Hadlee D'Silva

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A well-focused and target oriented with firm expertise in sourcing, strategy planning and management with over 25 years of valuable professional skills. Proactive and performs well both independently and as a part of team. Strong organizational skills with demonstrated critical thinking, problem solving, analytical and excellent personal skills under demand management, cost saving, process improvement, automation, digitization, administrative excellence and communicate concisely at all levels.

SKILLSET
Demand Management, Stakeholder Management, Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Negotiation, People Management, Vendor Management, Procurement, Purchasing, Contract Negotiation, Analytics, Process Optimization, Continuous Improvement, Project Planning, Spend, Budgeting & Business Analytics, Vendor Managed Inventory

Key Responsibilities:
• Sourcing, tendering, negotiating & delivering procurement projects to attain best price/quality/service
• Preparing spend analysis report, set appropriate benchmarks & highlighting cost saving areas
• Coaching, mentoring, motivating & supervising team members on time to time basis
• Vendor Management & Vendor Performance review along with the stakeholders
• Explore, develop and execute new enhanced procurement strategies & value adds
• Procuring IT (Hardware, Software, AMC & Resource), Non-IT items (Print, Fit outs, Marketing, Products, Insurance, FM, General Services, Security and resources) for bank and group companies
• Establish procedures, reporting key metrics that will reduce overall spend while increasing productivity, monitor and assess service trends
• Manage every aspect of demand, supply, budget, spend and contract management.
• Explore new and innovative ideas for, automation, modernizing and simplifying the process, cost effective and value added.

Key Achievements:

Demand Management (DM) Champion: -
• Identify, manage, support, evaluate, report & prioritize cost save & process improvement projects
• Solely initiated and accomplished DM project such as Blackberry, MPS, Resource, Grocery, Stationery (Print & Table), Courier, Transport, Water etc
• Demand Management Expense Management
• Reported Yr 2019-Spend AED 42 Mio, Save AED 13Mio, Yr 2020-Spend AED 77 Mio, Save AED 34 Mio

Failure Celebration Champion: -
• Transform failed projects into learning and innovation.
• Embrace, create and focus on change and growth
• Brainstorming session and motivate
• Advise and assist team to reorganize ideas, procedures and techniques
• Year 2019 - 4 Projects, Year 2020 - 3 Projects converted to success

Process Improvement Champion: -
• Standardization, Consolidation and Automation - In Year 2020, total 19 processes implemented
• Value added inputs for Procurement, SOP, Procurement Policy (PP) & Compliance to PP

MEE Champion: -
• Guided team on various training, SOPs, Procurement policies and changes
• Workplace get together, celebrations, recognition program support & team building activities

Category Management Initiative: -
• Revamp manual process to digital, consolidation & reorganization of vendor management services
• Develop relationship with stakeholders and with approved suppliers

Audit Champion: -
• Standardizing various contracts, addendums, templates and supporting team

Group Procurement Champion: -
• Dealing and coordination with group companies to deal under Mashreq Umbrella or vice versa
• Successfully closed IT Hardware, Software & Services, Travel, Water, Transport, Record Mgmt, etc

LEADERSHIP Demand Management Champion, Employee Engagement Champion, Failure Celebration Champion, People Management, Vendor & Service Management, Process Improvement Champion, Audit Champion, Team Building, Risk Management, Project Lead for iProc and ADM implementation, Assessment - Procurement Policy, Cost Save Methodology, SOPs and Workflow

Oct 1998 onwards : Seven Seas Computers, Dubai UAE.

Seven Seas Computers is an IT solutions provider and reseller of Compaq computers. At Seven Seas, I am positioned as CGS Administrator.

Job Responsilibties involve
Managing complete spare stocks and RMA stores for the service of Compaq, IBM, Cisco, Lucent, Avaya, BT and other products for Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi branches.
Execution of all after sale services such as warranty claims and contracts fo Compaq and non Compaq products.
Processing request orders online on a daily basis, HP Open View, Spare tracking (Lotus Note) and dispatch of material on a priority basis.
Rsponsible for documentation and execution of the entire activity of RMA items right from Issuing the parts to engineers to Return of faulty parts to Compaq and ensuring replacement of respective parts.
Claiming, invoicing and reconciling of RMA items on site.
Regular follow-up with Compaq to ensure timely delivery of parts ordered and timely collection of payments due.
Maintaing fortnightly reports on orders received from the engineers and parts dispatched.
Regular stock reconciliation, stock analysis and stock estimation for ensuring smooth stock operations.
Intimating the accounts department regarding slow moving and non-moving items, by way of regular reports and also giving them the complete reports of support transactions.
Updating the entire CSG Groupm Dubai and Abu Dhabi reqularly, on latest spare prices and warranties.
Evaluating CSG revenue and performance and reporting the same to the CSG Manager, on a weekly basis, along with suggestions for improvement and alteration.

Innova is a British managed Joint Venture manufacturing company organization, belonging to the Group of A.A.A. Moosa.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements:

• Executing the entire procurement activity.
• Generating stock valuation & costing of inventories, reconciliation & finished goods
• Producing forecast, budgetary reports, maintaining records of assets
• Auditing purchase documents like invoice, certificate of origin, technical specs, packing lists and quality assurance certificates
• Preparing sales documentation like packing list, delivery order, invoice, as well as other export documents like airway bills, bill of lading, certificate of origin etc as per buyer’s needs
• Computing, allocating leave salary & payments like gratuity, interest, airfare, rent etc

Crest Communications is an advertising agency with studio, production, post-production and graphics facilities.

Job Responisibilities
Managing accounts upto trial balance
Preparing schedules for Studio Editors, Billing and Booking Clerks.
Interacting with bankers on various matters, LC, OD & other facilities.
Reconciliation of billing statements with billing clerks and banks.
Reporting to Financial Controller on daily income and expenses.
Assigning work to 5 Data Entry Operators and monitoring their performance.
Monthly salary preparation of 150 employees.

Zenith Rubber and Plastic Works is rubber manufacturing organization.

Job Responsilibilies involved
Managing accounts upto trial balance.
Implenting the tailor made accounting package -ALPHA.
Regular preparation of export documentation.
Billing to the regular and international markets and payment follow-up with them.
Salary preparation of 105 employees.

Antares Marketing is one of the leading Interior and Exterior decortors of India and one of the leading Distributors of Hunter Douglas Pte, Netherlands, famous for its Luxaflex Venetian & window covering products and Luxalon Alluminium Flase Ceiling products.

Job Responisilibities involve
Handling the companies accounting system - Munimji and EX.
Inventory Management,
Preparation of quotations and billings.
Recovering payments from debtors.
Salary preparation of 25 employees.

Pactel Automation is a trading service company in Panasonic products.

Job Resposiblities involved
Assisting the accountant in maintaing books of accounts.
Handling day to day administration in the organization.