Sep 2020 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• Heading the supply chain department and managing the products department involving product development, procurement, quality control.

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 · 3 mos · Durham, England, United Kingdom

• Cievert is a healthcare start-up company that works for the NHS, UK. Tasked to develop a new market entry business strategy for the USA market (USD $3.6 Trillion), to understand the cost implications, product viability and commercial viability. Based on this report Cievert will seek funding (up to USD $10 Million) for its US expansion

Mar 2019 – May 2019 · 2 mos · Durham, England, United Kingdom

• Tasked to develop a new strategy for moving into the digital age and to expand its outreach to new patients, families and seek more donations. Developed new social media campaigns to increase brand awareness, visibility and brand recognition. Post implementation, reportedly donations rose by 60% and the number of families approaching for assistance increased by 75% (approx).

Aug 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Outline of Responsibilities: Procurement Management & Internal Auditing
• Managed procurement up to USD$ 400K and creating commercial bids for new contracts.
• Responsible for vendor development, vendor on-boarding and government client management for commercial contracts & negotiations.
• Managed team sizes varying between 50 – 150 comprising of Engineers and workers.
• Creating procurement plans for short and long term by evaluating cost and time factors.
• Purchase contract management along with implementing legal measures for every order (domestic or international).
• Devising annual operational procurement strategy and revising the same over time to be in line with our targets.
• Accountable for Procure-to-Pay model of procurement coupled with demand planning and resource utilization.
• Responsible for conducting internal audits in the office, on-board the ships and vendor performance evaluation.
• Responsible for advance planning of vessel repairs by creating project plans, budgets and requirement analysis.
• Monthly reporting to Head Office Norway (HO) with regards to budgets, expenditure, planning and revenue.
• Organizing working teams with different nationalities and creating cohesive working environment.
• Project planning risk identification, evaluation and risk mitigation for least impact and least possible losses.

Aug 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Outline of Responsibilities: Procurement System SME (Subject Matter Expert)
• Responsible for maintaining and constantly upgrading the procurement system.
• Responsible for converting older paper records into digitized version.
• In charge of data management and updating the Vendor Database with new vendors and their information.
• Lead a team of 5 developers to create similar administrative systems for the HO.

Aug 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Outline of Responsibilities: Software Developer
• Software development of procurement system for the company based on .Net and Oracle.
• Understanding the business requirement and designing the procurement system to match the existing manual procedures.
• Meeting vendors to understand their role in the system.
• The developed system resulted in company’s lesser spending on manual follow-ups and better order & inventory management.

Feb 2010 – Feb 2012 · 2 yrs · India

• New Project planning - Requirement and data gathering from the client for the new projects, analysing the requirement for suitability, developing prototype for client’s approval, coding for the new software, testing the software and deploying the software at client’s end.
• Creating reusable frameworks which can be used by other teams and other projects.
• Client project reporting through reports and system demos.
• Managing the resources available for the project. Trained in working the best with the least resources possible.
• Worked simultaneously with 3 teams located at 3 different continents on multiple projects at the same time.