Rahul Sharma

Working as Vice President – IT & Digital at ITC, taking on the role of Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) for ITC Foods. In this role I am responsible for leading the Digital Transformation for ITC across its FMCG businesses.

Worked as Regional Director - IT & Digital for India and South Asia at Reckitt Benckiser

• Responsible for leading Digital and IT Transformation for Samsung West Asia’s Mobile and Consumer Electronic business • Based at Gurgaon Head Office, managing cross functional team driving innovation in Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain areas • Key focus areas: Data Analytics, Mobility, BI, Robotic Process Automation, Chatbot and related Digital technologies

Worked as Senior Manager – IT Business Partner, responsible for IT and Digital strategy for Procurement function. Leading programs on deployment of various Digital initiatives e.g. Data Analytics, Robotic Process Automation, Blockchain etc. • Represent all aspects of IT to Procurement business function • Responsible for capturing business demand signal, IT demand shaping • Responsible for budget management and program management • Accountable for quality of IT service and relationship

Working as Senior Manager Route to Market focusing on global deployment of analytics led solution in sales and distribution area across South Asia, South East Asia. The analytics solution provides sales recommendations on monthly basis at SKU – Store level for the Distributor salesman to maximize opportunities to win at every store. I am responsible to develop future models of this solution factoring external sources of data (e.g. Google Point of Interest, Demographics etc) and advanced analytics (e.g. machine based learning) to drive differential growths vs current models. As part of Digitize DT agenda, leading solution development & deployment of a Sales Operational Dashboard that harnesses organization wide & cross functional data to drive agile & responsive sales operations. This dashboard: • provides visibility to Unilever Sales teams & Distributors on exhaustive decision making KPIs like Sales, Promotions uplift, Store Coverage, Route compliance and other Sales related KPIs at Channel, Category, Geography, Sales Organization level • enables driving operational discipline of salesforce thru capabilities like salesman geo tagging, time spent in market by salesman etc Finalization of Demand Forecast as per S&OP calendar • baseline forecast generation using predictive analytics • forecast construct by adding activity uplifts  category / brand team inputs e.g. consumer promos, launches, media plan etc  trade interventions e.g. trade promotions, distribution drives etc • finalization of unconstrained demand (cumulative of baseline forecast and activity uplifts) • measured on forecast accuracy and forecast bias

1. Worked as core team member in setup of Unilever's IT shared service center in Bangalore. Responsible for development of strategy to transition platforms & core applications from US, Europe to the new IT center at Bangalore. 2. Finalized Design Principles for Unilever IT Centre covering • Engagement model to be used by the vendor & Unilever IT in terms of delivery of services from India • Unilever – Vendor team co-location model • Quality & Governance processes for Vendor deliverables • Principles for Cost of Service 3. Lead a team of 9 team members across North America, LATAM, Europe, India with Application Euro multi million support budget 4. Simplify landscape of Legacy & Heritage applications through pro-active decommissioning in coordination with IT innovation function

Supply Chain and IT consulting, ERP led Transformation programs, Business Process Improvement initiatives for CPG and Manufacturing clients. International experience, worked in US for 3 years and 1 year in UK for Fortune 500 client organizations like P&G USA, Pepsi Cola China, AB InBev, Unilever APAC, Cisco Systems etc.