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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
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Spearheading business processes, strategy, inclusive of researching, establishing & developing new processes
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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
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Forecasting and formulating business budgets on a monthly / annual basis, and instituting internal checks to ensure that the expenses are within budgets
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Planning human resource requirements in consultation with heads of different functional & operational areas and conducting selection interviews
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Providing direction, motivation & training to the operational teams for ensuring optimum performance for all operational sales related departments
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Implementing High Performance Culture
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Expertise in mapping business requirements and coordinating in developing and implementing processes in line with the pre-set guidelines
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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
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Adeptness in providing guidance and leadership to staff in accordance with specified program objectives
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Exceptional communication, presentations & mentoring skills with distinguished abilities in leading teams for developing plans, procedures & service standards for business excellence
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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
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An out-of-the-box thinker with a flair for identifying & adopting emerging trends & addressing industry requirements to achieve organizational objectives and profitability norms
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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
Key Result Areas :
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Operational Efficiency (Cost saving, Lean Sigma etc.,)
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Setting up of Business Metrics & Goals
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Employee Performance measurement
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Recognition Programs
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Hiring for all Levels
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P&L responsibility
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Accounts Finalization
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Effective Goal Setting
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Team Building
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Leadership Building
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Time Management
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Executive coaching
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Conflict Management
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Customer Relations
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Management Development Programs
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Leadership Trainer
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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
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Operational Excellence (Process Improvements – Lean Sigma)
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People Management – Nil Attrition, Coaching, Hiring
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100% Stakeholder (Client) Satisfaction
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100% customer Satisfaction
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Business Metrics – 100% deliverable on target
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Employee Engagement > 90% deliverable
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Budget Management
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Transition Management e2e responsibility
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P&L Accountability
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Change Management
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Project Management
Leadership Awards:
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Holds the distinction of being rewarded from Hewlett Packard
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Gary M. Budzinski -SVP & General Manager, Technology Services - Nominated for Wall of Humanity recognition (Jan 2011)
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Nominated for Most Valuable Player in Global Centre (TS- GPSC – Shanghai & Chennai Nov 2010)
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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”)
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Richard Bailey - SVP PPS CSS - Leading the Way Award winner of “PPS CSS - Great Manager” (July 2013)
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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
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Received the Best scores averaged more than 93% on different category in 2013 & 2014 in Voice of Workforce survey
Key Achievement’s in HP:
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Handling Cost Optimization Projects in the Pricing, Freight, Repairs & Virtual Credit lead to huge saving of $ 1.4 million
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Operational excellence through automation & continuous improvement projects leads to savings in Capacity Utilization – Saved 12 HC with added 102 new process
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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.
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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
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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%
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Nil Attrition in the team for 3 years & average span of completion of employees service in the team is 6 Years
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Transition from FLEX Singapore & SMS China & from USA/UK Customer of around 234 process to Chennai
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All Transitions happened with 100% on time delivery
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100% on time & achieved “GREEN- 100%” in stakeholders metrics & Customer Metrics
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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
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Setting up Parts Valuation team who are stellar in costing of each parts every month
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Setting up whole team of from scratch to setup in Chennai from 2006 to 2009
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Setting up Automation team in Chennai to leverage expertise for APJ operations & also for whole PPS CSS GSSC teams
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Set-up of TCE Bench repair metrics & improvements in Metrics Improved CSAT (Customer satisfaction) & reduction of DSAT (Customer dissatisfaction)
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Establishment of Channel Partner Team in Chennai started with handling Australia credit disputes
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Voice of Workforce feedback results over all average 95% in 2013 & 2014
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Hiring E2E responsibility as Operations head – Hired more than 400 Head counts at different levels
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Voice of Workforce (Feedback from Direct Report) Scored 100% in Leadership in 2012 & 2014, 96% in 2013
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Chennai Lead for Employee Engagement & L&D & also act as Chennai Site lead for all Chennai site related issues & implementations
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Implemented ONE CSS culture in Chennai site