Jun 2017 – Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

•  Leading Procurement and Strategic Sourcing of Global IT Services and Professional Services.
•  Category Management of IT-Professional services, Contingent workforce, Application Development & Maintenance, Infrastructure Services, Outsourcing Projects, Category planning and execution.
•  Implement outsourcing model for better services and cost optimization, Lead outsourcing project (E2E) Operationalize – Stabilize and Optimize Outsource projects, Drive outsource Process including, Market analysis, requirement gathering & Planning, Vendor identification and competency check, Risk- Mitigation Commercial Negotiation, finalize engagement model, Build and operates outsourcing projects.
•  Developed & Implemented Sourcing strategies at global scale, long term planning with business, identifying vendor according to long term plans, commercial negotiation with vendor and constant process improvement and cost saving planning with optimize solutions for stakeholders.
•  Perform Spend Analysis & Trend analysis to identify potential opportunities and improvement areas, Enhancing buying power through spend analysis and creating visibility and control on Category.
•  Contract Management, Contract Negotiation & Re-Negotiation, Contract Compliance & Risk Management, Identify Gaps & Opportunity from vendor contracts and build solution to mitigate risks and optimize delivery & cost, Ensure Vendor SLA/KPI should be driven accordance to contract.
•  Vendor Management, Vendor selection & governance, Risk Management, Vendor Audit, Vendor Performance Management, Vendor Categorization & Consolidation, Enhanced and Transform Vendor Risk Management, Vendor Audit, Vendor Rating, Digitalized Vendor Scorecards.
•  Developed Single window service providers to achieve procurement and business goals and build alternate supplier base to leverage better pricing and quality. Identify & Develop local vendors to achieve Cost effective purchases

Feb 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

•  Lead Strategic Sourcing of IT services & Professional Services, IT-Software for APAC Region.
•  Sourcing Planning and execution of large-scale Managed services projects.
•  Executed Vendor consolidation project and successfully reduce 70% vendor base and categories vendors accordance with Sourcing plan and Company goals.
•  Expert in Managed Services or IT Outsourcing contracts including expertise in outsourcing methodologies, contracts and commercial models
•  Categorization of suppliers and suppliers’ evaluation to develop the suppliers as per business need.
•  Contract management (Value of $450 million), Manage Contract compliance, Contractual Risks, Contract Change management, Contract disputes, Contract Negotiation, Contract Review and renegotiation, Contract Management
•  Developed and Improved end -to-end Vendor Life-Cycle Management process. Enhanced and Transform Vendor Risk Management, Vendor Audit, Vendor Rating.
•  Vendor relationship management including rate card negotiations and performance evaluation (assist on all stages from RFP to executed contract).
•  Spend Management and Spend Analysis, Trend Analysis, Drive cost saving out of spend analysis.
•  Manage Contract compliance, Contractual Risks, Contract Change management, Contract disputes, Contract Negotiation, Contract Review and renegotiation, Contract Management
•  Responsible for the Identification and selection of competitive sources, New Vendor development, both in local & global market to develop alternate source of purchase and achieve cost effectiveness

Mar 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore, India

•  Global Sourcing, Spend Analysis, Vendor Management, Contract Management, Cost Saving.
•  Improvement of current process efficiency and Innovating new ways to make the procurement process faster and simple. Standardization of Procurement Processes and Policies.
•  Implement cost saving models like Re-utilization, Central Purchase, Reducing Global Supplier Base, Introducing Consolidators, Contracts Review, Reducing Adhoc Purchase, Process Optimization.
•  Vendor Analysis, Vendor Due-Diligence, Vendor selection, Negotiation, Collaboration and Contract Management in line with global strategies. Identify alternate procurement options.
•  Finding out Cost saving opportunities. Execute sourcing activities and strategic decision related to Sourcing. Procurement support to senior level Management (CPO, VP, Directors).
•  Spend Analysis, Analyzing spend opportunities, Market Analysis, Utilizing buying power.
•  Trend Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Cost Analysis, Identify Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Budget preparation and Target setting.
•  RFX Response evaluation by scoring, financial analysis, supplier due-diligence, commercial Negotiations and contracts & SOW negotiation.
•  Market analysis and Vendor Identification, Bid analysis, Commercial Negotiation with the vendor, Contract negotiation. Floating RFP, Calculating Total cost of ownership.
•  Design-Develop-Implement vendor Selection process for world largest FMCG group.
•  Contracts Review and Renegotiation of contracts. Work closely with internal SMEs in work-streams, such as, Legal, Compliance, Information Security, etc. During the Contracting Process.
•  Executed sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility aligned with the requirements of stakeholders and business partners with cooperation with Global Categories team.
•  Delivered benefits identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution

Feb 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Noida

•  Procurement and Strategic Sourcing support for Financial and Insurance Services and products.
•  Construct and manage RFIs/ RFPs/RFQ’s; to drive supplier selection processes.
•  Develop and negotiate contracts with existing/new suppliers, including License Agreements and ASP Agreements. Manage win/win sourcing strategies with suppliers
•  Vendor Management (Vendor Rating, Vendor Performance assessment, Vendor Audit, Contract renewal etc.).
•  Lead vendor analysis integration; align with strategic initiatives by leveraging strong contract negotiations. Suppliers contract / service disputes and develops action plans to prevent or minimize them.
•  Supplier Relationship Management (On-boarding, Enabling, Training and Support).
•  Setup Supply Chain Shared Service Organization (As-Is-Process Mapping & Designing of To-Be Process for the Client). Implementation of To-Be Processes of Supply Chain. Created a cost effective SCM strategy & an efficient Procurement Model.
•  Global Sourcing, Reverse-auction, RFI & RFQ and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
•  Designing SIPOC, Define Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
•  Business process re-engineering, Fill Rate Analysis and Calculation, Root Cause analysis.
•  KRAs design & implementation at each level and Review of KPIs as per KRAs.

Sep 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

•  Purchasing of Bill of material, Supply chain Management, Logistics Management,
•  Negotiation with vendors, Developing New Source of Supply.
•  Overseas Procurement, Shipment clearance from customs, Inventory Management.
•  Purchase Order Management, Managing Distribution Channel and Logistics service providers.
•  Comparative analysis, Timely procurement and distribution of Material.
•  Annual Budgeting, Cost control by Identify pain areas of Logistic, Planning and operations.
•  Making and managing contracts with Vendor and Logistics Service Provider.
•  Handling Complete Export & Import for all four zones, Implementation of RFID.