Results-oriented Global Operations Leader with cross-functional program, project, and people leadership in Operations, Information Technology, and Business Planning in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.Skilled end-to-end business process consultant with proven results in merger and acquisition integration.Excellent relationship development, customer service, and program leadership at all levels.Agile and influential leadership across diverse projects, multi-cultural teams, environments, and geographies.Goal: Drive change and lead and manage teams to optimize sales operations and enable industry leading sales growth at the best cost to serve.Specialties: High tech channel sales operations and transformation, mergers and acquisitions operational integration, business process architecture, process standardization and globalization
Career Break
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RetirementCareer Break Feb 2020 - PresentRetired in February of 2020. Enjoying retirement thoroughly!
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Global Program Manager In Global Sales OperationsHp Mar 2016 - Feb 2020Palo Alto, Ca, UsDrove the transition of HP’s Integrated Quoting environment to an updated platform based upon Oracle CPQ and Microsoft Dynamics. * Streamlined processes and created self-service quoting for sales reps and the HP indirect channel. Adoption is now global for direct and indirect routes-to-market.* Improvements delivered included: A 7% win-rate increase, margin improvement of 1%, a quote turn-around-time improvement of 59%, and a best-ever partner satisfaction increase year over year.* Managed the CPQ sub-tower in HP’s global SAP supply chain transformation project ensuring CPQ integrations to order management and supply chain towers transitioned without business interruption. -
Global Channel Sales Operations Solution Manager And ArchitectHp Jan 2012 - Feb 2016Palo Alto, Ca, UsLed key sub-programs under the global sales process transformation for HP.* Successfully transformed fragmented and sub-optimal deal registration, channel lead and pipeline management, and channel price/quotation programs toward consistent, simplified, and industry leading capabilities using SalesForce.com and Oracle CPQ.* Created long-range roadmap moving the Siebel-centric PRM solution to SalesForce.com driving release planning, program metrics base-lining and future measurement, and the end-to-end solution for foundational and prioritized value-added business capabilities. -
Global Process Architect | Mergers And Acquisitions Integration ManagerHp Jun 2009 - Dec 2011Palo Alto, Ca, UsGoverned and managed end-to-end business process architecture and management, three-year channel capability roadmap, channel operations policy, and Oracle vendor management. * Led evaluation of new business initiatives during incubation and developed investment roadmap.* Roadmap was the catalyst in receiving significant share of annual HP IT plan of record funding. Architectural governance resulted in greater cross-function alignment and success on critical projects.* Managed global team to rapidly integrate channel operations of acquisitions - 3COM, PALM, Stratavia, Fortify, and ArcSight. Efforts saved $1.2M in annual operations costs. -
Global Pipeline Management Program ManagerHp Feb 2006 - May 2009Palo Alto, Ca, UsManaged project combining partner deal registration, lead management, special price requests, and pipeline management activities into one end-to-end process. * Benefit of $150M over 3 years via higher attach rates, win ratios, and sales velocity.* Managed vendor- Oracle next generation investment prioritization.* Led convergence and alignment of our channel regional help desk processes and metrics. This reduced operational costs and greater global support metric visibility.* Our partner pipeline investment was selected as an HP top-200 investment for FY09.* Managed APJ portal and pricing deployment. APJ considered this the smoothest deployment since the Compaq merger of 2002. -
Partner Relationship Management Global Planning, Portfolio, And Vendor ManagerHp Jan 2005 - Jan 2006Palo Alto, Ca, UsManaged planning, portfolio management, and vendor next- generation investment prioritization.* Led planning and portfolio management to identify the highest return investments. * Managed vendor next-generation investment prioritization.* Saved HP millions not investing in low return and redundant projects across regions. -
Global Operations Program Manager | Partner Relationship Management – PrmHp Feb 2003 - Dec 2004Palo Alto, Ca, UsLed the requirements and process re-engineering of the global partner portal and profiling solution. * Directed business and IT experts toward a solution representing the best trade-offs of functionality within tight program constraints. * Saved $2M per year through asset globalization and retirement of legacy solutions. -
Global It Manager | Partner Relationship Management- PrmHp Jan 2000 - Jan 2003Palo Alto, Ca, UsJoint leader in the scoping and planning phase of the next generation PRM platform. * Managed solution based upon Siebel PRM resulting in global deployment in over 100 countries. * Led the global Closed Loop Marketing (CLM) solution by automating campaigns and measurement via a multi-touchpoint, multi-channel design. Generated $3M/mo. in 14 countries. Based upon Kana eMA saving $20M a year. -
Asia Pacific Channel Communications ManagerHp Jan 1996 - Jan 1999Palo Alto, Ca, Us* Built a team to deliver electronic sales and marketing content and business transactions and services to partners throughout the region.* Led HP to be the first vendor with a multi-lingual, secure Web portal to partners in 14 countries. -
Lead Business AnalystHp Jul 1988 - Jun 1991Palo Alto, Ca, UsLead business analyst on a global financial inventory system.* Led the design that tracked over $1B of inventory shipments in 1991 and continued to grow and be used until retired in 2003. Saved HP $580k/year in operational efficiencies.* Created a document warehouse to automate SGML document (a precursor to HTML publication). Saved HP $15k/year in printing costs.
John A. Knox Education Details
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University Of Minnesota - Carlson School Of ManagementManagement Information Systems -
University Of Wisconsin-MadisonEconomics & Political Science
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