Vijay Thammannagowda

Drove initiatives to enable business process improvements in international trade supply chain. Led projects to identify optimization potential in B2B Sales processes and develop technology driven solutions to digitize, automate and improve overall efficiency. Developed hypothesis through market research including delivery of digital product prototype of business ecosystem for IoT. Led business process redesign, fit-gap sessions as well as recommended strategic choices for ERP transformation.

Delivered high impact digital transformation projects through sub-project management including project planning, scheduling, leading teams, risk-, change- and conflict management, project communication and monitoring, commitment and stakeholder management. Led a cross-functional, multi-cultural team of size 10-15 with-in the project scope. Consulted customers with focus on business process optimization in the area of enterprise sales. Awarded Customer Excellence in year 2016 for customer centricity.

Accomplished critical work packages for the successful implementation of more than 10 large-scale ERP transformation programs, including successful collaboration with cross-functional, diverse international team. Directed advanced data migration team within corporate IT. Led the industrialization effort to build best practices for SAP Data Migration and shared knowledge and capabilities within the organization. Awarded Performance Excellence in year 2012 for service orientation and customer satisfaction.

Configured and built SAP system solutions as per specifications. Participated in the requirements gathering process, guided discussions by representing what standard functionality already exists. Developed software applications to support ongoing enterprise business activities. Provided ERP consulting in the area of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Physical Inventory, Quality Management, and Inventory reporting. Awarded Performance Excellence in year 2008 for achieving outstanding results.

Design, develop software solutions to meet internal business needs. Consult, support internal business users on usage of ERP solutions. Implement design using appropriate technology, ensuring high quality through test-driven-development, peer reviews, manual and automated unit tests. Create functional specifications, including obtaining sign-off from the other team members

Leadership, Team Management, Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Strategic Management, Principles of Economics, Marketing Management, Organization Behavior, Sales, Value Selling, Supply Chain Management, Business Model, Business Plan, Innovation Management, Leading Change, Data Science

Information Technology, Data Analytics, Management in IT Projects, Computer Programming