Soheil Tavana Email & Phone Number

• The TPRM Program objectives are to identify, assess, manage, and monitor operational risks and performance introduced by a Third-Party relationship. Including but not limited to: Legal Risk, Ethics and Compliance Risk.
• Leading the development and implementation of a comprehensive Third-Party Risk Management program, including identifying, assessing, managing, and monitoring operational and performance risks introduced by third-party.
• Building Risk Frameworks, guidelines, tools, methodologies, and risk-based approaches aligned with industry best practices and tailored to EDC's risk profile and maturity levels.
• Providing comprehensive reports to the Risk Management Committee, and the Board, highlighting key risk indicators, emerging risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Conducting materiality and risk assessments, facilitating due diligence processes, and devising risk mitigation strategies for a portfolio of 450+ vendors.
• Overseeing contractual reviews, risk evaluations, and vendor performance monitoring, applying procurement, risk management, and vendor stewardship best practices.

• Planned/Designed/Improved and transformed financial (costing) structure, performance, and reporting features (through PaPM) to capture costing/profitability at finer granularities, to achieve improved integrated.
• Engaged Operations and Finance stakeholders in the design of the new system while establishing meaningful costing KPIs for both Operations and Finance to bring end-to-end visibility on the financial impacts of.
• Dictated the fulfillment costing methods for use in costing models such as Activity-Based Costing (ABC) and DBCM/ProfiTest (or whatever name it subscribed to at any given time) for sales business cases
• Identified major drivers of cost in fulfillment and the key levers in managing those costs so that corporate financial performance could be improved
• Provided ongoing oversight into all fulfillment costing methods applied in the Corporation for management decision-making purposes
• Fulfilled costing requests of functional stakeholders in support of new product cost and profitability assessments, pricing profitability improvement calculations, capital or operating project assessments and business.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Developed and modified transportation specifications for national / last mile services - in conjunction with collection and delivery team - to obtain efficiencies and an optimal service level given the constraints
• Initiated / conducted planning with client groups, led cross-functional teams in the supplier sourcing/contracting process and prepared / issued NAFTA and RFP/RFQ documents
• Estimated and established cost parameters and budgets to facilitate purchases and proposal evaluations while ensuring the optimum life cycle costs were met
• Developed business cases and target pricing models to conduct a sensitivity analysis and achieve the best cost-effective solutions
• Defined and proposed service profiles and purchasing strategies for negotiations, by analyzing historical data and general economic factors through mathematical models
• Conducted negotiations for the acquisition of goods / services and obtaining cost-effective solutions

• Developed new sources of supply and established strategic alliances
• Participated in the development of the commodity by managing projects that would include the preparation of business cases, cost-benefit analysis including quantitative and qualitative aspects
• Identified, analyzed and realized cost reduction opportunities in order to meet organizational / departmental requirements
• Managed suppliers and subcontractors to achieve program goals and objectives and maintained strong supplier relations and ensured compliance with requirements and procedures
• Managed multiple stakeholders such as production, quality, finance and acted as a single interface with suppliers of new business
• Led contract / commercial negotiations with suppliers and managed existing contract life-cycle in accordance with the business requirements

Montreal, Canada Area

• Teacher Assistant for “Statistical Models for Data Analysis” Course -- (SAS Enterprise Guide)This course introduces and examines the role of contemporary statistical methods in improving business and industrial.
• Conduct tutorials, labs or review sessions
• Discuss any changes to the marking scheme with the course instructor
• Proctor tests and final exam
• Manage course grades

THR, IR

• Accomplished an “average annual net sales” increase of 340% by constructing and managing a professional market driven team of 23 employees, in a period of 5 years.
• Conducted international commerce with various countries (France, Italy, Hong Kong, China, South Korea) to create a complete and competitive range of products for the target market and potential customers
• Handled the custom regulations while coordinating the most suitable/economical shipments for import/export
• Managed / designed / developed brand initiatives and products in addition to marketing strategies, while anticipating market trends, to enhance a competitive advantage
• Directed a mass market customer oriented survey, on “purchasing habits”, which resulted in generating a substantial database for the company and led to a 300% growth in sales in 1 year
• Established a systematic recruiting system and on-the-job training method to increase the Company’s efficiency

THR, IR

• Liaised with transport companies, domestic and international to accumulate best prices based on incoterms and Uniform Customs and Practice (UCP)
• Monitored the rightness of LCL and FCL shipments’ processes according to Company’s guidelines to avoid discrepancies while performed invoicing and costing affairs with defined software in order to create a traceable.

Master Of Science (Msc), Global Supply Chain Management

Managing International Business Networks Supply Chain Management: Fundamentals and Trends Planning and Control of Logistics Systems.

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Supply Chain Operations Management And Data Science

Activities and Societies: Statistical Models and Data Analysis

Mechanical Engineering