Soumitra Poddar

Professional Experience - https://www.linkedin.com/in/soumitra-poddar

• Three Decades of experience in the field of Big 5 Management Consulting, Global Transformation programs Project Governance, Transition Management, ERP SAP, Analytics & Cyber Implementation.

• Alum Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, MBM 1995 specialization in Finance and Information Systems Major

• Adjunct Faculty on Supply Chain Management ( SCM ) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP ) at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management for MBA final year students.

• 20 years of Technology Consulting and Leadership experience with PwC and IBM managing independently complex engagements across Manufacturing, Oil and Gas and Media and Entertainment industry

• Experience in Digital Transformation program of work, Strategy formulation and execution, Business Blueprint, Integration and Process Improvements, Setting up Governance and Risk Framework, Disruption and Innovation Model including adoption of Tech based for Cyber, Automation AI and Robotics Process Framework and Integration of Supply Chain (Industry 4.0 ) , Mergers and Acquisition including Due diligence

• Performed Leadership roles in IBM including Performance monitoring and Succession planning

Applied best practices from International Global experiences in US , UK and Europe in program of work with leading corporation Sony Pictures, BP, Shell , StatOil.

Strategic Services Consulting India

Founding Partner Feb, 2019 – Till Date

• Strategic Services is a Business Transformation Consulting firm offering Solutions for Business Process Automation, Digital transformation and Organisational Capability development. We support clients to adopt Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Of Things (IOT) and Robotics; partnering with their digital journey to build business value. Strategic Services has a Incubation / Development lab for Startup and Entrepreneurship program.

• Incubated a firm Digital Cloud Technologies in 2013 with a fellow IITan to look at the business optimization and statistics based prediction models across process areas ie. Supply Chain, Marketing, HR and have solutions on Use cases and industry solutions like : Marketing and Sales ( Brand Sentiment Analysis , Route Optimization , Product Mix - impact of weather on demand forecasting) , Credit limit allocation for customers

Key Responsibilities :

• Mentoring Tech Based Startups and building ecosystem having own lab for Innovation projects.

• Technology Deployment : Agile deployment of Cloud, Mobility, Analytics and AI, Automation and IOT.

• Operation Innovations : Sales & Marketing process automation, Digital Marketing and Sentiment Analysis quantifying data and Online Brand Reputation Management

• Product re-engineering, Realigning processes for delivery of products & services.

• Building Organisational Capabilities : Operating model transition, Upskilling, Change management, Performance measurement.