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Jeet Poptani

Jeet Poptani

Warwick,Warwickshire

Summary

A visionary leader with 20 years of experience delivering SAP S/4 HANA Applications, Cloud Platforms, Digital Strategies, and leading strategic business initiatives. A trusted C-suite partner with strong leadership and collaboration skills. Successfully Delivered 35+ end-to-end SAP S/4 HANA, Finance, O2C, P2P, HR & Cloud transformation programmes


Launched global IT solutions, Financial & Analytical products & services top companies such as SAP Germany AG, Coca-Cola Jaguar Land Rover, Diageo UK, Adevinta Spain, public sector and other fortune 500 companies.


Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Programme Manager

Coca-Cola CCEP
UK and Europe
05.2022 - 07.2023
  • UK, Europe
  • SAP S/4 HANA O2C, FI Transformation, SAP ECC Tactical, Cloud to Cloud Migration, Programme Overvie Coca-Cola is on a multiyear Digital Transformation journey
  • Successfully Go-Live of SAP solution for 4 European countries to improve O2C Business Processes, reporting, and customer engagement
  • Leading IT teams, Business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners to deliver on time and on-budget
  • Established a programme governance model and managed a team of 4 Senior PMs, Business Partners, Solution Delivery team, and other external SI team members
  • Build up a Change Management team from ground-up to support the Business in adopting the new solution
  • Compliance with Coca-Cola Central Programme governance and external Assurance by KPMG

Senior Program Manager

Ebay & Adevinata
Barcelona, Spain
02.2021 - 04.2022
  • Accomplished successful Go-live of full technology stack for e-commerce company - SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Concur and Advanced Analytics within TSA timelines across 11 ECG markets
  • Template rollout to France, Spain and Italy markets in line with future TOM with the features to divest & integrate new markets
  • Spearheaded Data Carve-out from the 10 eBay Finance systems to the Adevinta AWS Cloud environment to fulfil legal and Statutory requirements
  • Mobilised & onboarded 4 new vendors (SAP, Deloitte, Accenture, TMCON), Interviewed 40+ best talents, managed a budget of €28m
  • Performed IT product Evaluation, Vendor selection, SAP licence model, Programme set-up, commercial model structure, definition, and mapping of programme outcomes


S/4 HANA Program Manager

KOHLBERG Private Equity
Dublin, Dublin
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Advised CEO, CFO & VP operations to execute a unified digital vision and bring along middle management and Plant directors to achieve overall success
  • Delivered Greenfield fit-to-standard SAP S/4 HANA & Cloud Analytics programme integrating five distinct plants into one single business entity as Nelipak Healthcare in a fast-paced delivery environment
  • Steered strategic decisions making process and weekly update to CEO, CFO, Operational Directors and Senior leadership team
  • Led overall Programme planning to manage workload across various project workstreams effectively

SAP Program Manager

DIAGEO
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Successful Go-Live of SAP ECC to SAP HANA on-Cloud on-time with a budget of £8m/year
  • Successfully transformed Diageo's entire retail business encompassing 7 SAP and ancillary systems from on-premise ECC to HANA on Azure cloud, managed global teams, all working remotely due to COVID-19
  • C-Suite briefing to CTO and senior stakeholders with an accurate progress update and actionable intelligence to maximise the value of SAP & IT Investment
  • Managed talented pool of resources from Microsoft, SAP, TCS, Wipro, Infosys, 3rd Party PMs, change management and new business partners to deliver Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) & Platform as a Service (PaaS) on Azure cloud

SAP Project Manager

Oxford Publication
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Delivered 'Oxford Purchase' Solution to streamline the purchasing & logistics business processes. Deployed a new global SAP business suite and S/4 HANA FIORI solution for an excellent user experience
  • Provide on-site IT leadership to high-performing Agile team to deliver £2.8m Purchase to Pay transformation programme for UK, USA, and Canada region
  • Migrated SAP ECC, BW, APO, CRM & solution manager from on-premise instances (Dev, QA, and Production) for Africa and UK systems to the Azure cloud platform
  • Developed Cloud strategy and compared AWS/AZURE/SAP/Google cloud capabilities

