ASHUTOSH DIXIT
Toronto,Canada
Summary
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Project/Program management ||
Business Intelligence, Financial Leadership ||
Strategic Transformation ||
Stakeholder management, Change Management ||
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, Project Management (Global Markets)
NielsenIQ Canada Pvt. Ltd.
02.2020 - Current
- Moved to global Store Observation Products team, implemented key initiatives like Real Time Recognition, Self Collection App, etc and lead various vendor interactions, conducted pilots, led major change management after interacting with the SCRUM teams
Senior Manager, Project Management Office (PMO)
Nielsen India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2017 - 01.2020
- Management of key projects (Initiating/Planning/Executing/Monitoring/Controlling/Closing) and support in developing/tracking New Products like e-Commerce, Modern Trade, Others for South Asia Markets by leading projects along with G-locally diverse cross functional stakeholders, increased revenue by 25%
Manager, Program Management
General Motors India
08.2011 - 03.2017
- Program Management- Local, CKD & CBU cars for India Market : Inception Build Launch
- Led planning and execution of model upgradation for a carline worth 50 MUS$ in revenues
- Conceptualizing to contracting Japanese Joint Venture (JV) worth 200 MUS$ in revenues
- Worked on various Model Year, Regulation Implementation, Variant introduction for different cars
- Closely working with CFTs to finalize deliverables, ensure on time project delivery, achieving project milestones and within agreed budget
- Regular interaction with India and International Leadership on Project status and way forward
Business Analyst, Advanced Analytics and Consulting (AAC) Division
Nielsen/Tata Consultancy Services
04.2010 - 08.2011
- Studying trends, Market behaviors and recommending next actions for various Multi Million projects with major FMCG clients like Nestle, Coca-Cola in the Asia pacific region
- Key focus impact of in-store Pricing and Promotion for these FMCG majors
Creative Head
Edukite Learning Services
04.2007 - 06.2008
- Guiding a team of animators, designers and content developers for designing and developing 2D-3D animations and simulations
- Planning and managing the overall operations for South Africa projects
Engineer
Hero Honda
07.2006 - 04.2007
- Played a pivotal role in erection, commissioning and setting up a green field project
- Major activities related to Machine Shop other than Daily shop floor management
- Planning and implementation of projects in material management like: PFEP (Plan For Every Part), delivery routes, trolley and display board designs, water spider charts
- This Plant was awarded Asia's Best Plant in Asea-Oceania among the Honda Plants in 2007
Education
Master Of Business Administration - Operations Management
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
India04.2010
Bachelor Of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
Himachal Pradesh, India07.2006
Skills
- Adept storyteller, who can put extensive data into decipherable sheets and lot of information into crisp and decisive presentations
- MS Projects, MS Power BI (Basic), SQL (Basic)
- Strategic Planning
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Organizational improvement
Accomplishments
- High Potential Candidate
- Contributed to Success/growth of the product/project/organisation various sectors
- SAFe certification, Sep-2023
- Certified Scrum Master, Oct-2018
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMI PMP), Oct-2016
Academic Accomplishments
- SAFe certification, Sep-2023
- SFC Scrum Fundamentals Certified - From Scrumstudy, VMEdu, Inc., May-2022
- CSM Certified SCRUMMaster - From ScrumAlliance, Oct-2018, Valid till Oct-2024
- PMI PMP Certified Project Management Professional- From Project Management Institute, USA, Oct-2016, Valid till Oct-2025
- ISO-9001 IS0-9001:2008 & ISO-14001:2004 Internal Auditor's certification from TUV SUD India, May-2015
- 6-SIGMA Six Sigma Green Belt Certification- From Asian Institute of Quality Management, India, Mar-2009
- APICS BSCM Certified Professional in Inventory Management, Basics of Supply Chain Management APICS, Mar-2009
Awards Activities
- Awarded various Bravo points in 2022
- Received "Simply Excellent Bronze award" in 2020 and Silver award in 2021
- Awarded with 3 "Simply Excellent Gold awards" for Key initiatives at Nielsen, South Asia
- Runners up of the Coveted "Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz -2018", Regional round, Ahmedabad
- Winner of the Coveted "Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz -2017", Regional round, Ahmedabad
- General Motors "Pat-On-The-Back" for exceptional contribution in Projects - 2016
- 2nd Prize in Baroda Management Association; Young Managers Competition - 2014
- Awarded the Best student in support role, SIBM - Bangalore '08-09
- Won prizes and accolades in National level cultural and technical festivals like Hillffair'03 ,'04 ,'05; Genesis' 05 ; Nimbus' 05,'06
- Sponsorship team Lead - Convergence Summit, SIBM - Bangalore '10
- Class Representative, Operations SIBM - Bangalore
- Joint Co-ordinator of International Relations Committee, SIBM - Bangalore
- Joint Secretary of Society Of Mechanical Engineers (SOME) - '05, NIT Hamirpur
- Co- convenor of Dramatics Club NIT - Hamirpur
About Self
DOB-10th February 1984,
Passport- AR183591, Canadian passport, valid till Dec-2033,
English (IELTS Overall 8)
Introduction
16+ years of work-experience across sectors | IT, ITES | Market Research | Automobiles | Program/Project Management | Process Improvement | Bachelor of Tech. | MBA | Six Sigma Green Belt | PMP | CSM | SFC | SAFe
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Full Professional
Gujarati
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Manager, Project Management (Global Markets)
NielsenIQ Canada Pvt. Ltd.
02.2020 - Current
Senior Manager, Project Management Office (PMO)
Nielsen India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2017 - 01.2020
Manager, Program Management
General Motors India
08.2011 - 03.2017
Business Analyst, Advanced Analytics and Consulting (AAC) Division
Nielsen/Tata Consultancy Services
04.2010 - 08.2011
Creative Head
Edukite Learning Services
04.2007 - 06.2008
Engineer
Hero Honda
07.2006 - 04.2007
Master Of Business Administration - Operations Management
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
Bachelor Of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
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