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Subhomoy Mukherjee

Subhomoy Mukherjee

Watford,HRT

Summary

Highly driven, accomplished SAP (S/4 HANA) Programme Manager with 20+ years’ experience of proven functional expertise in applying strong technical skills to deliver and guide global SAP solutions for the retail, manufacturing, financial services and FMCG sectors through the full business lifecycle. Innovative, proactive and forward-thinking, with impeccable work ethics and integrity. Successfully drives the planning, blue-printing, architecture, deployment, management and support of SAP implementations and conversions. A strong leader, providing coaching and mentoring to build cohesive project on-shore and off-shore teams. Excellent communicator with proven ability of creating and maintaining transparent relationships all key stakeholders. Subhomoy has led two S/4 HANA programmes which were executed successfully. Excellent knowledge of S/4 HANA new suite (Simple finance, Central finance, MDG, Procurement Hub etc). He has also implemented Successfactors (LMS, Employee Central, Recruitment) and integrated with S/4 by HCI (Hana Cloud Integrator). Subhomoy has very strong knowledge on Simple Finance, Simple Logistics, SAP EWM, SAP MDG and Successfactor. Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior SAP Program/Program/Senior Change Manager

RS Group
10.2023 - 04.2024
  • Developed solutions to address complex issues and operational gaps.
  • Oversaw change management efforts to support implementation of critical initiatives driving technology, process and culture changes.
  • Partnered with business teams to understand needs and mitigate potential problems.
  • Led teams of analysts to evaluate, plan and execute projects.
  • Lead SI to complete the transformation program from SAP ECC to S/4 HANA Public cloud by using SAP ALM

Program/Senior Change Manager

Cambridge University Press
10.2022 - 08.2023
  • Manage the SAP Program at CUP by working with internal team and SI (Cognizant)
  • Build the business case for moving S/4 HANA in 2023
  • Implementing governance to run the program in a process oriented way
  • Applying RISE methodology to kick start leaning the business processes to get ready for moving to S/4
  • Moved from ECC to S/4 HANA with Simple Finance, Procurement, Project System, Sales & Distribution using RISE
  • Develop and implement change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage and minimize resistance
  • Analyze and assess the impact of change on employees, and develop plans to address any issues
  • Create and deliver communications that inform, engage, and motivate employees to embrace change
  • Develop and deliver training programs to support the successful adoption of change
  • Identify and manage anticipated resistance
  • Monitor and evaluate change progress and results
  • Facilitate change management workshops
  • Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
  • Develop and maintain change management tools, templates, and processes
  • Identify and manage risks associated with change initiatives
  • Develop and implement change management metrics to measure success
  • Implemented Successfactors (Employee Central, Recruitment and Onboarding).

Director

WIPRO UK
01.2021 - 09.2022
  • Leading a big team of 75+ members team of WIPRO to look after the SAP and non-SAP systems for RS
  • Subhomoy lead the SAP team to deliver a number of improvements for SAP system
  • This includes Improvement and new functionalities for SOLMAN
  • Existing process improvement in terms of system stabilisation and system performance
  • Help the team to achieve 100+ improvement suggestions identified jointly by client and WIPRO.

Director

WIPRO UK
01.2021 - 06.2022
  • Managing multimillion transformation program which consists of number of different systems and oracle to SAP (S/4 HANA) migration
  • Subhomoy is managing a team of 100+ people spreading across UK, US and India (multiple centres)
  • The project manager for non-SAP and SAP area reports to me
  • The program has completed design and build phase and entered into SIT
  • The program went LIVE at September 2022
  • The modules which went live were Simple Finance, Successfactors (LMS and Employee Central), Simple Logistics, EWM, SD, and PS
  • Mitie has implemented various functionalities of EWM.

Associate Director

KPMG UK
11.2019 - 08.2020
  • Participating in sales (yearly target circa £2.5M) by conducting client workshops to understand their requirement
  • Showing them the best practices in S/4 HANA
  • Helping team to prepare the proposal
  • Participating into the client orals to answer their queries and explaining the solution (advantages and disadvantages)
  • Structuring the delivery model
  • Helping to build the SAP COE by arranging new training for the new joiners, doing POC
  • Conducting SAP training in house
  • Act as enterprise architect for any SAP related proposals and offering to clients
  • Interviewing candidates to build the SAP team
  • Worked in CCEP Program (CocaCola European Partners) and helped in complete DISCOVERY phase
  • Initiated REALIZATION phase when this program was put on hold due to COVID.

SAP Program Manager

ARM Holding Plc
08.2019 - 10.2019
  • Managing the SAP transformation project from SAP ECC 6 to S/4 HANA (1809)
  • First phase includes implementation of simple finance which will GO-LIVE on March’2020
  • Second phase includes PTP, EWM & OTC
  • Managing a team of 30 + people across onshore/offshore
  • Preparing & managing program plan, RAID LOG, RICEFW register
  • Regular catch up with team and monitor deliverables so not to miss delivery deadline
  • Governance meeting with Program board to report back the progress of the program and get engage in future opportunities in ARM
  • Preparation of data migration strategy
  • Preparation of release management & transport strategy
  • Preparation of cutover data strategy.

