Ebrahim Bholat

Senior Manager with almost 15 years of experience delivering change projects contributing significant business value in Pharmaceutical, medical devices and Companion diagnostics.
Latest significant achievement includes product managing test kits and instruments to support Covid-19 epidemic globally. Experience in E2E product lifecycle management (concept -->launch-->aftercare) including product/process changes and continuous improvement. Excellent decision-making skills with sound judgement to recommend best practices for complex processes.

Global Change Lead
CHEP
January 2022 – Present
 This role focuses on execution of the Digital Supply Chain transformation program
on a full Global rollout.
 Leading the Global Change of the Supply Chain transformation. Including the
implementation of industry leading ERP tools and methodologies to add further value
to the business.
 Design appropriate change management strategies and plans to reduce resistance,
drive adoption and increase benefits realization
 Designing and delivering End-to-end change experience and embedding into
business as usual
 The systems in scope include SAP, S/4HANA (Fiori), Transport Management
Systems and bespoke in-house IT solutions with API extensions to existing
commercial systems (e.g. Salesforce)
 Includes overseeing the implementation/IT Project management/training/risk
management and Business readiness activities across different regions globally.
Achievements to date:
 Successfully led the transformation in the North America, Europe, IMETA and
LATAM with >99% of users adopting the new digital technology innovative solutions
 As part of the Implementation, successfully standardized and automated E2E
business processes to reduce impact on manual efforts Globally.
 Benefits realization: Transformation leading to a reduction on Annual Freight spend
to deliver savings in excess of $250M across the Global Supply Chain
 Global Community established to share learnings and best practices via Working
forums, face to face sessions and regular collaboration workshops.
 Leading by example: Global lessons learned captured and successfully translated to
the Transformation Office Framework to ensure benefits to further initiatives within
the Business.
Business Change Manager
AstraZeneca
April 2020 – January 2022
 Change management lead of the Digital Transformation of Clinical Supply Chain
Program.
 Developing, owning and driving the change management plan to support the
implementation of new SAP S/4HANA system along with Smart Supplies Planning tool.
 Identify, lead and deliver change management initiatives to allow the successful
implementation of project.
 Implementing change strategy including the use of change management principles,
methodologies and tools (e.g. Prosci ADKAR, APMG)
 Delivery of communications and benefits of the change to stakeholders
 Conduct Change impact assessments to land and embed new ways of working.
 Preparation of change action plans and facilitate the successful delivery.
 Development of Training Pathways in order to sustain the change in ways of working
 Development of learning material to support the change need
 Managing training material in the Learning Management System, including development
work from external supplier
Achievements to date
 Successfully managed the communications (internally and externally) to drive
awareness of the Program
 Successfully launched new ways of working with high user adoption
 Creation of a learning module library to support the Program initiatives
 Successful implementation of learning modules with an uptake of >98%
 Increase in awareness through internal and external social media (Workplace, LinkedIn
etc)
Director
Z&M Limited
March 2020 –Present
Senior Product Manager – Systems Management
QIAGEN
Manchester
October 2017 – March 2020
 Overall Operations ownership of life cycle management by leading the system
management team and Global Product Management
 Leading global cross functional project/program teams to achieve strategic business
goals.
 Managing supply chain processes in a dynamic environment using SAP.
 Leading Projects in the Supply Chain and partner management environment during
acquisitions of new Company, new product introduction and product lifecycle
 Leading implementation of new products, including order to cash processes ready for
sale in SAP
 Leading the due diligence in acquisitions of new companies and technologies
 System performance tracking (MTBV, DOA's, Returns, COGS, product availability,
budget achievement) including the generation of KPIs.
 Representation of Operations interests in sourcing decisions (including make or buy) as
well in acquisition related activities (pre and post-acquisition)
Achievements to date
 Successfully Leading the product management of main flagship portfolios across the
MDx portfolio of the business – including the reduction of COGS, delivery on time in full
and ensuring product availability of 98.7% or greater globally.
 Leading the automation portfolio strategy including marketing strategy, countries in
scope and securing and managing inventory and availability on a global scale.
 Added to the portfolio a further 2 acquisitions of new ground breaking technology –
Delivered the product implementation on time and within budget helping to generate
revenue contributions of $30 million.
 I streamlined the process of implementation of products and reduced the lead time by
half from 60 working days down to 30, this has allowed the company to implement
products and generate revenue faster.
 Ensuring rapid response to global customer feedback in order to eliminate product
quality issues/recalls.
 Reduction in SKUs by 15% in order to deliver cost saving target for Global operations.
 Managing product launch for the new COVID-19 testing kits
 Managing product availability globally to be able to meet the demands for testing
requirements for COVID-19 epidemic.
Technical Project Manager
Depuy Synthes – Johnson & Johnson
Blackpool
June 2010 - October 2017
 Lead projects from initiation to delivery, in line with Company project portfolio and
business strategy for Class 1, 2 and 3 medical devices
 Full project management responsibility for Material Development projects.
 Develop technical expertise in raw materials, in-process products and finished products.
 As part of Operations and Technology Development group, work alongside University
partnerships to identify innovative technologies/ opportunities to contribute to the 2020
J&J Vision.
 Develop intimate ‘hands-on' knowledge of core business products by leading the
customer focus program.
 People management in a highly matrixed organisation.
 Management of budget and capital spend corresponding to Johnson & Johnson finance.
 Building business strategy focused around “Right First Time”.
 Pro-actively identify technologies, materials and methods which lead continuous
improvement and process excellence.
 Responsible for technical decisions within projects technical delivery of project
objectives; reporting project status to senior stakeholders and KOLs across all levels of
the organisation.
 Implementation of Six sigma and Lean principles whilst championing the J&J Production
system
 Implementing Johnson and Johnson accredited Flawless Project Execution across J&J
sites in Europe.
Achievements
 Successfully delivered product improvements on legacy products improving customer
satisfaction worldwide including acknowledgement from world leading surgeons.
 Delivered the “Right First Time” programme on time and in budget which in turn realised
and validated cost savings in excess of $100k in the first 3 months.
 Delivered the Powder automation project – Using my knowledge of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, I led a team that fully automated the production filling process, including
product validations, registrations, regulatory submissions and product launch.
 Successfully struck collaboration partnerships with 4 of the UKs leading Universities.
 Reduction in scrap rate from 40% down to less than 10% which delivered the site
objective for the whole of 2015, 2016 and 2017.
 Successfully implemented the new Stability Programme which allowed us to remain fully
compliant with new Pharmaceutical standards
 Introduction of new milling technologies that allowed an increase in output in production
which in turn delivered higher product availability all year round “Just in time”
 Ensured full product compliance by supporting Audits on Global scale across different
regulatory bodies.
 Built a high performing culture within the Manufacturing and Engineering group to
ensure projects are delivered to the highest of standard.
 Implemented J&J project management across multiple sites in Europe including the
coaching of Project Managers for certification
 Delivered project management training at 3 sites in the UK, 1 in France and 1 in
Switzerland.

Bachelor of Science: Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences
Liverpool john Moore’s University
Liverpool
August 2008