Devinda Perera Email & Phone Number

East Victoria Park, Wa, Au

Australia

Sri Lanka

1. Determining, implementing, and monitoring purchasing policies and plans.2. Negotiating contracts with suppliers to meet quality, cost, and delivery requirements.3. Liaising with other departments and customers concerning requirements, supply, delivery, installation, and implementation of the jobs.4. Conducting and directing staff-level activities to make employees knowledgeable on the sourcing activities and operations.5. Maintaining the vendor database.6. Reviewing and… Show more 1. Determining, implementing, and monitoring purchasing policies and plans.2. Negotiating contracts with suppliers to meet quality, cost, and delivery requirements.3. Liaising with other departments and customers concerning requirements, supply, delivery, installation, and implementation of the jobs.4. Conducting and directing staff-level activities to make employees knowledgeable on the sourcing activities and operations.5. Maintaining the vendor database.6. Reviewing and analysis of contracts leading towards process improvements and cost reduction.7. Conducting vendor visits to improve the strength of the supply chain.8. Conducting vendor performance reviews to analyse the vendors and streamline the sourcing process9. Approving payments through Ariba ERP system and generating reports for performance review and analysis.10. Preparing reports and presentations for the Executive Committee of the company. Show less

Sri Lanka

 Successfully handled the core supply chain activities of ‘Heritance Aarah’ Maldives, a 5-star super luxury hotel project of 160 no of rooms. Successful completion brought to the responsibilities vested upon me as the ‘Project Champion’ of supply chain department appointed from Sri Lanka, for hotel ‘Turyaa Chennai’, the only facility of the Company in India. Accomplished the desired results of the local 5-Star hotel project of ‘Heritance Negombo’, a leading facility in the region… Show more  Successfully handled the core supply chain activities of ‘Heritance Aarah’ Maldives, a 5-star super luxury hotel project of 160 no of rooms. Successful completion brought to the responsibilities vested upon me as the ‘Project Champion’ of supply chain department appointed from Sri Lanka, for hotel ‘Turyaa Chennai’, the only facility of the Company in India. Accomplished the desired results of the local 5-Star hotel project of ‘Heritance Negombo’, a leading facility in the region consisting of 155 rooms, as Supply Chain partner. Fulfill the duties as a key handler of supply chain activities of project ‘Ocean Villas’ of 4- star hotel ‘Adaaran Select Hudhuranfushi’ in Maldives, especially supplying exclusive custom-made items to the project within project scope. Successfully completed the duties as a supply chain partner in the project Aitken Spence Resorts (Pvt) Ltd., building 100 rooms new facility of hotel ‘Turyaa Kalutara’ within the scope of the project. Streamed line the documentation process by introducing Summary Sheet method to save time of the jobs on the approval process and which is currently successfully in use in the company. Innovated new Excel VBA program to automate the report generation process which was previously operated manually. The effective time saving achieved on average was 2.5 minutes per document. Annually handled CAPEX requirements of the local and overseas hotels of the hotel chain under different streams and coordinated all the activities from the start to end. Committee member of Aitken Spence Hotels Premier League cricket tournament committee. Show less

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management, 1St Class

Activities and Societies: Wrestling B.Sc. (Hons) in Transport & Logistics Management - Minor in Supply Chain Management with First Class

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General