
Abhishek Shandilya
Sr Vice-President & Head of Global Delivery
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I bridge the gap between AI ambition and operational reality, leading global IT delivery at the intersection of Agentic AI, commercial scale, and margin expansion. Currently overseeing a €100M+ P&L and 2,000+ FTEs across 7 countries, I industrialize emerging tech into predictable, repeatable business outcomes. My focus: AI-enabled operating models, large-deal architecture, and quantified value. 20+ years turning strategy into bottom-line impact. HEC Paris MBA. Let’s connect.
Work experience
Group Senior Vice-President and Head of Global Delivery
Inetum
Jan 2024 - May 2026
2 years 5 months
Paris, France
Delivery Standardisation & Operating Margin Architecture AI-Enabled Global Delivery, Managed Services & Shared Services Leadership Large-Deal Solutioning with Agentic AI & Near/Offshore Architecture
Global Engagement Partner, BeautyTech
LTIMindtree
Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 4 months
Paris, France
P&L Turnaround: €7M+ annualised portfolio turnaround for an underperforming enterprise ERP engagement, reversing a steep negative margin Revenue Transformation: Strategic migration of account revenue away from low-margin legacy ERP support and into high-value Data and AI services
Atos
May 2018 - Oct 2022
4 years 6 months
Paris, France
Global Client Delivery Partner - Financial Services & Insurance
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 5 months
Paris, France
Captured 2% top-line growth and a 3 pp margin expansion for a Tier-1 French financial institution by institutionalising rigorous cost discipline, executing targeted cross-sell campaigns, and maintaining senior executive relationships.
Global Head Enterprise Content Management - Portfolio, Alliances & Pre-Sales
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
7 months
Paris, France
Pre-sales ECM solutions Relationship management with major ECM solution providers
Head of Global Operations - Application Modernization Practice
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
7 months
Paris, France
Optimised global bench utilisation, reducing unallocated engineering headcount from 500 to under 200 FTEs and elevating practice-wide cumulative delivery margins by 1 pp. Championed an early-generation RPA and intelligent automation deployment across the wider Business & Platform Services portfolio, capturing a €1.8M EBIT upside by eliminating high-volume manual workflows.
Sr. Program Manager, Global Operations Strategy & Programs
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
1 year 7 months
Paris, France
Orchestrated the global right-shoring and operational transformation programme underpinning the Atos–Syntel integration, doubling the group's delivery scale and unlocking significant group-wide EBIT efficiencies, one of the more complex restructuring mandates in the organisation.
MBA Intern - Global Operations Strategy
May 2018 - Dec 2018
8 months
Paris Area, France
Senior Consulting Manager
Hewlett-Packard
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
2 years 6 months
India
Management: Led a multi-functional team of five senior executives and guided them on sales & solution strategy for proposals thereby improving teams conversion rate from 15 to 23 percent. Advisory: Defined IT strategy with a lean and agile focus for a newly established mid-cap utility company by analyzing and evaluating business objectives; contract value $3 million.
HCL Technologies
Jul 2006 - Mar 2015
8 years 9 months
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Business Consultant (Utilities and Retail)
Jul 2011 - Mar 2015
3 years 9 months
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Management: Managed the sales and solution cycle for customers from Utility and Retail Domains, closing a combined TCV of $75 million through new customer acquisition and contract renewals. Advisory: Closed a framework agreement ($27 million) to transform legacy operations of a utility customer to a new digitally enabled plug and play enterprise through strategic recommendations at three levels.
Project Leader
Jul 2009 - Jul 2011
2 years 1 month
Sydney NSW, Australia
Management: Managed a team of 25 executives to provide technical support for 'business as usual' and transformation activities to a Media and Publishing major across UK and Asia Pacific regions. Advisory: Re-modeled supply chain strategy and managed the IT implementation of the re-design by leveraging advanced analytics and automation for a media and publishing major leading to $38k year on year savings.
Business Analyst
Jul 2006 - Jul 2009
3 years 1 month
India
Designed and implemented a solution for fulfillment of products from offshore warehouse for Asia and Pacific business, resulting in $800,000 cost savings in goods and services tax.
Education
HEC Paris
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Corporate Finance
2017 - 2019
2 years 1 month
Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering
2002 - 2006
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
AI in Business Strategy
Issued: –
Agentic AI, GenAI, and LLM Solutions
Issued: –
SAP ERP Essential Training
Issued: Jul 2023
AWS Partner: Accreditation (Business)
Issued: Oct 2021
AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Accreditation
Issued: Oct 2021