Nisar Ahmed Khan - VP-Strategy & Transformation
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Nisar Ahmed Khan

VP-Strategy & Digital Transformation
Phone: +97150 6449653
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisarahmedkhan/
Website: www.nisarkhan.org
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Growth focused leader with **20+ years of international experience** in developing digital & mobile products for for global e-commerce customers. Managed a digital portfolio worth **4B USD in revenue** with 100K customers across 120 countries.

  • Skilled at developing growth marketing strategies and executing them with Marketing automation and online sales automation systems.
  • Experienced with leading high-performing teams in collaboration with IT and cross-functional partners to articulate a clear product vision, strategy and a roadmap that delivers business results.
  • Expert in onboarding processes, cross-functional leadership, and customer-centric design thinking. Skilled at defining product vision, roadmaps, and success metrics while aligning business objectives with user needs.

Specialties:

Digital
Transformation
Strategy Development Cross-functional Leadership Engineering Management
Digital Marketing Commercial Analysis Customer Centric Design Thinking Data Analytics


Experience

April 2024 - Present

AYN Digital

Head of Digital Portfolio

▪ Strategy: Defined and executed IT strategy for AI-powered digital transformation, aligning ERP (MS Dynamics, Oracle) and CRM systems with business objectives across sales, marketing, and service functions—resulting in a **30% improvement in operational efficiency** and 25% faster decision-making.

Leadership: Led cross-functional teams across IT, marketing, and product to deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions that automated lead qualification, onboarding, and support—reducing manual workloads by 40% and accelerating time-to-market for new features by 35%.

▪ **KPIs:** Established performance dashboards and success metrics to track adoption, engagement, and ROI of AI and SaaS initiatives, enabling real-time visibility for leadership and driving a **20% uplift in quarterly revenue** contribution from digital channels.

Mar 2018 to April 2024

FedEx Express

Digital Product Portfolio - Sr Manager

Led a cross-functional team of highly skilled professionals in delivering digital products and solutions for Europe, Middle East, Latin America and & India regions.

Application Development & Strategy: Spearheaded the roadmap and execution of a **global B2B SaaS shipping portfolio** across 100+ countries, generating **$4B in annual revenue**. Collaborated with business partners to prioritize features using data-driven insights, established success metrics to enhance customer experience and reduce costs, and developed Tableau dashboards to track performance and drive strategic decisions.

Strategic Transformation & Business Case Development: Developed a high-stakes investment case recommending a hybrid modernization approach for FedEx's legacy shipping platforms. Successfully convinced executive leadership to pivot from a full cloud migration strategy—**saving over $250M in projected infrastructure and churn costs**.

Synergy & Integration Planning: Partnered with Finance and Product leads to track synergy KPIs during the regional consolidation of customer onboarding tools. Identified duplicate cost centers across business units and proposed integration of three platforms into one self-serve portal—**achieving 40% operational cost savings** and significantly improving user satisfaction scores (CSAT +18 pts).

Business Development: Led Sales transformation by training sales executives and developing a customer onboarding strategy and execution with the account close process. Created a self-served customer onboarding portal. **Delivered $12M in annual sales revenues.**

Digital Transformation – Enterprise SaaS: Spearheaded the digital transformation of the aviation vertical by conducting user research. Transformed manual business processes into an automated customer journey, enabling online FedEx services for aviation customers like Emirates, Etihad, and Fly Dubai, **resulting in $14M in annual revenue.**

May 2007 to Mar 2018

FedEx Express

Customer Integration Manager

Facilitated launch of some of the largest online business portals in the middle east.

E-commerce supply chain solution development: Developed an integrated shipping platform for the top eCommerce portals in the Middle East leveraging FedEx APIs establishing a strong foundation for FedEx as an integration friendly carrier in the ME region. (e.g., noon.com, hudabeauty.com, lens.me)

Cross-functional stakeholder management: Achieved organizational goal of **95 % migration of customers to online channels** within three-years from 40%. Led a cross-functional action team to grow customer adoption of the FedEx software tools, resulting in annual cost saving in excess of **US$ 2.5M.**

Sales Support and Business Development: Delivered an integrated warehousing and fulfillment platform targeted towards the Gulf industry Aviation vertical. The project resulted in **reducing Aircraft on Ground (AoG) downtime by 50%.**

Sep 2000 to Aug 2007

FedEx Express

Customer Technology Consultant

Project Management: Managed e-government initiative with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) allowing the renewal of driving licenses online. This project resulted in a **significant 40% increase in back-office workforce productivity.**

App development: Managed development of a web-based address management database application. The project significantly **improved delivery efficiency from five to two days** and increased customer satisfaction.

EDI Integration and Data Governance: Delivered EDI integration with Dubai Customs Al Mersal Portal. FedEx was one of the first carriers to automate import clearance through messaging links with the Dubai Ports & Customs Authority.

Education

2018 to 2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Entrepreneurship & Innovation

2007 to 2009

Maryland Griggs University

MBA - Master of Business Administration

1993 to 1996

University of Pune

Bachelor of Computer Science

Skills

Leadership: IT Strategy, branding, P&L, Stakeholder management, cross-functional leadership, Entrepreneurship, Vendor Management, Business Analysis, Management, IT Management, Team Leadership, CRM, MS Project, Business Development, Consulting, Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Logistics, E-commerce, Supply Chain, Management Consulting.
Project Management: Project Management, Business Planning, Business communication, RACI, Program Management, PMO, PMP, Process Improvement, Data Analytics.
Product Management: Digital Product Management, eCommerce, product development, technology, tech, innovation, Disruption, customer experience, supply chain, logistics, startup, Entrepreneur, Business, Integration, Service Delivery, Customer Experience, E-commerce.
Digital Technology: Digital marketing, digital transformation, ITIL, Software Project Management, software engineering, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, Software Development, Network Infrastructure, Enterprise Software.

Certifications

April 2024

Design Sprint Certification

AJ & Smart, Berlin

February 2024

Workshop Facilitation Master

AJ & Smart, Berlin

April 2021

Certified SAFe® 4 Practitioner

Scaled Agile, Inc.

March 2019

Customer Centric Design Thinking

FedEx, Memphis

June 2018

Quality Management Expert (Six Sigma)

ASQ - American Society for Quality

May 2009

Project Management Professional - PMP

Project Management Institute

March 2008

ITIL - IT Information Library

Office of Government Commerce, London