) Award” for outstanding performance

Education

• Pune Institute of Computer Technology

  BE (Computers)

  1985 — 1991

• Loyola High School

  SSC, Science, Maths

  1975 — 1985

Skills

• IT Strategy
• Project Management
• Service Delivery Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Business Development
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Project Delivery
• IT Management
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Outsourcing
• Performance Tuning
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Project Governance
• Requirements Analysis
• Pre-Sales
• Business Strategy
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Software Development
• Vendor Management
• Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Intelligence
• Consulting
• Banking
• Team Management
• Program Management
• Software Project Management
• Performance Management
• Crm
• Telecommunications
• Customer Management
• .net
• Resource Management
• Strategy
• Domain Names