Ashwani Nair Email & Phone Number

St Albans, Gb

London, Gb

Spearheaded the creation of the Digital Pricing Practice (DPP) in Vodafone, fostering an entrepreneurial environment that leveraged cutting-edge AI/ML/DS capabilities. United previously siloed technologies - Oracle CPQ and Intelligent Pricing (IP) - under a cohesive strategy, empowering a high-performing cross-functional team to deliver breakthrough results.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Drove significant adoption of self-serve quoting tools, achieving an impressive 83% self-serve rate for Public, 94% for Small, and 45% for Large complex quotes. • Successfully executed 5 major pricing digitalization programs across six Vodafone markets, significantly reducing quoting times from weeks to under 5 minutes.• Strategically directed Digital Pricing, resulting in the generation of EUR 2 billion worth of quotes across 100+ products, while successfully reducing commercial queues by 90%.

London, Gb

Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) is a DPP tool that supports Vodafone Global Enterprises, Vodafone Business International, UK, IoT, Hungary, and Ireland. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Won multiple awards for exceptional achievements and driving improvements (product quality, team performance, customer satisfaction). • Widely recognised for yearly financial planning, efficient budget management of budget, and identifying vital investment and savings opportunities.• Increased funding from 3 major Vodafone operating companies.• Delivered 5 major programmes.• Onboarded 10 products covering all 3 segments (SME, MME, Large).• Drove product adoption and implementation of strategic features by creating champions and advocates among user groups and presenting business cases to financial approval boards.• Improved delivery and avoided disruption in business continuity by leading when manager left.

London, Gb

Managing the squad with no fixed product experience, I led fixed product onboarding into the Velocity programme, a complex Oracle CPQ-based solution. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Onboarded and delivered 5 major fixed products that required 3 complex integrations.• Delivered a seamless transition and improved customer experience by standardising processes and delivering a BAU model for handling all in-life demands. • Enabled product launch by resolving a major blocker within 4 weeks.• Initiated and oversaw engagement for SOX compliance with internal compliance team and PwC. • Enabled continuous improvement and business change by creating training videos, process maps, and baseline architecture documents.

London, Gb

As IT Demand and Delivery manager for Oracle CPQ (formerly Big Machines CPQ), I successfully onboarded and transitioned Vodafone markets into BAU e.g., Hungary, Spain, Ireland. I quickly established trust and rapport with stakeholders, resolving all issues.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

System Integration Manager for UK Smart Metering Project. I have successfully implemented integration solution for Smart Metering project across network carriers, suppliers, software systems and operator at application, network and security level.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

* Message Broker Lead (MB is a technical solution allowing two platform run during migration)* Client interfacing for Data Migration* Responsible for increasing revenue for CGI (both T&M and FP contracts)* Design SPOC for fixed line telephony services* Supporting Data Quality* Supported Product Mapping and Field Mapping design team* Produced Business and Technical Scenario Matrix for Message Broker Development & testing (E2E)* Extract Design & Extract specification for WCLI stack and for WLR stack.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

* Telecom SME for Fixed Line, Voice and broadband services* Requirement analysis* Change impact assessment & costing* IT Operational support through consultancy* Validating test cases* Test execution support* Business process design* Documenting training material and support

Montreal, Qc, Ca

* Operations Assurance- live issues* Designed CoR solution for a major WLMS Client* Revenue Assurance - failed Cease and Unbilled issues* Leading the process design team for all WLMS Clients.* WLR3 Migrations - Designed component to support unsolicited notification from Openreach - Process support - Operation readiness including floor-walking the CMC Operation

Pune, Maharashtra, In

* Process Consultancy* Leading a team of Process Designers* Managed the delivery of all agreed project deliverables at different phase of project* Liaising with different stakeholders, consisting representation from CMC Operations, IT Operations, etc, to define and agree processes to be followed.* Organised reviews and obtain sign-offs of all process key deliverables from client/SMEs core team

* Deffect Fixing in Macromedia Director 8 (Lingo)* Programming in Macromedia Flash (AS2.0)* Developing reusable Flash component as a part of R&D project* Working with testers towards sign off of some major projects, including Problem Solvers

* Requirement Gathering, analysis, prioritisation* Designing and Developing web, desktop and deployable solutions* Unit testing* Post deployment support

Global Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bsc, Physics + Computer Science

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