Nagarajan V

IT - SAP Head @ Al Jazeera Steel Products Co.

About

Internationally experienced, multi-faceted, results driven professional with over 34+ years of experience (24+ Years in SAP & 10 years of Functional-Domain) in Program / Delivery / Project Management, Service Delivery, Application Development, testing and Manufacturing domain experience. Currently working as an Associate Director in NTT Data Private Ltd and Leading an End-to-End Implementation & Migration projects for SAP S/4 HANA & RISE with SAP projects – India & ME Region Projects. Responsible for RFP, Proposal Finalisation, Project Estimation, Commercial, SOW, MSA,, Kick-off meetings, Project delivery, Project Planning, Resource deployment, monitoring, budgeting, reviews, escalation and risk mitigation and project progress review meetings and participate in all Steering/Executive Committee meetings. EBITDA achieved more than 30% for all the Implementation projects delivered Prior to NTT Data, I was working with Tech Mahindra IT Services, Mahindra Satyam IT Services, Satyam Computers, Titan Industries Ltd and Hirsch Watch Straps. 25+ Implementation projects have been handled as a consultant, project manager and delivery manager. Handled 18 end to end implementation projects and delivered successfully as a project/delivery manager and 4 end to end implementation as a consultant for SD & CIN modules Solution experience : Manufacturing, Chemical, Automotive, Mechanical, Textile, Automobile, Aerospace, Consumer, Infrastructure, Steel, etc., Headed Global Support team with a team size of 130+ (On-site and Off-shore model) with 90% offshore ratio for IMAM and responsible for end to end Service Delivery Management and provided 24x7 & 24x5 support for all the regions (EU, APAC, NA & SA) which includes some of the SAP niche skills

Country

United Arab Emirates

City

Dubai

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Brownfield, Greenfield Projects, Public Cloud, Private cloud, Activate methodology, SAP Sales & Distribution, SAP Products, Rise with SAP, SAP Implementation, Materials Management, SD, ERP, Warehouse Management, CRM, Business Development, Management, Requirements Analysis, Business Analysis, Project Management, SAP

Experience

IT - SAP Head

Al Jazeera Steel Products Co.

2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Middle east

SAP S4 HANA - RWS (Private Cloud) projects

Associate Director

NTT DATA Business Solutions

2016-3 - 2023-4 · 7 yrs 2 mos

India and ME

Currently working as an ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (Sr. Program Manager / Delivery Manager) and heading an End to End implementation projects with a team size of 45-50 (On-site & Offshore) and responsible for the end to end Implementation projects (SAP S/4 HANA & RISE with SAP - Brown & Greenfield- Phase 1 & Phase 2 projects), staffing projects (INDIA & ME) and Presales activities.

SAP Program Manager

Tech Mahindra

2013-3 - 2016-2 · 3 yrs

Chennai Area, India

Currently working as Sr. Cluster Manager – Application Management & Incident Management Support BASF IT Services. I am responsible for managing projects end to end. Responsible for budgeting, Planning, maintaining a good EBITDA, Resource management, Team development, Retention Strategy, Risk Planning and Risk mitigation and implementing internal Quality processes. Exceptionally well organized with a track record that demonstrates self-motivation, creativity and initiative to achieve both personal and corporate goals.Demonstrated competence in managing and executing large onsite offshore SAP programs, budgeting, driving multiple work streams, business problem resolution, delivering weekly / monthly senior management presentations of project status • Heading Global Support team with a team size of 150+ (On-site and Off-shore model) with 90% offshore ratio for IMAM and responsible for end to end Service Delivery Management. • Responsible for 14 service lines like OTC, APO, BW, GTS, M2i & etc., which includes some of the SAP niche skills like BRF, CRM & OTE. Ensuring 100% adherence to SLA´s and Quality. • Managing Service delivery Team who currently provide 24x7, 24x5 & On-call support for all the regions (EU, APAC, NA & SA) • Responsible for all the Transitions for the regions from Pre planning to steady state phase and taking care of DD, SOW and Transition Commercial and service line commercial. • Responsible for Client Management and Management reporting

Sr project manager

Tech Mahindra

2011-3 - 2013-3 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Cluster Manager - Application Management & Support BASF IT Services responsible for 6 service lines. I am responsible for the onsite team and also Managing offshore team leads of all 6 service lines that I am responsible for. . *Foreseeing the trend, sketched a strategy to handle the huge inflow of tickets in OTC *Competed against 3 vendor’s and ensured that MSAT remained as the single vendor for the engagement *Increased OTC ticket volumes by 100%, because of team’s quality and deliverables *Preparing presentation for the JOUR FIXE Meetings with client