Anjli Mehta

Accountable for the overall IT delivery of transformation projects & programmes, including 5G stand-alone, Intelligent Networks, OSS & HR (People Operations) IS Core Transformation. - Leading, empowering and developing a team of 70+ headcount (mix of FTE and contractors), comprised of Programme Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Solution Designers / Architects & Test Leads, including hiring / rotation of team members, resource alignment, prioritisation and distribution of project work. - Cross functional relationship / exec level stakeholder management (Finance, Networks, Service Management, Risk Management, Operations, IT Infrastructure, Regulatory, PMO, People Operations / HR) - Devising and embedding governance and structure into existing and new programmes - Ensuring cross project & programme dependencies are actively identified, monitored and delivered, without risk - De-escalating issues to workable risks through strong partnerships with exec teams / external suppliers - Partnering with external suppliers (IBM, Nokia, Ericsson etc) to ensure deliverables are met and proactively identify gaps - Compiling Business Cases and gaining budgetary approval for multi-year programmes, through the 3 year planning (3YP) process.

Led Amazon's CTPS Compliance & Risk Management teams through multiple transformation initiatives, ranging from digital transformation to leaner processes. Key results included 20% headcount efficiencies, time savings of 98%, and improved forecast accuracy. Developed a best-in-class team, who became a benchmark for the capacity planning function across Amazon's worldwide operations. Achievements: • Increased transparency and took control of costs by devising and rolling out a worldwide monthly forecast process for worldwide Compliance (c1,000 headcount), generating a c.20% saving in annual compliance headcount through accurate planning. • Expanded, customised and rolled out monthly forecast process, through partnerships with worldwide Operations, Product, Tech, Finance, Recruiting and Marketing teams, across CTPS Buyer and Seller abuse teams (c. 8,000 headcount), enabling greater transparency and accuracy of transaction volumes and headcount hiring. • Digitally transformed the manual capacity planning tool by devising and project managing the tech teams to build and execute an automated capacity planning tool for the CTPS capacity planners. Time saved – 98% (4 hours to 4 minutes) in the new tool. • Program managed tech teams on automation of manual driver based volume planning data for all of CTPS product and business teams – enabling forecast accuracy to rise from 64% (manual) to 93% (using the automated tool). • Prevented a regulatory fine of €3bn by constructing and presenting a thought leadership paper, to senior leadership, to ensure TRMS Compliance met an urgent regulatory requirement by a required date. Project managed the reprioritisation of operations headcount to fulfil this requirement. • Managed, led and developed a team of Program Managers to plan global Compliance headcount requirements across 5 main functions (c.1,000 headcount).

Providing business, digital and Finance Transformation delivery via effective Program, Project & Change Management. All services provided on an interim basis. Clients & Outcomes included: FMCG Diageo (via RGP) • Delivery of Anaplan planning software across 4 pilot markets in 12 weeks. • Delivery of Zero Based Budgeting, via Anaplan, across Europe – establishing £13m savings across 3 years SABMiller • Delivery of IT Transformation, in a Finance lead capacity. $120m Opex savings across 3 years. Media / Tech / Telecoms Reuters • Delivery of 15% margin improvement via effective pricing, through quote tools, for Life Sciences. SSE Enterprise Telecoms • Delivery of data cleanse for Revenue and Cost of Sales databases, identifying c £1m savings • Delivery of new standardised processes to maintain financial viability of records Pearson • Delivery of reduced month end timelines by 1 working day • Delivery of new financial reporting pack addressing risks and opportunities ahead of time. Pharma / other: Seqirus • Delivery of new funding process for £180m EDGE programme • Delivery of new financial trackers • Delivery of new project closure processes • Aligning PMO and Finance team behaviours Cushman & Wakefield • Delivery of $7m a year staff cost savings by modelling and implementing new company wide LLP structure

Provided financial partnering & modelling expertise to bring the magazine and digital areas back into profit (£10m & £2m yearly revenue respectively) Business Partner to the CEO, CFO, Magazine Director and Digital Director Achievements: - Saved £100k (11%) on Marketing promotion budget by identifying poorly performing campaigns - Saved £80k / year (10%) on paper stocks by identifying cheaper supplier - Ensured magazine decline halted for the first time in 16 years (readership 200k+) - Outstanding Achievement Award for services to the Magazine

Business Partner to the VP’s of HR & Finance and Heads of IT & Real Estate (G&A Teams) Achievements: - Proposed (and helped implement) to bring outsourced HR staff back in house - Savings of $1m a year on the HR P&L - Persuaded and worked with VP of IT to undertake an IT mobile phone audit - Savings of $0.5m a year on the IT P&L - Partnered with Global Head of Travel in implementing a revised travel policy - Savings of $1.6m a year on the Travel P&L

Business partner to the heads of Classified and Display Advertising for The Times newspaper. Achievements: • Helped reduce Advertising Opex costs by 10% (£50k) by implementing new policies

Worked across various sectors, including Home & Small Business, S&P, Global, to provide Financial support and guidance. Achievements: - Reduced man processing time by 6 hours a day by automating daily sales reporting - Built a new automated KPI pack for Small & Medium Business division, helping teams to understand and react on key trends for sales / channel / product - VP Outstanding Contribution Award for services to Dell