Vikram Chakrabarty

Sales Executive

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom23 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led successful CLM implementations for large BFSI clients.
  • Transformed India into a fast-growing market for SaaS products.
  • Expert in pre-sales and solution architecture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with extensive experience in pre-sales and solution architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Pre-salesContract Lifecycle Management

Other Skills

.NETASP.NETAgile Project ManagementApttusBusiness AnalysisCRMClient engagementCloud ComputingConsultingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)DemosE-commerceERPEnterprise SoftwareHTML

About

Proven thought leader, with critical thinking and problem solving abilities. Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills, bringing out the best from my team and creating new leaders. 21+ Years in IT Industry 5+ Years at Apttus, a category defining, middle office SaaS platform provider. Currently leading global pre sales at Aavenir, a premier SaaS solution provider in the Source To Pay space with focus on Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), Accounts Payable Automation and RFP process Automation, built on ServiceNow platform. At Aavenir, I lead global pre-sales, running in depth engagements with prospects and their key business stake holders from procurement, sourcing, legal and finance to help them see and understand the value offered by our products and solutions. As an extended role, I also lead all service deliveries in the Contract Lifecycle Management space and I have successfully delivered three LIVE CLM customers for Aavenir in a short span of SIX MONTHS! Managing entire presales, sales engineering function at Apttus India, that includes customized product demonstrations, developing PoC's and demonstrating the essential value proposition to CIO's, CFO's, CTO's etc. Was instrumental in transforming India into a new and fast growing market for Apttus middle office SaaS products from scratch. Touched big dollar numbers within only two years of starting the presales, sales engineering function in India. Additionally, at Apttus, I also play the role of an Enterprise Solution Architect, transforming business expectations into well architected solutions, using sound architectural fundamentals and best practices. These solutions are then showcased as PoC's to prospects, with key messaging and value propositioning, thus helping win business and grow revenue for the company. Being a versatile techno-functional expert, I also support various key post sales engagements, such as post go-live architectural reviews, in order to suggest improvements and alternate design ideas that may help organisations to extract better value from their implementations. Prior to Apttus, extensive architectural experience in the technology services delivery industry, Entrepreneurial initiative and experience, by founding and starting a small tech startup, running it successfully for a couple of years. As the technology expert in this startup, I was instrumental in conceptualizing, architecting and developing a software product and taking it to the market, meeting with moderate success.

Experience

Conga

3 roles

Sr. Principal Sales Engineer | Strategic Accounts EMEA

Promoted

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos

Principal Sales Engineer

May 2022Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

DemosPre-sales

Principal Sales Engineer Strategic Accounts EMEA

May 2022Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

DemosPre-sales

Aavenir

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Product Expert & Transformation Advisor

Sep 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India

DemosContract Lifecycle Management

Hansen

Lead Solutions Architect

Jan 2020Sep 2020 · 8 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • Lead two successful Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) implementations very successfully for large BFSI organization in Germany.
  • Was responsible for client engagement, delivery planning and solution architecture.
  • Received generous appreciation from client for exceptional delivery & management of the implementation project.

Eightfold.ai

Solutions Engineering Manager

Dec 2019Jan 2020 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

Demos

Apttus

2 roles

Senior Solution Consultant Enterprise SaaS Solutions - CPQ, CLM & SRM

Jul 2014Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • At Apttus, I manage a team that focuses on pre-sales build and configuration for enterprise customers based in the European region. As a part of pre-sales build and configuration, we deliver highly customized Proof-Of-Concepts, based on the Apttus Product Suite. This forms an important part of the Sales life-cycle, demonstrating to the potential customer, what they are going in for. With extremely short cycle times to deliver a full blown proof of concept, sometimes as less as a week, the job is challenging yet, brings in the satisfaction, when you know, that you have acquired a new enterprise customer. Some of the POC's we delivered required involved challenging integration scenerios such as:
  • SAP Integration
  • Oracle EBS Integration
  • Additionally, managing and mentoring my team members, ensuring high levels of motivation among them, learning and development for all round growth and value add, training, freshers induction and facilitation, awareness of new product releases and patches and planning training to disseminate the knowledge of new releases, defining and reviewing Sales Engineering Processes, all form part of my job here at Apttus.

Architect, Expert & Technologist Middle Office Enterprise Applications, Quote To Cash, CLM, CPQ

Jul 2014Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • Engage with customers/prospects at senior leadership roles, CXO and xVP's, discover business processes around sales, contracts or supplier management, uncover the underlying and often hidden challenges and pain areas, recommend the best fit Apttus world class enterprise solutions, accompanied with a couple of custom product demonstrations.

Varologic technologies pvt. ltd.

Technical Architect

Mar 2014Jun 2014 · 3 mos · Ahmedabad

  • At Varologic Technologies, I am responsible for the eCommerce platform. I manage a technical team of software developers and my job includes providing architectural guidance and solutions, fixing critical bugs, planning and rolling out new enhancements and all this in the quickest possible turnaround time. Presently I am responsible for three eCommerce solutions.

Mansi technologies pvt. ltd.

Technical Architect

Jul 2013Feb 2014 · 7 mos · Ahmedabad

  • Identifying various deployment architectures that can meet the following goals:
  • serve a web site with least latency to users around the world
  • distributed deployment to enable clear separation of concerns reducing bottlenecking
  • seamless fail-over during disasters
  • Identifying and communications with data centers around the world, communicating needs and
  • understanding service delivery capabilities from an infrastructure stand point, negotiating deals and
  • pricing
  • Identifying and communicating with high end server and other IT appliance manufacturers and
  • vendors to determine the best fit servers and appliances for specific roles within the IT
  • architecture.

Giveindia

Project Leader (Technology)

Dec 2011Apr 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Responsible for smooth functioning of the company's Ecommerce portal which was used as a channel to receive funds by means of donations from individuals across the world.
  • Understanding evolving needs of business stake holders and identify solutions that would be later integrated into the portal as an enhancement.
  • Offering technical and design oversight to team members
  • Managing timelines and release of deliverables
  • Task assignment, monitoring and oversight

Va associates software engineers

Technical Architect

Nov 2010Sep 2011 · 10 mos · Mumbai

  • Lead role in conceptualising the architecture of a web based system that would be used for collaborative work by employees of an organisation separated by geography.
  • Lead role in converting the architecture into design of small modules.
  • Managing the development process ensuring quality of work

Commercial pilot

Commercial Pilot

Nov 2008Sep 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai

  • Trained myself as a Commercial Pilot out of deep passion for flying. Subsequently, acquired an instructors license from DGCA (Director General of Civil Aviation), India and worked with a few flying training establishments in India as a licensed flight instructor. During this period, I was engaged in imparting practical flight training to fresh trainee pilots.

Triumph information systems

Project Consultant and Corporate Trainer

Jun 2006Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai

  • Primarily occupied as a consulting corporate trainer. Delivered high quality IT training to various large corporates. In addition, worked as a consulting project leader for a client of Triumph Information Systems

Hexaware technologies

Systems Analyst

Jan 2006Jun 2006 · 5 mos

  • Responsible for supporting a system designed to facilitate aircraft servicing and maintenance for a reputed Canadian international airline.

Deloitte consulting

Senior Analyst

Jan 2005Dec 2005 · 11 mos

  • Support specialist for an e-commerce web portal of a US fortune 100 multinational.

Icici infotech

Sr. Software Engineer

Oct 2000Mar 2005 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Software developer, engaged in the design and development of various internal and external projects, that were mainly used over the intranet.

Floatglass india ltd.

Systems Executive

Apr 2000Sep 2000 · 5 mos · Taloja, Raigad District (Near Mumbai)

  • As systems executive, my primary responsibilities were maintenance of the existing manufacturing ERP. In addition, developed an integrated package for excise duty payable.

Concourse information technology

IT Trainer

Jan 2000Mar 2000 · 2 mos · Mumbai

  • IT Trainer for commercial training. Primary areas of technology were C, C++ and VC++

Boston software technologies

IT Trainer

Dec 1998Dec 1999 · 1 yr · Mumbai

  • IT Trainer for commercial training. Primary areas of technology were C, C++ and VC++.

Education

Madurai Kamaraj University

MCA — Computer Science

Jan 1999Jan 2002

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Science - BS — Physics

Jan 1996Jan 1998

University of Mumbai

Bsc — Physical Sciences

Jan 1995Jan 1998

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