Roshan John
Alpharetta,US
Summary
Senior Director with 18+ years of leadership in SAP Ariba Procurement & Cloud Technology Services , driving services enablement across Americas, EMEA, and APJ. Recognized for building high-performing global teams, transforming staffing strategies, and enabling sales growth through innovative delivery models.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director
SAP
04.2023 - Current
- Support SAP Ariba technology services sales across Midwest and West market unit.
- Participate in Global Staffing leadership meetings to understand engagement, staffing demand for specific roles, and make staffing decisions for critical engagements.
- Manage relationships with regional teams to ensure consistent execution of strategies across geographies.
- Design process to optimize the handling of One Delivery requests for Preferred Success customers, enhancing efficiency and reducing turnaround times.
Director
SAP
04.2020 - 12.2022
- Support SAP Ariba technology services sales across Midwest and Canada market unit.
- Led Americas technology services planning and staffing across consultants and architects, covering demand across local, nearshore, and offshore.
- Developed and expanded strategic professional relationships with internal stakeholders, partners, and customers.
Manager
SAP
04.2019 - 03.2020
- Led and developed hiring plans, coordinated recruitment activities, made hiring decisions, and oversaw employee onboarding.
- Defined measures for high-quality delivery and reviewed/approved scope validation and technology validation.
- Directed and governed staff augmentation operations with partners, negotiated bill rate cards with staffing agencies, made decisions on subcontractor candidate selection process, and approved identified profiles to meet capacity goals and accelerate Services Delivery.
Principal Consultant
SAP
04.2016 - 03.2019
- Architected, blueprinted, designed, and realized technical landscape and configuration for cloud-based solutions.
- Designed solutions to facilitate cloud integration and planned technical process implementation.
- Managed technical performance expectations and served as a technical advisor to customers throughout engagements.
- Played an active leadership role in escalated projects to drive cloud system adoption and optimization.
Consultant/Senior Consultant
SAP
08.2007 - 03.2015
- Traveled across North America, Asia Pacific and Europe as a Techno Functional consultant for implementation of SAP Ariba cloud solutions.
- Designed and implemented SAP Ariba solutions both On Premise and Cloud.
- Leveraged a strong blend of functional and technical expertise in Enterprise Spend Management (ESM) to address complex procurement challenges.
- Applied practical experience with the ESM suite to solve procurement challenges for customers across diverse industry verticals.
Associate Consultant
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
07.2005 - 08.2007
- Worked on multiple Enterprise Development of banking applications with J2EE Technologies like EJB, JSP Servlets, JDBC, IBM Web Sphere.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
College Of Engineering Kallooppara (Cochin University Of Science and Technology)
Skills
- Sales & Business Development
- Strategic Leadership
- Team Management
- Strategic Staffing & Workforce Planning
- Stakeholder & Relationship Management
- Technology Services & Cloud Architecture
Awards
Consistent NPS leadership score of 100 in unfiltered people surveys, Built and nurtured diverse teams, Leader of the Quarter Award - Q4 2024, Several exceptional service awards across consulting roles
Timeline
Senior Director
SAP
04.2023 - Current
Director
SAP
04.2020 - 12.2022
Manager
SAP
04.2019 - 03.2020
Principal Consultant
SAP
04.2016 - 03.2019
Consultant/Senior Consultant
SAP
08.2007 - 03.2015
Associate Consultant
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
07.2005 - 08.2007
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
College Of Engineering Kallooppara (Cochin University Of Science and Technology)
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