Murtuza Attaar

• Established business partnered strategic PMO - aligning to key business portfolios to deliver their key strategic priorities e.g
• Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing, Business Ops, Logistics, Shared functions - HR, Finance, IT, Procurement, Legal
• Set up enterprise program management discipline to establish best in class processes around prioritization, interdependencies, financials, metrics, change management, training, capacity, tool set etc
• Lead large global team of VP's, Directors, Portfolio, Program & Project Managers, BRM's
• Partnered with corporate and business vertical leaders to provide a benefits realization framework, enabling the highest level strategy mapping with business capabilities, business benefits and program success metrics and KPI's via analytics and reporting
• Set up C Suite partnered prioritization and review council - aligning to PVH strategic plan
• Re -Defined PMO operating model from 3 regional IT led to a single brand-led business partnered PMO
• Optimized Enterprise portfolio of 450 plus initiatives to 275 initiatives in 6 months
• Transformed Project Server tool set to Jira, Clarity, Smart Sheet, ALM etc

Key strategic value realization programs delivered

• Enterprise AI Enablement- Transform associate productivity via MS O365/ Co Pilot, ,Mobile computing, AI-Enhanced Collaboration Tools (MS Teams/Zoom), NLP, Predictive Merchandize Planning etc.
• Global SAP S4 deployment - aimed at efficiency targets of > 50 M over 5 years across the globe -NA, Europe, APAC - 25+ countries
• RFID - Deploy end to end RFID (integrated with AI) across regions and brands aimed at increasing sales by 3% p.a.; inventory control - reduce excess inventory by 10%; theft prevention
• Supply Chain and Product Delivery transformation- aimed at 80% global kitchen - 20%local
• Digital Transformation - increased DTC sales by 20% in 2 years
• Security : increasing NIST maturity level across, detect, protect, identify, respond
• ONE Data/Analytics - consolidation of data lakes & capabilities aimed at platform consolidation, unified merchandise hierarchies, enterprise analytics,. Efficiencies of >$20 M in 3 yrs
• Owned annual program management budget in excess of $1B

Enterprise Portfolio/Program Management Office

• Established PMO and best practices around value realization and best in class execution
• Own enterprise Project Execution framework and process and governance. Lead Agile Community of Practice, Agile Foundation Framework and continuous improvement
• Own enterprise PMO reporting, program delivery, strategic operational/capital expenditure, resource capacity, skills, demand, financials, etc
• Support Clinical and Genetic Lab Testing program across Clinical Franchises(General/Advanced diagnostics, IDI, Neuro, Cardio, Oncology etc.
• Established IT M&A : supporting Due Diligence, TSA, Risk Mitigation, Synergies, Day one readiness, post-merger IT management, and integration
• Structural Overhaul of PMO - Impacting 125+ FTE's, establishing KPI's, Vendor Alliances,Certification and Training, Best Practices, SOP's.
• Own the enterprise PMO toolset e.g. Clarity, Rally, Project, Jira, Smart Sheet
• Led Annual Investment Planning & Prioritization of ~$400MM/year portfolio

Key strategic value realization programs delivered

• Delivery leader for 300 + portfolio applications including M&A (30 + Integrations, $600M revenue), Information Ventures/Data Strategy/Data Analytics (Target: Grown $300 Min 5 years), Extended Care Business (Target: $20 M p.a),
• Innovation Hub (Establish COE& Incubate the latest technology PoC's to gain a competitive advantage),
• Lab Standardization (Standardize Global Lab Platforms across 20 Major labs);
• Digital Transformation (Digitally enable 18 Enterprise platforms)

COVID Leadership:

• Lead org realignment and delivery of COVID priorities to enable Quest to launch COVID testing at record speed, partnering with R&D, CDC, Public Health,Government agencies

Business Relationship Management/Demand Management

• Owned all C Suite Relationships with Senior Leadership Team, partnering to develop strategy roadmaps, budget, demand management, delivery and monitoring.
• Lead Enterprise Priority Council.

Transformation/Innovation - Owned execution of several transformation programs

• Digital portfolio: consumer digital channel, content management, digital testing
• Data Transformation - Data Hub, Data Analytics, Data Standardization etc.
• Automation: Incubate solutions using Analytics, Bots, Big Data, Predictive Modeling,Vendor Alliances (Microsoft, Apple, Google etc)
• Operational Transformation and Security Transformation

Program Management Office (PMO)

• Establishing portfolio, program and project governance with appropriate business/technology stakeholders.
• Accountable for the portfolio capital and investment budget, P&L, end to end delivery of of 250+projects and support of a portfolio of 300+ applications, demand and pipeline management and operations.
• Portfolio delivery executing over strategic investment transformation programs and operational/business as usual projects in any given annual year, including regulatory, security remediation, platform upgrades.
• Focus on introducing consumable innovation products for the business to win in the market.
• Present at General Executive, Steering, FPG, and other leadership meetings
• Work with PMO team to report executive project status, resource planning, utilization tracking, budget planning, demand management, KPI tracking, ROI tracking, Plan vs Actual vs Forecast. Vendor Management, Portfolio Health Assessments, Operational and Service Management health indicators
• Manage large cross functional globally distributed teams of 150 team members
• Achieved service line growth of 14%, Managed P/L of $60M (excluding capital)

Service Delivery Mergers & Acquisition's Portfolio Management

• IT Portfolio Delivery Leader for TAS service line (M&A)– Partnering with the global TAS group ($4 Billion revenue) to provide delivery of strategic capabilities e.g. M&A Valuation, Transaction Support, Transaction Diligence, Restructuring, Tax.
• Lead IT due diligence activities, TSA assessment, IT Operating models, synergies, value creation, post integration IT planning, Carve Out models. Managed integration teams for new revenue of ~$1 B

Business Relationship Management/Demand Management

• Responsibilities of owning global and area relationships, especially Americas. Management of IT and TAS business senior executive leadership (Americas Vice Chair, Deputy Vice Chair,CFO, CDO, Service Line (SL) and SSL leaders) across the globe and partnering to meet the service line technology and product road map.
• Responsible for facilitating end-to-end Strategy, Planning and Delivery and quarterly reviews

Key Transformations Delivered

Digital Transformation:

• Led strategy and build of digital transformation platform enabling unified digital client experience for 150K+ users and external clients, integrating 90+standalone systems and leveraging data across multiple business capabilities including Artificial Intelligence for automated and predictive pricing models, Robotic Process Automation to automate back end data excavation and gathering, digital publishing replacing all legacy reporting with interactive digital channels, capturing big data via data lakes, Social Media Analytics, Process mining, natural language generation enabling insightful descriptive/predictive analytics, text analytics

Cloud Computing:

• Migrate current on-prem infrastructure components to Azure and AWS cloud to realize >50 M in Operational Efficiency. Providing clients with self/managed service options navigating through complexities around data privacy, information security controls and planning/execution of IaaS and PaaS, SaaS models

• Managed clients: PNC Bank

• Managed clients: Pfizer, Millennium

• Managed clients: Merck, Cigna, Merrill Lynch, TIAA CREF, HomeBanc, Key Bank