Bala Sreenivasan
Senior Vice President, Global Supply and Value Chain Management
MSD
Bala Sreenivasan
Senior Vice President, Global Supply and Value Chain Management
MSD
ABOUT THE WINNER
Bala Sreenivasan is a trailblazer whose journey began on the shop floor and grew into a career defined by curiosity, transformation, impact, and a deep commitment to lifting others along the way.
From starting as an intern at Amazon to leading pharmaceutical technical, manufacturing, and global supply chain operations, Bala has helped accelerate pipeline launches and deliver world-class supply performance through major disruptions in service of patients globally.
She is celebrated as a leader, a changemaker, and a proud mom, wife, and pug lover who inspires those around her.
Congratulations, Bala Sreenivasan!
Case Study Highlights
At MSD, Bala Sreenivasan has helped transform planning from a reactive process into a dynamic, predictive capability, using probabilistic planning linked to risk scenarios, an approach she compares to a hedge-fund-like mindset for supply chain.
Her team extended that thinking into a resilience framework that measures how much shock the supply chain can absorb, mapping the network end-to-end and combining it with an AI-driven external risk engine that can identify disruptions in minutes rather than weeks. On sustainability, Bala’s team has shifted freight from air to ocean and introduced recyclable cold-chain packaging, embedding sustainability directly into planning and daily workflows.