Abhishek Shandilya

Sr Vice-President & Head of Global Delivery

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Key Account ManagerCOOAI Program ManagerGeneral ManagerBusiness TransformationOperationsInterim ManagementCorporate GovernanceVP Operations

Languages

English (Native)Hindi (Native)French

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.

Links

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: –

Certified by LinkedIn Learning

Agentic AI, GenAI, and LLM Solutions

Issued: –

Certified by DeepLearning

SAP ERP Essential Training

Issued: Jul 2023

Certified by LinkedIn

AWS Partner: Accreditation (Business)

Issued: Oct 2021

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Accreditation

Issued: Oct 2021

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The best place to find your next move

© 2026. All Rights Reserved.