Pankaj Soni Email & Phone Number

Bangalore

Wipro Acquired Alight Solutions India

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Gurgaon, India

Category Planning & Sourcing Initiatives

Overseeing Global strategic Sourcing across diversified business units in the company. Managing sourcing with the help eProcurement tools, while ensuring compliance on Contract management, rational pricing and Strategic part of business.

To develop and setup new Timber business entity in Ghana, West AfricaIdentification of suppliers and business potentialsUnderstanding of country economy and business aspectsCo-ordination with overseas manufacturers, buyers and product supply and identificationAccountable for business developments and full fledged operationsSolely responsible for rate.

• Managing Procurement and Sourcing for all India business centers while working closely with Multiple Departments, responsible for creating, implementing and driving Collaborative Business Partnership Model across.
• Vendor development, contracts management, process streamlining and Purchase order management
• Regular Day to day Transactions with Travel Agencies, Hotels, Airlines, Car Rentals/ Lease, HR related Services, Consultants, Creative Agencies, Media Agencies, Event Management Agencies etc
• Solely managed all India Employee Engagement activities from Purchasing and vendor management point of view
• Tendering techniques i.e. pre- bid vendor qualification process, bid (RFP) briefing, tender opening, post-bid process, etc. and related knowledge on bidding purchases.
• Working closely with Head of Procurement India and Director Global Procurement on contracts to develop policy, processes, procedures and best practice. "Global Standards”

Mba, Marketing

Ba, English (Hons)

Negotiation Strategies

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