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Pune, Mh, In

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pune Area, India

Mumbai, Pune

Achievement: Promoted to Practice Lead (from Senior Mgr.) in 3 years and rated Excellent (Top 5%), Achieved procurement savings of USD 80Mn over a period of one year with one of the largest petrochemical and titanium products company in the world• Defining the strategic plan for the practice by designing new offerings, delivery plans, resource requirements and executing client engagements• Head the client relations, P&L achievement, new business development and team administration• Lead pre-sales, solution design and proposal management efforts preparing response to RFPs including business case development, resource and effort estimation, and project scope definition • Direct delivery of consulting and outsourcing engagements overseeing the client engagement, team performance, margin achievement and defining a robust governance mechanism• Advising clients on design and execution of their sourcing operations through process redesign, spend analytics, organization restructuring, process efficiency initiatives and proposing cost savings levers• Overseeing Change Management initiatives for strategic or tactical sourcing functions and drive-in improvements across client organization• Defining processes, KPIs and governance guidelines that serve as a benchmark to attain global standards of service delivery in sourcing and procurement

Mumbai Area, India

Business Unit: Spend ManagementArea of Expertise: Enterprise Operations, Procurement and Sourcing, Business Process Transition and TransformationsRole and Responsibility• Lead client consulting engagements in the areas of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement• Collaborating with clients to understand their business issues and helping them ascertain the hidden value in their operations• Drive business process analysis to evaluate a client's existing business, application and technology portfolio• Formulate detailed and compelling business case for business process redesign and new technology adoption• Create change management plans and drive-in improvements in conjugation with client teams• Support Practice Head/Geo Regional Heads in Pre-Sales and Proposal management efforts

Pune Area, India

Business Unit: Operations and Supply Chain (Business Strategy and Analytics)Role and Responsibilities• Key areas of expertise: Enterprise Operations/Procurement and Sourcing, Business Process Management and Process Transformation, Process Metrics and Definition, As-Is/To-Be Process modelling and simulation• Business / Client requirement analysis, Change management and solution delivery during transformation• Hands-on expertise on Supply Chain tools and methodologies such Lean Six Sigma, iLog LNP (Network Design and Optimization), iLog Inventory Planning and Forecasting• Formulating and implementing the procurement / supply chain strategy for purchase and establishing methods to achieve cost saving targets• Knowledge of Kanban, Kaizen, 5S and other lean management principlesKey Projects/Achievements• Deployment Lead for a global process improvement initiative which resulted in an improved audit control posture and reduction of non-compliance by more than 70% y-o-y

Mumbai Area, India

Role and Responsibilities• Worked as a Sr. Bid Manager handling complex deals as part of the Opportunity-to-Cash process• Providing operational and process leadership for complete O2C process overseeing process deployment, metrics, approval flows and audit controls• Responsible for interfacing and coordinating with other shared service aligned functions i.e. Vendor Management and Procurement, Contracts & Negotiations, Finance and Pricing and Quality AssuranceKey Projects/Achievements• Led the proposal development team for multiple winning deals totalling ~50Mil USD for Industrial Products, Media & Entertainment and Financial Services customers

Noida Area, India

Business Unit: Enterprise Transformation Services (Collaborative Solutions)Domain: Enterprise Operations, Procurement/LogisticsRole and Responsibilities• Business Analysis and client consultations to understand the workings and requirements of the organization and capture the As-Is state• Formulated recommendations using a framework based approach for Business and Technology Transformation based on the organizational data collected and market due diligence• Provided assistance in pre-sales activities for generation of new consulting business by preparing questionnaires, proposals and program structure for the clientsKey Projects/Achievements• Completed an Enterprise wide Business Process re-modelling exercise for Procure-to-Pay process evaluation and remediation in 3 months with complete stakeholder buy-in and implementation roadmap including financial and administration policies, processes, systems and data

Gurgaon, India

Business Unit/Product: Retail Automation Practise (System Integration)Domain: Supply Chain and Logistics, Manufacturing, eGovernanceRole and Responsibilities• Handling Business/IT Consulting activities and preparing proposals/presentations for supply chain, manufacturing, eGovernance projects and deal prospects• In charge of undertaking Project Seeding, POCs, site-surveys and project co-ordination• Responsible for Vendor management, negotiations and tie-ups with prior vendor competence evaluationAchievements• Part of the team winning deals worth in excess of INR 31Mn

Business Unit: Product Engineering Solutions (Embedded/Multimedia)Role and Responsibilities• Single point-of-contact between client and WIPRO – requirement gathering, analysis, implementation, solution deployment, benchmarking and support• Led a 4 member team required to optimize, test and deliver application patchesAchievements• Rated top performer for two years in a row (2006-2007)

Global Masters In Business Administration, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Public Relations Council, SPark - SPJCM B-School Magazine

B. Tech., Electronics And Communication

Activities and Societies: 1. University basketball team 2. Class athletics, basketball, cricket team

Higher Secondary

Activities and Societies: School Basketball Team