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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

● Own a portfolio of 7 B2B SaaS products that generates 40% of company’s ARR.● Manage and execute multiple product roadmaps, delivering leading procurement and auctions software used by 90 clients (2,000 users).● Lead a team including one other product manager and work with international development teams using Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies to continually deliver new features and solutions.● Coordinate and engage multiple internal functional teams to plan and execute go-to-market initiatives.● Partner with product marketing, training and customer-facing teams to conduct direct customer feedback events (in-person, in-app and online surveys)● Integrate new products of newly acquired company, upgrade and harmonize tech stack across products and implement new company UI theme.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

● Lead the identification and execution of product enhancements to the analytics software used by customers.● Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis of current product offering, propose changes to existing products and forming new customer-facing features and tools.● Work with overseas development teams to create new features and software upgrades.● Participate as product specialist on various procurement initiatives, ensuring dashboards were optimized for success.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

● Manage a team of 9 analysts globally along with resourcing and project management.● Responsible for owning 70% of our client base as an account manager for project delivery and implementation.● Develop cost savings strategies on the tail spend and indirect spend.● Maintain strong working relationships with key internal stakeholders to support business growth, enable revenue growth opportunities, and drive expense reductions.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Consult on Spend Management and create savings opportunities.• Work on Spend Analytics• Work on Opportunity Assessment• Work on Working Capital Analytics• Work with Finance controller to create strategies for budgeting and savings.• Create Finance-Procurement reports along with P&L impact.• Perform Forensic data audit on PO, Invoice, AP files and other related data.• Work with Management to review procurement performance.• Set benchmark prices for standard products and service across different BU.• Improve Indirect Procurement strategies and Tail Spend Management

Paris, Ile-De-France, France

● Perform Spend Analysis on AP/PO/Invoice and create dashboards.● Develop catalogues and improve spot buy activities with 40% reduced time.● Report procurement activities, progress, savings, P&L impact.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Work with global purchasing leads to aggregate, standardize and analyze the raw material, MRO and equipment Spend worldwide• Support the newly formed Category Management teams with their day to day business, e.g. Research for new markets, products or suppliers• Aid Category Heads to design and communicate the procurement policy• Assist Procurement Excellence’s standardization of processes and implementation planning• Establish and implement communication concept to share information across a diverse network of departments and locations• Conduct independent research for new Procurement IT solutions and provide insights and recommendations to department leads• Support and coordinate distribution of new tools, and assist development of in-house solutions.• Initiate CSR and sustainability movement

Mumbai Area, India

Spend Analytics :• Conducting file/data analysis on spend data received from Prospect.• Performing BOM analysis and BOM reporting.• Importing files in SQL/Oracle database. Database management.• Huge data handling experience AP, PO, Pcard.• Classifying ERP/e-procure/ Catalog Data to standard /customized schema/ taxonomy (UNSPSC).• Building Models of historical spend data for application software.• Expertise in performing POC (Proof of Concept) for the clients' sample data (Pilot projects).• Capable of handling 1.2 millions of data transactions using oracle database.• Creating multiple business strategic reports using the data. Sourcing/ Contract Management/ Supplier Information Management :• Identification of the category for Sourcing• Identified potential new global and local suppliers• Invited vendors online for RFI and RFQ round• Conducted suppliers training of the tool (Software) to fill out RFI and RFQ responses• Floated e-RFI to the identified vendors and inviting proposal bids• Followed up with vendor for RFI and RFQ responses.• Used analytical methods to conduct the vendor selection process Significant Contributions- Procurement Analyst : • Key role on spend management software.• Implementing and Managing spend analytics and sourcing pilots for fortune 500 and 1000 companies• Leverage the categorization knowledge of customer's commodities from manual information to automated repeated & consistent categorization.• Creation of RFI,RFQ and BID optimization etc for the clients for online sourcing and Live events• Data manipulation and transformation using ORACLE ,SQL• Perform data mining to identify potential saving opportunities and convert into Sourcing projects.• Understand client’s buying patterns, key commodities and help with Sourcing project creation• Extensive product knowledge for Spend management module, Source module, cost modeling module and Supplier performance module

Mumbai Area, India

• As a development engineer, developing products & associated production processes as per customers’ requirement and also new products for company’s growth.• Procuring the raw materials along with the analysis of current inventory and also requirements for production.• Prepare BOM report as well as BOM analysis.• Commissioning & installing new manufacturing processes for existing & new products.• Vendor Development, and Vendor Management.• Resource allocation.• As a Project Leader, keeping progress track of project on daily management template basis, setting Sign posts & Toll gates for make it achieve as per planning.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Responsible Management

B.E., Mechanical, First Class

Bachelors of Engineer in Mechanical