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Sachin Rao

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Source to Pay (S2P) , Procure to Pay (P2P) experience in Direct and Indirect Procurement and Accounts Payable for over 19+ years S2P Process & System Expert, S2P Solutions Lead, P2P Lead, Functional Consultant, Business Analyst & Project Manager Implementation, Deployment , Upgrade, Enhancements, Pre-Sales and Process Automation projects Design, Build, Support - SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contract Management, Guided Buying, Procurement, Catalogue, S4 HANA, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) & ECC Materials Management (MM) Conceptual Knowledge - SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance Functional Integration / Testing knowledge – SAP VIM (Open Text), MDG/MDM, FI/CO, HR, PP & SD Experience in Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Master Data Governance, Change Management, Training Strategy and Planning, Test Script HPALM Industry Experience – Mass Media, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Public Sector, FMCG, Banking & Finance, Hi-Tech, Chemicals & Petroleum, Oil & Gas & Automobile

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Systems Engineer –S2P

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
06.2024 - Current
  • Responsible for the Sourcing, Procurement and Finance systems and processes
  • Key stakeholder management with internal and external stakeholders including SI partners
  • S2P solutions experts for the S2P and FI landscape in SRM, Ariba, MDG, ECC, VIM (Opentext) and Concur (Expenses)
  • Solutions expert for the VIM upgrade from ICC to IC4S including process, systems integration testing and coordinating with the 3rd party SI
  • Subject matter and process expert for the MDG upgrade
  • Responsible for ensuring processes, systems including performance and stability are no impacted by any change, upgrades (including support packs), etc

Stream Lead

Merck KGaA
06.2022 - 03.2024
  • Project Leadership and Execution: Manage end-to-end P2P project implementation, including planning, risk management, stakeholder communication, and ensuring timely delivery.
  • Process Optimization: Analyze existing P2P workflows, implement industry best practices, and streamline operations through automation to improve efficiency.
  • Technology Deployment: Oversee the implementation and customization of ERP/procurement systems (e.g., SAP Ariba, Coupa) and ensure successful data migration, integration, and user acceptance testing.
  • Compliance and Governance: Ensure adherence to pharmaceutical regulations (e.g., FDA, EMA), maintain audit readiness, and enforce supplier due diligence.
  • Financial and Performance Oversight: Monitor procurement budgets, analyze spend data, ensure timely payments, and track KPIs to achieve cost-effectiveness and operational efficiency.
  • Change Management and Training: Drive user adoption of new tools and processes through effective training, addressing resistance, and fostering continuous improvement.

Principal Systems Engineer –S2P

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
11.2020 - 04.2023
  • Responsible for the Sourcing, Procurement and Finance systems and processes
  • Key stakeholder management with internal and external stakeholders including SI partners
  • S2P solutions experts for the S2P and FI landscape in SRM, Ariba, MDG, ECC, VIM (Opentext) and Concur (Expenses)
  • Solutions expert for the VIM upgrade from ICC to IC4S including process, systems integration testing and coordinating with the 3rd party SI
  • Subject matter and process expert for the MDG upgrade
  • Responsible for ensuring processes, systems including performance and stability are no impacted by any change, upgrades (including support packs), etc

Advisor S2P

Acelantic (ProcureSAP)
07.2020 - 11.2020
  • CoE for Ariba / S4 HANA
  • Design and Build PoC for Sourcing Events, Contract Management & Procurement workflow
  • Design and develop contents for the presentation decks to demonstrate Ariba Suits, S4 HANA including Ariba Snap capabilities and features
  • Lead the CoE activities by Designing Training Scope, contents, materials and training resources
  • Design and develop the contents for the ProcureSAP website including writing blogs

S2P Process & Systems Expert

Boehringer-Ingelheim
10.2018 - 02.2020
  • S2P Deployment - Ariba / ECC MM
  • Full S2P (Direct and Indirect) lifecycle deployment for 2 countries in challenging environment
  • Lead Fit Gap workshops and prepare, structure, validate and document the business requirements
  • Responsible to analyze, evaluate, present and drive decisions on gaps identified with the stakeholders in the global sourcing, local sourcing and project and program team
  • Responsible to manage Key and primary stakeholders, project team of 8 including system integrator
  • Define and lead data migration strategy, planning and reconciliation as per the standard process incl
  • Preparation of migration audit and catalogue during cutover
  • Responsible for Change Management to ensure the program and project meets the global objectives, increase employee adoption and usage of the systems and technology
  • Develop and manage program plans for deployment and change to drive adoption and minimize resistance
  • Responsible for outlining the training plan including the scope and training content
  • Responsible to manage the hyper-care and ensuring the interests of the Sponsors are met by the project and program
  • Managing the benefits by reporting the ramp up of the process and acceptability of the systems
  • Responsible for the transition plan and ensure a seamless transition to the Shared service function
  • Responsible for Integration testing and defect resolution between MDG and Ariba

