Rajiv Singla, GM IT at Holcim Services(South Asia) Ltd ( ITSC for Lafarge Holcim for India, Asia, ANZ).
He is an Industry veteran with more than 31 years of Cross sectorial experience spanning every aspect of Cement Production, Sales and Marketing & Operations and Systems Management. He is in his present role as Business Relationship Manager is responsible the identification of the business need, preparing of the business case, identification of the best fit solution, providing the solution through the development team and execution of the solution.
Before joining the new role from 1st Jan’19, as the IT Head for ACC Ltd, was responsible for managing the entire IT hardware and software for 5000+ users stationed at 200+ locations across the country. He was responsible for the seamless operation of SAP across 200+ locations. Cement manufacturing being a process industry requires 24×7 online SAP operations and hence support. He was an important decision maker in selection of new technology for the organization. His responsibility included implementing Global best practices and policies across the organization with able guidance from the Global IT team. He was instrumental in driving the Digital initiatives during the year 2017-18. These included development of mobile Apps for the dealers and customers. There were initiatives on Plant Automation. The coming year will further give a push on Digital initiative.
He is recipient of several industry awards like CIO 100 award 2015,16,17; IDC Iconic Award 2015 to name a few.