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• Work closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap.• Work effectively within the Scrum Team to remove impediments and track them in Jira.• Guide the team through continuous improvement processes and best practices.• Facilitate a scrum master community of practices.• Ensure a conducive environment that fostered a self-organizing and self-managing team.• Empower the Scrum team with regular inspection and adapt opportunities.• Encourage the Dev team to keep the sprint backlog up to date.• Facilitate all Scrum Events including the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Product Backlog Refinement. Workshops with stakeholders.• Create Epics, Features & Stories for the team in Jira and assisted Product Owner• JIRA admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and reports using JQL.)• Plan and track sprints closely and help the team to focus on commitments & delivery. • Communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to the teams and management.• Organize & facilitate Team and organization Agile maturity.• Facilitate retrospectives using innovative game techniques and closure of action items on improvements.• Prepare various dashboards in Jira which reflect risks, dependencies, and impediments.• Help Product owner with effective management of Features, Epics, Stories, and prioritization.• Ensure INVEST criteria are met for all the user stories in the backlog.• Effectively supporting the Delivery Squad through changes in objectives and re-prioritization of requirements.• Identify (RAID) Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies and ensure a mitigation plan is in place to control them.

• Managed a high-performing project team who is responsible & accountable for deploying SAP Arriba supplier applications. • Prepared a detailed project plan for all the phases of the project. • Defined project scope that aligns with the requirements of the project in collaboration with project stakeholders • Monitored day-to-day project activities and resources as per the requirement.• Developed and implement strategies for delivering projects within timelines. • Managed and track project progress using the MS project plan • Build an effective project plan to monitor and control the activities of project execution. • Monitored project progress and implementing changes where necessary.• Developed all aspects of the project that includes planning, communication, resource, budget, change, risk, and issues. • Prepared the project reports to show the progress of the project to Internal and external stakeholders.• Conducted a project Retrospective meeting to discuss what went well during the project and how to improve in the future

• Procured material for stock & Bidding projects from reliable sources taking into consideration quality, price factor, delivery commitment, and end-user satisfaction. • Negotiated and secured the most competitive terms on long-term procurement agreements with preferred suppliers.• Conducted comprehensive research on products and suppliers to ensure that they meet and maintain all standards and quality.• Prepared the purchase order and got necessary approvals. • Maintained the updated database of approved suppliers and keep track of records of suppliers’ history.

• Accountable for process transition from USA (New Jersey) to India for the Managed Market Finance Department. • Co-ordinate with Contract Manager in negotiating Customer sales contracts • Worked with the Global team to ensure that the deliverables are completed within a set timeframe. • Monitored Customer Sales data and Invoices with our system (SAP) data to pay the accurate rebate amount • Examined disputed rebate sales claim data from customers. • Evaluated customer invoices to make sure they billed the current pricing. • Performed variance analysis on payments made on a yearly basis.