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Vinay Anand is listed as Procurement & Program Management Professional based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Vinay Anand.
Vinay Anand previously worked as Director - Business Consulting, Procurement Transformation at Ey and Senior Manager - Strategic Sourcing & Procurement India, Head VMO India at Walmart Labs India. Vinay Anand holds Bsc from Bangalore University.
Skills : Business Consulting | Transformations | Strategic Sourcing & Procurement | Program Management | Category Mgmt | SRM | Biz Ops | Mfg Ops | P2P | Contingent Workforce |Professional SummaryMy professional journey has afforded me the unique opportunity to work across varied industry landscapes within globally respected companies, engaging with extraordinary commercial and engineering talent. As part of global procurement and program management teams, I have managed multimillion-dollar spends across categories such as IT hardware, software, professional services, facilities management, project procurement for infrastructure build-outs, marketing services, HR recruitment, contingent workforce and employee benefit services. I have also successfully conceptualized, operationalized, and led procurement organizations for globally distributed delivery centres in both technology and manufacturing sectors. My approach has always been to prioritize business partnership understanding the business first and then applying procurement expertise to drive results.My negotiation approach is grounded in Ethics and Compliance, Customer Service, Supplier Relationships, and Cost Savings. Overall brought in visibility of importance of procurement and program management functions, collaboration with stakeholders with early engagement and evolved procurement team to be a bridge between business stakeholders & suppliers.In building and leading teams, my focus has always been on Quality, Confidence, Efficiency, and Accountability. leveraging Continuous Improvement and Program Management. I am passionate about building motivated teams to continuously raise the bar, deliver value to customers, and help them achieve their goals. To summarize,. I am confident in my ability to add value to roles in Procurement, Supply Chain, Business Operations, and Program Management.
Listed skills include Supplier Management, Strategic Sourcing, Materials Management, Program Management, and 30 others.
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Consulting: Understand the client’s strategic context to architect the procurement transformation value propositions and assist execution. Led global cross functional team for procurement transformation consulting project optimizing talent strategy for external workforce professional services categories. Successfully executed strategic talent sourcing RFPs.
Bangalore
Strategy: As head of VMO drove the overall procurement performance with strategic realignment to structure, systems, capabilities and culture. Established strategic directions, transformed the whole global operations, driving enhanced customer experience and business results with consistent double-digit savings.Category Management: Developed strategic.
Bangalore
Operations: Redefined the VMO’s purpose and values, redefined talent management, organizational transformation, putting the customer at the center of everything. Drove a project successfully to outsource global procurement activities from US to India to set up Procurement Shared Services, managing a multi-cultural global team. Contingent Workforce.
Bangalore
Supplier Relationship Management: Managed global supplier relationship with IT HW, network equipment providers along with leadership role for IT HW, Care & Maintenance category regional teams, ensuring supplier integration, and driving simultaneous improvements in the quality, competitiveness and service levels of the supply base to support the global.
Bangalore
Value Engineering: Achieved double digits annual cost reduction at product level, driving Katana saving’s program for 3rd party IT HW/SW resale for Operations Support Solutions BU. Drove Katana cost savings management program through product cost modeling in alignment to Supplier Technology Roadmaps, Design to Cost and Cost Productivity Change.
Bangalore
Category Management: Global category team member to develop and execute high level global strategy to manage the IT and engineering services outsourcing procurement; drove supplier optimization with collaboration across various business units to map and unify stakeholders’ requirements and influence them to execute the outsourcing roadmap.
Bangalore
Category Management: Led a global cross functional team as Program Manager for a discovery project to drive one global supplier model selection to develop IT hardware peripherals and 3rd party software sourcing strategy. Achieved 60% reduction in mark up costs for global hardware in US and software distribution worldwide.
Category Management: >$2M cost avoidance achieved by spearheading the team to influence Government policy makers Department of Telecommunications and BSNL to revise the EPABX logical partitioning Telecom notification. Received a Departmental Recognition Award for this accomplishment. 30% cost savings in India telecom spends by renegotiating contracts.
Bangalore
Program Management: Successfully set up complete Xeon processor validation business operations in India driving the execution of technology transfers, infrastructure setup, hiring and resources management, risk & communications management. Facilitated Master Activity Planning (MAP) Day for new processor validation project kick off with different functional.
Bangalore
Program Management: Developed new strategy for PCB boards manufacturing and transitioned the product validation operations from US to India. Achieved $100K+ savings through process restructuring of Logistics, Customs and STPI formalities for shipments from US to India.
Bangalore
Strategy & Operations: Conceptualized and successfully set up the initial purchase function, again authored and implemented the purchase policy, streamlined the whole process-oriented function that resulted in enhanced customer satisfaction. Additional cross responsibility to manage IT operations in areas like datacenter, infrastructure services, BCP and.
Strategy & Operations: Set up the initial purchase department, authored corporate purchase policy and managed spends across all commodities for both companies in addition to handling Logistics, STPI / Customs related activities.
Bangalore
Strategy & Operations: Developed integrated procurement strategies with ongoing continuous improvement of supply chain operations achieved through supplier collaboration, implementation of purchasing best practices, and evolution of cohesive JIT global logistics plan.
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Vinay Anand is listed as Procurement & Program Management Professional.
Vinay Anand is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Vinay Anand has worked for Ey, Walmart Labs India, Nsn - Nokia Solutions And Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Intel Corporation.
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Vinay Anand holds Bsc from Bangalore University.
Vinay Anand is listed with skills including Supplier Management, Strategic Sourcing, Materials Management, Program Management, Negotiation, Manufacturing, Operations Management, and Procurement.
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