Arun Sankarapillai

• Own the end-to-end experience for the Portfolio & Pricing Experience, connecting and integrating digital products across the Customer journey to provide an integrated solution;
• Mitigate duplication of software components, and accelerate speed to market, by leveraging reusable components across the Platform to enable the end-to-end Customer experience when they exist;
• Identify gaps where no solution exists today for the end- to end experience and determine how to address the gaps, and investment strategy, based on potential business value;
• Design, develop and manage a digital strategy, vision, roadmap and digital product portfolio for the digital product domain group;
• Understand the full business and technical scope of the digital product group;
• Design strategies across and adjacent to the digital product group to identifying opportunities and bridging gaps;
• Create strategies for the digital product area and influence investment decision in the digital product group and on the platform;
• Lead and manage IT Product Managers and IT Product Specialists to build high performing teams that design and implement new solutions in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders including but not limited to Business Partners, Customers, Engineering, Data, Analytics;
• Lead a team with remote, globally distributed members;
• Shape business priorities to accelerate digital transformation with senior and upper management stakeholders;
• Ensure platform and digital products accelerate data science and data as-an-asset strategies by producing and consuming data assets and surfacing data science insights through digital platforms and products;
• Maintain a digital product portfolio for the domain;
• Track the lifecycle of each digital product and its supporting technologies;
• Work directly with vendors to understand digital product capabilities, roadmap, and lifecycles;
• Ensure all investment requests have considered business value, usability, viability, and feasibility.

• Managed portfolio of more than $20mm (development and licenses) along with leading more than 130 developers globally.
• Led the end-to-end delivery of Salesforce.com projects which involve planning, assessment, design, developing, integrating, testing, and deploying Salesforce.com for Sales and Service Cloud.
• Partnered with business teams and IT personnel to align project goals with business strategy and define project milestones.
• Developed and implemented long-range plans and creates engineering or product-specific strategies to reach goals.
• Provided guidance, direction, and performance feedback to leads, staff engineers, and vendors.
• Defined performance metrics and reports on the engineering functions’ progress against division-specific goals.
• Built inter-team collaboration guidelines (buy and configure) to reduce dependency and accelerated development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
• Directed product development efforts using combination of industry-specific tools and team structure to drive cost efficiency of more than $1mm without compromising overall productivity.

• Managed Digital Marketing, Sales, and Service development teams of 90 onshore and offshore developers developing applications on AEM and Salesforce platforms delivering a portfolio of products worth $10mm.
• Played an instrumental role in defining and implementing the Digital Marketing transformation journey.
• Identified and incorporated the right skill sets and implementation partners in Adobe to deliver websites with reusable components setting up Adobe platform to rapidly deliver future websites with enhanced customer experience.
• Initiated and co-led effort to launch online/offline Account Planning and Sales Forecasting applications to Kenya paving way for global rollout to multiple countries from 2020 and beyond.

• Lead group of 20 software developers responsible for developing applications in Mobile and full-stack development.
• Collaborated with Product Management and Agile office to deliver portfolio of products worth $4mm.
• Driven performance and development of employees through continuous coaching and mentoring.

Leading team of Release Managers to deliver software products in both Waterfall and Agile framework for all major IT functions within Monsanto.

Collaborate with infrastructure, testing, and development team to deliver time-efficient deployments for Biotech IT organization.