Rajiv Sharma

Rajiv Sharma

Service Lifecycle Manager @ Orange Business

About

Customer Success and Service Delivery champion with 20+ years of experience managing large-scale enterprise accounts across telecommunications and global service providers, including Orange Business Services, AT&T, Telefonica USA, and SITA. Managed a portfolio of 8 strategic enterprise customers with a total contract value of $150M, delivering 99% gross retention across MPLS, IPLC, Voice, and SaaS-based licensing models. I have consistently driven organic growth, including a 5% increase in TCV within key accounts such as Accenture.currently working as Service Lifecycle Manager, managing Cisco License (SaaS Licensing / Subscription Models, Smart account, purchase, generation, compliance, Billings & over consumption billing) customer QBR, vendor management.In 2026 .. with Orange. Launched AI agent project “Knowledge Velocity “ Using in-house capabilities Designed, configured RAG for Cisco License management process & Launched first AI agent within Process Expertise team for Global Business to Accelerate Intelligence delivery for Sales, Quoting process & Licence management.Business Impact: "Knowledge Velocity" at Scale* Knowledge Velocity (Core ROI Engine)• Response time: Days/Hours → Minutes. Fast context response, reduce dependency on experts, and achieve higher accuracy in execution.Team availability dependency: Down 30%Agent acts as first-line decision support layer.First-time-right execution increased by 50%. Improved productivity, better customer outcomes, and a scalable model for continuous improvement.20-30% reduction in (NVA) non value added efforts.50% reduction - Onboarding timeAl-guided onboarding reduces ramp-up time for new hires, enabling them to become productivefaster.My experience spans working with global clients including Accenture, SITA, GSK, Wipro, Nokia, Intuit, British Airways, Schlumberger and ExxonMobil—where I act as a trusted advisor and customer champion.A key highlight includes improving CSAT for Accenture from 5 to 10 within two years by strengthening governance, stakeholder engagement, and service delivery frameworks.I have held critical roles including Global Service Manager, Regional Service Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Product Manager, and Service Design Lead—managing complex, multi-industry portfolios across SI, FMCG, Airlines, Oil & Gas, Banking, and IT/BPO sectors.My core strengths lie in:Driving customer success strategy and lifecycle management, QBR.Leading governance across customers, partners, and internal teams, SLO, SLA, OLA

Country

India

City

New Delhi

Industry

Telecommunications

Skill

Storytelling, Software Asset Management, Service Improvement Plans, Software as a Service (SaaS), Customer Success, Network Administration, Pricing Analysis, Large Scale System Integration, User Stories, Requirements Analysis, UAT Coordination, Team Management, Sprint Planning, Sprint Backlog, Agile Application Development, Project Status Reporting, User-centered Design, User Acceptance Testing, Training, Presenation

Experience

Orange Business

Service Lifecycle Manager

Orange Business

LinkedIn
2022-8 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Gurugram

CX Cisco SaaS , CX Cloud License /Subscription management , Enterprise account management, Smart Account, SoftwareAsset Management , Vendor management,Software Cisco Smart Net Total Care ,True-Up,True Forward, Renewal, Onboarding, adoption, lifecycle management, QBR on Total Account Management, Cisco incentives collection to P&L , Cisco-to-quote-to-Order-to- Billing. Vendor PO process to pay Cisco Managing Margin, Discounts & credits during Ordering process. Integrated Services. Launched AI agent project “Knowledge Velocity “ Using in-house capabilities Designed , configured bespoke RAG for Cisco License management process & Launched first AI agent for Global Business to Accelerate Intelligence delivery for Sales, Quoting process & Licence management .

SITA

Service Design & Development

SITA

LinkedIn
2019-8 - 2022-8 · 3 yrs 1 mo

New Delhi Area, India

SITA is the world's leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology. Accountability for a product, Business Operations Practices, New/improved Service Design, TTM, new/improved product launch & Quote-To-Bill. RFP Quotes, using ABACUS-CPQ -AQM- SODA) as per SITA products Portfolio. Discount, Pricebook check, Regulatory, Working with Product Management for Service Lifecycle, End of Life, etc. Accountable for Best practices (Operational Excellence| Digital Transition & Transformation |Incubation ||Simplification) Managed ABACUS a New RFP tool for the SITA Presales/Account team for Budgetary quotes on MPLS, DSL, BVPN@AIRPORT, SDWAN Tools: -ABACUS, JIRA, CPQ, AQM, SODA, ServiceNow, Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio), SharePoint, Webservice REST API,

Telefónica

Regional Service Delivery Manager(APAC region)

Telefónica

LinkedIn
2015-11 - 2018-2 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Madrid (Spain), New Delhi

