Saurabh Garg Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Executive Advisor leading the multi-year strategy of Google's central procurement organization, including long-range planning and roadmap for expanding organizational influence and impact.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Senior Advisor and Strategist in Google's Operational Effectiveness (GOE) org leading:Business Partnerships with internal G&A Functions advising executive leadership team (ELT) on strategic initiatives for 3rd party spend optimization through a comprehensive mix of demand, supply, and process leversP#0 advisory projects for Google Cloud ELT on Next Gen opportunities for value delivery across Indirects spendHigh visibility Strategy & Operations (S&O) sprints within GOE on a range of topics such as FTE and TVC location strategy, Future of Work, and internal efficiency through use of zero-based approaches spanning people, projects, and OpEx.

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Associate Partner and Leader in McKinsey’s “Product Development & Procurement” service line serving Industrials, Automotive, Technology, Mining, and Chemicals clientsSkilled in leading large scale transformations and change management programs focused on increasing productivity and building resiliency in operations and supply chain functions for Fortune 500 companiesWell-rounded business expsoure across all major functional areas, including strategy, finance, M&A, product development, R&D excellence, operations and supply chainStrong people leader, coach, and mentor with experience supervising 8+ teams with up to 30 consultants over 3+ years and building a broad base of followershipLed multiple organization-wide capability building programs for upskilling organizational capability in supply chain and operationsThought leader with multiple McKinsey.com publications, "Indirect procurement: Insource? Outsource? Or both?", "Digital MRO procurement: New solutions for capturing and sustaining more value"

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Developed semiconductor industry’s first extreme selectivity etch tool “Selectra” in collaboration with team of 10; received 5 US patentsValidated technology with multiple Asian clients generating initial orders worth $20M and recording profitability inside first yearQualified “Selectra” for use in industry giant Intel’s 10-nm technology node, positioning new product for rapid industry adoption in a "fab"-based production environmentCollaborated with supply chain on critical component sourcing for “Selectra”; improved margin by 5% and reduced LT by 67% Managed center of excellence (COE) teams in India and Russia, directly supervised summer interns, and coached new hires

Phase 1: Conceptualization and LaunchLaunched GISDP to inspire innovative solutions for livelihood support and community empowerment of North East India. Created GISDP’s web presence (gisdp.org) to project North East India to the global discourse of sustainabilityPhase 2: Creation of a Core Structure, Mission and Vision Forged GISDP’s alliances with 7 leading Indian governmental, academic, policy institutions and ISSI at UC Berkeley. Awarded "Best Poster" voted for by global sustainability experts at the 40th anniversary conference of IIASA, Austria, Oct’ 12Phase 3: Resource Planning for Project Activities Secured SBI funding for project on traditional knowledge based sustainable business models in Assam

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, De

Designed the blueprint for ‘greening’ Daimler’s engine manufacturing process; facilitated long-term partnership with UC BerkeleyConceptualized and developed the Two-Phase Industrial Cleaning Technology at Daimler based on utilization of pulse peaks in water hammer effect

Full-Time Mba

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering