RANGAN RAJESH
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SUMMARY
Pricing Expert/ Leader, with Finance and Strategy background. Have led pricing operations for multi-billion dollar businesses in the tech and auto. Software, SAAS, pricing experience. As a Finance leader for a $1B+ software business, have managed P&Ls by optimizing developmental costs to margins. Effective leader of direct/matrix teams with experience presenting to senior executives
EXPERIENCE
EMC CORPORATION
Hopkinton, MA
6/2014-Present
Sr. Director Finance: Advanced Software Division, Labs, and Hardware Engg.
Finance Head: FP&A, P&L, Revenue, budget planning for a $1B+ Software division
Led annual revenue side plan development by working with a cross-functional team to assess market, technology, pricing, and GTM strategies, to develop a revenue and gross margin plan by product line and geo
Led annual OPEX and CAPEX plan to support the revenue plan. Worked with the Business Unit partners to radically reshape the division, by pivoting resources from mature products to software defined growth products
Led several initiatives to root cause revenue side issues (such as margin enhancement, quarterly post-mortems), to develop corrective actions
Managed deal review process for highly discounted deals resulting in optimizing revenue while maximizing margin $s, and protecting long term financials
9/2010-6/2014
Director/ Sr. Manager: EMC Corporate Pricing ($10B+ Software/ Hardware)
Led pricing strategy and price setting for $10b+ Hardware and Software products: Channel transfer pricing, Software Pricing (Cloud, Enterprise License Agreements, capacity based tiers, optional SW vs. Operating Environment etc.), Discount floors and Deal Escalation structure, international pricing, HW pricing and pricing erosion, Services Pricing and discounting structure, promotion planning and implementation, field communications, pricing metrics monitoring and reporting. Efforts resulted in continued market share gains and strong margin performance at EMC’s top BUs.
Led pricing related integration activities for new acquisitions. Guided the newly acquired firms in transitioning legacy pricing to EMC pricing structure
Built out an effective Pricing team by actively recruiting and retaining talent, establishing clear internal goals, tasks and responsibilities for the team
Provided proactive financial support for large deals
2/2010-9/2010
SIMON KUCHER & PARTNERS
Boston, MA
Senior Consultant, Pricing
Developed a Pricing strategy for commercial B2B division of a Fortune 300 firm resulting in defining a process to set prices, and offer discounts to retailers
Analyzed areas for improving after-sales profitability at a leading German automaker, resulting in segmenting market opportunities with targeted pricing actions
1995-2010
CHRYSLER CORPORATION
Auburn Hills, MI
2008-1/2010
Manager, Mergers and Acquisitions
Led marketing and distribution teams in alliance talks with Fiat. Identified cost and revenue side synergies ($1B) in International Distribution
2005-2008
Manager, Strategy, Marketing and Pricing: Selecting, pricing, bundling optional features (such as heated cooled seats, leather seats) on Chrysler vehicles
1995-2005
Several Engineering/ Manufacturing roles as individual contributor & manager
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, MI
Stephen M. Ross School of Business, MBA, May 2005. GMAT 750; top 1 percentile
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS
Fairbanks, AK
School of Engineering, MS, Mechanical Engineering, Dec 1994, 4.0GPA