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• Lead the conceptualization, design/user experience and the business requirements for the SAP Value Lifecycle Manager platform.• Define product roadmap by analyzing market trends, current capability gaps, and company’s strategic directions.• Prioritize and schedule new projects based on development capacities.• Design the user interface of the platform, create processing logic, generate master data, and test the capabilities.• Maintain continuous interaction with multiple stakeholders from various teams to frame product requirements.• Conduct detailed workshops with SAP partners to help them inculcate value mindset with SAP Value Lifecycle Manager.• Create user experience designs and flows for the tool ensuring easy navigation.• Guide developers with detailed flowcharts, processing logic, and initial master data.• Govern the content creation and maintenance exercise for the tool.• Support pilot customer engagements around new capabilities in the tool.• Enable Customer and SAP internal teams on the platform.• Winner of Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award 2023, SAP’s Highest Employee Recognition for Reimagined RISE with SAP business case with SAP Signavio and SAP Value Lifecycle Manager integration.

• Lead benchmarking and value related thought leadership for industries: Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Chemicals and Telecom and Processes: Asset Management and Supply Chain Management.• Support high value deals by creating model benchmarking surveys that help in ascertaining organization’s maturity on key business processes and business case templates which are designed to help organization understand the ROI potential of investments in different initiatives.• Conduct customer workshops to understand their pain points and articulate the business value of SAP solutions. Collaborate with the customer and presales team to create a transformation proposition. Articulate the value potential of transformation roadmap through both quantitative and qualitative benefits.• Track and document customer outcomes (business value). Create S/4HANA value stories by conducting customer interviews to capture the value that customers’ have achieved after SAP S/4HANA implementation.

• Work on long term and short term goals for the practice by analyzing the market trends, internal strengths and weakness. • Keep a track of the revenue numbers for the practice and analyze the trends from the data in terms of regional growth, product specific growth, account or industry specific growth. • Develop Go To Market strategy for New and Existing Solutions of the practice. • Perform Competitor Analysis and Bench marking for Oracle solutions and come up with recommendations for new solutions. • Manage Analysts Relationship for the practice which includes responding to Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave Ratings for Oracle Implementation and AMS. • Manage Analyst Briefing and Inquiry session for the practice. • Coordinate Merger and Acquisition activities for the practice which includes scouting of new partners. • Devise Sales Strategy for NA Telecom vertical and lead Existing and New Business Development for the cluster Oracle products and services.• Program manage the entire Oracle practice for North America Telecom accounts. • Analyze customers’ requirements and come with customized solution in collaboration with technology experts.

Worked as a Techno -Functional consultant on the J.D.Edwards ERP software. Supported the ERP operations of a world renowned music company in Distribution Logistics , finance and manufacturing modules.

• Supported the IT Operations of Customer Service and Accounts Receivable modules for the Canadian operations of a leading Oil and Gas Company. • Designed, Developed and Implemented the Virtual Depot Project for Pakistan operations of the client. • Involved in the integration of Demantra forecasting project with the existing ERP system for a leading manufacturing company. • Automated the Vaccine Pricing Agreement process for the U.K. operations of a well known pharmaceutical firm.