Vivek Vadiraj

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 18 years in Customer Engagement and Project Management.
Expert in SAP Products and Digital Transformation.
Strong C-level relationship management skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with extensive experience in customer engagement and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProgram ManagementProject ManagementSap S/4hana

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBusiness AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceBusiness ProcessCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)ERPManagementPMPProduct Lifecycle ManagementQuality ManagementRequirements AnalysisRequirements GatheringSAPSAP CRMSAP ERP

About

18+ years of experience specializing in Customer Engagement delivery /Advisory and Product/Program /Project management Leading and contributing to strategic programs/projects/engagements/services managing virtual, global, cross functional teams Deep expertise with building SAP Products, business processes, solution landscape, architecture, components and integrations Guiding customers at every phase of their digital transformation to the Cloud Safeguarding customer engagements and renewals Managing trusted relationships at C-level and senior leadership Providing strategic recommendations to business decision makers to monitor optimize and reengineer business processes

Experience

Sap

9 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Product management for the Integrated Toolchain in SAP S/4HANA Tools Engineering
Integrating tools and infusing Generative AI to make Quality management efficient and effective

Product ManagementProduct Lifecycle Management

Program Manager for SaaS Governance and Provisioning

May 2022 – May 2025 · 3 yrs

Centrally orchestrate different governance elements, to harmonize the end to end provisioning and development and customer experience using services built on Business Technology Platform integrating with S/4HANA flagship products

Program ManagementSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Quality Management

Customer Reference Manager (APJ)

Jan 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Developing compelling success stories and driving the reference production process End to End to showcase business value

Project Management

Focus Advisor SAP S/4HANA

Nov 2018 – May 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Helping customers achieve Digital transformation with tailored service engagement plans focusing on Risk Mitigation, Solution adoption and Value realization

SAP S/4HANA

Technical Quality manager/Project manager

Jan 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Onsite Technical quality manager with top Global customers. Responsible for delivery and renewal of premium engagement SAP MaxAttention. Providing Mission critical support and playing the role of de-escalation architect

Senior Enterprise support Advisor

Jan 2013 – Oct 2021 · 8 yrs 9 mos

Trusted advisor ensuring Enterprise support delivery and safeguarding the maintenance revenue with top customers in the India Market unit. Architecting support service plans based on customer pain points. Maintained long lasting relationships with over 50 top India customers

Project Lead- Quality governance and production

Jan 2009 – Oct 2013 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Facilitating release decision and hosting Quality gates Leading multiple teams in Quality governance activities of Focussed Business solution programs
Ensuring process compliance with focus on Product standards in all phases of the Program innovation lifecycle(SDLC)

Validation Lead for Implementation/Upgrade projects

Feb 2007 – Oct 2013 · 6 yrs 8 mos

Overall Project management for production activities. Facilitating release decisions, hosting Quality gates with high power stakeholders/senior management

Validation Lead for Support packages

Sep 2006 – Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Assembly and validation of SAP products to ensure process and product standard compliance.
Efficiency Analysis using SAP Sigma tools and continuous innovation