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Pune, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

➢ Functional Consultant to the S2C, P2P and S2P clients for the implementation of GEP SMART suite of products including Sourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Management and Projects module implementations➢ Project management of the accounts and act as a liaison between the clients and various groups within GEP such as Technical Support, Sales, Engineering, and Product Management➢ Partnered with the Product team in feature design process to enhance GEP products and facilitate change enablement for major features with proactive Customer Trainings, Webinars, workshops etc.➢ Monitored & Reported “Operational Health Metrics” (Adoption, SLA reports, CSI) to internal and external stakeholders to help identify and mitigate risks➢ Drive/co-ordinate RCAs & high severity issues using JIRA and Salesforce applications in close collaboration with Product team, Engg. & Customer Support teams with day-to-day monitoring & updates on reported issues

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

 Procured of materials needed for technology innovation and operational efficiency improvement projects for the Maersk Line fleet of vessels Arranged logistics (sea, air and road) to connect the materials to the installation sites Identified process gaps and implemented changes to reduce the logistics costs by running e-auctions for air freight, consolidating deliveries etc.

Mumbai, Maharashtra

 Assist in setting up an offshore procurement centre for the third-party company TOTAL Procurement of MRO materials for TOTAL UK assets by identifying suppliers, running RFQs, raising Purchase orders and ensuring on time delivery of the materials

Mumbai Area, India

 Create an ‘As-Is’ process map by analysing the working (SOPs, KPIs and cross-team linkages) of Maersk Line’s different functions (Purchasing/Accounts Payable/Category Management/ Fleet Superintendent) Qualitative and Quantitative assessment to understand improvement areas and create a ‘To-Be’ process map Draft an action plan to improve on-time payment to suppliers, pre-empt business disruption and mitigate risk to vessel operations by improving cross team collaboration, team structure changes and Process enhancements

Sweden

 Creation of a Category strategy (Procurement consulting) by fashioning the optimal supply chain setup (by identifying new suppliers, conducting supplier workshops, RFQs) in Print on Demand (Wall Decoration category) by proposing an alternate supplier base, revised Sourcing strategy and delivery mechanism to meet the Global IKEA demand Manage a project to reduce the handling damage for the Appliances category Present recommendations to the IKEA CPO on improvement opportunities in the procurement function at IKEA

Hong Kong

 Create a Category strategy (Procurement consulting) for Cash coupons, vouchers and merchandise category Manage sourcing projects (identify suppliers, run RFQs, vendor negotiations, e-auctions and contract creation) in the areas of Marketing, HR, Legal and Trainings Hosted a workshop with Hang Seng Bank to share best practices and explore synergies in procurement with HSBC Assist the Accounts payable team in data migration (Invoices without PO) from a legacy system to Oracle Fusion  Present recommendations to the HSBC CPO on improvement opportunities in the procurement function at HSBC

Mumbai Area, India

 Source materials/services for Maersk Oil UK platforms by identifying suppliers, running RFQs followed by vendor negotiations and contract creation Improve automation coverage from <40% to >80% and identified opportunities for cost avoidance Expedite deliveries and follow up with suppliers to ensure on time maintenance activities  Supplier/warehouse visits to identify improvement areas in the supply chain process

Mumbai Area, India

 Manage projects for effort optimization of Maersk Oil purchasing (~90mn USD) processes managed out of UK and Denmark locations Manage Vendor rationalization, Tail spends consolidation projects and e-Catalogue enablement to improve operational efficiency, purchasing control and increase compliance in materials purchasing Create supplier performance monitoring dashboards, purchasing Process map and SAP training guide to ensure uniformity and smooth onboarding of new recruits and process compliance across the materials purchasing team Assist on the offshoring project of purchasing and Category management processes from UK and Denmark and set-up a new team to manage a part of the purchasing process out of Mumbai

Mumbai

 Spend Visibility: Manage a third-party service provider (GEP) by coordinating timely delivery, providing categorization enrichment feedback, and ensuring quality maintenance of Maersk invoice spend data. Manage Duns and Bradstreet (D&B) services to enrich Maersk’s invoice spend data with supplier parentage, ownership status etc. Procurement BI dashboards: Execute projects (procurement cockpits) to create procurement visibility and compliance monitoring dashboards on BI platforms to monitor team performance, track supplier behaviour etc. e-Contracts: Implement a global procurement contracts repository on the GEP platform by collating contracts from local entities based in different countries. Created contract visibility dashboards, published compliance reports and bonus claims reports to assist category managers with post contract management activities

Mumbai Area, India

 Migrate the Global Spend Visibility project from Ariba to the GEP SMART platform Create customized taxonomy (UNSPSC and non-UNSPSC based) to cater for BU specific invoiced spend categorization Create procurement strategy reports on Suppliers, Categories, Countries etc. to assist Category/Sourcing managers with project kick-off meetings, determine baseline spend numbers and assist with supplier negotiations

Mumbai Area, India

 Implement spend analytics solutions to provide companies with increased visibility of spend and propose cost saving strategies by creating reports and analyzing Purchase price variance, Vendor rationalization, Contract compliance analysis, Payment terms rationalization and demand aggregation Data validation, trend analysis, vendor normalization and manually classifying client's historical data as per UNSPSC taxonomy or client's customized taxonomy Training Zycus Artificial Intelligence based applications to automate repeated and consistent data categorization Using Equifax services for data enrichment with supplier parentage, ownership status etc.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Mechanical

Activities and Societies: Table tennis, Carrom

High School