Gaurav Sood

Accomplished Senior Project Manager with 15+ years experience leading and managing projects. Extensive knowledge in stakeholders’ management, project controls, planning with proficiency in streamlining, transforming business processes and continuous improvement. Expert strategic thinker able to deliver and mange projects by understanding customers’ expectations, motivating, coaching teams, mitigating risks, and eliminating roadblocks to successfully deliver projects on time and within budget.   

• Responsible for establishing clear business goals, objectives, and the ongoing analysis of performance relative to market trends, customer demands and key performance indicators (KPI).
• Lead a team of 8 direct reports, 100+ indirect reposts, and responsible for recruitment, coaching, mentoring, staff development. actively address asymmetries in the talent mix and performance management
• Driving key initiatives within the Transactions content space.
• Collaborated with Data Management, Quality, Transformation and Technology teams supporting and partnering on key strategic initiatives taken up by the dataset.
• Drove critical analysis to support the collection teams and course-correct wherever required.
• Member of the operations leadership influencing the culture, engagement, and career development of team.
• Apply a broad knowledge of operations principles, business drivers, and related areas to impact business results.
• Be a “trusted partner” for key stakeholders in data, transformation, and technology organization
• Anticipate complexity of recommended changes and overcome resistance to change – be a change leader.
• Draw intelligence and recommend key areas to focus for process efficiency, improvement, and control.
• Establish process stability and control checks to pre-empt risks and mitigate before they impact the customer.
• Developed a dataset level skill development strategy and implementation plan
•               Managed user acceptance testing on product and internal enhancements; adoption of AGILE within the team. 
•            Evaluating cost of poor quality for better alignment of focus between areas of quality check and failure handling. 
•   Drive innovative data analytical capabilities and technology-driven processes to enhance productivity, and business gains   

Accomplishments:

• Improved process capability to meet SLA TAT of 4 hours by eliminating special cause variations and reducing common cause variations.
• Lean Champion – fostering a LEAN culture resulting in an average saving of $100k annually 3 consecutive years. 
• Introduced New Market First Functionality – Transaction Click Through resulting in new client acquisitions.
• Led the integration of transactions team between S&P Global and SNL Financials resulting in net saving of $500k.
• Led the ETL transformation and integration project transforming workflows and tools for a 400+ member team resulting in a 30% reduction in human errors.
• Vendor evaluation and proof of concept of automation and extraction solution leading to a saving of $200k.
• Transferred 3 transaction types to a new location resulting in $70k saving per year.

MBA - Finance and International Business. 

Certified PMP and Lean Six Sigma