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Kunal Jauhari

Product Manager
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Managing SAP Pinnacle Award winning, top-selling product generating $55M+

Passionate, value-driven product manager with experience leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, launch and manage world-class SAP SaaS Innovations. Blend technology skills with extensive Lean & Agile/Scrum experience, a marketing orientation and analytical abilities to evolve product strategy. Prioritize and manage multiple projects within specifications and budget restrictions. Own the product lifecycle from initial concept to delivery.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work History

SAP Product Manager

Ernst & Young
Bangalore, KA
10.2019 - Current

Led teams of 120+ engineering, product, design, and marketing professionals in all phases of custom product delivery (from requirements gathering through build, test phases, QA, launch and support) for clients who planned for SAP ECC to S/4HANA transformation

Introduced, groundbreaking product suite an SAP S/4HANA transformation product suite, helping our clients, become Intelligent Enterprise.

• Managed concept-to-launch of a SAP certified transformation product, optimizing the move to SAP S/4HANA, built on SAP BTP. Top-selling product has generated $55M+ since its 2019 launch.
• Completed development and global market launch of cutting-edge SaaS SAP certified product, built on SAP BTP, for improving the master data quality, using the ML algorithms and provide data insights using the structured visual representations.
• Led the development of an EY-owned process mining, SAP certified product built on SAP BTP, which helps to identify the relevant processes issues, within an organization and helping clients with improved process transparency.
• Strong hands-on involvement in Industry Cloud development, architecture, API Management, and Integration Technologies. - SAP Technology Knowledge 2020 - Integration Black Belt
• Managed and executed the best suited commercialization models for all owned products.
• Heading the Innovation Zone where personally, leveraged the design thinking, agile methodology and the latest tech and platforms, including cloud, SAP S/4HANA, IoT, Artificial Intelligence to build next-generation solutions. Pipeline of 10+ ideas for product lines to fit in their roadmaps.
• Synthesized and drove product strategy with security teams to build and manage an actionable product roadmap. Ensure the product hitting the market are well-versed with security and no-loop holes are found.
• Kept track of all direct and indirect costs incurred during the product development life-cycle and forecasting. Ensuring the development is done is no overshooting the budget provided.

SAP Product Owner

MSITEK
Bangalore, Karnataka
12.2018 - 10.2019

• Worked closely with the key business stakeholders, to define, engineer and maintain the product features, business processes and product requirements for implementing Digital Contract Data (DCD) product.
• Key input provider for innovation and end-to-end launch of DCD.
• Supported the definition of the product vision, the strategic road-map and lead the proof of concept definition
• Worked with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and operations users
• Responsible for designing the Architecture of the Digital Contract Data Cockpit(Fiori based App) using SAP Standards( Fiori Elements/CDS/BOPF).
• Helped in developing product (DCD AI) for extracting Contracts History from PDF contracts, using ML capabilities of SAP Leonardo, and setting it up in ERP.
• Integrated multiple sources like Callidus, CMS (Contract Management System), CRM Opportunity, CRM Sales Order/ Provider Contracts, etc. with ERP, and all insights were shown over DCD Cockpit.
• Designed & Developed a Fiori App, using SAP Blockchain API for EDocument Verification (Proof of History, MultiChain) .
• Qualtrics integration with DCD Cockpit to gather the Product Experience ( X + OData).
• SAP JAM integration with DCD Cockpit to receive the latest News, Glossary, Recent Updates & Disclaimer from SAP JAM to show in the Cockpit.
• Designed the Architecture for Contracts Comparison Tool (CoCo Fiori/UI5 App).
• CoCo Tool compares two different versions of same document and highlights any changes/updates/handwritten text, the functionality was achieved using the Leonardo M/L Foundation API for OCR.
Achievements
• Key member of Innovation topics at SAP for DCD Cockpit.
• Appreciation from Key Business Users of SiSe(Simplified Selling) Program of SAP IT.
• White paper on Quorum Blockchain.

Solution Architect (SAP Walldorf, SAP Labs)

Tata Consultancy Services
Walldorf, Bangalore, Germany
01.2011 - 12.2018
  • Solution Architect for S/4HANA Production Engineering & Operations Product Development. (Dec 2017 onward )
  • As a Scrum Master, took care of the daily Scrums, as per the Regular Agile Methodology (JIRA). (Dec 2017 onward ).
  • Led the team comprising of 40 associates in Walldorf, Munich, Bangalore and Budapest, for S/4HANA Manufacturing Product Development. (July 2015 till Aug 2016)
  • Manually designed an app, for TCS Genset Management an IoT (using SAP MMS) project, to measure and automate KPIs of a working Genset (e.g. Coolant Temp, Fuel Level, Vibrations etc.) (June 2014 - May 2015)
  • End to End Designing and Development of the SAP M&A Fiori Apps for Process Automation (M&A Toolkit for Process Setups, Inventory Management, Company Code Implementation etc.) (Oct 2013 till June2014).

Acheivments

  • Trained 300+ associates during my entire tenure in TCS with a TPI of 4.88 out of 5.0
  • Conducted interviews/ Ramp-Up the teams for many projects for SAP SE Mergers & Acquisition team of TCS.
  • Handled webinars on all major topics (IoT, ABAPCDS, Blockchain, etc).
  • Value Additions to SAP of over 200K Euros, in last 3 years of TCS.
  • Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) of 98.5 % for year 2015.
  • CSI of 100% for year 2016 - Walldorf, Germany.
  • CSI of 100% for year 2017 - SAP Labs, Bangalore, Germany.
  • Awarded with People Management Champion.
  • Smiles Award for taking 70+ interviews in one quarter.
  • On Spot Award for training associates in SAP Technologies.
  • Whitepaper on Internet of Things published in TCS Knowmax.

SAP CRM Techno-functional Consultant

Knack Systems & Services
Mumbai, Maharashtra
09.2009 - 12.2010

SAP CRM Technical Consultant

Infosys Technologies Limited
Bangalore, Karnataka
10.2007 - 09.2009

Education

MBA - Product Leadership

Institute of Product Leadership, Bangalore
Bangalore
04.2019 - Current

Metallurgical Engineering

National Institute of Technology (NIT),
Nagpur, MH
08.2003 - 08.2007

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Brij Bhushan Lal Public School, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
05.2001 - 05.2002

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Tulsidas Kilachand Intermediate College, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
05.1999 - 05.2000

Skills

Team Leadership

Product Lifecycle Management

Agile / Scrum Methodologies

Architecture

Go-to-Market Launch Plans

Product Roadmaps

UX / UI Design

Market & Competitor Research

Dev-Ops/ Test Driven Development

Timeline

SAP Product Manager

Ernst & Young
10.2019 - Current

MBA - Product Leadership

Institute of Product Leadership, Bangalore
04.2019 - Current

SAP Product Owner

MSITEK
12.2018 - 10.2019

Solution Architect (SAP Walldorf, SAP Labs)

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2011 - 12.2018

SAP CRM Techno-functional Consultant

Knack Systems & Services
09.2009 - 12.2010

SAP CRM Technical Consultant

Infosys Technologies Limited
10.2007 - 09.2009

Metallurgical Engineering

National Institute of Technology (NIT),
08.2003 - 08.2007

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Brij Bhushan Lal Public School, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
05.2001 - 05.2002

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Tulsidas Kilachand Intermediate College, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
05.1999 - 05.2000
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