Jayanta Kumar Biswas

Experience

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  Cummins Inc.

  Aug 1996 - Oct 2014

  ● Provided strategic direction on product reliability & quality improvements for Industrial Engine business unit in India. ● Deployed Six Sigma DMAIC & DFSS Prohgram across Cummins India (ABO) Area Business Operation & Singapore. ● Spearheaded 6Sigma initiative at Cummins India plants, vendors, customers and ABO support functions like HR, IT, Legal, HSE departments. ● Developed reliability framework in line with long term product roadmap and drove strategic improvement projects aligned to enterprise objectives. Show less ● Led new product development programs on Diesel & Alternate fuel engine for Cummins in India and USA. ● Led India’s 1st CNG Hybrid technology for public transport in India. Developed by collaborating with multiple Technology Partners Atlas Copco, Eaton Corp, Altronic Inc. ● Spearheaded Cummins CNG engine’s Combustion, Performance & emission recipe development as well as system integration for Off highway applications● Led end-to-end new product development life cycle management for Alternate Fuel Engine and its sub-system design with customers like Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, IGL, DTC, Delta Inc, AtlasCopco, DresserRand, and certifying authorities like ARAI. Show less ● Led team of professional (40) in Services, Parts, Warranty administration, dealer account development with an objective of maximizing revenue from AMC, Engine & Parts sales. ● Instrumental in developing dealer service network in Assam. Provided various service solutions for Midrange, Heavy-duty, High Horse Power Diesel, Gas & Dual Fuel engines.● Led account receivables management, budget for region as well as targeted revenue generation. ● Led front end technical support & drove awareness of various service solutions to potential customers & dealers. ● Worked as technical liaison between the Cummins field service and Engineering. Show less

  • Sr. General Manager Product Reliability & MBB for India ABO

    May 2011 - Oct 2014

  • General Manager - Advanced Engineering

    Feb 2005 - Apr 2011

  • Regional / Area Services Account Manager for North East Region of India

    Aug 1996 - Jan 2005
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  NCR Corporation India Pvt Limited

  Oct 2014 - Feb 2017

  Head of India Operational Excellence

  Joined with mandate to turning around the loss-making MOF contract into a profitable deal through operational improvements.● Led end-to-end responsibilities for improving ATM (>1 lakh ATMs across India) service delivery processes in OPEX model. ● Turned around the loss-making MOF contract into a profitable by strategy planning and setting up execution framework.● Led Improvements of Business Processes with Key areas of focus in Revenue, operating income growth, operational efficiency, customer exp, Services implementation● Partnered with India leadership in identifying, prioritizing & driving strategic improvement project aligned to enterprise goals.● Redesigned entire value stream by revamping SLAs, introducing new KPI, Cost optimization, Process improvements, optimizing Cash loading, Break fix, Managed Services & Remote support.Improved order to cash conversion cycle time. Show less

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  Gilbarco Veeder-Root

  Feb 2017 - Dec 2021

  Transformed PMO organization into Business Focused Agile PMO function. ● Increased 27% NPD revenue opportunitty from platform project while being 30% early to market● Improved OTD of NPD programs from avg. 60% to 89% at the portfolio level● Implemented Agile in Mechanical, HW & SW functions. Established Scrum, Kanban, PRTI, Speed Design Review, Obeya, & Fortive Software System best practices to improve effectiveness of Global Engineering functions.● Brought in incremental & frequent release trains across Teams & functions. Trained Product Owners, drove Scrum Masters certifications.● Led improvement Kaizens on productivity, value stream mapping, visual project mgmt., problem-solving, 5S, across Engineering, Quality, Operations, Services, including crucial HR KPIs, like reducing Attrition, Improving hiring cycle time. ● Defined PM processess, Standards, deliverables and Opscadence.● Introduced & championed agile Program mgmt. across organization.● Leveraged scrum rituals and metrics to increase visibility transparency at the program level ● Coached, mentored Scrum Masters, Teams and PO's on How to focus on Sprint Goals and effectively deliver high value every sprint with true Definition of Done and with zero defects.● Drove HGM program portfolios to deliver on time, scalable, quality, flexible and user-friendly products & services● Partnered with Leadership team towards strategy road map planning and led execution as per changing business priority.● Facilitated proactive identification of program and portfolio risks, dependencies and ensured mitigation actions along with trigger for contigency plan● Brought alignment & clear priorities across functional stakeholders like Product Leaders, Functional leaders & Executives.● Worked closely with the customer and CFT to resolve product & service delivery issues.● Drove change management, with an aim to smoothen Agile transformation.● Ensured best practices are shared across & recommendations are implemented. Show less Partnered with business leaders to use Fortive Business System for accelerating growth, reducing new product launch time to market.● Drove FBS culture through PD/DM/VM, Visual Project Management (VPM), PSP and VSM and drove Kaizens.● Defined FBSL strategy and implementation of effective FBS mindset & toolset to facilitate successful delivery of consistent business results. ● Partnered with site leader in Strategic, Operations, Daily Management, to improve productivity.● Identified improvement opportunities and drove implementation through Kaizens & led FBS champion certifications program.● Improved Engg productivity & efficiencies by working with teams to analyze current systems, processes and gaps● Came up with roadmap for adaptation of agile practices in HW domain, benchmarking best practices & workshops.● Came up with a roadmap to reduce new platform level product launch time to market.● Setup KPIs & governance mechanism for each function and facilitated proactive risk management framework across the organization.● Provided coaching and mentoring to global engineering teams including support functions on processes improvements. Show less

  • Head High Growth Markets Project Management Office

    May 2019 - Dec 2021

  • General Manager FBSL for Global Enginerring

    Feb 2017 - Apr 2019
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  John Cockerill

  Jan 2022 - now

  To set up and spearhead John Cockerill’s Defense business in India.John Cockerill Defense is a Technological leader in multifunctional, high-effect turrets in the 25-120mm range for light and medium weight armoured vehicles Building organization to build H2- GIGA Factories across the globe facilitating progress towards decarbonization.

  • Chief Executive Officer- John Cockerill Defense India Pvt Limited

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Vice President- IPS India

    Jan 2022 - Mar 2024