Teja Sawant

About Teja Sawant

Workplace Strategy l Corporate Real Estate | 17+ yrs of expertise in design, project…

Experience

1. Chief Manager Design and Planning

   IDFC FIRST Bank

   Mar 2023 — Present · IN

   Spearhead a design team to ensure efficient planning each branch and office location to get best customer experience, optimizing for cost savings, maximizing employee productivity and space utilization, and aesthetics.• Act as a moderator in reviewing the quality of an acquired premise. leading a structured review process, ensuring that the property meets the intended operational, design, and compliance standards.• Develop a Unified Design Strategy. Establish modular designs that can adapt to different size and shape of the premise• Conceptualize new design formats for evolving business. This involves identify business requirement, Competitive Analysis, Technology research, prototyping, budgeting and implementation• Driving a sustainability initiative in corporate real estate services to align their operations with ESG goals.• Handling large office design projects and being committed to raising the bar of office infrastructure with each new office.• Responsible for establishing standard process of project execution in IDFC FIRST Bharat Limited, subsidiary company of IDFC FIRST Bank.• Driving learning initiative in CRES team. Organizing various external learning sessions based on sustainability, insurance, procurement, project management.• Collaborating with IFM team to analyse operation issues and establish best practices of maintenance Key Achievements• Established updated design manuals and SOPs for branch roll-out contributed in increased speed of execution.• In-house designing of more than 5 lac sq.ft new-edge office space in 2 years which is now contributing in HR’s HR’s EVP Alignment.• Driving green building certification agenda- Till now almost 30% of RE portfolio (In sq.ft) is green certified. recipient of an ESG Initiative Award• Designed new edge retail space formats – • Notable projects- 1) 1.2 Lac sq.ft standalone office at Koramanagala, Bangalore2) 1lac sq.ft office in BKC 3)1.64 Lac sq.ft in Oberoi, commerz Mumbai