Satvinder Kalsi
Roche
Mississauga,Canada
2
Languages
1
Certification
29
years of professional experience
An experienced and trusted servant leader who is passionate about developing and coaching high-performing teams to deliver value, build confidence and trust.
Software engineering professional with proven ability to lead development teams and drive impactful projects. Skilled in team collaboration, fostering innovation, and adapting to dynamic project requirements. Known for strong technical acumen and reliable problem-solving capabilities.
Work History
Software Engineering Manager
4 Years- Global Software Engineering Manager (17+ Engineers across Canada, the US, EMEA) specializing in fostering high-performing engineering cultures across diverse technical stacks.
- Led team capability through targeted recruitment, coaching, and mentorship, ensuring the successful delivery of scalable solutions within Agile frameworks.
- Successfully built and scaled high-performing teams by recruiting, coaching, and mentoring engineers and resulting in a GEOS score (employee satisfaction) of 92%.
- Building the talent pipeline to influence growth through external internship programs and active sponsorships from our Women in Tech events.
Manager - Project Manager Team
3 Years- Manager - Project Management : Coached and led a team of 15+ high performing, cross-functional teams across the US and Canada EMEA.
- Created a safe environment to enable, empower and develop high performing teams that enabled the agile mindset to support in the delivery of our strategic initiatives across the Roche organization.
- Led learning and development initiatives to support the SCALED agile framework process within Canada, the US and LATAM teams.
- Trusted partner and leader amongst teams and stakeholders.
Senior Project Manager
6 Years- Pharma Implementation Squad: Scrum Master for the IT Pharma International implementation team focused on embedding the agile mindset and behaviours. Enabled 5 functions within Pharma International, mentoring teams to build mindset and behaviours to bring in the new ways of working.
- Business Partnering Program: Led Pharma IT initiative to improve business partnering skills. Led workstreams that focused on business partner plans and self develop toolkits. Facilitated workshops and trainings throughout the US in order to influence change and develop our teams.
- North American Service Desk Transition to Costa Rica: Responsible for leading a large North American team to transition multiple service desks to a shared service centre in Costa Rica. Responsible for leading the team that chose the location, secured funding, built transition plans and implemented the transition with minimal disruption to customer satisfaction. Coached and mentored team members in project management skills, team management and transition support.
- Service Desk Strategy and Business Case: Part of a strategic team that analyzed and developed a proposal to create a Global User Services organization, while maintaining customer satisfaction and achieving a 20% cost savings.
Junior Project Manager
2 Years- Procurement Solution for Hardware Requests - Led automation of hardware catalog order system.
- SimplyCore Program: Touchpoint - Led Touchpoint migration in Roche Canada for all organizations. Created communications and led training for various organizations.
- Live Chat - Facilitated workshops to gather requirements; created detailed project plans to track risks and issues, collaborated with co-located teams to align on actions. Presented final recommendation to Senior IT leadership team.
Associate
4 Years- Coordinated with team members to prepare documents for strategic business planning meetings; co-led all workshop initiatives within the department.
Associate
9 Years- Coordinated various projects within the department; led personal tax filings for Senior Partners and staff; provided support for various teams within the organization.
Education
Skills
Coaching & Mentoring
People Leadership
Facilitation
Global Project Delivery
Scrum Master
Agile
Project Management
Stakeholder Management
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Punjabi
Native or Bilingual
Certification
ITIL (IT Service Management), ADKAR (Organizational Change Management)
Timeline
Software Engineering Manager
Roche
09.2022 - CurrentRead More
Manager - Project Manager Team
Roche
09.2019 - 09.2022Read More
Senior Project Manager
Roche
01.2013 - 01.2019Read More
Junior Project Manager
Roche
01.2011 - 01.2013Read More
Associate
Roche
01.2007 - 01.2011Read More
Associate
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
01.1998 - 01.2007Read More
University of Alberta
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Personal Information
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/satvinder