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Karnataka, India

India

Vendor Strategy and Management: • Develop and execute a comprehensive vendor management strategy aligned with the organization’s IT and business objectives. • Identify, evaluate, and select vendors to meet business needs, ensuring competitive pricing and service quality.• Contract Negotiation and Administration: • Lead negotiations for large-scale software, hardware, and consulting contracts. • Manage contract lifecycle from initiation through renewal, ensuring compliance with terms and conditions. • Ensure all contracts are aligned with legal, regulatory, and company policies.• Stakeholder Collaboration: • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including IT, finance, legal, and business units, to understand requirements and ensure vendor services meet organizational needs. • Act as the primary point of contact between vendors and the organization.• Performance Monitoring and Reporting: • Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for vendor performance. • Conduct regular vendor performance reviews and develop improvement plans when necessary. • Prepare and present regular reports to senior management on vendor performance, cost savings, and risk management.• Enterprise Transformation Projects: • Lead vendor management efforts for large enterprise transformation projects. • Ensure vendors deliver high-quality services and products that align with project timelines and budgets.• Risk Management: • Identify and mitigate risks associated with vendor relationships and contracts. • Develop and implement contingency plans to address potential vendor issues

Mysore, Karnataka, India

- Currently handling Global Procurement of IT and Non-IT goods and Services.- Selection of right suppliers and contractors, to promote good procurement practice as persustainability, ethical purchasing standards and costing.- Liaisonning with internal stakeholders to understand and determine the procurement needs, Scope ofWork, and delivery requirements by analyzing markets.- Performing risk assessment and closely monitoring information security risk and various risks in FMEAand Info Sec tracker.- Negotiation of commercials and contract with vendors on payment terms and various terms andconditions.- Closely work along with legal team to develop contract management plans, resolve issues, monitorperformance and negotiate contract variations through effective supplier relationships to enhancebusiness outcomes. Maintain and generate procurement reports and contract activity to meetcompliance requirements.- Monitor, evaluate and improve supplier performance, according to an appropriate Service LevelAgreement (SLA) and Scope of Work (SOW)- Closely involve in estimation, establishing cost parameters and budgets for upcoming financial years.- Control and monitor expenses against approved budgets in SAP Ariba.- Developing sourcing strategies with respect to cost saving strategies, budgeting and targetingstrategies.- timely renewal of contracts with vendors and/or service providers.- Tracking of Purchase orders, Savings, contracts.Impact:• Led sustainability initiative in Procurement and Supplier Management Process. Built sustainabilityguidelines in Procurement and Supplier Management Process. Built weightage process forsustainability. This resulted in achieving 20% more Ecovadis Sustainability score for procurement team.• 300 KW of Solar project at ArisGlobal (Jan 2021 – Nov 2021) Conducted thorough Technical andVendor evaluation against various parameters which resulted in selection of best in class vendor.

- Currently handling Global Procurement of IT and Non-IT goods and Services.- Selection of right suppliers and contractors, to promote good procurement practice as persustainability, ethical purchasing standards and costing.- Liaisonning with internal stakeholders to understand and determine the procurement needs, Scope ofWork, and delivery requirements by analyzing markets.- Performing risk assessment and closely monitoring information security risk and various risks in FMEAand Info Sec tracker.- Negotiation of commercials and contract with vendors on payment terms and various terms andconditions.- Closely work along with legal team to develop contract management plans, resolve issues, monitorperformance and negotiate contract variations through effective supplier relationships to enhancebusiness outcomes. Maintain and generate procurement reports and contract activity to meetcompliance requirements.- Monitor, evaluate and improve supplier performance, according to an appropriate Service LevelAgreement (SLA) and Scope of Work (SOW)- Closely involve in estimation, establishing cost parameters and budgets for upcoming financial years.- Control and monitor expenses against approved budgets in SAP Ariba.- Developing sourcing strategies with respect to cost saving strategies, budgeting and targetingstrategies.- timely renewal of contracts with vendors and/or service providers.- Tracking of Purchase orders, Savings, contracts.Impact:• Led sustainability initiative in Procurement and Supplier Management Process. Built sustainabilityguidelines in Procurement and Supplier Management Process. Built weightage process forsustainability. This resulted in achieving 20% more Ecovadis Sustainability score for procurement team.• 300 KW of Solar project at ArisGlobal (Jan 2021 – Nov 2021) Conducted thorough Technical andVendor evaluation against various parameters which resulted in selection of best in class vendor.

Mysuru, Karnataka, India

• Manage end to end process related to purchase, purchase requisition,• approvals.• Perform analysis on weekly and monthly basis on spend data, requisition,• purchase order, savings for process improvement.• Identify process defects and training opportunities to enhance end to end• procurement process.• Solve complex vendor/stakeholder issues and proactively improve service trends.• Work closely with finance teams in different locations for timely transaction• processing.• Work closely with legal team on agreements, Scope of work, NDA.• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment• across globe and local team.• Drive cost savings and competitive pricing.• Supplier evaluation & Supplier development.• Accruals and cash flow forecasting.• ISO 9001, ISO 27001, HIPAA

Mysore

• Procurement of Raw Materials, Engineering items and services.• Handling logistics for deliveries and receivables.• Dispatch of orders to various locations across the country and globe. • Logistics development.• Vendor management. • Negotiation and finalization of Commercials & agreement. • Participating in Customer Audits.• Working knowledge of Gofrugal software. • Weekly and monthly report on procurement, logistics and dispatch.

Mysore

• Procurement of Raw Materials and engineering items.• Negotiation and comparative statement.• Releasing Purchase order.• Processing of purchase requisition.• Payment follow ups.• Order follow ups.• Inventory management.• Vendor management & Vendor development.• Payment request for finance.• Monthly report on procurement.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, First Class

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Operations Management And Supervision