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Doha, Qa

Doha, Qatar

- Leading procurement process of group business categories Professionals services, Ground Service equipment, Cargo services, Medical, General and Special projects categories.- Managed Fifa manpower contracts during ramp up and ramp down with smooth operations and de-risking QR interests. - Successfully resolved high stakes contractual disputes and negotiated with significant cost avoidance and business disruption for the organization ensuring smooth business continuity.

Doha, Qatar

- Leading end to end Procurement and Logistics operations and strategy for categories of Green & Brown field Capex projects, Feed, RM, PM, Indirect spend, expedition, logistics and SRM.- Managed spend of ~1.30 Billion QR and driving tech supported process improvement with sustainable savings projects. Managed imports of 8000 containers (~12,000 TEW & 160,000 MT) a year with team of 6 from expedition to delivery at side.- Demonstrated zero demurrage despite having covid challenges at shipping and ports.- Delivered 2 MnQR savings by exemption of duty exploiting all legit available approvals from customs and advance documentation.- Led a multinational & diversified team of 19 members.- Driven 70 innovations /enhancements, Digitalization of process and Automation with best in class IT tools, SAP developments and integration with SAAS tools.- Developing and executing multi year Procurement strategy for category and talent management.- Driving efficiency improvement projects to reduce operational time and cost with reducing manpower dependency- Optimizing operations with effective outsourcing of activities as part of reducing fix cost and transfer of risk.- Driven establishment of policies with agile yet controlled process focusing on execution of speed with efficiency.- Ensured Zero $ demurrage with exceptional control over process amidst turbulence post covid in overall supply chain globally.- Driven ~200 Hour training for team members for upskilling and career enhancement readiness.- Driving various projects for business risk mitigation, government liaising with legal stake and govt relation department.- Managing risk register for the organization from Procurement related risk.

Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia

• One of the fastest promoted employees at NBCC based in his stupendous contributions to P&L with strategic skill sets of supply chain. In new capacity as Head of Procurement enabled NBCC to get strategy for major spend category of RM, PM, Operations, Supply chain, IT and Projects.• The track record continued as per past to keep adding value to the business with further 25% of bottom line for 2019, with 10 times of targets. • Successfully implemented most innovative concepts of managing spend of warehousing inspired from "uber" reducing spend by 2 Mn and rolled over the concept pan Kingdom level. Developed unique situational negotiation strategy to support business from each situation and also trained the team on the job to sharpen the skills.• With a strong knowledge and background of Commodity risk management and commodity procurement. NBCC had reduced the spend on commodity to the tune of ~25 Mn in 2.5 years with his superior commodity knowledge and timing skills.• Exception people skills to execute the difficult projects in time with improved results.• A true leader focusing everyday improvement in everything we do. Driving improvements with continuous training of team.

Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia

Gurgaon, India

• Managed Regional level Strategic procurement for various categories covering Sugar (Sweetener), Consumables chemicals, Crowns, Closures, AFP, Glass, Crates, Corrugated box for HCCB 24 plants & 7 Co pack operations for India, and supporting strategic procurement to Nepal, Srilanka & Bangladesh• Responsible for - the development of the 3 year procurement category strategy, supply continuity plan- Commodity management, Supplier risk management, implementing benchmarking matrices - Best practice transfer to ensure optimized costs, develop and retain high capability suppliers.• Driving suppliers’ strategic relationship with HCCB and world class procurement process negotiation tools (RFX), sustainability initiatives and ensure supplier guiding principles in the area of packaging.• Global procurement task force member driving global synergies and sustainable savings.• Managing Supplier evaluation, Quarterly supplier balanced score cards.• Stake holder (User group, BU, supplier, Quality, sales & commercial and Global Category/Commodity leader) team engagement to achieve organizational objectives including NPD• Identifying, planning and executing Pipe line of Value projects with Project charters

Gurgaon, India

• Head of Procurement for Indian operations.• Strategic Procurement & Category management in Indirect Materials, Capex, Direct material, Packaging material, Contract manufacturing• Additional KRA: Global sourcing for group companies from India, active participation in Cost reduction actions in G&A, IT procurement. • Negotiating strategic contracts with TCO model, Supplier management, Risk management, maintaining Supply continuity with lowest inventory levels, Stake holder engagement, contingency Plan, NPD and Global best practices compliance.• Use of best practices of procurement to add to bottom line viz. Reverse Auction, e-procurement, RFX, Contract Management, Supplier management, six step strategic sourcing etc.

• Managing indirect service and material procurement with average spend of $ 15 million.• Indirect services Procurement: Shutdown contracts, mechanical maintenance, repair & operations activities, outsourcing of activities, field instrumentation activities, industrial PC AMC, IT contracts, DCS maintenance, OEM resource requirements, chemical cleaning, rubber coating contracts, sludge cleaning, etc. • Indirect material procurement: Consumables, belts, tool & tackles, plastic products, batteries, lamps, belts, cooling tower materials, food provisions for shipping department, stationery items, gas cylinders, etc. Managing follow-up and expedition for pending items.• ICE (Internal Cost Estimation) for optimum valuation of procurement, Scope of supply, effective procurement scheduling, Contract management, Internal customer satisfaction, Vendor performance evaluation and Commodity price trend analysis to maintain contract costing.• Expert on functional level- SAP MM Module.

• Optimization of production time for maximum production.• Also taking care of Purchase & Contracts.• Negotiating for out sourced production contracts. • Looking after all Procurement regarding production material like sheets, consumables, fasteners, motors etc.• Doing cost analysis for each contracts & purchase.Vendor development for better service and future contracts

Vadodara Area, India

• Production management, reducing down time by taking preventive actions.• Managing raw material requirement, maintenance, and quality during shift.• Optimizing the size changeover to reduce loss of production.• Taking active participation in new product development process.

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Executive Education, Program On Negotiation

Exercising Leadership: Foundation Principles

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Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing & Operations

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical

Diploma, Mechanical Engineering