Materials Management - Planning - Procurement - Revenue Forecasting - Indirect Sourcing - After Market Planning

Head global planning and procurement organization for Nextracker. Built processes, KPI’s and team to support the organization growth from $250M/year to $2.4B / year in revenues Chair and lead the weekly revenue (Sales and Operations Planning) meetings for Nextracker to support the business priorities of growth, innovation, quality, inventory optimization and profitability Accountable for >$1.3B in annual (direct and indirect) procurement expenditure Lead a multilevel organization of planning and procurement professionals, responsible for global product deliveries Liaison with product management and engineering teams to ramp production of NPI parts Responsible for supply chain systems at Nextracker. Executive Sponsor for implementation and deployment of Anaplan collaborative planning tool Developed and leading NEXTracker’s IRA and US manufacturing (reshoring) strategy

Global commodity manager for distributed generation rooftop balance of systems and BOS packagingDefined and developed sourcing strategy for Mechanical BOS (stamped, roll formed and casted) products. Managed relationships with 11 vendor’s totaling $40M of annual spend. Delivered 14% annual savings in 2015Responsible for global Module/ BOS packaging material procurement with annual spend of $35M. Played instrumental role in creating the global packaging organization and delivered more than $5M annual savings by value added engineering and negotiations

Responsible for defining, developing, and executing the solar cell (wafers) sourcing strategy for SunPower’s P-series solar panelsCore member of the strategic team responsible for conducting the due diligence and acquisition of Cogenra Solar ($80M) by SunPowerNegotiated supply contracts with two leading contract manufacturing vendors with ~$80M in annual transformation costs. Successfully delivered on cost reduction targets, with aggressive price negotiations, productivity and process yield improvements resulting in 17% reduction in MVA Prepared worldwide manufacturing operations strategic plan, annual plan. Recommended global manufacturing footprint strategy, resulting in expansion from 2 mfg. location in one country to 9 mfg. locations in 5 counties and 3 continents in course of 3 years

Scenario Planning and Revenue OptimizationDeveloped and implemented weekly & quarterly S&OP process. Finalized the corporate calendar and ensured requisite approvals from the SVPs of the stakeholder groupsChaired the cross-functional weekly & monthly S&OP meetingsDefined and standardized key S&OP KPI’s – WOS (Weeks of Supply), consumption reports, backlog and sales coverage reports, weekly S&OP and FP&A planning reconciliationLed the Kinaxis / Demantra implementation for S&OP processes

SFDC management - Contract reviews, Sales Stages and approval processSales Pipeline and Funnel Analysis: Backlog and Booking Analysis, Revenue ManagementQuarterly, Annual & Multi- year planningAnalyst Pack for Earnings Call

Budgeting and Variance AnalysisCompetitor Bench-marking for marketing spendMarketing inventory & pricing analysis of display ads

Pricing and competitive strategyCash flow and capital budgeting analysis to measure deal profitabilityPredictive/sensitivity models for business & financial analysis

Implemented Sales Force and Siebel CRM applications for GE and Bose

Worked in 60 member team implementing multi-billion dollar project for Mckesson