Raghava Venkateshiah

Product Manager

Seattle, WA, USA18 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 18 years of experience in SAP implementations.
Led product development saving $4M in costs.
Expert in product management and SAP solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with extensive SAP implementation expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAzure Consumption RevenueSap Implementation

Other Skills

ABAPAI/ML TechniquesAutomationBoard Advisory ServicesBoard level experienceBusiness AnalysisBusiness ProcessBusiness Process Re-engineeringBusiness RequirementsCertified SAP ConsultantConsultingData AnalysisData MigrationECCERP

About

• Proficient in software product management, product vision, product roadmap and Go to Market strategies. • Progressive experience in managing strategic development projects requiring interactions with technical and cross-functional business teams • Product Manager for Azure Consumption Revenue, supporting seller and partner compensation • Certified SAP S/4 Hana Sales, SAP SD Consultant with more than 18 years of professional work experience. • Led multiple SAP Implementations, Roll-outs, upgrades & Support projects with leading consulting firms. • Subject Matter Expert for Order-to-Cash, Pricing, Contract Management, e-invoicing, Billing, Accessibility and Promotions. • Hands on experience in implementing solutions and proof of concepts in other SAP products such as S/4 HANA, SAP BRIM, IS-Retail, OER, MM and WM. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for leading and collaborating with diverse teams.

Experience

Seattle tech forum

Advisory Board Member

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Remote

Seattle Tech Forum is a mission-driven initiative working to strengthen the Seattle tech community by helping professionals connect meaningfully, grow together, and discover new opportunities through purposeful events and shared experiences. As a board member, I help shape the vision and direction of this growing community. Our work focuses on fostering connection, discovery, and growth for both tech and tech-adjacent professionals across the region, while supporting the development of programs, partnerships, and an inclusive community experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

Product owner for Azure Consumption Revenue reporting that supports Azure subscription business
Ideated and proposed improvements to prevent consumption frauds for cloud services

Product ManagementAzure Consumption Revenue

Senior Product Manager

Jun 2020 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

Championed OKR based semester planning and influenced the strategic roadmap for commerce
Identified, ideated the automation opportunities for a $1B revenue generating business with product proposal and mitigated associated risks
Led the product development to avert the invoice disputes and late payments which resulted in savings of $4M cost of capital
Led the product backlog, prioritization aspects for “SAP on Azure” and GTM strategies to help customers moving their SAP workloads to Microsoft Azure quickly
Represented service line level summary details to the leadership team in MBR/QBR meetings
Managed and delivered time-critical tax projects from planning to deployment for many countries
Conducted design review sessions with cross functional, engineering teams, architects, and business process owners
Ideated and led the development of a working model for OEM deal recommendation using AI/ML techniques

OKRAutomationProduct DevelopmentSAP on AzureTax ProjectsAI/ML Techniques+2

Accenture

3 roles

Application Development Manager

Nov 2019 – Jun 2020 · 7 mos

Associate Manager

Nov 2015 – Nov 2019 · 4 yrs

 Successfully managed multiple SAP projects for new process implementation, data migration, testing and enhancements
 Worked with global teams (onsite offshore model) to ensure delivery is on track with the agreed scope and schedule
 Facilitated requirement gathering sessions and design review meetings, with customers and delivery teams
 Proficient in end to end SAP solution architecture for highly complex business process on board for Dynamic Store Bundling.
 Provided SAP solution for business process re-engineering to prevent the revenue leakage for OEM promotions that resulted in $30M savings to the client
 Conducted design review sessions with other functional, engineering teams, architects and business process owners
 Configured business processes in SAP for promotions, Sales Order Processing, Billing, Pricing, Interfaces (EDI), Sales BoM, Contract management and other business processes
 Managed SAP OER projects to deliver the business requirements for event management
 Resolved roadblocks for returns process with an innovative scalable solution that averted the system performance degradation to a substantial extent

SAP ImplementationData MigrationTestingBusiness Process Re-engineering

SAP Functional Lead

Jan 2011 – Oct 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos

 Owned the Order to Cash (Services) process workflow in SAP IS- Retail module
 Delivered “Exclusive Brand” project at Best Buy as a release lead
 Presented key project metrics and weekly delivery status summaries to business stakeholders
 Delivered SAP functional designs in other SAP modules – SAP WM and MM for a DC expansion requirement and configured Third Party scenario with complex pricing requirements
 Configured Retail module specific processes to cater to the business needs
 Led the data migration for all objects under order to cash stream - open sales orders, credit master, customer master and article master

Order to CashSAP IS-RetailData MigrationSAP Implementation

Ibm

SAP Functional Consultant

Jul 2010 – Jan 2011 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Guided SAP functional team for Order to Cash related configurations in SAP and ABAP developments on pricing, smart forms, interfaces and reports

Wipro

Associate Consultant

Jul 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Designed Tax Efficient Supply Chain Solution in SAP for a complex intercompany business process which enabled the client to be more competitive and cost effective at their customer’s place
2. Configured standard SAP processes for the client requirements. This included enterprise structure, sales order processing, credit management, Rebate management, intercompany and intra-company order processing, standard IDOCs (for orders, delivery, and invoice), and other business processes
3. Worked as a SAP OTC consultant for the design and testing of ByDesign product at SAP Labs
4. Tested scenarios like Bill of exchange, finance and bank reports along with sales process and reports