Team Lead- Indirect Procurement

• Sep 2022 - Present

Category Manager, Indirect Procurement ( professional services)

• Sep 2021 - Sep 2022

Responsible for contingent workforce suppliers, 10ME spend. Also responsible for indirect spend including HR, Marketing and Facilites. Responsible for contingent workforce suppliers, 10ME spend. Also responsible for indirect spend including HR, Marketing and Facilites.

Procurement Manager

• Sep 2019 - Aug 2021

Responsible for defining and managing HR, Marketing and Facilities spend categories. Contract management systems RFP and setup. Responsible for defining and managing HR, Marketing and Facilities spend categories. Contract management systems RFP and setup.

Senior Procurement Manager, Indirect

• Nov 2017 - May 2019

Responsible for leading indirect procurement spend and implementing & executing sourcing strategies, initiatives and projects for a broad spectrum of spend categories, including but not limited to: Human resources, facilities, IT, marketing,plant equipment, tools, supplies and other business units. Primary responsibility includes leading and mentoring team of indirect spend Procurement professionals in the execution of competitive market analysis; supplier identification and relationship management; contract and price negotiations, and the day to day management of assigned commodity programs to drive savings, improve business processes and comply with all corporate, legal and regulatory policies. Show less

Procurement Manager, Indirect

• Feb 2016 - Nov 2017

Responsible for global indirect purchase spend of Euro 80 Million spread across different business unit human resource, facilities, IT, marketing and others. Working as business partner for Human Resources, facilities and financial shared services. Was able to achieve about 1.8ME saving on a 9ME touched spend.- Responsible for HR vendor management and contingent supplier spend of about Euro 30 Million under MSP program and other strategic supplier. Contract management for different services RPO, VMS system, MSP, outsourcing IT strategic contingent workforce supplier for various business unit, learning and development supplier, Arbo and many more.- Facilities and Financial shared service projects: Travel management vendor relationship spend 7ME, global payroll partner, payment service partner. - Other projects: worked on other project outside of key responsible areas. Worked on Field account manager supplier for UK, recommended for PAN Europe strategy for further cost reduction, hardware devices for client (Laptop and accessories), AWS, Azure and cloud solution, Contract management tool identification, procurement process. Show less

Credit Manager

• Jan 2012 - Feb 2016

•Managed hands-on, the global cash collection activities •Responsible for reporting status, progress and ownership.•Design & executed process around customer credit approval.•Brought transparency in global payment terms, conditions and arrangements.

Procurement Lead

• Feb 2008 - Dec 2011

Responsible for EMEA indirect purchase (Netherlands, France & UK)Vendor management, Tendering , Supplier selection, Contracting & Implementation,Supplier Relationship Management activities, Liaison between corporate suppliers & Internal Stakeholders. Develop vendor master data base, lead business review meetings, rolled out procurement process and policies (procure to pay project). Define requirements of ERP improvements (Dynamics AX 2009).

Project Manager

• Apr 2005 - Jul 2007

Responsible for Sauer Danfoss (Danish hydraulic and electronic systems organization) Pune division 15 ME. Involved for complete project lifecyle design to construction and implementation project coordination, monitoring, scheduling , procurement, contract formulation and administration Responsible for Sauer Danfoss (Danish hydraulic and electronic systems organization) Pune division 15 ME. Involved for complete project lifecyle design to construction and implementation project coordination, monitoring, scheduling , procurement, contract formulation and administration

Procurement Specialist

• Jan 2005 - Aug 2005

Responsible for Indirect purchase; office equipment’s, IS&T requirements (strategic partner Dell & Cisco), maintenance and building works.Bid expediting for Oil & gas offshore. Maintain Master data base. Responsible for Indirect purchase; office equipment’s, IS&T requirements (strategic partner Dell & Cisco), maintenance and building works.Bid expediting for Oil & gas offshore. Maintain Master data base.

Contract Formulator

• 2002 - 2004

Main responsibility Pre-qualification, bid evaluation, recommendations, and contract execution documents. Main responsibility Pre-qualification, bid evaluation, recommendations, and contract execution documents.