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ATIMA BHATNAGAR

ATIMA BHATNAGAR

Wembley

Summary

Skilled analytical thinker with over 17 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Tech industry. Extensive experience in managing C level stakeholders and building high performing teams. Accustomed to enabling large scale change of organisation and process. Highly self-motivated with a creative nature. Area of expertise is Service delivery/IT Service management, Tech & Pharma Quality management, Product management and Customer Success.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work history

VP Customer Success & Suppport

BenevolentAI
London, ENG
09.2023 - Current
  • Accountable for CRM implementation.
  • Responsible for CRM reporting.
  • Established high level project plans for repurposing service.
  • Partnered with Tech, legal and procurement teams as part of repurposing pilot.
  • Partnered with product marketing to ensure effective use of tools to track and manage marketing initiatives.
  • Identified customer support costs related to new service offerings feeding into business case and value articulation.

VP Ops and Quality

BenevolentAI
London, UK
01.2023 - Current

Responsible for optimising the use of the Benevolent Platform™ to enhance disease deployments from a tech ops and quality perspective.

  • Design of tech quality frameworks to deliver externalised products.
  • Leading service design and support transition strategies for new product offerings.
  • Leading data improvement activities.
  • Consult to inform role enabling decision making at ELT level.

Director Product Owner Statistical Computing

GSK
Brentford , Ealing
03.2021 - 12.2022
  • Product lead for all activities related to implementation of new Statistical compute environment in R&D to enable reduction in E2E submission time by 25%.
  • Strategic road-map creation with alignment to business needs and OKRs.
  • Infrastructure implementation for foundational aspects of program (Azure/Kubernetes).
  • Established E2E service and and support processes reducing support costs by £2,000,000.
  • Implementation and optimisation of ITIL/ITSM within DevOps environment.
  • Lead for Validation Planning , automation of documentation (see me systems), alignment to Tech strategies, alignment to Pharma Gxp deliverables.
  • Co-ordination and prioritisation of backlogs using Agile processes within SAFe frameworks.
  • Accountability for legacy suite of statistical compute products within R&D, Including but not limited to SAS environments, SAS licensing, R & Python instances for use within Bio statistics and data management.
  • Management of globally diverse teams including large offshore teams, such as engineers, UX designers, support services up to 30 employees globally, including full time and contractor resources

Strategy Director R&D Tech

GSK
Uxbridge, Hillingdon
06.2019 - 05.2021
  • Led creation and management of strategic planning maturity process and guidelines for over 100 R&D products.
  • Enabling role with big emphasis on strategic thinking and maturity of strategic data analysis for product.
  • Enabled bench marking activities including org trends and tech trends to enable reduction in vendor costs by 25%.
  • Implementation of enterprise change into Agile product model.
  • Elimination of traditional processes - Waterfall vs Agile.
  • Leadership facilitation role which helped drive change in org design and process to enable operational effectiveness.
  • Led High Performing Teams initiatives for R&D tech LT.

Service Manager - Clinical Analyse and Report

GSK
Uxbridge, Hillingdon
03.2014 - 06.2019
  • Service management responsibility for statistical computing environments, data management environments, Spotfire analytics, high performance computing environments, Accenture life sciences cloud (ALSC) and Data management workbench (DMW).
  • Championed development of new services to improve operational output and meet KPIs.
  • Led implementation of ITIL processes and improvement of SLA's alongside strategic management of applications and sourcing within the analysis and reporting Tech support org.
  • Led change programs to consolidate an centralise services consisting of contract consolidation savings.
  • Established transition of support for GSKs Clinical portfolio of applications from one offshore support vendor to another, enabling cost reduction of over £1,000,000.
  • Established Key metrics and management of Vendor support and licensing and contracts.
  • Led tech audit responses as well as adherence to Pharma Gxp processes.
  • Management of budgets.
  • Improved SLA from 90% to 98% resolution time
  • Improved customer feedback score/NPS from 45% to 80%.
  • Analysed customer feedback and trends to drive process improvements.

Service Manager - Legal/Compliance & Procurement

GSK
Brentford, Ealing
06.2012 - 03.2014
  • Service management responsibility for portfolio of applications within Tech for Legal, Compliance and Procurement (Sarbanes-Oxley) globally.
  • Established of ITIL process for area, strategic targets and process improvements.
  • Management of globally diverse teams.
  • In depth procurement process knowledge.
  • Owned savings plans of £1,500,000
  • Led transition of ERP application from in house to SaaS offering.

