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Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Leading the AP Procurement team toward better compliance to policies and their practices.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Delivery of annual and strategic savings plan with full audit compliance to agreed timescales by creating a flexible team of procurement specialists capable of covering multiple categories. Covering the full country.
• Plan, develop, schedule, deploy & monitor commodity sourcing strategies and refine supply chain for very diverse and country business need.
• End to end people management including Mentoring, Coaching, Training & developing sourcing competency in team of 16 global sourcing buyers
• Meet & exceed expectations of ASEAN country metrics, Supplier development relationship, Supplier base efficiency.
• Profile procurement expenditures and provide detailed procurement business reporting with key elements being country posture, client feedback, Throughput, Cycle time, procurement spend, savings, supplier segmentation.
• Contribute into top AP leadership for developing and executing the procurement transformation for ASEAN Countries.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Managing Services (Business Service, Technical Service and Complementary Work Force) for ASEAN and ANZ as a Regional Sourcing Manager with a team of 18 Members.
• Plan, develop, schedule, deploy & monitor commodity sourcing strategies.
• End to end people management including train & develop sourcing competency on Commodities.
• Meet & exceed expectations of AP/Global council’s metrics /council/initiatives, Supplier development relationship, Supplier base efficiency
• Maintain complete controls posture & achieve client satisfaction. Maintain high level of integrity along with staff & implant IBM values in every action
• Achieve best value proposition, savings & cash generation to IBM clients & corporate.

Noida Area, India

• Team Lead – India South Asia Technical Services
• Managing ISA Domestic Technical Services Spend with support of a team of 8 sourcing buyers spread across different locations in India.
• Driving and implementing Sourcing strategies across different Line of Business
• Main KRA- Savings, Vendor management & development, Compliance & Audits,
• Supplier Base management, Process improvement, Operations Excellence, Risk Management, Client Satisfaction
• Liaison with different stake holders across organization

Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsibility:
• Have instrumentally brought Negotiated savings of USD$1.4 Million for 2014 over operational spend of USD$10 Million
• Supported Country Sales team over complex deals and major multiple bids from services scope conversion perspective.
• Preparing Market Capability Index, Supplier Base Management, Purchase order Consolidation and leading the Targeted savings achievement.
• Played key role in implementing an enhanced tool based model to increase the Hands Free Process.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Role 2: Process Developer & RFP Lead – CWF Council for Asia Pacific Hub. (May ‘12 –Mar ‘13)
• Have instrumentally brought Negotiated savings of close to USD$1.4 Million for spend of USD$7.5 Million.
• Played Key role of Strategy development and execution to complete USD $6 Million Spend RFP. The objective of this RFP was to create a rate card model for ~3000 Employees over 8 cities for 96 profiles.
• Initiated implementation of Contractor Sourcing Application to increase Hands free %age for Complementary Work Force (CWF) Council.Role 1: Sr. Sourcing Buyer – Business Services for North America Sourcing Hub.
• Have instrumentally brought Negotiated savings of close to USD$ 0.6 Million for spend of USD$15.0 Million in 2 years.
• Responsible for maintaining the key matrix on agreement handling process and was effectively able to reduce expired agreements from 252 to 7 with team effort.

Jharsuguda, Orrisa

Job Responsibilities:- 1.25MTPA Aluminium Smelter Plant (SEZ UNIT) (Contracts Amounting ~INR 1617 Crs) and Infrastructure Project and Vedanta Township for 3000+ Employees (Contracts Amounting ~INR 800 Crs). Have instrumentally brought Negotiated savings of close to INR 250Crs. Pre-Ordering and Post-Ordering for Civil, Structural & allied Works for.

Chennai Area, India

Leypower Business: The objective was to find Business feasibility, its opportunities and its profitability.

Mba, Marketing And Operations, B

Activities and Societies: Moderator of Niche Club at IM-NU.Did “MARKETING RESEARCH to measure the customer preferences for malls in Shymal.

B. Tech. (Honors), Mechanical Engineering, A+

Activities and Societies: Founder member of “Samveg–Mechanical Society” at College level from 2005-07. Coordinator of “Taal–the dance.

Xii (A.I.S.S.C.E), Science With Computers., A+