Himanshu Gupta

Experience

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  Steel Authority of India Limited

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1991

  Junior Manager
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  Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1995

  Executive Engineer

  Executive Engineer (production) at Gandhar oilfield, Gujarat

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  GSK

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  Assistant Manager

  As a Lateral hire from the campus, I was initially tasked to create a Disaster Recovery Plan for the IT department. Then, I was made part of the ERP team, for preparing for the implementation of BPCS at all locations world wide.

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  Atos

  Jun 1999 - Jan 2001

  Senior Consultant

  As part of the SAP Consulting Practice, I worked on SAP implementation at an Indian E&P company and for an SAP support assignment for a global semi-conductor company. I was also involved in supporting the sales process for the SAP practice.

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  Capgemini

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2005

  Manager-SAP Consulting

  Multiple SAP implementations at clients in US, Europe, China and Japan. My prime role was in implementation of Materials and Sales functions,, in addition to Warehouse and Quality Management. Besides implementation, I was part of Global Template Rollout, as well as setting up a large multi-national team for SAP Support for a European appliance manufacturer.Earlier, I had a significant contribution in growing the SAP Consulting team from 4 to 30, by owning the interview, training and client onboarding. Show less

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  PwC

  Jan 2005 - Mar 2007

  Practice Head

  As the Practice Head for SAP in Western Region, with the Technology Advisory group of PwC. My role was to grow the practice in terms of both headcount as well as Sales. I was also responsible for the delivery of SAP implementations and guide the team of SAP consultants during their projects. I was involved in multiple implementations of SAP in Textile, Chemicals and Healthcare.

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  Mastek

  Apr 2007 - Jun 2008

  Senior Manager, Design School

  Mastek desired to use Design Thinking as a methodology to enable Technology professionals to grow into Software Architects. The Design School was a platform to design a framework and then impart design thinking to experienced developers. In the long term, the Solution Architect would stay connected to the Design School for take new ideas and give the value of their experience. It also created a community of Solution Architects and

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  Capgemini

  Aug 2008 - Nov 2014

  Associate Director

  I worked in three different roles at Capgemini: Sales Support, Sales Transformation & Large Deal Management.Initially, I was leading a team to provide Sales Support from India to our Central European delivery unit. This included, making for proposals, support in creating a solution and delivery models and providing research to European Sales Team.Then, I worked on a Sales Transformation initiative for capacity/capability building for performing tasks from India, that were traditionally performed by Onsite Sales team. This included commercial modeling, pricing, and legal support.My last few years were as part of the Sales Team of a Large transformation deal involving people and work transfer, and then setting up the team for managing the operations. Once the transition was complete, I was responsible for Operations, Contract Management and Commercial Management.During this time, I had a significant involvement with our European operations. Show less

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  Atos

  Nov 2014 - Sept 2015

  Group Manager

  Led a multi-country team of more than ten Technical Managers to deliver multiple enhancements/developments to a Global Telecom partnership of European companies. Once the business case of enhancement was established, my team would Program Manage the complete process from detailed requirement definition, creating a solution, development and testing and then handover to production. This ensured that one single person would be the owner and the client had a clear visibility.

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  Fuzzy Logix

  Sept 2015 - May 2022

  Country Manager

  For last four years, I have been the General Manager for India and with an extended responsibility for Indo-Pac. I started as Strategic Account Manager, focused on accounts other than US. I handled clients in Europe as well as Indo-Pacific. Then, I took an additional responsibility of the global role of Chief of Staff, focusing on operations.

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  PwC

  Jun 2022 - now

  Director - SAP Practice