• Managing Sourcing & Procurement division for Essilor India. • Handling vendors across all commodities like HR, Facilities, Capex, Travel, Services, Marketing & Communications, Freight, IT & Telecom

• Spearheading Professional Services & Programs for PAN India GE India entities along with ASEAN & ANZ regions• Managing vendors across various categories like HR Operations, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Marketing Advertising and Communications, Finance, Legal, Customs, Logistics, Engineering & IT/ Consulting Services (Project/Fixed, Time & Material) including contract management for PAN India with a spend over USD 50M/ year• Sourcing Compliance for PAN India GE India entities• Achieved XX% savings on various services• Supporting Procure-To-Pay (P2P) cycle including internal demand management, specifications standardization, RFx creation, & management, coordination with other departments, negotiations• Managing & controlling procurement activities including floating of enquiries, techno-commercial evaluation of quotations, preparing the QCS (quotations comparative statement) & negotiations strategies, finalization and awarding of purchase orders /contracts• Developing long-term partnerships with suppliers; undertaking techno-commercial evaluation of vendor packages including benchmarking, negotiation, finalization of order, contracting strategy, release of purchase order/work order• Led company-wide global sourcing initiatives in spend management for indirect spend with a plan to reduce costs over the next few years• Established the Asia Pacific relationships with key suppliers; re-negotiated the contracts

• Led IT/IP Services, Engineering/IT outsourcing (including L1/L2/L3 contracts, High end application development including mobile application developments), High value hardware buys like HPC’s (Purchase and Lease model), Desktops, Laptops, Workstations, Critical network devices• Ensured end-to-end coordination for outsourcing; initiated RFP/RFQ through mail/sealed tender bidding/e-auctioning tools, vendor selection on techno-commercials basis, selection of onsite/offsite models (dedicated model), project/fixed/time & material models, in-house/ outsourcing models, PO release, ensuring services delivery as per SOW/SLA agreed, payment release• Engaged in decision making on Buy vs. Lease, Cloud based, Pay Per Use models, renewal vs new software procurement, negotiating maintenance cost percentage (AMC) for required period• Worked closely with User Teams, Finance, IT, Legal and Logistics Teams• Managed Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Adams, ABAQUS, MATLAB, ANSYS, GT Suite, Go-Global, HTRI, Converge etc.• Entrusted with responsibility for internal and external audits including ISO 27001:2005 for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), Sourcing processes including supplier evaluation and risk assessment• Bagged numerous awards from ITMS / Energy/ Transportation

• Led all the procurement requirements for IT division across India. • Ensured end-to-end coordination from RFP/RFQ, vendor selection, PO release and ensuring service delivery as per PO

• Managed procurement pertaining to technology i.e. hardware’s like desktop, laptops, servers, storages, EPABX, network equipment, software procurements and service contracts (which includes software and hardware AMC’s)• Contributed as a part of central procurement team, handled across country IT infrastructure related procurements• Dealt with a customer base of 44000 number

• Steered indirect procurement, right from the request for a procurement till the delivery & payment both for local as well as imported, on duty basis as well as non-duty basis (STPI)• Led project purchases like setting up of entire HP, Global e-Business Operations Pvt. Ltd (Procurement of Workstations, Carpet, Chairs, Networking equipments, Desktops, Laptops, Interior Works, Electrical, Air-conditioning, False ceiling, Projectors, Access Control, Fire Alarm, Civil Works) • Dealt with a customer base of 1000 numbers

Procurement of production materials and sundry items.Involved in vendor development & preparing ISO documents.