Priti Bansal

What is so unique about the Advanced Digital Solutions (ADS) team? 

Bekaert has embarked on a journey to “establish the new possible.” With passionate technologists in our team from across the globe, we work as a trusted IT and data partner to shape and deliver value with digital solutions. What I like about the team is that we are driven with a strong purpose and an incredible vision from the leadership, which helps to lift our digital journey. As part of fostering the growth of our team members, we have so called Learning Fridays, where you can learn something new every second Friday of the month, and Sharing Mondays, where you can share your learnings with the rest of the team and decide how to apply your learnings in your day-to-day work.

How do you challenge the impossible in your day-to-day job?

My mantra is to really believe in yourself, work with agility and embrace failure as an opportunity to learn and grow. With our strategic direction to Smart Operations, we continue to go beyond and leverage future technology possibilities like Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and machine learning to enable data driven process optimizations. As part of my role, I am leading the Digital Manufacturing program as an IT Product Manager and the Release Train Engineer (RTE). We work to provide our shopfloor employees with the right tools to make informed decisions with real time visualizations, digital execution assistance and so on. 2023 is the year of execution for us. We aim to realize our Digital Manufacturing strategy and roadmap by executing and scaling our solutions in more plants, thereby further transforming our manufacturing processes, and driving operational excellence.

The ADS team acts as a trusted IT & Data partner to shape and deliver value with digital solutions and drive Bekaert’s performance.  How do you partner with your stakeholders in your role?

As part of the Digital Operations team at Bekaert, we work closely with stakeholders within ADS, and with operational excellence and other business functions. We align with our business partners on strategic initiatives and co-own the product responsibilities to meet business and financial objectives. Agile ways of working have created a foundation to partner more with our stakeholders and involve them throughout the journey of delivering value. As a Release Train Engineer, I organize program increment planning (as per the SAFe agile framework), that aligns teams and stakeholders to a shared mission and vision.  Acknowledging end-to-end accountability, we partner and enhance our user community, promoting and enabling users with better understanding and adoption of solutions.

How is Bekaert helping to unlock your full potential?

I truly believe in “dare to go beyond”, which gives me immense confidence in creating an impact. Bekaert supports my personal growth ambitions with the freedom to pave my own path. Over the past 3 years, I have been able to work in an environment driven by continuous learning and anchored by the purpose of building safe, smart, and sustainable solutions. Bekaert strongly believes in empowering and putting its people first. This helps me to grow my “wings” to fly and chase my dreams. With the better together belief, we collectively grow the business and deliver results by inspiring and engaging each other. What helps me to further unlock my potential are the Bekaert values of integrity, trust, agility, and boldness. This drives me to challenge the status quo, build relationships, embrace change, and drive decision making.