Senior Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers
09.2018 - 10.2018
  • Responsible to build and manage S2P CoE (North West) with focus on Ariba, S4 HANA Logistics and AP Process Automation
  • Drive RFP responses within the team and potential client demos for all S2P engagements in the North West region

P2P Solutions Lead

Reckitt Benckiser
10.2017 - 02.2018
  • Successfully conducted the P2P process and design audit for procurement (ARIBA) and accounts payable (VIM Opentext)
  • Responsible to identify and fix the integration issues between Ariba, ECC and SAP VIM integration
  • Recommendation of best practices in procurement and guidelines for process automation in AP
  • Validation of the global AP template and business rules and propose new/change existing rules
  • Define and support the approach for vendor account reconciliation overdue for payment

Managing Consultant

Leo-Pharma (HCL Axon)
04.2017 - 06.2017
  • Responsible to lead S2P workshops with Key Stakeholders in the Business and to demonstrate Ariba Sourcing, Contract, Catalogue & Procurement capabilities
  • Instrumental in identifying and documenting gaps, propose solution approach and ensure minimal impact on the existing processes
  • Lead the indirect procurement process workshops and design the SRM/MM roll-out template covering 23 countries
  • Identify and document gaps with proposed solutions and new ways of working

P2P Senior Analyst

Manchester City Council
02.2016 - 03.2017
  • Manage the upgrade of the SRM 7.0 version with focus on the process, functional & technical improvements
  • Facilitate changes for procurement(SRM)& Account Payable(MM/FI) with the best practices
  • Manage key stakeholders for changes and communicate the solution design for approval
  • Responsible to provide technical inputs to address any gaps / changes
  • Responsible to identify the best practice in roles and authorization and recommend approach to adopt with minimal impact

P2P Global BA / S2P Solutions Lead

British American Tobacco
09.2012 - 06.2015
  • Ariba S2P Deployment
  • Solution Lead for the global template design for S2P Ariba deployment for Source to Procure, Procurement Content and Contract management
  • Responsible for design, build and test in Guided Buying, procurement, catalogues
  • Responsible for the functional design and support SAP Ariba for Functional specification
  • Design and document project templates, approval workflows processes and user management
  • Collaborate with the interdepartmental stakeholders from sourcing, procurement & finance to build business templates for RFx & Auctions (Forward)
  • SAP SRM Upgrade
  • Successfully upgraded SRM and BI systems & reduced the run cost from £2.1 to £1.6m
  • Responsible for Key Stakeholder management within Business, IT and 3rd party vendors
  • Responsible to identify and analyze business process impact from the SRM & BI upgrade
  • Identify the gaps and recommend process, data and system changes to the business stakeholders
  • Requirement gathering of functional gaps and responsible to ensure the existing functionalities have no/minimal impact after upgrade
  • Lead and drive key focus area and SRM process impacting the project with key stakeholders in business and IT
  • Responsible to define the training strategy, developing training plan for pre-UAT / end user training
  • Responsible to define and implement change management process and governance
  • Drive workshops to identify and redesign reporting standards through BI & Ariba
  • End user support after go-live
  • Involved in the planning and handover to the shared service function
  • SAP Data Remediation
  • Successfully remediated 31 End Markets within project time and cost
  • Define data remediation requirement template across the legacy systems
  • Responsible to Review, validate and consolidate data from business before upload into SRM
  • Responsible to manage a team and theirs workload including the deliverables
  • Facilitate cutover and go-live activities

R2P Solutions Lead

Barclays Bank Plc
04.2011 - 07.2012
  • Lead full lifecycle transformation project in indirect procurement in Banking and Finance
  • Responsible for the design of the procurement template for merger of Retail Banking and Investment Banking
  • Requirement gathering, gap analysis & process mapping for the request to pay
  • Solution the design of integrated, cross-cluster and cross-geographical P2P process
  • Engagement with key business stakeholders, assessing change impact and supporting transition
  • Responsible for all the RICEF’s and review of offshore deliverables
  • Developed Test scripts for the integration scenario in the AP system Readsoft

