1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He’s originally from India and has overall experience of about 15-16 years now in total within the IT consulting industry. He started his career after his graduation and joined XXXX as an Associate Developer where he delivered multiple mainframe, SAP ERP application support, and enhancement projects, then he moved to XXXX as a Senior Technical Consultant where he provided SAP PLM, HANA DB, and Teamcenter application support for global clients. After a few years there, he joined XXXX as a PLM Lead where his role was towards digital transformation but mainly on PLM implementation; he also was part of the mass data SAP implementation during that time, and was building the team for them internally. After some time, he got an opportunity with XXXX and he currently works with them as a Global ERP Operations Lead and Head of SAP Operations, where his role is to take overall ownership of AMS SAP operations and a big portfolio of SAP & non-SAP applications. He is involved with the budgeting, management of teams, ownership of the application deliverables, and point of contact for the leadership for them to run the BAU operations, and so on. Apart from these, he has done a lot of activities internally to reduce a lot of cost for the team.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
Strongest skill would be his full-circle experience since he originally came from the technical background then currently more on leadership positions; he’s strong with people management, strategic decision-making, as well as operational management and change management. His industry exposure is ranging from automobile, pharmaceutical, life sciences, retail, luxury, and more.
3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements?
He has about 3-4 years of experience now in change management, and overall program management. Most of the projects he has worked with are IT and SAP transformation/digital transformation-related ones; that being said, he has strong exposure with consulting and ERP implementations. He talks to a lot of people on a daily basis so he has developed strong stakeholder management skills, especially within regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and life sciences.
