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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

➢ Establish and manage long term strategic and core supplier relationships for FREQUENCY CONTROL commodity ($38M) spend suppliers and will engage with Flex sites and business segments ➢ Guide the supplier selection, development and management of Core Suppliers for cost competiveness and supply assurance➢ Conduct regular Quarterly Business review with suppliers to understand supplier technology capabilitiesAnd carry out item level price negotiation with supplier GAM to optimize cost.➢ Allocating share of business to suppliers based on the price and other terms and conditions.➢ Ensure all contracts are in compliance with Company policies and procedures by implementing best practice processes and solutions ➢ Involving suppliers early in the quotation process in new business wins for benchmarking exercises➢ Preparing and negotiating the terms and conditions of contracts and uploading into System for Legal team and Management sign off ➢ Monitoring contracts, and moving forward with extension, close-out, or renewal of contracts ➢ Organize and manage the commodity team with a focus on talent acquisition, retention and development and performance appraisal ➢ Implement programs for supplier selection, supplier performance management and supply base optimization ➢ Responsible for development, execution and pricing of procurement risk strategies for Flex. · ➢ Mitigate with existing and new Supplier’s based on the benchmark price and provide the opportunity for Potential Business. ➢ Monitor current commodity market conditions, technology roadmaps and identify supply/demand challenges. Develop, implement and communicate tactical and strategic commodity plans internally and to Flex customers as appropriate ➢ Provide point of escalation for Commodity issues as appropriate. ➢ Engage with sites and business segments to fully optimize the contracts fixed with suppliers

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

 Lead the development and execution of commodity management strategies for IPG commodity Lead the category and supplier spend management activities with respective spend areas Carry out administrative responsibilities that effectively manage projects and contracting activities Monitor, manage and report on team achievements on key purchasing indicators in line with commodity requirements Experience with managing a total spend of $10M Implement and lead various special project to drive cost reduction and cashflow improvements

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

 Help GCM to prepare Master files with Forecast, price trend, spend trend, other supporting information to initiate QBR with suppliers Analyze and make report of negotiated prices and other terms & conditions to segregate which are favorable CR and unfavorable CR Upload the negotiated prices in system for Procurement team to place orders Publish SOB report to GCM to fix business allocation to the suppliers for the Qtr Various analysis on price, demand forecast, global performance on commodity, Financial performance of preferred suppliers will be done before supplier negotiation takes place. Be a SPOC to manage RFQ in QW tool and update GCM regularly whenever the quote is being completed by suppliers Coordinated with Automation team to create macro to cut complex manual work. Preparation of Adhoc reports for use by business heads.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

 Creating, Updating & Maintaining Bill of Materials (BOM) in SAP & CMMS (Common Material Management System (Mainframe)) and QAD using the engineering change process for the OEM parts. Creating, Updating & maintaining the following Data in SAP systems. Verifies with departments prior to change becoming effective that we are on target to hit the effective date  Works with Engineering, schedulers, material coordinators to resolve issues or discrepancies that occur. Communicates and coordinates changes with planners in order to anticipate decision releases into manufacturing systems Analyzes and determines obsolete parts resulting from product evolution; monitors running changes and adjusts effective dates in order to minimize scrap, salvage and/or rework. Held the responsibility to maintain and dispatch Bill of Materials.  Prepared monthly operations reports of the department. Uses knowledge and experience to serve as liaison and consultant providing feedback that affects specification audits and monitors engineering changes to ensure data integrity and uniformity. Created checklists and templates for BOM activities and streamlined the processes with appropriate control points. Serves as a back- up for the Engineering Analyst Actively supported in migrating GBC – Global BOM and Change.