Bharti Airtel launches major organisational restructuring of Indian operations, splits business
In a major organisational restructuring, telecom giant Bharti Airtel today split its business into eight segments with a view to build a more connected organisation.
The company, which had last week announced appointment of Manoj Kohli as its new Managing Director, today said its operations will be split into eight hubs from the current three regional hubs.
The hubs will report to Ajai Puri, who has been elevated to the newly created position of Director (Market Operations).
Puri will report to Joint MD and CEO Designate for India Gopal Vittal.
The changes will be effective from March 1, 2013.
"The new organisation design is aimed at furthering the company's initiatives to build a more connected organisation, which is closer to the market place and is able to deliver a world-class experience to customers," Bharti Airtel said in a statement.
Various telecom circles will be clubbed to form hubs.
"Circle CEOs will continue to report to a Hub CEO and operate with the same level of independence (as they do now), while the Hub CEO will provide overall guidance and oversight to the telecom circles under it," it added.
Among other changes, Raghunath Mandava, currently Operations Director (West & Distribution) has been elevated as Director (Customer Experience). He will also report to Vittal.
Airtel Business CMO Najib Khan will now take over as CEO (Homes and Office), where he will be responsible for telemedia business, SMB vertical, LTE and Wi-fi services.
K Srinivas will take over as Director (Special Projects) and will be responsible for evaluating potential investment opportunities and developing
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