P2P Lead Consultant

SONY Information System Europe
07.2010 - 03.2011
  • Lead Indirect procurement workshops and involved in the design of global template in SAP SRM
  • Responsible for Gap analysis and impact assessment including change and training
  • Design of high quality solutions to meet the functional requirements aligned to business processes
  • Functional design of the integration between Ariba and ERP to export the legacy purchase orders
  • Involved in the integration testing of the Accounts payable system Bizapps
  • Post go-live support in the end markets (Germany, Belgium and Netherlands)

P2P Senior Lead / Project Manager

LG CNS India Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 06.2010
  • SAP Practice Building - Strategy Planning and Execution
  • Define strategic, operational, and organization plans required to drive growth
  • Gather market intelligence and identify prospective customers needs and effectively pitch appropriate service offerings
  • Build Assets for demonstrating Proof Of Concept and present proposals
  • Lead solution design in P2P for all client requirements and build CoE
  • Engage closely with pre-sales and responsible to coordinate the responses to RFP’s
  • Global Single Instance (GSI)
  • As a Project Manager was responsible to outline the primary responsibilities, data management strategy, data governance processes, conversion / interface / report designs for data management
  • Responsible for managing the team and work effort (people and schedule)
  • Responsible for the Training Strategy, planning, deliverables for training the Senior management and end users before the go-live

P2P – Project Lead

Satyam Computer Services
05.2008 - 07.2009
  • As CoE Lead for P2P responsible for all consulting assignments, build PoC’s for client demo’s, work closely with pre-sales on all P2P RFP’s
  • As SPOC was responsible for providing training to all the P2P project teams deployed globally
  • Worked in ARIBA Upstream and Downstream capabilities including the Ariba Network integration
  • Training Users and resolving technical and functional issues related to SRM/MM
  • Configure approval workflow processes, templates and procurement catalogues in Ariba and SRM

Advisory Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd
07.2005 - 04.2008
  • British Petroleum (Enhancement and Support) – P2P Team Lead
  • As Work Request Manager was responsible to manage and deliver all the enhancements in P2P
  • Work allocation and monitor the P2P team delivery
  • As a Transition lead was responsible to ensure smooth transfer of knowledge into the support environment with supporting documentation

SAP Functional Consultant

Accenture India
11.2002 - 07.2005
  • Johnson Controls Inc - (Project - Implementation & Roll Out)
  • Energy De France - SAP Functional Consultant (Project - Implementation)
  • Responsible for requirement gathering, fit-gap analysis and business blue print
  • Responsible for design, system setup & configuration as per the clients requirement
  • Functional testing, integration testing, participation in UAT, Cutover and go-live
  • Implementation of change requests

Software Engineer (Visual Basics & ASP)

DCF Technologies
11.2001 - 10.2002

Senior Engineer Purchase

Kinetic Engineering Limited
04.1998 - 08.2001

Education

Post Graduate Diploma - Marketing Management

Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management
01.2004

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

Bachelor of Engineering- Mechanical
01.1998

Timeline

Principal Systems Engineer –S2P

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
06.2024 - Current

Stream Lead

Merck KGaA
06.2022 - 03.2024

Principal Systems Engineer –S2P

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
11.2020 - 04.2023

Advisor S2P

Acelantic (ProcureSAP)
07.2020 - 11.2020

S2P Process & Systems Expert

Boehringer-Ingelheim
10.2018 - 02.2020

Senior Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers
09.2018 - 10.2018

P2P Solutions Lead

Reckitt Benckiser
10.2017 - 02.2018

Managing Consultant

Leo-Pharma (HCL Axon)
04.2017 - 06.2017

P2P Senior Analyst

Manchester City Council
02.2016 - 03.2017

P2P Global BA / S2P Solutions Lead

British American Tobacco
09.2012 - 06.2015

R2P Solutions Lead

Barclays Bank Plc
04.2011 - 07.2012

P2P Lead Consultant

SONY Information System Europe
07.2010 - 03.2011

P2P Senior Lead / Project Manager

LG CNS India Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 06.2010

P2P – Project Lead

Satyam Computer Services
05.2008 - 07.2009

Advisory Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd
07.2005 - 04.2008

SAP Functional Consultant

Accenture India
11.2002 - 07.2005

Software Engineer (Visual Basics & ASP)

DCF Technologies
11.2001 - 10.2002

Senior Engineer Purchase

Kinetic Engineering Limited
04.1998 - 08.2001

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

Bachelor of Engineering- Mechanical

Post Graduate Diploma - Marketing Management

Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management

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