Chirag Murdeshwar Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Managing and leading time-bound engagements with Fortune 500 companies to strategize and execute strategic-sourcing projects to deliver bottomline savings to PnL of these companies. Managing team dynamics, ensuring efficiency from the team, managing client-ready deliverables from the team and providing regular updates through Governance to the client engagement leadership. - Executing and managing phased strategic-sourcing program to deliver savings; negotiating with top suppliers and managing delivery for rest of the projects from the team as per established timelines- Opportunity Assessment to identify opportunistic projects and levers for savings within the addressable spend with the client- Delivering key updates to the leadership and managing risks - Managing team dynamics, staffing and ensuring efficiency of the team - restaffing and working with HR to resolve any team issues- Representing the company to hire new talents; run recruiting through interviews, shortlisting and manage talent within the firm - Mentoring and guiding juniors to the firm for career growth- Participating in Leadership meetings within the firm to lead initiatives for company growth, improvements in process and managing company level issues

Mumbai Area, India

Mumbai Area, India

Handled Marketing and Business Development opportunity as a freelance within the Craft Beer industry in India. The Craft Beer industry in the country is nascent, however, it sees itself growing at an alarming rate and with more and more youth ready to experiment, looking out for better beers the industry stands a good chance of survival as well as an entry for new players in the segment. The role entailed looking out for business avenues, legal aspects for Microbreweries and likes in the supply chain.

Mumbai Area, India

➔ Sourcing: Lead strategic sourcing projects for indirect sourcing in the Middle East region for Ocean Freight, Travel services and Security services yielding an average of 8% savings ➔ Conducted negotiations with suppliers to yield savings. Managed supplier communication for the projects and expediting➔ Program management including client presentation and managing expectations, deliverables as a savings target ➔ Presales & Solutioning: Analysing prospective customer leads to understand scope and services preferred. Providing service capabilities walkthrough presentations. Driving prospective customer presentations for services capabilities ➔ Design solutions based on the requirement gathered from the initial prospect call, prepare sales pitch and solution documents ➔ Cleansing and analyzing of raw spend data files received from prospects to match company standard taxonomy. Identification of opportunities for sourcing through vendor analysis, SKU rationalization & similar categories rationalization➔ Manage and track prospect pipeline, follow up with sales to understand updates➔ Help work out internal arrangements for deputation of resources, interview candidates for open positions➔ Help and support expense management of the department, reporting of margins➔ Conduct trainings for new joinees. Review reports, white papers before publishing

Mumbai Area, India

"When it comes to driving sales growth, quality trumps quantity. And that requires companies to improve the quality of their presales engine" - HBR.org• Support to the Sales team by identification of leads, opportunity assessment, submitting bids and closing deals for outsourcing / consulting services• Services Solution catered to the prospective lead generated and identified with thorough assessment of current supply chain and tying needs with requirements• Opportunity assessment by identifying issues and applying best practices to propose a unique solution to enhance savings through the supply chain• Team Management plan and roll-out vision, resource estimation and binding of commercial structure with the solution

Mumbai Area, India

- Helped one of the largest frozen food producer of the world, in strategically re-aligning their spend activities and increasing cost-effectiveness of sourcing activities- Individually managed Market Intelligence initiatives coupled with Opportunity assessments for leading chemical industry client. - Leading consulting assignments in strategic sourcing and procurement transformation- Identify areas of scope of improvement and recommend best practices- Special focus on creating value by implementing best practices at client end- Categories led: Capital equipments, MRO, MRO supplies, packaging- Led vendor negotiations, RFP/RFQ creation, negotiations and procurement strategy

Mumbai Area, India

Responsibilities as a Business analyst at Universal Consulting involved analyzing client business environment, current opportunities and threats concluded based on the industry study and formulating strategies to overcome challenges and attain constant growth. I have provided consulting services to organizations spread across industries including a leading port authority, FMCG, Agrochemical input manufacturer and a leading industrial goods manufacturer and formulated strategies for market entry, growth and survival.

Market Sizing, Market Segmentation, Supplier Research, Primary and Secondary Research, Growth Strategies, Market Entry Strategies

Pune Area, India

1) Assisting in indentification of acquisition targets and advanced profiling of possible acquisition targets.2) Assisting in research of probable measures to be taken for cost reduction of production processes. Proposing applicable measures3) Analyzing the production process for bottlenecks and probable revenue leakages. Suggesting measures to reduce such instances.

Pune Area, India

1) Research & Study on possible bottlenecks in the production process at the site2) Assisting in selection of equipments for the new assembly line. Involved in procurement and installation of the equipments 3) Assisting in preparing 'Request for quotations' for various parts based on the plant capabilities

Pgdba, Management

Bachelor Of Engineering, Production

Post Diploma, Cad Cam

Diploma, Production Technology

High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates