Rejin Surendran is the Global CIO of Wipro Enterprises, a Rs 16,900 crore conglomerate with business interests in consumer care, home care products, aerospace components, industrial automation etc.

In his previous role as Head of Digital Bottling Investments Group, Coca Cola he led the digital transformation journey for the company. He was also responsible for engaging with senior leadership across functions to drive the transformation across Commercial, Supply Chain, People & Finance. Prior to that he was with Unilever for more than 13 years, where he began as an IT Manager for Warehousing and progressed through multiple roles to eventually become the IT Director Of Make & Deliver part of the Enterprise & Technology Solutions Centre in Bangalore.

His extensive career journey exposed him to a diverse range of IT challenges and large-scale transformation projects across the globe – like the Design, Delivery and RUN for technologies such as Oracle Transportation Management, JDA Warehouse Management, SAP Extended Warehouse Management and Salesforce. He also led the Internet of Things (IoT) CoE in Unilever. As part of this role he was leading a team that was responsible for delivering the Digital Supply Chain roadmap for Unilever through IT/ Technology.

On the 3rd episode of WHAT THE FMCG! Season 2, Rejin shares personal stories and work-life anecdotes with equal candidness –  his ‘IIT Love Story’, the nail-biting projects of his career, and his journey of seeing IT finally get a seat at the table.

Catch Part 1 of the scintillating conversation with Chitransh Jain and Varun Pandey in conversation with Rejin Surendran on From Backroom to Boardroom: Rejin Surendran on IT’s transformational journey.

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