Sameer Jatkar

Experienced Program Manager with 13+ years across CPG, Retail, Chemical, Shipping, Construction, and IT Consulting. Proven track record in leading IT and digital transformation projects and managing risk and compliance. Skilled in delivering strategic initiatives, optimizing resources, and meeting critical deadlines.

Expertise in Project Management, Business Analysis, Data Governance, and Data Stewardship, with strong knowledge of MDM, data quality, and process automation. Proficient in tools like Informatica P360, CDGC, Data Bricks, Axon, EDC, SAP, JCatalogue, and Power BI.

Functional Consultant (Client – Williams Sonoma) at INFOSYS Limited (2026-01 – Present)

• Support the practice and broader community by contributing point-of-view documents (POV), project best practices, case studies, and proposal inputs focused on Data Management principles, with a strong emphasis on Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Governance.
• Partnered with leadership to shape data strategy aligned with organizational objectives, vision, mission, and implementation roadmap, enabling improved data-driven decision-making across teams.
• Collaborated closely with business SMEs and program teams to understand functional requirements and translate them into actionable deliverables.
• Led story grooming sessions and created detailed user stories in Jira to support effective sprint planning and execution.
• Performed data profiling for critical data assets to identify quality issues, anomalies, and improvement opportunities.
• Executed data normalization and data cleaning activities to enhance data quality and ensure consistency across systems.
• Assisted stakeholders with impact analysis, root cause analysis, and data discovery to support informed decision-making and issue resolution.

Senior Business Analyst (Client – Musgrave) at INFOSYS Limited (2025-06 – 2025-12)

• Led end-to-end requirement gathering for EUDR compliance project, ensuring adherence to EU regulations on deforestation.
• Designed and documented process flows and workflows to support inbound and outbound compliance operations.
• Created comprehensive Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and translated business needs into actionable technical specifications.
• Acted as a liaison between business stakeholders and development teams to ensure accurate implementation of requirements.
• Collaborated closely with Solution Architect to validate technical feasibility and alignment with compliance standards.
• Supported Musgrave testing team by preparing test scenarios, validating functionality, and resolving defects.
• Served as functional lead, providing guidance on regulatory requirements and system workflows throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitated cross-functional coordination and stakeholder communication to ensure timely delivery of compliance milestones.

Program Manager (Client – L'Oréal) at INFOSYS Limited (2025-01 – 2025-05)

• Led program strategy development for L'Oréal to address data challenges, aligning with business objectives and digital transformation.
• Oversaw program execution, managing teams, coordinating workstreams, and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Led data quality and governance initiatives, defining standards, implementing cleansing processes, and establishing data management policies.
• Ensured sustainable solutions and knowledge transfer to L'Oréal, developing training and governance structures.
• Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measurements.
• Managed key L'Oréal stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment and effective communication.

Senior Data Steward (Client – PepsiCo) at Capgemini Technology Services India Limited (2024-02 – 2025-01)

• Utilize data catalog tools and platforms for cataloging process to ensuring accuracy and efficiency and make it easier for users to discover and access data assets.
• Cataloging of backlog work while maintaining core responsibilities.
• Manage, control, and monitor data quality throughout the data lifecycle by ensuring that data is fit for its intended use and easy to access.
• Define and document Data Quality dimensions for measuring data completeness, validity, integrity, and uniqueness etc.
• Develop and document data structures by defining table descriptions, assigning clear definitions to attributes, and create a comprehensive data dictionary.
• Prepare data for certification by validating glossary & dataset definitions, ensuring data relationship integrity, and adding missing attributes.
• Ensure compliance with PepsiCo's data policies, and Global Data Governance requirements within the customer domain, including data standards, DQ rules, tools, processes.

MDM Business Analyst (Client – VMware) at Capgemini Technology Services India Limited (2022-06 – 2023-12)

• Led requirements gathering, process documentation, and translation into BRD, FDD, and user stories, ensuring a 20% reduction in project delivery time through streamlined communication channels.
• Sharing relevant information and expertise with developers on P360 development.
• Conducting GAP Analysis: Identifying discrepancies between current and desired states.
• Test case writing, conducted functional testing, oversaw projects and ensuring timely completion.
• Manage Epics, Features, and User Stories, prioritizing for sprint execution.
• Demonstrating how the solution addresses the problem to stakeholders.
• Organizing collaborative sessions involving impacted systems and users, driving towards the final delivery.

Associate General Manager - Central Procurement at Macrotech Developers Ltd (Lodha group) (2021-11 – 2022-05)

• Lead and inspire a high-performing team of Vendor Management System.
• Vendor Data Management and Master Data Governance.
• Resolve critical issues of vendors related to vendor empanelment process.
• Monitor vendor performance, leveraging operational metrics including timeliness, customer-satisfaction, customer experience, etc.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Identify, quantify, and define feature enhancements and new products to improve their service offerings based on customer feedback, data analysis, and feature gaps with competitive products.
• Partner with external teams to align programs and initiatives to drive growth.

Procurement Compliance and Content Specialist at Maersk Tankers (2020-11 – 2021-11)

• Master Data Management and Master Data Governance.
• Project management, Process design and Process optimization.
• Ensure that sensitive data is organized and managed in a compliant way.
• Automate various processes for time consuming and repetitive tasks and recommend sustainable and practical solutions.

Content Management Specialist at GPRO Services India Private Limited (MAERSK) (2017-02 – 2020-11)

• New Article Creation, New Catalogue Creation and Maintenance.
• Led process design, optimization, and implemented Robotics Process Automation (RPA).
• Maintain export control information.
• Continuously review and update product catalogue in co-operation with the category managers.

SAP Master Data Administrator at Brenntag Ingredients India Private Limited (2014-08 – 2017-01)

• Product master creation, Customer master creation and Vendor master creation in SAP.
• Accuracy and quality check in SAP.
• Troubleshooting the issue and providing support in diagnosing and resolving error for issue related to master database.

Executive - SAP MDM at Flemingo International (Retail) (2014-02 – 2014-08)

• New article creation and extension, Vendor and Customer master creation.
• Info. record creation.
• Support local and regional teams regarding master data and the corresponding tools.
• Update cost price and sales price of article.

Associate - SAP MM at Reliance Corporate IT Park (2011-05 – 2014-01)

Support Executive – IT at Uniquee Enterprises (2010-08 – 2011-05)

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology (BE - IT) – University of Mumbai (2007-12 – 2010-05)