Accomplishments & competence:
- Strategic & solution focused executive with 45+ years of proven track record of managing, delivery & deployment of overly complex programs/projects/project portfolio leading a large team size up to 300.
- Industry: Automobile, manufacturing, FMCG, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Software, Telecommunication, Construction, Steel, Infrastructure etc.
- Delivered project portfolio with a wide spectrum of business transformation, multi-billion dollars Merger & Acquisitions, IT projects & programs with Global roll outs using multiple platforms & applications including SAP, Oracle etc.
- Business Analysis – proven capability to understand complex business scenarios, getting business requirement document completed and signed off by stake holders.
- Proven record of accomplishment of managing change; formulation of change management strategy, road map and implementation.
- Proven influencer skills amongst stakeholders to derive desired and demonstrable business decisions and impacts.
- Gifted with sound business and political acumen to grasp overly complex business strategies, pain points and identify downstream operational impacts.
- Identified program/project level risks with mitigating actions and escalation procedures, working with global teams across continents, balancing competing demands, conflicting schedules across projects & cross-functional teams.
- Developed program strategies & managed business cases bringing multi-billion-dollar business converted and migrated to IT platforms using SAP ECC 6.0 on Global business process template & split architecture, cut over management.
- Proven track record of delivering consolidated SAP solutions partnering with SAP MM, LE, WM, PP, SD, QM, APO, Data, FICO, SAP FSCM, SAP HANA, Solution Manager & BI, Data Analytics functions for Fortune 500 Food (FMCG), Software/IT, Auto, Manufacturing & Telecom Industry.
- Expertise in turning around impossible project situations, reducing cost of business blue printing, design, build & roll out.
- Used Waterfall and Agile methodology extensively to reduce cost of implementation.
- Standardizing data & systems, adopting center of excellence model and extensive testing during development, functional & integration testing phases.
- Reduced operational cost by designing & implementing data governance, data quality, data conversion
- Cut over management for 50+ projects
- Managed and delivered multiple multi-million-dollar steel plant projects for customers in India on German technology leading a team of 200 professionals.
- Formulation of company’s policies on project management; investment planning, budgeting, project appraisal and monitoring for steel industry in India.