Maternity leave

GSK
Brentford
09.2011 - 06.2012
  • Maternity leave.

Programme Manager - Data Center Migration

GSK
Brentford, Ealing
03.2011 - 09.2011
  • Lead for application migration planning and communication with core central teams, in market workers and third parties Commercial Tech supporting Sales Force and marketing organisations.
  • Lead for Technical project management.
  • Implemented Migration targets through realisation of new opportunities.
  • Enabled migration of full suite of application for Sales force and Commercial groups enabling strategic alignment and savings of over £3.5 mil.

Strategic Planning Manager

GSK
Brentford, Ealing
09.2009 - 03.2011
  • This role was predominately focused on strategic planning as part of the commercial Tech Application Services leadership team.
  • Lead for key planning activities aligned with Commercial Tech objectives.
  • Established Strategic frameworks, which enabled service managers to manage their tool data during the merger of Europe and International Pharma.
  • Enabled effective rationalisation through implementation of TOC model (total cost of ownership) resulting in better decision making and savings of over £1 mil.
  • Owned organisational transformation plan for Application Services Commercial Tech.
  • Worked with and managed third parties such as Cegedim (data provider), IBM, Cisco and external consultancies.
  • Cross functional role with global reach.

GSK Future Leaders Program

GSK ITDP
Brentford, Ealing
01.2007 - 09.2009

Three Year rotation for Future leader Development:

3rd Year Placement - Commercial Tech

  • Responsible for expansion of offshore design centre.
  • Management and point of contact for creative agencies, legal, finance, marketing and sales.

2nd yr placement, Access Management

  • Implementations of validated system Gxp systems.
  • Planned and developed scripts for User acceptance, functional and technical testing.

1st yr placement, End User Services

  • Lead for analysis of service improvement opportunities.

Service manager - Voice of Customer

Intel Corporation
Swindon
07.2004 - 08.2005
  • Management of SLAs and KPIs.
  • Increased tool adoption by 60%.
  • Led new tool adoption and change management program.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Communication Systems - 2:1

Bournemouth University
Bournemouth, England
06.2006

Skills

  • Languages: Hindi Speaker - fluent, Punjabi Speaker - Intermediate
  • Product skills: Product management, strategy definition, backlog refinement
  • Quality Process: GXP, ISO certification, SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, SOX
  • Service: ITIL4 trained with Six Sigma certification
  • Quality: Gxp/validated platforms and systems and audit readiness and response
  • AGILE: Qualified Agile coach and SAFe practitioner
  • Leadership: Experienced at managing large globally diverse teams, budgeting responsibility, along with coaching and development responsibility for full time employees Management of large vendor teams from all leading offshore Tech organisations Management of teams of 5-150 during different roles
  • Tools: Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office applications and Service management tools as well as Dev Ops and Agile product management tools (JIRA/Azure DevOps, Service Now, Remedy, Pandora, git hub etc)

Interests

  • Keen interest in football and have held a season ticket at Tottenham Hotspur FC for several years.
  • FA level 1 trained football coach.
  • Keen to develop and mentor others, have worked closely with local schools in the past conducting various skills workshops within the STEM domain.
  • Awareness representative for Endometriosis UK and Breast Cancer now and actively work to help raise money for these charities.

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Quote

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin

Timeline

VP Customer Success & Suppport

BenevolentAI
09.2023 - Current

VP Ops and Quality

BenevolentAI
01.2023 - Current

Director Product Owner Statistical Computing

GSK
03.2021 - 12.2022

Strategy Director R&D Tech

GSK
06.2019 - 05.2021

Service Manager - Clinical Analyse and Report

GSK
03.2014 - 06.2019

Service Manager - Legal/Compliance & Procurement

GSK
06.2012 - 03.2014

Maternity leave

GSK
09.2011 - 06.2012

Programme Manager - Data Center Migration

GSK
03.2011 - 09.2011

Strategic Planning Manager

GSK
09.2009 - 03.2011

GSK Future Leaders Program

GSK ITDP
01.2007 - 09.2009

Service manager - Voice of Customer

Intel Corporation
07.2004 - 08.2005

Bachelor of Science - Business Communication Systems - 2:1

Bournemouth University
ATIMA BHATNAGAR