Feb 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Sole point of contact for India Sourcing/Tactical buyer.
• Heading the Operations team in assisting the sourcing managers, business partners and suppliers working in U.S and India.
• Handling end to end negotiations, Supply Chain Management, Contract Negotiations, Vendor Relations and Organizational Leadership in India Procurement.
• Generating high value savings for the company with effective negotiations.
• End to end process movement from procurement to payment for the supplier within tight deadlines.
• Creating purchase orders for the invoices received from the vendors.
• Tracking monthly and yearly consumption or necessary products for IT, Facilities and HR and renewing the contract or releasing bulk purchase orders as per the requirements.
• Worked with our top suppliers to improve quality of our products before we receive it and improvement of their deliveries to us.
• Was part of the two member team in setting up a new office in India from IT infrastructure, meeting rooms, audio visuals for the entire floor to facilities requirements like sourcing and hiring a new security agency, housekeeping team and employees’ daily cab services.
• Assigned tasks to associates, staffed projects, tracked progress and updated managers, partners and clients as necessary.

Aug 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Responsible for creation of Requisitions in COUPA for Procurement Operations related activities.
• Responsible for Supplier On boarding in the invoice processing Portal (COUPA & Peoplesoft).
• Responsible for Supporting the suppliers towards electronic invoicing backed by the valid contracts and training them with the process of submitting the invoices in COUPA via call/email.
• Assisting/Supporting the buyer/invoice requester/vendors with COUPA related queries (NON PO and PO).
• Handling the responses on behalf of Procurement team for procurement related questions and resolving errors/challenges in an accurate manner in two different generic mailboxes.
• Assisting Procurement Legal team in Contract Management Project.
• Working closely with Accounts Payable team for resolving Supplier payment issues.
• Providing Support in Various Procurement Operation Related Activities.
• Providing Support in Special Projects as needed.
• Collaboration with related groups such as Procurement Legal team, Accounts Payable, Finance business office and US client groups.
• Follow up on the Purchase order ( such as Receipt of Confirmation, Payment Status of the invoices, Providing information about the PO status to the internal stakeholders as needed from COUPA).

Feb 2013 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Time Consumer Marketing Photo Right/Clearance for Time Inc Magazine promotions -
• Sole point of contact for all over the company for image licensing/clearance.
• Saved cost for the company for an amount of more than $35,000 by negotiating prices with the agencies like AP, REUTERS, GETTY etc.
• Managed and negotiated with all the major Photo Agencies in US for getting clearance rights on images for magazine promotions like People, Time, and Fortune etc.
• Licensing coordinator for PEOPLE magazine.
• Modifying and uploading magazine covers through Photoshop on shared server, so the company marketers and art directors can use them for live online ads.