SAP Project Manager & CIO Office

BRITISH GAS, PLC
01.2011
  • IS Utilities Implementation UNITED KINGDOM, Programme Delivery & Leadership
  • Recruited by CIO to replace the non-SAP Gas distribution billing system with SAP IS-Utilities for 1500 users with an estimated budget of $20m
  • Presented Steering committee reports for the project director & managing director of the company
  • Managed external SI delivery resources to implement SAP IS-Utilities business suite
  • Customer Engagement & Stakeholders Management
  • Collaborated and advised the start-up management team during the digital transformation of the company from multiple IT systems to a single ERP solution
  • Gained additional sponsorship of $1m to implement industry best practices and track programme KPIs throughout the project lifecycle
  • Worked with CIO to prepare RFP and evaluated proposals submitted by Accenture and et.al
  • Facilitated quality reviews, sign off, and UAT performed by business stakeholders
  • Managed project, issue & risk management plans

SAP Senior Project Manager

Jaguar Landrover
, England
05.2011 - 12.2017
  • SAP Implementation at the UK, European Plants- Rollouts and EHP Upgrade
  • Global Manufacturing solution for UK, Europe, China and Brazil manufacturing units and deployed SAP Core, Ariba, SuccessFactors and concur apps
  • Led offshore Build and Test factory to build RICEFW objects and perform ST & SIT, respectively
  • Partnered with Business leaders/executives to prepare programme commercials, high-level plans, and steering committee reporting dashboards to steer the Programme in the right direction

SAP Project & Delivery Manager

SAP Innovation Lab
01.2006 - 01.2010
  • Delivered bespoke Bolt-On SAP solutions across retail, fashion retail, FMCG, pharma, gas & energy, banking and financial services sectors
  • Managed SAP Product team of 35+ talented members and stakeholders spread across the USA, Germany, India, and China to deliver a cloud-based SAP BusinessByDesign (ByD) application

Team Lead

HSBC Bank, India
London
01.2004 - 01.2006
  • Design, develop and deploy workflows for foreign exchange derivatives products for investment banking LOB using JAVA, J2EE and open-source technologies

Education

Master of Business Administration - Finance

London Business School

Bachelor of Engineering & Technology - Electronics and Telecommunication & IT

RGPV University
2019

Skills

  • Digital Transformation Leadership, IT Strategy & Delivery
  • SAP S/4 HANA Implementation, Cloud Platform, Integration, Reporting & Analytics, AI Playbook
  • Mobilise and Mentor Business Leaders & IT Teams
  • SAP Business & Tech Strategy - ECC to S/4 HANA
  • Cloud Migration Strategy (SAP/Azure/AWS/Google)
  • Program Turnaround, Stabilisation and Recovery
  • Enable C-Suite optimise IT cost
  • Optimise IT Investments & Synergies
  • Commercial Negotiations
  • Multi-Vendor SOW Management

Accomplishments

  • Launched global IT solutions, Financial & Analytical products & services top companies such as SAP Germany AG, Coca-Cola Jaguar Land Rover, Diageo UK, Adevinta Spain, public sector and other fortune 500 companies
  • Authored S/4 HANA Roadmap, SAP Rollout playbook, Rise with SAP and tailored ASAP & S/4 HANA Activate agile delivery methodology
  • Liaise with the big four accounting companies to facilitate corporate governance and regulatory compliance
  • Inspiring innovation to extend Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence, IoT & bots for 4th generation S/4 HANA business applications
  • A broad reach within the SAP communities for faster turnaround.

Additional Information

  • British Passport Holder
  • Willing to relocate/travel (UK, Ireland, Europe)
  • UK Government Security Cleared (SC Cleared)

Timeline

Senior Programme Manager

Coca-Cola CCEP
05.2022 - 07.2023

Senior Program Manager

Ebay & Adevinata
02.2021 - 04.2022

S/4 HANA Program Manager

KOHLBERG Private Equity
01.2020 - 01.2021

SAP Program Manager

DIAGEO
01.2019 - 01.2020

SAP Project Manager

Oxford Publication
01.2018 - 01.2019

SAP Senior Project Manager

Jaguar Landrover
05.2011 - 12.2017

SAP Project Manager & CIO Office

BRITISH GAS, PLC
01.2011

SAP Project & Delivery Manager

SAP Innovation Lab
01.2006 - 01.2010

Team Lead

HSBC Bank, India
01.2004 - 01.2006

Master of Business Administration - Finance

London Business School

Bachelor of Engineering & Technology - Electronics and Telecommunication & IT

RGPV University

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