Ashwin Maniyath PMI-ACP®
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Career2015 — Present

From executing the work to leading the system that delivers it.

I didn't simply change job titles. Each move widened the scope: from my own work, to a team's, to how a whole delivery centre runs.

What changed as I grew

  1. 2015

    Execution

    Producing brand and digital work for clients

  2. 2018

    Coordination

    Backlogs, sprints, UAT

  3. 2019

    Agile delivery

    Scrum, Kanban, leading five project coordinators

  4. 2022

    Project leadership

    Stakeholders, scope and delivery across Sweden & India

  5. 2025

    Senior delivery leadership

    Governance, operating model, transformation

  6. Today

    Delivery, Transformation & AI

    Delivery, systems thinking and AI-enabled improvement

My own workA team's workHow the whole centre delivers

Each step widened the scope: from my own work, to a team's, to how the whole centre delivers.

Ashwin Maniyath, Senior Project and Agile Delivery Leader, professional portrait
Roles

Eleven years, three organisations.

Atlas Copco Group (Jul 2022 – present), Reality Premedia Services (Jan 2018 – Jul 2022) and Global Advertisement Services / AffinityX (Nov 2015 – Dec 2017).

  1. Jul 2022 — Present
    4+ years

    Delivery Lead → Senior Delivery Lead

    Atlas Copco Group · Brand Studio, Pune

    Senior Delivery Lead since Jan 2025. The Group's global in-house digital and creative delivery centre.

    • Scope: global brand and digital programmes; a 40+ member cross-functional team across Sweden and India; ~€1.5M+ in project value delivered as PM.
    • Responsibility: project manager and Scrum Master, intake to sign-off; leadership reporting in Jira and Power BI.
    • Impact: 9+ process and business initiatives (SOPs with RACI and SLAs, estimation framework, PM and vendor onboarding, retainer reporting); delivery delays down 33%; 21 stakeholders aligned across two programmes; client/project scores 9–10.
    • Capability gained: operating-model design, governance, cross-divisional stakeholder leadership, transformation/change and AI-enabled delivery.
    Operational Excellence Award 2022Project Juggernaut Award 2023
  2. Jan 2018 — Jul 2022

    Project Coordinator → Lead Project Coordinator

    Reality Premedia Services, Pune

    Lead Project Coordinator from Aug 2019.

    • Scope: BFSI and healthcare software teams of 8–12; creative production teams.
    • Responsibility: Scrum facilitation, backlog and Jira administration, UAT, reporting velocity and sprint-goal completion.
    • Impact: Kanban with WIP limits introduced; creative production moved from waterfall to sprint-based planning; five coordinators mentored into independent delivery roles.
    • Capability gained: Agile delivery, team leadership and coaching.
    Outstanding Achievement Award 2019
  3. Nov 2015 — Dec 2017

    Graphic Operations & Design

    Global Advertisement Services (AffinityX), Pune
    • Responsibility: brand implementation and digital asset production for advertising clients.
    • Capability gained: how work actually gets produced, and what client delivery demands.

Where I add the most value

  1. 01

    Global teams

    Cross-functional teams across geographies and functions; today, Sweden and India.

  2. 02

    Complex stakeholder environments

    Many stakeholders, dependencies and decision-makers, including executives across divisions.

  3. 03

    Global delivery centres

    4+ years inside a global in-house delivery centre serving brands across a multinational group.

  4. 04

    Transformation

    Operating-model, process, governance and change initiatives.

  5. 05

    Agile + hybrid

    Scrum, Kanban and practical hybrid delivery models.

Credentials & continuous learning

  • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® · Project Management Institute
  • Kanban Practitioner · HelloSM
  • Generative AI Overview for Project Managers · PMI
  • Bachelor of Computer Applications · Savitribai Phule Pune University, 2017
  • LanguagesEnglish · Hindi · Marathi · Malayalam
  • Toolkit — Delivery & collaborationJira · Confluence · Miro · Smartsheet
  • Toolkit — Governance & reportingPower BI · Azure DevOps · ServiceNow
  • Toolkit — AI-enabled deliveryMicrosoft Copilot · Copilot Studio · Claude
Let's talk

From vision to execution. From execution to business value.

Complex delivery needs structure. Let's talk.

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