SAP Program Manager (Change, Deploy & Release)

Associated British Ports
10.2017 - 07.2019
  • SAP Program Manager implementing SAP S/4 HANA (simple finance, EHS, Real Estate, Engineering, Procurement, CPM (commercial project management) and integrating with cloud based other systems C4C & SAP Successfactors by SAP PO
  • Implemented Employee Central and LMS (Learning & Management Systems) for Successfactors
  • Appointed to bring governance of the delivery model by introducing the best practices
  • Employee Central and LMS was implemented as part of first wave with integration to S/4 by HCI
  • Reporting is done by SAP BW with business object and HANA design studio
  • Implementing Fiori app for the mobile devices
  • Leading a team of around 100 consultants working in an onshore-offshore model with a budget of £15M
  • The planned phased deployments are planned
  • Define Release management strategy and established release procedure
  • Prepared release calendar for the entire landscape and ensured that release happen in a controlled environment
  • Prepared cutover strategy and played role of cutover manager during release.

SAP Program Manager

CSC UK
03.2014 - 10.2017
  • Worked with the Sales team and involved in number of proposals, participated in solution designing and delivery model determination, appeared in client orals and client workshops
  • He has helped to win over £2.5M worth of work in his 3.5 years tenure at CSC
  • Leveraging more offshoring, driving more SAP projects from offshore
  • Established effective template and governance structures so that offshoring becomes effective
  • Built delivery strategy for one of its biggest SAP transformation client
  • Built the SAP mobility solution capability and also execute a project to a client
  • Projects Delivered: CRODA – SAP C4C Implementation
  • AON – Digital Transformation
  • SAFRAN – SAP MRO Implementation
  • ARACADIS – SAP Digital Transformation
  • CRODA – SAP Digital Transformation
  • BAE SYSTEMS – Data Warehousing Solution, Sales and Project Initiation.

SAP Engagement Director

INFOSYS, UK
08.2012 - 01.2014
  • Maintained a very close relationship with client and earned a number of new projects (Circa £1.5 M)
  • Manage the AD (Application Development) and AM (Application Maintenance) teams for working on new projects
  • Support the SAP solution in 24X7 manner (following the Sun concept)
  • Communicated with the key client stakeholders regarding new opportunity, helping them drawing up their short and long term IT roadmap, run different programmes
  • Managed a multi-disciplinary team of over 350 people spanning across NA, Europe, ASIA and India
  • Raised awareness of the importance of a KPI for productivity, service Improvement, by innovative measures and knowledge of the team
  • Ran the SAP service using the ITIL framework of effective incident management, problem management, change management
  • Responsible for change & release management thus putting strict change & release governance in place
  • This helped business to have a clear future visibility of when new features/changes are moving in the landscape thus take adequate preparation by arranging training etc.

Senior SAP Delivery/Account Manager

CAPGEMINI UK PLC
01.2010 - 01.2012
  • Successfully drove the planning, blue-printing, architecture, deployment, management and support of SAP implementations of ECC6.0
  • Managed the Burberry account for Cap Gemini with a budget of £20m over 5 years and exceeded the 40% profit margin target, regular interaction with the key client stakeholders regarding new opportunity, helping them drawing up their short and long term IT roadmap, run different programmes
  • Developed a business plan demonstrating an ROI of 25% through establishing an offshore team whilst retaining the on-shore team expertise
  • Identified a need to invest in training on SAP developments to increase the talent available to the client, encourage career progression achieve low staff attrition rates
  • Selected by Cap Gemini to become part of the bidding team presenting SAP solutions to major clients including Woolworths, Lloyds Pharmacy and Kingfisher
  • Instrumental in setting up a SAP Competency Centre to ensure the right people were recruited into the business for deployment across multiple SAP projects.

Offshore Delivery Manager

CAPGemini India Private Limited
01.2006 - 01.2010
  • Maintained strict compliance with local labor laws and regulatory considerations for international facilities.
  • Designed progress reports to support organizational transparency across multi-national operations.
  • Oversaw 7 client support teams located in 4 countries.
  • Instated mechanisms to capture client feedback as part of overall performance tracking for international facilities.

Project Manager

PriceWaterHouse Coopers
01.2004 - 01.2006
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Managed projects from procurement to commission.
  • Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.

Technical Architect

Cognizant Technologies
01.2002 - 01.2004
  • Developed network and system architecture according to business needs.
  • Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
  • Improved business productivity for clients by 30% by re-engineering and designing infrastructures.
  • Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.

