Priya Karnani

- Susonity Day 2 Carve Out - ERP Program Lead - ERP Architecture & Governance - ERP Delivery & Operations - Licenses & Contracts - Vendor Management

• Led strategic global ERP projects, including upgrading LATAM SAP system for Brazil Tax Reform. • Defined IT TSA for Carve out legal entities for Merck Surface Solution business. • Achieved seamless implementation of ERP projects, ensuring compliance and efficiency. • Developed strong project management and leadership skills in a global setting.

- Leading Strategic Projects for Process Optimization and Service Excellence. - Developing SAP Move to Cloud strategies to optimize both SAP on-premise and SAP Cloud license costs. - Directing Technology Migration projects to reduce IT costs, for e.g., migration of the IBM Sterling Integrator EDI platform to the SAP middleware platform (SAP PO/BTP). - Crafting a roadmap for consolidation of Sector-specific Applications to Global Applications. - Establishing Compliance Processes in-line with IT/OT security procedures for ERP systems to ensure compliance readiness.

-Managing delivery team for Middleware applications like SAP PI/PO, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and SAP MDG - Customer/Finance/Material/Supplier. - Driving Roadmap for migration of non-SAP middleware applications to SAP PI/PO & Integration Suit (BTP). - License and Contract Management, Contract Negotiations, Vendor Management. - Managing and coordinating execution of Audits and closure of critical Audit Findings. - Passionate People leader focusing on building highly engaged and dynamic teams.

- Managing dynamic team of 30+ SAP Functional Consultants. - Ensuring on-time delivery of Projects & Business Enhancements for Merck's cross sector ERP systems for both GxP & non-GxP requirements for Order to Cash, Plan to Produce and Procure to Pay processes. - Ensuring the Service Delivery of Gold, Silver and Bronze ERP Services as per SLA requirements - Managing Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Program for IT-Application Technology for Critical & Major Services. - Ensuring delivered Solutions and Services are Audit & Compliance ready. - Experience in Vendor Management, Contract Management & Measurement, Budget Planning. - Passionate for People Leadership and managing people responsibilities like - attract & retain talents, manage people budgets, and develop High Impact Culture & Empowered team. - Strong experience of leading & driving various Global Leadership Initiatives with multiple stakeholders from cross-functional organizations.

• Requirement analysis and mapping of Business Requirements into Merck specific SAP Plant Maintenance and SAP Mobile Maintenance Processes (P2D - Project to Decommission). • Presenting Demos to Business during pre-scoping & scenario verification workshops. • Preparation of User Requirements & Test Artifacts in HP-ALM. • Ensuring the smooth testing of implemented solution in Validated and non-Validated Test Environment by the Business Key Users. • Ensure delivery of a high quality solution by coordinating and managing stakeholders from Business, ERP Delivery, Cross-functional Teams • Supporting Go-live activities and Hypercare phase for a Project.

Leading 'Women in Leadership' Employee Focus Group. The objective of this focus group is to promote gender diversity across leadership levels in IT.

Part of IWiL Core committee and driving various initiatives.

Career break taken to raise family.

• Led coordination between development teams and stakeholders, facilitating workshops for requirement analysis, product demonstrations, and design testing. • Collaborated with the Product Management team to prioritize features, plan sprints, and ensure seamless communication with offshore development teams, providing regular status updates and progress reports to the product leadership team.

• Contributed as a key member of the Product Development team at SAP Labs Bangalore (India), specializing in SAP Public Sector Management, Funds Management, and Grants Management. • Led requirement analysis, test strategy development, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) workshops for EU and US public sector clients. • Collaborated internationally & travelled to SAP locations in Germany, France, and Washington, DC, to facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and engage in client workshops.

ISTQB Foundation Level Certification (No end date for Validity)

Faculty for JAVA, Data Base Management System, Compute Lab for SQL and JAVA programming.

Mody College of Engineering and Technology, Laxmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan