Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Thought Leadership
Philanthropy
Honors & Awards
Professional Accomplishments
References
Timeline
Manager
Abhijit Shukla

Abhijit Shukla

Sales & Partnerships Leader

Summary


Focused Sales Manager committed to motivating others and offering extensive knowledge penetrating new territories and promoting product lines. Highly effective mentor driven to assess individual and group performance to implement improvements and set goals. Determined individual with background in establishing and nurturing lucrative partnerships. Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Business Development, ISV Prime JAPAC

Oracle Corporation
8 2021 - Current
  • Managing Top 70+ ISV partners business in India inclusive of GSIs like Wipro, Infosys, TechM, TCS, HCL, Zensar, Cognizant, Siemens. Global business, local achievement through a team of 04 team members.
  • 360 degree engagements with the strategic partners focused on increasing burn on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – i.e. increasing cloud services innovation & consumption
  • Driving GTM for DG with these partners contributing about $200M in pipeline in 9+ Quarters
  • Ensuring stickiness through Joint engagements around Products, People & Revenue
  • Driving key initiatives like the Cloud Catalyst Program and related activities

Senior Vice President & Head of Global Enterprise Sales

ESDS Software Solution Private Limited
02.2020 - 07.2021
  • Enhanced company performance by implementing new strategies and streamlining operations.
  • Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
  • Maintained consistent growth in revenue, contribution margin, operating profit, and EBITDA.
  • Created Alliance GTM for MSIs and a pipeline of $1.0M with a conversion ratio of > 50%
  • Restructured the Sales, Alliances & Channel; teams and processes. Managed a team size of 210 people including sales, pre-sales, channels and alliances
  • Driven Strategic Engagements in SPOCHUB (SaaS, PaaS Marketplace) solutions, Edge (IoT/AI/ML), Security & Cloud

Global Sales Director, Enterprise Business Group

Huawei Technologies Private Limited
08.2016 - 02.2020
  • Negotiated complex deals to secure profitable contracts and increase company revenue.
  • Generated more than $400M worth of Greenfield business and acquired about $288M in ~ 3 years in India & WW
  • Implemented innovative marketing campaigns for increased brand awareness in target markets.
  • Managed budgets effectively, balancing cost-saving measures with necessary investments for growth opportunities.
  • Led a high-performing sales team for consistent achievement of sales targets and growth objectives.

Senior Business Manager

SAP India Private Limited
03.2012 - 08.2016
  • SAP Value Sales Leader for Enterprise (SRE&PRE) Solutions, On-premise and Cloud in India Subcontinent
  • Managed Global Strategic Accounts SAP, driven ~$20M in revenue & contributed ~48% revenue growth.
  • Crafted and Won extremely complex deals and in most challenging markets, through value selling
  • Transformed Bangladesh as a market for SAP, from negative to 130% growth in 3 quarters
  • Covered industries like Manufacturing, FMCG, Retail, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Chemical, Steel, Auto, Auto Parts, Agro, Dairy, Engineering & Construction

Senior Manager, IT Strategy Advisory Services

KPMG
02.2010 - 03.2012
  • Key Account management for Large Captive Accounts like Reliance
  • Driven $10M revenue with >40% profitability
  • Set up SCM Practice Business for IT Advisory Services
  • P&L Management for SAP, Oracle (e-biz and NetSuite) & Microsoft Dynamics and SQL.
  • Managed India Alliances for SAP & Oracle

Lead Consultant

Anantara Solutions
08.2008 - 02.2010
  • Consulting Sales leader
  • Set up 4PL consulting business for India
  • Successfully driven $5M revenue through Sales & delivery of license and implementation of Oracle OTM, Netsuite, SAP ECC, SAP SCM & Cloud

SCM & IT Head

Hindustan Sanitarywares/ Hindware
06.2006 - 08.2008
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by ensuring accurate order fulfillment and timely deliveries through diligent monitoring of orders and shipments.
  • Streamlined supply chain operations by implementing efficient inventory management systems.
  • Improved production planning processes to ensure timely availability of raw materials and components.
  • Designed & implemented Global Procurement Engine for White goods

Major/ SCM & Automation Head

Indian Army
10.1999 - 09.2005
  • One of the most decorated officers with an Innovative portfolio
  • Driven domestic and international supply chains for personnel, arms, ammunition, vehicles, oil & gas, food, clothing and equipment in most trying terrains & circumstances
  • Managed vendor relations, negotiating favorable contracts resulting in reduced costs and improved service levels.

Education

CBA & Leadership -

IIM-L

MBA Marketing - undefined

SIBM, Pune

Bachelors of Arts (Economics & Anthropology) - undefined

Lucknow University

Skills

Ability to orchestrate board room conversations

Accomplishments

  • Challenger Program for Sales Evangelists
  • As an Ex Armed Forces agile leader, created & led high performance teams, resulting in overachieving organization objectives through innovative customer engagement, ecosystem & team management
  • Generated USD 610+ MN revenue from product and services sales contributing to 45% of top line.
  • Chief architect of creating company's USD 1Bn agenda through captive enterprise accounts
  • Strong Sales acumen as a Key Account Manager & as a Sales Leader for Enterprise Accounts (PRE & SRE)
  • Strong experience in Value Engineering, Value Advisory & Management Consulting.
  • Selected as "Most Valuable Employee" and awarded an award every quarter for exceeding expectations for constantly 10 quarters at HUAWEI
  • Exceptional P&L management for 3 major MNCs
  • Over four-fold growth in portfolio in a span of 18 quarters at SAP
  • First SAP HEC installation in APJ & the first for Bangladesh
  • Expert in creating sustainable long-term customer & partner engagements
  • Created winning engagements leveraging enterprise cloud economics, FinOps, data center operations and cloud migrations
  • Set up and led complex Global Partnerships, contributed to more than 40% in top line revenue
  • Led Global Partner Business across LATAM, APJ&C, MEA, & SEA at HUAWEI
  • Led ISV Global Partner Business (World-wide) for JAPAC based partners including GSIs
  • Industry Coverage: Oil & Gas, Utilities, Chemical, Steel, Auto, Auto Parts, Agro, Dairy, Engineering & Construction, Retail, FMCG
  • Partner ecosystem development & management like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Resecurity, Sonic Wall, NetApp, Wipro, Infosys, TCS, TechM, Accenture, NTT Com, T-Systems, KPMG, PWC, Deloitte, E&Y, etc.

Affiliations

  • Member of Design Thinking Practitioners Association, UK
  • Member of the India/China Council for Supply Chain.
  • Member of APICS

Thought Leadership

Eminent speaker at many Business & Technology Events like Oracle@Partner, Oracle4Partner Webinars, SAP Ace Awards, CIO Panel by Gartner, ABP Infocom, SAP India Forum, Huawei Connect, Huawei GP WW Leadership Conclave, Industry leaders conclave by Gartner, etc.

Philanthropy

  • Global Goodwill Ambassador, India : Mission is to help the needy and spread happiness
  • Anshadaaan : Planting therapeutic trees in the neighborhood thereby creating an environment of fresh air

Honors & Awards

  • HQ Star Award - Huawei Telecommunications Co. (I) Private Limited Dec 2016
  • EBG H1 Star Award - Huawei Telecommunications Co. (I) Private Limited Aug 2017
  • EBG President's Award for Exemplary Contribution in SAP HANA Business Development Oct 2017
  • EBG President's Award - Huawei Telecommunications India Private Limited Feb 2018
  • President's Award For exemplary contribution to SAP Business Line Aug 2018
  • MIA Award from EBG President! - EBG, HUAWEI Telecommunications Dec 2018
  • EBG President's Award for Partner Scale Development - Huawei EBG President Dec 2018
  • EBG MIA Award 2018 - Huawei Technologies Ltd Dec 2019
  • EBG MIA Award - Huawei Technologies Ltd Feb 2019
  • Chairman's Commendation Jan 2020

Professional Accomplishments

  • Oracle Corporation: Driven GTM for DG with GSIs & ISV partners contributing about $200M in pipeline in 9+ Quarters. Share of business split between PS & Enterprise - 60/40. Ensuring stickiness through Joint engagements around Products, People & Revenue. Driving key initiatives like the Cloud Catalyst Program and related activities.
  • ESDS Software Solution Private Limited: Driven $55M Government direct & indirect business with high focus on digital transformation projects contributing to more than 50% of total corporate revenue. Established Cyber & Enterprise Security Business with 100% growth QoQ.
  • Huawei Technologies Private Limited: Generated more than $400M worth of Greenfield business and acquired about $288M in less than 3 years in India. Global Business contribution is $157M Worldwide through GSIs; contributing 15% to the Global Alliances Revenue. Share of business split - 50/50 between PS & Enterprise. Global Partner Development & Management, managing 6 large OEMs & GSIs. Most awarded India Employee in Huawei Global from 2016 to 2020.
  • SAP India Private Limited: Driven ~$20M in revenue & contributed ~48% revenue growth. Crafted and Won extremely complex deals and in most challenging markets, through value selling. Transformed Bangladesh as a market for SAP, from negative to 130% growth in 3 quarters.
  • KPMG, Senior Manager:Driven $10M revenue with >40% profitability. Set up SCM Practice Business for IT Advisory Services.
  • Anantara Solutions: Set up 4PL consulting business for India. Successfully driven $5M revenue through Sales & delivery of license and implementation of Oracle OTM, Netsuite, SAP ECC, SAP SCM & Cloud.
  • Indian Army: Driven domestic and international supply chains for personnel, arms, ammunition, vehicles, oil & gas, food, clothing and equipment in most trying terrains & circumstances. Major Project: Replenishment Management System with TCS

References

Available upon request.

Timeline

Senior Vice President & Head of Global Enterprise Sales

ESDS Software Solution Private Limited
02.2020 - 07.2021

Global Sales Director, Enterprise Business Group

Huawei Technologies Private Limited
08.2016 - 02.2020

Senior Business Manager

SAP India Private Limited
03.2012 - 08.2016

Senior Manager, IT Strategy Advisory Services

KPMG
02.2010 - 03.2012

Lead Consultant

Anantara Solutions
08.2008 - 02.2010

SCM & IT Head

Hindustan Sanitarywares/ Hindware
06.2006 - 08.2008

Major/ SCM & Automation Head

Indian Army
10.1999 - 09.2005

Director, Business Development, ISV Prime JAPAC

Oracle Corporation
8 2021 - Current

CBA & Leadership -

IIM-L

MBA Marketing - undefined

SIBM, Pune

Bachelors of Arts (Economics & Anthropology) - undefined

Lucknow University
Abhijit ShuklaSales & Partnerships Leader