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Sachien Paliwal

Mumbai

Summary

Dynamic leader with extensive experience in strategic planning and delivery management at Mirae Asset Sharekhan Education. Successfully led migration to a new LMS, resulting in improved student engagement and operational efficiency. Skilled in stakeholder management and driving business excellence, consistently fostering high-performing teams to surpass objectives.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head – Content Management System / Head – Student Support and IT

Mirae Asset Sharekhan Education
12.2018 - Current
  • Handling 3 teams, Premium Student Support, Retail Student Support and IT comprising of 30 plus team members.
  • Overseeing daily operations, managing escalations, upscaling as per business needs.
  • Creating and implementing strategies to improve Registration and Attendance.
  • Restructuring Retail and Premium courses as per evolving market needs.
  • Collaborating with Sales head and CEO to build the retail funnel for premium solutions.
  • Did migration from a Learning Management System (Mindscroll – SAAS based) to OTT platform (Contus Vplayed – on premise perpetual license).
  • Played a lead role in setting up MoneyFLIX platform and processes involved.
  • Interfacing with Sharekhan IT for various clearances as MoneyFLIX implementation was a non-banking/broking platform and this being the first cloud implementation.
  • Also led the opportunity during crisis when we had to move from MyOTA platform, evaluated few products and shortlisted Alphalearn LMS, Sharekhan Education(AlphaLearn LMS in background) went live within 3 weeks and still running smoothly with all Premium/Retail courses and student management being managed since almost 5 years now.

Head - Customer Success

ZingHR
11.2016 - 03.2018
  • Monitoring customer satisfaction and ensuring steps to enhance, in case of any gap.
  • Managing a team of approximately 30 resources, across presales/implementation and support departments.
  • Conducting daily/periodic stand-up meetings to resolve any bottlenecks and provide feedback to product team for bugs/issues to be handled on priority.
  • Handling steering committee meetings with key customers.
  • Ramping up implementation/product resources to speed up certain feature requests or any other justified business requirement, which also adds product value.
  • Focused discussions with senior management around the current HR trends/other product offerings and what will add value to product roadmap.
  • Contributing to business development through active participation in the lead to closure process.

Technical Manager West

C&S System Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
02.2011 - 01.2016
  • Company Overview: Mahindra Satyam Group Company, February 2011 merged in to Mahindra Satyam and then in to Tech Mahindra
  • Headed the pre and post sales activities including presentations, demos, POC’s, providing technical inputs on RFP / tenders, implementation and consulting activities.
  • Served as a part of the core team reporting to the CEO and accountable for taking strategic decisions, evaluating technology partners and discussing pipeline reports with the Sales team.
  • Conducted management review meetings to ensure effective delivery and operational excellence within technical team for West India.
  • Managed application managed services team for large BFSI enterprises.
  • Accountable for conducting process and configuration workshops.
  • Mahindra Satyam Group Company, February 2011 merged in to Mahindra Satyam and then in to Tech Mahindra

Lead – ROW/APAC Talent Management Business

Tech Mahindra
11.2006 - 01.2016
  • Participating in account mining and coordinating with sales team to bring new business.
  • Leading the overall strategic and tactical direction for APAC/ROW region for talent management practice part of Human Capital Management division.
  • Evaluating and partnering with technology and product partners in the Human Capital / Talent Management space.
  • Supervising day-to-day operational matters related to consulting, building solutions, delivery, sales and business operations.
  • Developing focused teams on business objectives and tracking progress to ensure account deliveries meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
  • Understanding and coordinating client’s needs / enhancements, customization of product accordingly and consult with technical team to provide solutions as per the delivery schedules.
  • Analyzing business portfolio and designing performance dashboards and other business classification, selection and prioritization metrics.
  • Keeping the activities focused on the business change objectives by suggesting a framework for senior management to direct as well as manage the change process.
  • Holding review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule / budgets and ensuring timely completion and delivery of project to the client.
  • Engaging and coordinating business analysis sessions for understanding business processes and mapping them to required end state.
  • Conducting process and configuration workshops for human capital / talent management solution implementations.

Project Manager / Coordinator

M-Tech Systems
02.2003 - 06.2005
  • Oversaw gamut of tasks including managing end-to-end delivery of projects, integrating project plans, establishing procedures and systems for managing and tracking projects and monitoring progress of the projects.
  • Consolidating and analysing profitability, revenue, margins, billing rates and utilization and ensuring projects meet budgeted financial objectives including revenue and margin.

Sr. Programmer / System Administrator

Nexus Infomedia
07.2001 - 01.2003
  • Analyzed business requirements to identify effective solutions for customer needs.
  • Collaborated with team members to develop new features aligned with customer specifications.

Sr. Software Trainer

Zap Infotech
08.2000 - 06.2001

Education

Master’s in Business Administration - IT

Sikkim Manipal University
01.2009

Diploma in Computer Technology -

Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
01.2000

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Delivery Management
  • Client Engagement
  • Employee Engagement
  • Program Management
  • Resource Management
  • Business Process Automation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Business Excellence
  • People Management

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 06/01/77

Certification

  • SAP certified SuccessFactors Presales Associate
  • Brain Bench Certified Programmer / Analyst Aptitude
  • Sun certified Java 2 Programmer

Professional Programs

  • Executive Development Program in HR Management, XLRI, Jamshedpur, 2018
  • Executive Program in Management with Specialization in HR and Marketing, S.J.SOM, IIT Bombay, 2013

Demonstrated Competencies

  • Strategic Planning
  • Delivery Management
  • Client Engagement
  • Employee Engagement
  • Program Management
  • Resource Management
  • Business Process Automation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Business Excellence
  • People Management

Timeline

Head – Content Management System / Head – Student Support and IT

Mirae Asset Sharekhan Education
12.2018 - Current

Head - Customer Success

ZingHR
11.2016 - 03.2018

Technical Manager West

C&S System Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
02.2011 - 01.2016

Lead – ROW/APAC Talent Management Business

Tech Mahindra
11.2006 - 01.2016

Project Manager / Coordinator

M-Tech Systems
02.2003 - 06.2005

Sr. Programmer / System Administrator

Nexus Infomedia
07.2001 - 01.2003

Sr. Software Trainer

Zap Infotech
08.2000 - 06.2001

Master’s in Business Administration - IT

Sikkim Manipal University

Diploma in Computer Technology -

Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
Sachien Paliwal