Alok Kasliwal

About Alok Kasliwal

I am a highly motivated Head – Solution Design and Senior Business Consultant – Retail/CPG/Oil & Energy Digital Transformation offering over 18 years of prolific experience in developing solutions that address the business objectives and add value by integrating all aspects of the organization’s capabilities. I lead solutions design, modernization & deployment strategy, and change management as well as build strong relationships and partnerships with all stakeholders to deliver the technology solutions.I bring to the table, my broad expertise with advanced technology thinking to help organizations accelerate their digital journeys by orchestrating capabilities across strategy, design and implementation. I have significant experience in Retail, CPG & Energy industry knowledge, and helping clients solve their toughest business-technology challenges at speed and scale. I facilitate business growth and productivity through the implementation, optimization, and application of business processes in ERP systems. Along with this, I am agile at rendering IT solutions, business process improvement, and Lean process/continuous improvement.I possess strong abilities across the entire IT value chain such as Release Planning, QA Planning (Waterfall and Agile approach), Roll-out Planning, Code Drop Planning, UAT Planning, etc. I am also an accredited Project leader with a strong functional foundation in the supply chain space delivering solutions in Retail Planning, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, and Supply Chain Management. Additionally, my career trajectory allows me to manage global vendor teams for complex global deployments. To know more about me or how I can contribute to your business, please feel free to drop me a line at a••••••••@gmail.com My Specialties: Solution Design | Business Analysis | Problem Solving | Vendor Management | Process Automation & Transformation | Pre-sales/RFPs | Decision Making Abilities | Team Motivation | Enforcing Best PracticesIndustry Specialization: Retail | Logistics | EnergyIT Specialization: Digital IT Delivery | Mobility | Business Solution & Requirements Management | IT product evaluation | Digital Transformation | Business Change Management | Data Migration and Cut-Over Planning | End to End delivery planning | Delivery methodologies : Agile & Waterfall |

Experience

1. Assistant Vice President Information Technology

   Puma Energy

   Sep 2015 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   At Puma Energy Global Services, I drive strategic governance, and operational excellence while developing and implementing efficiency, standardization, accuracy, and compliance with company policies and practices. I render assistance with the management of the project while concurrently delivering strong UAT leadership and participation to ensure the testing strategy, scenarios are tested, and support business process flows.Furthermore, I involve in planning, executing, monitoring, and reporting digital initiatives across the business. I play a significant role in designing business solutions for million-dollar digital transformation program. Job Description:• Head of Solution Design and Business Analysis • Responsible to standardize business process across countries to ensure maximum reusability• Identification of Business improvement opportunities and enabling automation for efficiency improvement • Selection and finalization of Application landscape to support business process and strategy• Define data driven KPI’s across Sales and Logistic function for management visibility• Define and execute UAT, Parallel Runs and Production Release plans with Business stakeholders to achieve Program Roll out milestonesKey Achievements:• Driving End-to-End Business solution design for a 60 Million USD multi-year Digital Business Transformation Program• Implementation of successful remote deployment plan• Saving of effort worth millions of dollars as a result of process optimizations and process automations in Transportation, Customer Service & Terminal operations functions• Standardization of business process across all countries and thus enable Puma energy to establish Shared service centers across 2 countries supporting global operations across 43 countries.

Education

• Government Engineering College, Ajmer

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

  1998 — 2002

• Institute of Management, Nirma University

  Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management, Marketing

  2002 — 2004