About

Dheeraj Choudhary is a highly experienced and accomplished Global Procurement Executive, Commercial Strategist, and Talent Leader with over 22 years of experience in the industry. He is a strategic thinker, problem solver, and a decisive leader with a proven track record of delivering business outcomes and managing functional-level organizational transformations. Dheeraj has gained his broad and in-depth procurement experience from hands-on and leading global teams across the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. He has led group-wide strategy design which impacted thousands of roles, developed talent, and built high-performance diverse teams. He has negotiated tens of billions of dollars of goods and services and achieved over a billion in cost reduction. Dheeraj is passionate about giving back to the environment and people and has served as a board member of a community enterprise since 2014, contributing to the local community and turning around a financially stressed charity into a thriving, sustainable enterprise. With his strategic focus and energetic and collaborative approach, Dheeraj has successfully simplified complex business problems. His colleagues describe his leadership style as empathetic, effective, collaborative, and motivational. He has coached and mentored people which resulted in improved personal and business performance. He has learned and embedded diversity and cultural fluency at the core of his leadership style. Dheeraj has a Master of Business Administration from Cranfield School of Management, a Bachelor of Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, and a Certificate in Negotiation Mastery from HBX | Harvard Business School. He has worked with top companies like bp, where he currently serves as the Head of Procurement (Indirect bp Iraq), Global Procurement Director Corporate Services, and EMEA Procurement Director. Dheeraj has a diverse tech stack, including software engineering, ML, research scientist, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, data scientist, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Kafka, Spring Boot, Spring, microservices, Postgres, AngularJS, Apache Hive, Kotlin, and more. His expertise lies in strategy design and organization transformation, leadership and talent development, commercial acumen, negotiation design and execution, global team management, and stakeholder engagement.