Leading global sourcing and contracting for SEZ development, Port and logistics, Textile and Agro Value Chain for Gabon, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, DRC, ROC, Rwanda andSierra LeoneCountry in West Africa

• Leading a Team of 8 Engineers and Managers• Responsible for Planning , Strategising, Managing an annual spend on material Purchases for Railway EPC Projects• Responsible for the purchase of common items like Cement, TMT, Structural steel for all Projects on Monthly basis.• Directly Responsible Strategizing and finalizing for the High Value items like Copper , Transformers, HT/LT Cables, SCADA, Switchgears, GIS.• Responsible for realizing and deliver cost savings, together with a range of additional benefits including improved supplier performance, improved quality of service and total cost of performance along with risk management• Preparation and Circulation of Monthly SCM Report Covering Spends, Commodity and Market Trends and Initiatives taken.

Team Lead for Procurement of OHE, S&T and P-Way materials.

• Activity based costing for line activities & composite items.• Review of cost parameters end of month.• Cost monitoring against plan Vs actual as per productivity.• Preparation of Variation & Claim as per standard drg vs as built, bonus claim etc.• Service contract related issue analysis & correspondence with client.• Focal point for “lean onsite programme lead by Ronald & Berger consultant team• Critical analysis of VOWD (value of work done) PO wise.• Preparation of business plan & revision of the same time to time.• Co-ordination with client & site team to resolve unbilled related issues.• Rate analysis for new rate proposal to client.

• Handled all the packages for award to subcontractor on sole responsibility basis for Eastern DFCC Project.• Preparation of RFI, Tender Document, Evaluation of Commercial Bid, Commerical Negotiation, Price Negotiation, Management Approval and Award of Contract.• Handled the Purchase of Rails in a Single package Value of INR 530 Cr, Capital Equipment Purchase with the Package Value of appx INR 110 Cr. • Handled the Sub Contracting of Civil Packages of Sub Structure for Bridges and Earth in formation for Railway Embankments.• Rate analysis and preparation of internal cost estimates for all the packages for negotiation and benchmarking

Procurement and Sub contracting of Materials and Services for The, S&T and P-Way based Packages of RVNL and CORE.

A) Pre-Tendering Activities• Management Approval and Budget Planning as per Project Requirement.• Developing Contract Strategy (long/short term association)• Risk Analysis, Risk Assessment and Risk mitigation.• Developing Contract Exit strategyB) Preparing Tender Specification• Tender preparation, coordinating with Engineering, Project Management Group, Site Execution team and Consultant.• Scope, PG, Warranty, Insurance, indemnity, LD, Taxation i.e Complete Technical, Commercial & Legal aspects) and checking completeness of documents.• Establishing Pre-Qualification criteriaC) Tendering1. Floating Notice Inviting Tender (NIT)/ Request for Proposal (RFP)2. Resolving Pre-bid clarification, issuing amendments if required.3. Evaluating Bid• Checking the bids as per Specification requirement.• Closing deviation points• Finalization of Minutes of MeetingsD) Negotiation• Identifying the Buyer’s and Supplier respective negotiation situation.• Finalization of Minutes of Meeting• To extract Best Price in given situationE) Award of Contract• Preparing Note for Approval, Summary, Commercial & Price Comparison• Legal Vetting of Draft PO/WO• Pre-Award Audit Clearance• PO/WO awarding• Knowledge and information transform to PMG.F) Post Award Contract Management• Resolving Contract and commercial issues• Claim management• Change management in BOQ and scope.• Optimisation of AmendmentsG) Contract Closing• Ensuring documents as per SOP• Assessment of LD damages• No objection certificate.H) Vendor Appraisal• Reviewing Performance• Decision of Future association

• Responsible for performing all purchasing transactions including the preparation of inquiries, commercial analysis of proposals and the issuance of purchase orders, supervise and direct project buyer's daily activities as well as coordinate the efficient use of the expediting efforts, communicate with the accounting department to resolve any contractual discrepancies discovered during the billing payable process for all projects.• Ensuring adherence to sound commercial principles and exploitation of knowledge from across the client.• Detailing & discussing with the consultants to freeze the functional requirements of the packages from project point of view and in line with L&T other establishments.• Produced detailed strategies against specific customers, harnessing market and company intelligence to develop cost reduction and negotiation plans.• Conducted Techno- Commercial negotiations, finalized contracts in line with L&T Corporate standard Commercial terms and conditions, prepared justification notes for management approval• Presentations to top management of our division for techno –commercial approvals of the packages to be awarded