Rahul Shukla

Business Strategy and Operations

Gurugram, Haryana, India

About

Leadership roles with proven results in the Cloud, Enterprise Software, Payments, Hardware and Telecommunications industries in Strategy, Business Operations and Transformation for all go-to-market functions. Entrepreneurship experience in launching two successful software startups as well as creating an intrapreneurial new organization to accelerate operational excellence and to drive Lean Six Sigma based continuous process improvements across all operational teams in a larger company. Led Strategy engagements at McKinsey & Co for the Firm's leading technology clients in North America and EMEA. Have also held Engineering management, Business development, Supply Chain and Procurement management responsibilities in the high tech industry.

Experience

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Director Field Sales Ops APJ
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Lead business strategy and operations across AWS' Sales, Technology and Partner organizations across our commercial and public sector teams in APJ (Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN, Japan, Korea and India). Driven by our common purpose "Dream Big. Be Bold. Show what's possible", the goal is enable our 3000+ builders deliver our long term aspiration that "the journey to the cloud will spark a cultural transformation enabled by technology" across APJ's businesses, countries and the communities where we work and live.

    • Head Strategy and Operations
      Oct 2019 - Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Led Sales Strategy, Operations, Cloud Sales Center and the Early Career program for the Commercial Sales team in AWS India & South Asia. The role encompassed driving most key internal mechanisms and operating decisions related to our 700+ field sales organization. A great opportunity to work with amazing leaders in helping accelerate the growth trajectory of one of the fastest growing Areas in AWS in this period.

  • Head of Enterprise Transformation at Worldpay
    Jan 2016 - 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Led the Enterprise Transformation Office responsible for strategic cross enterprise initiatives that improve business operations. Improved operating model and operational agility in go-to-market execution by addressing channel conflict improving alignment between Product, Engineering and Business Units. Vantiv (integrated into Worldpay & now FIS) is the world's leading payment processor differentiated by an integrated technology platform offering traditional and innovative payment processing and technology solutions to merchants and financial institutions of all sizes

  • VP Corporate Initiatives at BMC Software
    2007 - 2015 · 8 yrs

    Drove the implementation of strategic cross company initiatives, improved Business Operations and accelerated the execution and business impact across all Sales, Field Marketing, Go-to-Market, key IT projects, Services and Solution Development processes. Led worldwide supply chain organization.

  • Co-founder and CEO at Jwaala, Inc.
    2006 - 2007 · 1 yr

    Founded a software company to drive next generation online banking solutions for the Credit Union market deploying innovative security and banking applications

  • Founder & VP Business Development at SailPoint Technologies
    2005 - 2006 · 1 yr

    Developed initial company vision and product concept, recruited team, led fund-raising from venture capital and drove initial sales, marketing and business development functions