Prashant Sasidharan Email & Phone Number

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

Middle East

To contribute to strongly develop and support sales, operations in the MENA Region.-To lead a team of 7 senior operations managers.-To handle logistics and all other operations across the region.-To provide leadership, inspiration and direction to the team enabling them to achieve corporate and financial goals. -To develop and improve our services and to deliver ethical values.-To be responsible for business planning process, performance review, supply chain business strategy, organizational development & succession planning and property strategy.

Kuwait

To create a pro-active and strategic planning for 3 departments – Operations, Logistics and Procurement in the organization. Drive supply chain effectiveness by developing and implementing strategic sourcing, tactical procurement, and contract management strategies, programs, and policies. Collaborate with global business leadership to improve supply sources, landed costs, and other processes to meet corporate requirements. Formulate process optimization plans, manage supplier relationships and implement best practices. Contributing to business objectives that will also deliver value for money. Oversea global procurement by analyzing risks in the procurement area and implement effective supplier and contract management practices. Engage and manage clients in Kuwait, Dubai, Iraq and rest of the world. Mentor and grow companies consulting and procurement outsourcing team based in USA, China, Dubai and Iraq. Understand client needs and manage the project delivery as per client expectations. Oversee the HR, Admin and Finance activities in all the global offices. Selected Accomplishments: Introduced Supplier Risk Assessment, Contract Management, and Performance Bridging policy, processes, tools, and training across the company worldwide. Established Procurement team across all the branches to self-initiate supply chain cost savings and performance improvements.

Kuwait

Oversee all aspects of getting the services, materials or property a business needs to operate and expand. Main Job focus involved Policy Compliance, Procurement Coordination, Supervising Staff, Vendor Evaluation, meet with vendors, develop and monitor contracts and crisis management. Selected Accomplishments: Organizational/Staff Development: Built cost efficient procurement team from start up. Recruited and developed 21 employees (management and staff level).  Leadership: Reduced $ 5- 12M (10% of the total budget) in non payroll general and administrative expenses at time critical time. Process Improvement: Improved reporting and increased operational efficiency.

Kuwait

Preparing and managing requests for proposals, reviewing large value purchase orders, working with clients, and reviewing the bidding process. Responsible for ensuring policy is followed, responding to complaints, and management of the department. Also ensure that the department has important details, such as the suppliers’ qualifications, delivery times, potential development and products. Direct reporting to Procurement Manager.Selected Accomplishments: Performed ongoing customer/market research and demographic profiling to identify and capitalize on unmet market needs ahead of the curve. Leveraged strengths in cost-effective marketing management and vendor negotiations to end each year an average of 15% under-budget (without compromising business growth goals).

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

Systems Development Strategies, Managing the Application Development Portfolio, Structured Analysis Development Strategy, Systems Design, Coordinating Various Projects. Managing Information Systems Development, Hardware and Software Selection, HR requirement for Projects, Monitoring of MIS Forms of daily works done.

Master Of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry

High School, Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services