Procurement Project Manager
Total years of experience :21 years, 3 Months
Procurement domain specialist gold-medalist MBA with 13+ years’ experience in IT and IT-
enabled services (ITES) Industry
Procurement Services Delivery, India
Program/Project Manager for an FMCG/ Manufacturing client’s eSourcing and centralized procurement cell;
Consulting for Tata Sons centralized sourcing initiative
* Consulting for Strategic Sourcing for client’s new Central Procurement Cell (CPC) initiative
* Consulting for Tata Sons central procurement initiative
* Client and vendor contract management; first level reviews for client contracts before legal reviews
* Executed over 90 sourcing projects valued over USD 500 million
* eSourcing Functional Lead for client process transformation from paper-based processes to eSourcing
* Supported Project Manager for business transformation by creating 100% project documentation including
training manuals and conducting classroom training for over 50 client personnel
* Placed onsite for procurement consulting and to speed client acceptance of TCS Solution
* TCS Forward Auctions Platform \[Java\] Project Manager: Business Requirements, Process Design, User
Experience Design, Technical Testing Supervision, UAT and Service Delivery Management
* TCS and Client Management reporting (weekly/ monthly)
* Spend Analysis: being a solution lead for Spend Analysis helped our team present the analyses to a client
audience of over 40 personnel
* Vendor Management: Vendor identification including LCCS (Low Cost Country Suppliers), development,
appraisals and audits
* Audits: Client audit participation; internal audit management- quality (SOP audit/ process documentation
audit) and information security; vendor audit together with quality team personnel
* Client-TCS governance meeting participation as per agreed governance model
Procurement Presales including business requirements, process consulting, deal pricing, Supplier/
Vendor Management, Business Transformation
* Presales & Solutioning, Procurement Functional Consulting and IT-lead Business Transformation for S2P
(S2C and R2P/P2P), market research. Offering design and Presales generalist (asset/ offering release
documentation), RFx response creation and Management, Deal pricing and deal pricing mentor (team
training in pricing)
* Strategic sourcing for TCS Platform Solutions eSourcing software partnership
* Category Intelligence Hub (C-Hub) \[Java\] Project Manager: Management Reporting, Business Requirement,
UI design, Development Supervision: Application Page designing and developer supervisions, Testing,
Information Security and Access Management Design, database design, and project handover management
* Lead Delivery- Secondary Research Project for a US-based client: client single point of contact for client
customers
The job involved market intelligence using secondary
research in the consumer packaged goods industry; making company/ industry research reports with the
objective of generating insights to assist internal and external clients
The job involved knowledge management using secondary research for customized
company/ industry analysis.
Responsibilities and Growth Path:
* Promoted to the position of an
The work involved consultation for International Trade Finance and Forex exposures for clients based
in Delhi.
Market intelligence work includes direct client interaction, team management, workflow scheduling, feedback
management, and conducting kick-off, interim review and review calls with research requestors based in North
and South America, Europe and Australia. Handling of global delivery for the market intelligence function;
managing expectations at WNS, client and end-clients; ensuring compliance with quality procedures and
managing internal and external audits; team supervision.
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Business Process Operations (BPO) transitioning from clients’ to WNS in India in both analytics and business
research domains. This involves determining client requirements, estimating FTE requirements, determining
transitioning milestones including pilot and parallel runs, process documentation including work flowcharts,
process improvement suggestions and client signoffs, defining service level agreements and determining
feedback scale, and finally going live, and subsequent governance.
Core process was to provide support through market intelligence as Global Research Lead (Indirect
Commodities) as part of clients Procurement Center of Excellence. Primary and secondary research techniques
resulting in industry reports, company reports, supplier searches, and ad-hoc requests.
Responsibilities:
* Presenting WNS research capabilities to clients and managing client floor-walks for business development
* Managing internal and external quality audits; SPoC for customer services escalations per agreed matrix;
governance meeting presentations to clients
* Meeting client service level agreements (SLA): project delivery, and document worthiness
* Research Lead: Individually handling the end-to-end global market intelligence function for a $30 billion
Fortune 100 Company, from receiving the request to scoping deliverables and closing out with a review call
* Writing and supervising research projects with the objective of providing solutions through business research
to research requestors (end-client)
* Supervising Green Infrastructure (Energy and Building & Construction) team
* Developing/ reviewing key performance indicators (KPIs) and appraising a team 6 analysts and senior
analysts biannually
* Training the team on databases and providing data mining support, and document cleansing
marks