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Sachin Mahendrakar

Sachin Mahendrakar

Summary

I am a focused, goal oriented senior IT professional with demonstrated success in delivering IT projects, managing support operations, achieving cost reductions and improving client satisfaction in large, diverse organizations. Effective Project Leader with overall 18 years of experience and approximately 14 years in SAP Project Management. Managed multiple projects e2e implementation solutions, support and maintenance in SAP. Managed project portfolio of over 5 million Euros. Working experience with SAP PP, MM, SD, FI modules. E2E project management experience in global implementations and rollouts of SAP ECC, S4/HANA, BW4HANA, IBP and more. Strong communication skills, stakeholder management and proven ability to manage cross- functional teams which are spread globally. SAFe Certified Agile Practitioner.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages

Work History

Associate Director

Alcon Laboratories India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
11.2021 - Current
  • Program Management of SAP Projects)
  • Manage and oversee multiple global level SAP initiatives for Alcon
  • Playing a key role in ECC to S4/HANA transition by managing multiple pre-projects
  • Managing implementation of IBP
  • Spearheading the transition from Waterfall to Agile for SAP Projects

Program Manager

Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Ltd
Bangalore
09.2013 - 11.2021
  • Managed and delivered a major project to build an software product forhandling Planning, budgeting and forecasting needs of Mercedes Benz Cars R&D division
  • Project planning and Tracking, Resource Management, ScopeManagement
  • Estimation Management, Risk Management
  • Project Communication Management were handled by me
  • Led the implementation of DevOps culture
  • Managed a global Analytics Project to implement SAP BW for HANA atFUSO Trucks Asia(FTA) for Finance and Controlling area
  • This project is a part of a major 'digital transformation’ within Daimler named “Advanced Automation and Analytics @FTA
  • Managed a team of 35 specialists
  • Briefly involved in the FORCE project at MFTBC from SAP Retail Financeside
  • Was able to challenge the estimates of the vendors to bring down significant amount of man‑days which resulted in huge cost savings
  • Served as service manager for CoFiCo service operations and changemanagement
  • CoFiCo is a SAP Finance Template which provides Financial consolidation service for dealers located in more than 30 countries
  • Briefly Involved as project manager for NEO and WBV implementationprojects for NACOS
  • NEO and WBV handle the subcontracting of tools and fixtures at vendor locations
  • Responsible for communication of clear, definitive project plan with WBSelements, networks, and activities planned for every major work‑stream like system connections and data migrations
  • Handled Service Operations & Delivery of multiple engagements with aworldwide user base of 3500+ in 25 countries
  • Managed AMS teams of vendors up to 80FTE
  • Estimation of high level cost, resources, schedule, risk management andremediation plan
  • Established SLAs, negotiated and managed in‑sourced and outsourced ITservices.

Service Delivery Manager

Volvo Information Technology Ltd
Bangalore
12.2011 - 09.2013
  • Managed SAP runtime operations and enhancements for Volvo Group Truck Operations, Volvo Bus India, Volvo Powertrain
  • Their plants were located globally @ India, Poland, Sweden and France
  • Successfully managed and controlled annual maintenance budgets up toINR 90 million for the portfolio
  • Successfully established the Maintenance Charter in accordance with SLA specifications
  • Ensured that the service levels objectives for each single businessapplication in the portfolio (measured and reported KPIs for SL Fulfillment calculation) are fulfilled
  • Performed strategic and tactical planning, organizing, following up andreporting progress for the maintenance assignments.

Senior IT Consultant/Project Manager

Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
09.2008 - 11.2011
  • Worked as Sr SAP PP/PM/QM consultant on SAP implementation
  • Responsible for resource planning for the support activities
  • Solve criticalissues in a time‑sensitive environment
  • Effectively lead and coordinate project teams of up to 20 membersImplement quality measures in service operation
  • Implement and manage support changes and interventions
  • KPI reporting on periodic basis
  • Interact with customers to understand the problems and working towardsa solution
  • As a Senior SAP PP consultant I have worked on topics like Kanban, Handling Unit Management, discrete and repetitive manufacturing scenarios.

SAP PP

Tata Technologies Ltd
Pune
07.2005 - 09.2008
  • Consultant on various support and implementation projects and SOX compliance projects.

Education

MBA - Information and Technology Management

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
06.2003 - 05.2005

Bachelor of Engineering - Davanagere Industrial and Production Engineering

Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology
06.1998 - 05.2002

Skills

Program/Project Managementundefined

Timeline

Associate Director

Alcon Laboratories India Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Program Manager

Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Ltd
09.2013 - 11.2021

Service Delivery Manager

Volvo Information Technology Ltd
12.2011 - 09.2013

Senior IT Consultant/Project Manager

Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt Ltd
09.2008 - 11.2011

SAP PP

Tata Technologies Ltd
07.2005 - 09.2008

MBA - Information and Technology Management

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
06.2003 - 05.2005

Bachelor of Engineering - Davanagere Industrial and Production Engineering

Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology
06.1998 - 05.2002

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