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Highly Motivated Procurement and Supply Chain Professional with over 6 years of successful experience in Strategic Sourcing and Production. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in Tata Steel. IIM Lucknow Graduate. Senior Manager Vendor DevelopmentResponsibility:To develop vendor through joint improvement initiative program with an objective to enhance vendors capability and improve their performance, safety through a focused intervention at shop floor level and vendor premises.Highlights:•Successfully developed 8 vendors in area of safety and performance like delivery, productivity, quality and serviceability by forming cross functional team•Developed Center of Excellence of vendor pool for highly critical jobs across various manufacturing location of Tata steelSr. Category Manager (Transportation)Responsibility:Manages Steel Finished Goods Transportation Contracts, Warehousing Contracts, Inbound Raw Material Transportation Contracts, 2nd leg transportation Contracts (Total Annual Buy Value: ~ Rs. 500 Crore)Highlights:•Developed Strong understanding about Indian Logistics Market & Have capabilities to handle high value contracts with favorable SLAs and cost model.•Implemented Agility Projects like Digital Negotiation Factory which automated SAP Data resulting in Insights which will be helpful in Negotiations•Contract Management Review (CMR) – Designed a new CMR system with strong governance framework leading to structured reviews of high value contracts Category Manager (MRO Materials & Plant Services)• Developed Catalogue Buying tool and De-Prop tool resulted in ~ Rs. 20 Crore of annual savings• Acted as a Convener of MRO Spares Category CCT (Commodity Competency Team) which strategically identifies projects and extracts value through various commercial levers• Innovative Contracting: Introduced a new hybrid contracting framework combining Capital and Revenue Procurement through ‘Cost Cap Model' bringing in visibility of equipment maintenance costs of 10 years before making a capital purchasing decision• Designed dashboard on Lumira with IT team for Governance and review mechanism resulted in better visibility and transparency Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow• Amongst the top 8 teams to be selected for the MR Projects, INDEX(Market Research Fest), 2014National institute of fashion technology, • Ranked among top 5 in graduation covering all the 8 semesters and batch topper in final semester• Won the best Graduating project award for ‘Streamlining & Standardising Sampling’

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