Wajed Ali

Executive Manager @ Saudi Ceramics

About

Over 23 years of global experience (US, Middle East & India) in IT industry predominantly 20+ years in SAP technology in service delivery, program management, end to end project implementations in onshore & offshore delivery models. Strong experience in setting up, executing and operating Competency Centers for SAP and other IT applications with a proven record of generating and building relationships, managing projects from concept to completion, skilled in building cross-functional teams by demonstrating exceptional communication skills, and critical decision-making during challenges. Also an adaptable and transformational leader with an ability to work independently, and develop opportunities that further establish organizational goals. American Citizen with full time MBA from a reputed US Business School. PMP, SAP & ITIL Certifications. Worked in Fortune 100 companies across different geographies for: Accenture, SAP, J&J, GSK, Coach, Novartis etc.

Country

Saudi Arabia

City

Riyadh

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

SAP, Program Management, Software Project Management, Management Consulting, Management, ERP, Business Process, Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Business Process Improvement, IT Strategy, Leadership, PMP, SDLC, Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Vendor Management, Change Management, Integration, CRM

Experience

Executive Manager

Saudi Ceramics

2020-3 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Leading & managing SAP CoE (Center of Excellence) across group of companies at Saudi Ceramics for IT Department including Business Applications,Technical Solutions, System Administration, Data Analytics & eCommerce.

Head of IT & SAP CoE

Saudi Ceramics

2011-5 - 2020-3 · 8 yrs 11 mos

Saudi Arabia

Provide strategy & direction to all IT projects. Manage SAP projects, support business operations. Lead IT team and in-house SAP competency & Center of Excellence. SAP SCM Project Implmentation SAP Mobility Project for retail showrooms IPad app. SAP Quality Award-MENA winner, 2 times: 2012 & 2015 Company intranet portal MS SharePoint, Office 365 & Exchange Online cloud based solutions

Senior Manager

SAP

2009-10 - 2011-4 · 1 yr 7 mos

Saudi Arabia

As program manager for SAP MENA (Middle East & North Africa), managed & delivered multiple SAP projects in the MENA region for various clients like: Saudi Airlines, SABIC, TASNEE, El-Araby Egypt, Egypt Air, Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Ceramics etc.

IT Director

The Gulf Industrial Group Ltd.

2008-6 - 2010-9 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Saudi Arabia

• Lead and directed the IT team in aligning with the strategic & operational business objectives of the organization. Responsibilities include to develop and manage plans, policies and portfolios for business applications (SAP) for each department and to attain all IT service level agreements for the user community (200+ users) in the organization.

Senior Manager/DU Lead

Accenture

2005-7 - 2008-4 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Lead a large offshore team for a multi-year and multi-phase global SAP R/3 implementation project for a reputed UK client (QinetiQ –Ministry of Defence, UK). • Managed the delivery team for rolling out global SAP R/3 HR solutions to 40 plus countries for a large US/Canadian Telecom Company (Nortel Networks). • Lead the implementation team for providing SAP FI solutions & SAP upgrade project for in-house global Accenture project. • Managed the .Net project, using Microsoft BizTalk as middleware for integrating SAP with multiple global systems like Seibel and PeopleSoft.

Integration Lead

Johnson & Johnson

2000-11 - 2005-6 · 4 yrs 8 mos

New Jersey, USA

• As SAP Integration Lead provided leadership in design, development and integration of SAP R/3 with various global systems using webMethods middleware for J&J B2B initiative of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). • Led the Application Integration Team in the rollout of the SAP System (Project Beacon) with other J&J systems - Release 1 (US) and Release 2 (Europe) implementations.