Education

MBA - Operation Research And Systems

University Of Calcutta
India
06.1995

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University Of Calcutta
Calcutta
05.1993

Skills

  • Global Digital Transformation
  • Project and Programme Management
  • Risk and Stakeholder Management
  • Requirement and Project Definition
  • Process Re-engineering
  • Strategic Planning
  • Data Migration
  • Programme/Project Full Life Cycle
  • Service Management ITIL
  • Financial Control of 10M Budgets
  • Onshore-offshore Delivery
  • Release Management
  • Team Building and Leadership
  • Cutover Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Business process reengineering
  • Training and coaching
  • Schedule Management
  • Cost Control
  • Project Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Business Development

Accomplishments

  • Delivered programmes and projects on time continuously for 6 years
  • Increased business flow to 50% in12 months from £4 million to £8 million
  • Developed and managed project plans to on time successful completion from RFP to delivery
  • Led a program for 6 years with 200+ team members in onsite-offshore model in multiple location
  • Developed a multi-year integrated program roadmap and release plan to iteratively deliver projects on a 2 months cycle
  • Simultaneously managed and executed 4-5 projects with several teams globally
  • Drove various process improvements that reduced the number of releases by 50%, lowered risk and maintained quality, functionality and time to market.
  • Designed a new release process around ITIL methodology that met the needs of the business, and created Key Performance Indicators and metrics to drive continuous service improvement.
  • Managed releases into multiple environments with traceability and visibility removing extensive manual work.
  • Successfully ran testing of SAP solutions in SIT, UAT
  • Implemented Lean improvements throughout Release Management
  • Coordinate and manage the Cutover.
  • Develop the Global Template and Local teams, to execute the Cutover.
  • Responsible for to updating the template for future cutovers during the global implementation of the new systems.
  • Responsible for coordinating with the project managers for testing, data migration, IT system cutover and legacy business process transition.
  • Coordinate with the project managers for testing, data migration, IT system cutover and legacy business process transition.
  • Previous experience of working with Global teams with various stakeholders and multiple delivery partners.
  • Developed, maintained, tracked the Data Migration project plan, cutover plan and resource assignments
  • Work with Project Managers from 2 key business units to understand project status, critical path activities, open risks / issues and mitigation / resolution plans
  • Objects in-scope: Materials, Customers, Vendors, Work Centers, BOMs, Routings, Production Orders, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Stock Balances, Projects WBS Elements, Networks, Material Components , Project Transactional Data Settlement Rules, Results Analysis, Planned Costs / Revenues, Actuals , Assets Asset Balances, AP Open Items, AR Open Items, G/L Open Items, and G/L Balances
  • Gathered requirements for the Manufacturing data migration Production Orders, Materials, Material BOM, and Routing
  • Assisted or oversaw junior resources with transformations of legacy data in Excel and Talend
  • Performed LSMW testing of Material BOMs and Routings programs
  • Prepared Data load files for Project Planned Costs and Planned Revenues, Actual Costs and Actual Revenues
  • Assisted junior resources with migration errors encountered in Conversion or in Load for various data objects.
  • Coordinated efforts between business units IT extractors and data owners/business users , data migration personnel, local SAP SME's and international load teams for data extracts, data transformation, load file validation, load file submission and loading, SAP system data validation and final sign-offs
  • Coordinated new business requirements and solution changes between business units and central Design team members
  • Ensured team members followed appropriate documentation practices such as data validation sign-offs

Technicalsummary

S/4HANA, SAP R/3, 4.0B, 4.6C, IS-Retail, 3.1H, ECC6.0, Simple Finance, Simple Logistics, SAP EWM, SuccessFactors, SAP PO, C4C, Fiori, SAP MDG, POS Operations, Retail, Manufacturing, Financial Services and FMCG Sectors, PRINCE2, ASAP, AGILE, Waterfall, ITIL, ACTIVATE

Personal Information

Title: SAP (S/4 HANA) Program Manager

Certification

· SAP Leonardo – An Introduction to Blockchain (Aug-2020)

· Data Migration to S/4 HANA (Jul-2020)

· Getting Started with SAP Model Company (Jun-2020)

· Building Tomorrow’s ERP with SAP S/4 HANA (May-2020)

Languages

English, Bengali, Hindi
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Bengali
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Intermediate
B1

Timeline

Senior SAP Program/Program/Senior Change Manager

RS Group
10.2023 - 04.2024

Program/Senior Change Manager

Cambridge University Press
10.2022 - 08.2023

Director

WIPRO UK
01.2021 - 09.2022

Director

WIPRO UK
01.2021 - 06.2022

Associate Director

KPMG UK
11.2019 - 08.2020

SAP Program Manager

ARM Holding Plc
08.2019 - 10.2019

SAP Program Manager (Change, Deploy & Release)

Associated British Ports
10.2017 - 07.2019

SAP Program Manager

CSC UK
03.2014 - 10.2017

SAP Engagement Director

INFOSYS, UK
08.2012 - 01.2014

Senior SAP Delivery/Account Manager

CAPGEMINI UK PLC
01.2010 - 01.2012

Offshore Delivery Manager

CAPGemini India Private Limited
01.2006 - 01.2010

Project Manager

PriceWaterHouse Coopers
01.2004 - 01.2006

Technical Architect

Cognizant Technologies
01.2002 - 01.2004

MBA - Operation Research And Systems

University Of Calcutta

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University Of Calcutta

· SAP Leonardo – An Introduction to Blockchain (Aug-2020)

· Data Migration to S/4 HANA (Jul-2020)

· Getting Started with SAP Model Company (Jun-2020)

· Building Tomorrow’s ERP with SAP S/4 HANA (May-2020)

Subhomoy Mukherjee