Yg Bharath Narasimhan Email & Phone Number

17+ years of captivating experience in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Procurement Technology, Analytics, Vendor Management, Market, Competitive Analysis and Business Process Improvement. As a highly skilled procurement and purchase management professional, I have a proven track record of success in sourcing material from multiple locations and offering top-performing solutions for purchase issues.I am proud to have exhibited excellence in utilizing qualitative and quantitative skills in negotiating price with vendors without compromising on quality, ensuring strict adherence to the defined ISO quality standards.As a team player, I have contributed to continual improvement in the Sourcing Execution team and developing the Regional Sourcing network while ensuring effective collaboration across Global Sourcing and Procurement.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 -❖ Spearhead strategic sourcing and procurement activities to achieve the overall target for Quality, Cost, and Delivery. ❖ Evangelize and lead strategic initiatives in supply chain management by envisioning and implementing sourcing strategies that support the overarching business strategies. ❖ Deliver global sourcing transactional activities such as vendor onboarding, contracts, invoicing, purchase orders, purchase requisitions, sourcing, guidance, and 2nd level support in Sourcing To Pay process. ❖ Streamline commercial activities for the projects by handling RFP’s, RFI's and RFQ’s related to procurement processes and lead the contract negotiation and approval process. ❖ Anticipate business users' needs and offered cross-functional training and guidance to various teams. ❖ Contribute to continual improvement in the Sourcing Execution Team and developed the Regional Sourcing network while ensuring effective collaboration across Global Sourcing. ❖ Steer competitive advantage and cost savings by leveraging sourcing projects, developing key suppliers through conducting sourcing events (RFQs), price benchmarking, negotiations, spend analysis, vendor quality rating, and highlighting cost movements. ❖ Coordinate RFQ process, including preparing RFQ package, reviewing supplier responses, and providing strategic suggestions for final decisions. ❖ Maintain expertise in vendor selection, negotiating, and other purchasing practices including data analysis, market intelligence and benchmarking to aid the business. ❖ Act as a liaison in resolving issues required to complete procurement transactions (e.g. item availability, billing discrepancies, vendor performance, expedited requests, quality check, and auditing). ❖ Successfully achieved additional savings by influencing design specifications and leading negotiations, resulting in timely decision- making.

Bangalore

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 -❖ Served as Procurement Agent and led the execution of all procurement operations including financial analyses, budgeting, strategic sourcing, vendor management, supplier relationship management, contract management, purchase order issuance, payment term improvement and leading-edge reporting. ❖ Conducted verification of purchase requisitions by meticulously comparing items requested to the master list, actively clarifying unclear items, and expediently obtaining purchased items by efficiently forwarding orders to suppliers. ❖ Participated in all stages of procurement activities starting from receipt of specifications, technical clarifications, floating of enquiries to suppliers, receipt of techno-commercial offer from supplier, technical evaluation, negotiation, commercial comparison & order placement. ❖ Demonstrated skilled negotiation prowess by shrewdly negotiating favorable terms and conditions with vendors to guarantee optimum price, fierce competitiveness, and high-quality products that meet and exceed executive expectations. ❖ Orchestrated and facilitated a streamlined purchasing process by deftly coordinating with vendors to obtain quotes for purchases, diligently evaluating and presenting results to executive leadership, and efficiently processing purchase orders for raw materials and finished goods. ❖ Efficiently monitored and expedited orders, flawlessly executing purchasing strategies with suppliers that included ongoing negotiations, scrupulous price management, and daily support of efficient supply chain operations. ❖ Solicited quotations, analyzed contract proposals, approved requisitions and provided requests for quotations to potential suppliers for quotations on desired requirements. ❖ Fostered vendor relationships through timely invoice verification, payments, conferences, pre-bid meetings and issues of performance.

Bangalore

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 -❖ Spearheaded the daily operations and managed a team of associates responsible for handling and processing all hardware returns. ❖ Led the Warranty Return Material Authorization team and managed the creation of warranty sales orders for replacement units in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system (SAP) and ensured timely delivery. ❖ Developed and executed procedures to ensure timely and accurate returns, while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. ❖ Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify process improvements, resulting in increased efficiency and cost savings. ❖ Fostered exceptional communication channels both internally with teams including Customer Service, Technical Support, Renewal Sales, Sales, and Manufacturing, as well as externally with end users and partners, to verify requests for RMA's. ❖ Managed RMA scenarios/escalations on accounts or programs requiring special handling such as Gold Plus and Customer Exception RMA’s due to previous quality issues. ❖ Monitored and effectively redistributed workload across the regional team based on project workload to ensure optimal productivity.

Bangalore

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 -❖ Handling a team consisting of 6 members working towards achieving a unified goal and ensuring the Transaction processing management is getting the proper visibility on the activity.❖ Responsibility of creating Orders and continually follow up till closure.❖ Displayed expertise in handling high end orders with configuration issues.❖ Conducting weekly customer calls in order to solve the issues on a timely manner and help the smooth flow of work without any issues.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business/Commerce, General

High School, Business/Commerce, General

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