Career growth path:• General Manager - Vendor Development and Material Management• AGM - Vendor Development and Material Management• SR. Manager - Vendor Development and Material Management• Manager Vendor Development Key Responsibilities: • Leading & driving strategic sourcing management goals of the company and implement action items to ensure that those goals are achieved, implementing purchase/ procurement strategies for India and China facilities.• Leading the compliance implementation process • Determining the product costing and recommended the same to management and marketing teams based on which the final selling price of product is decided. • Developing & implementing sourcing & supplier selection strategy domestically & internationally, analyzing industry trends & technologies to identify supply base issues to minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, & utilize emerging opportunities.• Contributing to Planning & budgeting, Techno Commercial Evaluation, Live Biddings, Negotiation, Recommendation, Inspection, Expediting & Tracking; monitoring of price trends for various commodities• Assisting in costing & pricing of various parts, price settlement with the suppliers, long-term contracting with key suppliers including Steel Mills ensuring long term price advantage and mitigating risk of material cost increase• Excess and Obsolescence management, analyzing procurement costs and developing cost reduction strategies.• Driving purchasing decisions based on cost and scenario analysis, as well as market trends.• Negotiating contracts with key suppliers, implementing a total vendor managed inventory solution, managing continuous improvement of entire certification processes of suppliers• Effectively imparted training to teams of various strengths in Purchase and Vendor Development.

• End to end responsibility of the Supply Chain – including collecting drawings from customers, identifying suitable suppliers across India, feasibility study, commercial negotiations & finalization with the suppliers & customers and post-sale support ensuring regular dispatches as per the customer schedules along with managing the Quality assurance throughout the process. • Recognized for maintaining Zero-line stoppage by ensuring timely deliveries to all customers. • Recognized for maintaining 0 PPM at all customer 2010 and COPQ brought down to less than 0.05% from 8.0%• Extended grass rooted efforts in various activities such as:- Reduced Honeywell PPM from 10,500 PPM to 0 PPM at Honeywell UK and Romania- Cost saving target for HTC by developing the imported components. - Grew production of machined housing for HTC by 18% by modifying the machining fixture.• Cost saving achieved in:- Raw material cost saving by 5% and machining by 4% for Hitachi through standardization of design.- Cost saving by 7% for Honeywell by introducing combination machining fixtures.- Cost saving by 4% PSL by reducing cleaning and packaging cost.