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  • Liaising with top management for evolving strategic vision, driving change, infusing new ideas and taking product business performance and productivity to the next level

  • Spearheading business processes, strategy, inclusive of researching, establishing & developing new processes

  • Establishing corporate strategies for achievement of top-line & bottom-line targets; handling operations related to business planning and analysis for assessment of revenue potential in business opportunities

  • Forecasting and formulating business budgets on a monthly / annual basis, and instituting internal checks to ensure that the expenses are within budgets

  • Planning human resource requirements in consultation with heads of different functional & operational areas and conducting selection interviews

  • Providing direction, motivation & training to the operational teams for ensuring optimum performance for all operational sales related departments

  • Implementing High Performance Culture

  • Expertise in mapping business requirements and coordinating in developing and implementing processes in line with the pre-set guidelines

  • Deftness in setting out quality standards for various operational areas; implementing quality systems & procedures to facilitate a high-quality customer experience, while adhering to the SLA

  • Adeptness in providing guidance and leadership to staff in accordance with specified program objectives

  • Exceptional communication, presentations & mentoring skills with distinguished abilities in leading teams for developing plans, procedures & service standards for business excellence

  • Skilled in determining a business unit’s mission & strategic direction, ability to formulate and implement tactical initiatives as well as strategic advices to partners for achieving corporate strategic goals

  • An out-of-the-box thinker with a flair for identifying & adopting emerging trends & addressing industry requirements to achieve organizational objectives and profitability norms

  • A strategic planner with proficiency in streamlining business processes, defining continuous improvement processes, accelerating employees’ strengths and building powerful teams that can conquer any obstacles

Hello! I'm Hariharavenkataraman

 

Functional/Operations Head Seeking senior level assignments

Building business, leading operations, working in multi-cultural environment and delivering sustained profitability and growth in dynamic conditions offering over 22 years of commendable success in:

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Business Operations, Project Management, Transition Management, Employee Engagement, Change Management, Vendor Management, Busineness Development, Human Resource, General Administration, Customer Satisfaction, Contingency Planning, Budgetary & Cost Control,Financial Operations, Workforce Management, P&L Accountability

Hariharavenkataraman

Functional/Operations Head

 

Phone:

+91-9940409674

+91-9176639696

 

Email:
hariharavishal@gmail.com

 

Address:

2A, Andavar Nagar 4th street, Kodambakkam,

Chennai 600024, Tamilnadu, India.

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Date of Birth:

July 8th, 1974

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EDUCATION

Professional Certification

Institute of Cost Works & Accountants of India

1991 - 1994
ICWAI FINAL
1991 - 1994
B.Com

Loyola College

Madras University

Specialized Diploma in Computerised Accounting

First Computers

1993 - 1995
Diploma in Computerized Financial Accounting
EXPERIENCE
SKILLS

Microsoft ExCel - Advanced

Microsoft Word - Advanced

Power Point - Proficient

SAP / Financial Software

English - Advanced

Tamil - Native

EXPERTISE
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
SKILLS
EXPERTISE

Key Result Areas :

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  • Operational Efficiency (Cost saving, Lean Sigma etc.,)

  • Setting up of Business Metrics & Goals

  • Employee Performance measurement

  • Recognition Programs

  • Hiring for all Levels

  • P&L responsibility

  • Accounts Finalization

  • Effective Goal Setting

  • Team Building

  • Leadership Building

  • Time Management

  • Executive coaching

  • Conflict Management

  • Customer Relations

  • Management Development Programs

  • Leadership Trainer

  • Soft Skill Trainer – Excel/Word/Business Communication etc.,

Nov’15 – Till Date
Operations Head/Business Consultant/Trainer/Outsourcing
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Jul’06 – Oct’15 Hewlett Packard (HP), Chennai

 

FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONS HEAD (OPERATIONS MANAGER)

Key Result Areas:

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  • Cost Savings

  • Operational Excellence (Process Improvements – Lean Sigma)

  • People Management – Nil Attrition, Coaching, Hiring

  • 100% Stakeholder (Client) Satisfaction

  • 100% customer Satisfaction

  • Business Metrics – 100% deliverable on target

  • Employee Engagement > 90% deliverable

  • Budget Management

  • Transition Management e2e responsibility

  • P&L Accountability

  • Change Management

  • Project Management

 

Leadership Awards:

 

  • Holds the distinction of being rewarded from Hewlett Packard

  • Gary M. Budzinski -SVP & General Manager, Technology Services - Nominated for Wall of Humanity recognition (Jan 2011)

  • Nominated for Most Valuable Player in Global Centre (TS- GPSC – Shanghai & Chennai Nov 2010)

  • Neelam Dhawan – M.D, HP India - Selected as “Pride Builder India” (Apr’13) one of 184 selected for this pride position in India (Selection on Team feedback about Manager which owned this “Pride position”)

  • Richard Bailey - SVP PPS CSS - Leading the Way Award winner of “PPS CSS - Great Manager” (July 2013)

  • Received 100% score from the team in the category “My Manager” & “Leadership” in 2012 & 2014 & 96% in 2013 Voice of Workforce survey which is conducted in HP every year

  • Received the Best scores averaged more than 93% on different category in 2013 & 2014 in Voice of Workforce survey

 

Key Achievement’s in HP:

 

  • Handling Cost Optimization Projects in the Pricing, Freight, Repairs & Virtual Credit lead to huge saving of        $ 1.4 million

  • Operational excellence through automation & continuous improvement projects leads to savings in Capacity Utilization – Saved 12 HC with added 102 new process

  • Established Supplier Cost Savings Project in discussion with key customers, defined process, explained to customer & arrived at savings nos by defining methodology which resulted in $2M yearly savings.

  • Key to supplier cost savings project is defining the methodology, collecting savings data & developing database, discussing with customers(around 10 virtual meetings), agreeing to cost saving methodology, finally publishing cost savings every month

  • Skillfully carried out the review team utilization of all the team members monthly & keep them challenged at any time with making use of Maximum talent utilization – Team Utilization maintained 90%

  • Nil Attrition in the team for 3 years & average span of completion of employees service in the team is 6 Years

  • Transition from FLEX Singapore & SMS China & from USA/UK Customer of around 234 process to Chennai

  • All Transitions happened with 100% on time delivery

  • 100% on time & achieved “GREEN- 100%” in stakeholders metrics & Customer Metrics

  • Parts Valuations system fallout between SAP & iCost system reduced to 0.01% from 6.2% which is huge variance in inventory valuation after reduction it resulted in accurate inventory valuation

  • Setting up Parts Valuation team who are stellar in costing of each parts every month

  • Setting up whole team of from scratch to setup in Chennai from 2006 to 2009

  • Setting up Automation team in Chennai to leverage expertise for APJ operations & also for whole PPS CSS GSSC teams

  • Set-up of TCE Bench repair metrics & improvements in Metrics Improved CSAT (Customer satisfaction) & reduction of DSAT (Customer dissatisfaction)

  • Establishment of Channel Partner Team in Chennai started with handling Australia credit disputes

  • Voice of Workforce feedback results over all average 95% in 2013 & 2014

  • Hiring E2E responsibility as Operations head – Hired more than 400 Head counts at different levels

  • Voice of Workforce (Feedback from Direct Report) Scored 100% in Leadership in 2012 & 2014, 96% in 2013

  • Chennai Lead for Employee Engagement & L&D & also act as Chennai Site lead for all Chennai site related issues & implementations

  • Implemented ONE CSS culture in Chennai site

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