Nikhil Shankar

Leading Digital Transformation Programme across Innovation, R&D and Science to support effective product development & Innovation success rate through strategic roadmap, change mgmt & data improvements Managed successful pilot implementation of in-house GenAI Search as Product Owner and PMO, reducing time spent by teams by 30%. Full rollout across Product development currently underway. Managing a team of analysts supporting data improvements and individual initiatives as part of overall programme

Performance Analyst -Developing Performance mgmt practices for SC to measure and improve strategic KPIs through periodic performance reviews and executive reporting Supply Chain Analyst -Delivered benchmarking, inventory, and competitor analyses for ITG Manufacturing footprint optimisation resulting in more than 11Mn GBP in potential savings ESG Portfolio Analyst -Supporting ESG Workstreams with portfolio prioritisation, analyses and performance management PMO Analyst for E2E Supply Chain Transformation

Engineering and Technical lead for Strategic projects across 37 ITG factories -Implementation of Track and Trace, data capture upgrades across 3 major ITG factories Investigating new technologies, and innovations respect to Industry 4.0 and Digital Manufacturing -Establishing a Level 2 process for Digital transformation and implementing new technologies for -Engineering to reduce time wasted by 65% -Implementation of a Digital twin model for a 30,000 sqm factory using 3D scanning technology

A B2B e-commerce platform to optimize and facilitate supply & demand of medical equipment during the COVID pandemic (no longer in operation) Managed Business Development, B2B Sales and Research operations Onboarded and managed multiple suppliers on the platform

Created a Plastic reduction tool to calculate and score plastic materials for 90% of the product packaging portfolio. Also lead PoC solution architecture for an automated cloud-based solution.

Coordinated 12 market launches and compliance projects in EU markets for Next generation products, involving a large network of international stakeholders

Praktikant and Masterarbeit