Sarfraz Taj

Experience

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  Info Edge India Ltd

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Area Manager
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  Sify

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Business Manager
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  Hurix Systems

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  Manager Projects
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  Tata Interactive Systems

  Nov 2005 - Oct 2017

  Vice President - UK & Europe

  Built and ran a profitable and sustainable business of multi-mn $ in the UK and the rest of Europe practice as a delivery leader. Additionally, led and managed delivery operations of high value key client accounts in North America, Middle East, Australia, and Asia. – Established and managed multiple Centre of Excellence (CoEs) focused on aviation, shipping, logistics, consumer products and retail. – Led from Mumbai, Dallas, Melbourne, Copenhagen and many other international locations, a large multi-functional and multi-locational team of instructional designers, UI/UX specialists, program managers, and software engineers, including their recruitment, coaching and development. – Led the P&L of the delivery organization with a strong focus on technology-led innovation, budgeting, cost & resource planning, capacity utilization, risk & quality management, partner ecosystem development, client satisfaction, and new tools and platform development. Show less

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  EY

  Nov 2017 - now

  Director - People Consulting | Learning Transformation

  Established, scaling-up and running a new business, technology-led learning services, as an integrated people consulting market offering. Added to our client portfolio, marquee logos across sectors and GCCs from government and public services to energy and engineering, financial services and retail to telecom and technology. Working closely with our clients in co-creating and delivering on their people transformation agenda and strategy.– Designing strategy, operating model and financial model of an Engineering & Construction Learning Academy for a cognitive and futuristic world city– Playing a significant role in a strategic civil services capacity building initiative, Mission Karmayogi, of central government by having built and currently running a state-of-the-art digital learning ecosystem. – Leading a global roll-out of a compliance initiative for a UK headquartered GCC in the retail sector. – Built a high-performance sales productivity-led capability solutions for a global financial services firm as part of their CXO agenda, by leveraging the latest in learning tech, techniques, platform, and analytics. – Led the design and deployment of future-skilling learning academies for global corporates with a strong focus on designing market skill profile, competency assessment framework, and personalized learning journeys.– Built new market products and solutions in the areas of sustainability, cybersecurity, risk management, digital tech, AI/ML, and spearheaded the GTM and roll-out.– Co-created renewed strategy to drive the learning business transformation of a federal government’s EdTech organization, the largest in the southern hemisphere.– Learning approach, design and implementation of a SEA Headquartered international multi-lateral agency for their & beneficiaries workforce capability development.– Led the design of first-of-its-kind platform to bridge societal education inequity Show less