Telefónica is one of the world's largest fully integrated telecommunication operators, providing communication, information and entertainment solutions, with presence in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We operate in 25 countries and serve around 325 million customers. For more information, please visit www.telefonica.com Acting as an ambassador for the practice and exhibiting Telefonica’s core values (Bold, Open, Clear, Trusted) Relationship management - engaging across all levels within prospective customers businesses (Voice, Video, Messaging, Mobility, WAN/LAN, Connectivity services), to CxO level This includes but is not limited to: * Service Provisioning * Service Operations * Service Management * Professional Services The role bridges between sales, engineering and clients

TeamLease Services Limited

Service Transition Manager

TeamLease Services Limited

LinkedIn
2014-5 - 2015-10 · 1 yr 6 mos

New Delhi

PM for Global large project full responsibility of end to end service Delivery on network & application services RFP to Billing Managing Scope, Project plan, Communication, Risk, Revenue, Milestone,QTO (Quote to order), OTB (Order To Bill), CAT (Customer Acceptance test)To make sure whole project is within Time, Budget & quality. •Managing Quotes,Order, Provisioning, Link Delivery, technical delivery resource assigned to Large project. •Ensure that all projects are delivered within scope, time, budget and quality.

AT&T

Regional Service Manager Wholesale Accounts (APAC)

AT&T

LinkedIn
2007-12 - 2012-5 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Serves as the customer advocate within the maintenance process. Demonstrates ownership and accountability for all maintenance processes (including but not limited to Trouble Management and Resolution, Communication, Project Management, Corporate Strategies Support and Business Directions, Performance Reports and Data Analysis) on behalf of the customer. Crosses organizational boundaries and overcomes traditional hierarchical structures by commanding and committing AT&T resources to respond to and resolve any and all maintenance issues. The CRM has a direct impact on customer satisfaction, revenue generation/protection and promotes and protects AT&T brand identity. Act as customer advocate and representative within AT&T to own billing, revenue, contracting, fault management, fault resolution, project management, provisioning, procurement, disputes and many more activities. Create and develop relationships with senior executives within my customer base with a view to enhancing their relationship with AT&T

Orange Business

Service(Product) Life Cycle manager (Product &Process managment)

Orange Business

LinkedIn
2007-3 - 2007-12 · 10 mos

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Champion overall Service management practice for the MOW (Global) Customers: Customer Advocate for all Operations, Service, Billing, related concerns within Different BU. Accountable for Incident Management, Change Management, New Service Order Management Manage Escalations as needed & known issues/workaround, RCA, RFO, MTTR, FOC, SIP. Performance, Availability (Fault), BCP, DR, Trouble Ticketing & Capacity Management Chronic Issues and network improvements, Problem Management Status Reports (Chronic), Root Cause Analysis (RCA) / Problem Records, Service Improvement Plans (SIP) SLA Report (Monthly), Network Performance report, Trouble Ticket Reporting, MTTR Reporting Weekly Internal Synch Meetings & Customer Status Calls, Bi-Weekly Governance Calls

Orange Business

Customer Service Analyst (Customer Service Excellence)

Orange Business

LinkedIn
2005-6 - 2007-3 · 1 yr 10 mos

Focus on Customer experience, Total ownership for Customer for operations, Reporting, Fault managment, Sla, Sales, Service Reviews, Delivery and deployment, Working as an Interface between Customer and Orange Business Services

vCustomer

Techincal support & Presales

vCustomer

LinkedIn
2003-6 - 2005-5 · 2 yrs

Providing the first & Second level voice dealing in Presales, Sales & Service Configuring, supporting and trouble-shooting Negear/Linksys/Cisco/Dlink Router and Net gear Layer2/Layer3 Switches Creating VPN tunnels among Netgear/Linksys/Cisco routers for remote access Configuration of Net gear firewal, Configuration of Net gear/Cisco VPN clients Configuration of Net gear Print Servers over TCP/IP Wireless Network Designing networks using IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g wireless standard devices. Configuration of Netgear/Cisco/Linksys/Dlink/Apple wireless network devices Configuring Wireless bridging and setting up of Wireless VPN connections.

Education

Università Bocconi

Università Bocconi

LinkedIn

Organizational Leadership

Managment in Multi-cultural environment, Communications, Conflict management, Organisation Behaviour, motivation theories, Cultural Intelligence

Himachal Pradesh University

Himachal Pradesh University

LinkedIn

Business Managment

1996 - 2000 · 4 yrs
EXIN

EXIN

LinkedIn

Management Information Systems and Services

2018 - Present · 8 yrs

VeriSM™ Foundation VeriSM™ is a Service Management approach, specifically tailored to support organizations to help them succeed in the world of digital services. VeriSM™ helps organizations to define their service management principles. These principles will be relevant to all products and services, and include areas like security, quality, cost and risk.

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