Managing complete sourcing process of Supplier Selection, Request of Quotes (RFx), and conducting negotiations for costby managing day-to-day procurement activity across various categories of procurement. Well versed in tactical buying and related activities of conducting and end to end execution of reverse auction, OEM buying for IT hardware and other Capex procurement.Negotiating with the short-listed contractors and in timeawarding the work in compliance with approved policies.Directing marketing procurement for influencer marketing, performance marketing and brand marketing negotiations.Co-ordinating with internal stakeholders for implementation and incorporating the entirePR to PO process.Managing operational responsibility for PO Confirmations, DOA/EDM based approvals. Past dues and Expedites, Vendor Management, Invoice resolution, floating RFP/RFQ to vendors.Managing supplier relationshipsCoordinating with internal ethics and compliance team for adhering/implementing audit compliances and procedure.Involved in daily reporting activity with respect to quantity of PR’s closed and RFX issued to suppliers and contract renewal and other activities which directly impacts our Spend Analysis Report.

Client Management: Responsible for managing procurement operations for Australian client. Building rapport and maintaining interpersonal skills with client transition lead for daily tasks of deliverables. To have alignment with client on agreed CPIs, KPIs, FMEAs (Failure Mode effective Analysis) SOPs, DTPs and process maps to smooth transition and go-live of the process.Delivery Operations: Key categories includes sourcing of required goods and services from vendor database, meeting the SLAs of PR to PO creations activities, catering the adhoc request of corporate card issuances and administrative work of corporate cards. End to end processing of supplier selection process etc.People Management - Working with team members to resolve errors, explain changes and recommend actions to resolve day to day tasks. Managing a team of four senior procurement Analysts.Reporting: Involved in daily reporting activity with respect to quantity of PR’s closed and RFX issued to suppliers and contract renewal. sharing daily, weekly and monthly production, quality and spend reports from in-house IT tools and applications and presenting the same to senior leadership and client to gauge the AHT, volume management, quality and total FTEs count

Procurement Operations:• Global procurement from international vendors for subscriptions-based IT tools and software’s/licenses, SaaS products from 3rd party vendors and OEM vendors.• Engaging and co-ordinating with internal stakeholders and clients in Product, Marketing, HR, Office Administration for procurement of related goods and services.• Manage the sourcing deals, contracts, AMCs, delivery and quality for a complete procurement cycle on end-to-end basis, ensuring on time delivery with the suppliers.• Sound experience in purchase requisition [PR] to purchase order [PO] process.• Coordinate with suppliers on a day-to-day basis on status of open orders and expedite delivery.• Managed Supplier relationship; Vendor database Preparing & local sourcing contracts.Team Management:• Managing the team of 3 executives and an assistant manager. • Responsible for issuing of RFQ's, PO creation in SAP (MM module), PR validation and manual Purchase orders.• Responsible for testing, review and updates of automated internal approval mechanism application Mocha (inhouse tool – made as replica of Coupa).MIS:• Extracting raw data from SAP and analysing the data from multiple point of view and making recommendation to our Stakeholders.• Responsible for sharing Weekly Dashboard with stakeholders depicting Key initiatives, SLA matrix, upcoming projects.• Circulating spend reports to Commercial stakeholders depicting cost incurred and savings arrived through Negotiations at local level. • Conducting contract management activities in accordance with company's policies and procedures, applicable laws and regulations.

Quality auditing the claims processed by associates there by providing feedback accordingly to the associates and respective line managers.• Effectively manage multiple, high-priority projects and take pride in providing exemplary customer service.• Analyse and identify trends and provides feedback and reports to operations team to reduce errors and improve claims processes and performance.• Identify root causes of errors and opportunities for defect reduction.

Identification & Auditing of claims made by different Cooperates.• Evaluate all claim and policy information and investigate all details for insured client for various line of business and ensure applicable coverage of individual.• Entrusted by supervisor to assist with complex claims-processing, participate in quality control audits and monitor status updates.