Oct 2020 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Jun 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Procurement & Supply Chain Management for Airborne Platforms & Systems

Mar 2018 – Jan 2019 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Project Management for Global Supply Chain Services for Aerospace Clients
• Key Result Areas:
• Manage Global Supply Chain for Aerospace domain
• Manage Overall Scope, Schedule, Cost & Quality of the Program
• Manage Transfer of Work Projects for Aerospace manufacturing
• Monitor & Manage Program & Supply Chain Risks
• Facilitate FAI & Industrialization of new SoWs
• Monitor Supplier performance metrics
• Facilitate Identification of Root Causes & Implementation of Corrective Actions incase of conformance issues
• Enable Recovery of Underperforming Suppliers
• Lead Supplier Development & Supplier Quality Improvement Initiatives
• Perform Supplier Capability & Capacity Assessment
• Identify, Evaluate & Implement Continuous Improvement Initiatives

Aug 2013 – Mar 2018 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Key Result Areas:
• Managing the supply chain services including supplier development, procurement, inventory management, material management and logistics for the projects
• Accelerating the delivery of parts required for various orders of the customers (dealers) and ensuring the delivery at the right time & place
• Scheduling the plans & working with the suppliers to ensure the availability of parts to fill orders on-time and cascading the forecast based schedules to suppliers
• Executing innovative sourcing policies and procedures, pricing, streamlining workflow and creating team environment to increase productivity
• Streamlining the system and procedures for effective inventory control and ensuring ready availability of materials to meet the requirement
• Developing sourcing strategies and tactics to effectively leverage the supply base, including supplier identification, evaluation and selection
• Facilitating new product development initiative with key focus on Quality, Cost & Delivery; developing components
• Resolving technical queries and; liaising with suppliers to solve missed deliveries, short shipments & pricing discrepancies
• Administering on-site activities to ensure completion of project within the time & cost parameters and effective resource utilization to maximize the output
• Significant Accomplishments:
• Developed international suppliers for aerospace grade raw material, consumables & bought outs
• Managed sourcing process (RFQ release, bid tabulation, negotiations & PO release)
• Coordinated for duty free import of raw material through advances authorization
• Introduced consignment inventory model for raw material procurement resulting in positive cash flow
• Implemented total cost of ownership model for raw material procurement
• Implemented framework for Supplier Capability, Capacity & Performance Assessment

Sep 2009 – Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Key Result Areas:
• Strategized the business directions of the plant to ensure maximum profitability in line with organizational objectives
• Implemented systems, managed daily operations to achieve maximum efficiency in operations; formulated & implemented strategy to exceed revenue budgets
• Responsible for Production planning and inventory management to ensure smooth flow through bottlenecks
• Stakeholder management & Interfacing with multiple project managers, customers, suppliers, production, quality, finance, procurement, maintenance, IT teams to achieve OTIF targets
• Administered the improvement through the means of Six sigma and VSM projects
• Analysed data and solved problems to improve the flow, OTIF, profitability and quality
• Major Accomplishments:
• Improved:
• o Revenue by more than 4 times in 4 years
• o Profitability of the business from -7% in 2009-10 to 27% in 2014-15
• o On-time delivery from 76% in 2009-10 to 95% in 2014-15
• o Quality through Lean Manufacturing Initiatives like VSM, 6 Sigma and PFMEA
• Implemented QMS including ISO 9001:2009 & AS 9100 rev C
• Successfully lead the team to win IMEA (Frost & Sullivan) manufacturing excellence award in Gold and Platinum category Part of the core team formed to execute a green-field project of setting up a world class manufacturing facility at Coimbatore

Jul 2005 – Sep 2009 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Key Result Areas
• Interacted with the clients and product designers for the electrical switch gear product design refinement
• Design of stamping dies, moulds for electrical switchgear products
• Supply chain development & Sourcing of stamping dies & moulds
• Lead the design team to develop tooling for aero engines manufacturing
• Key Assignments
• Deputed at Pratt & Whitney, Connecticut, USA for 6 months as a tool engineer and a liaison engineer.