Officer Central Procurement
Oman Insurance
Total years of experience :7 years, 8 Months
Primarily involved in End to End Sourcing and Procurement of IT Software, Hardware and Services,
also involved in procurement of Administration, Finance, Human Resources Depts.
• Responsible to source, negotiate and purchase of services and products for the organization
• Stakeholder engagement - Understanding the Business requirement and Planning for RFQ/RFP’s
• Reaching out to market, conducting RFI, RFP and RFQ’s on a daily basis
• Commercial negotiation to delivered target saving and negotiation of T&C’s
• Supplier selection, Vendor onboarding and Registration
• Supplier evaluation, Vendor rating and Supplier relationship management
• Execution of the Contacts & Agreements
• Procure to pay operations- contract awarding, POs and delivery of items
• Involved in the development and Implementation of e-Procurement system, provide business
requirements, user testing and rollout.
Company 1: Infosys BPO Ltd. Bangalore, India
Role: Sourcing Specialist
Period: 22-Aug-2011 - 2-Jan-2014 (2.5 years)
Client: British Petroleum
Functions:
• Sourcing and Procuring of IT Software, Hardware and Services for various Business Units of British Petroleum (Oil and Gas Company) across United Kingdom, part of European Union and United States of America.
• Perform Supplier Evaluation on the basis of Cost to procure goods and services. Send out RFP’s and RFQ’s to various Supplier and work with the clients in evaluating and selecting the suppliers and awarding the project.
• Perform supplier selection and supplier evaluation and create agreements and contracts involved in different kinds of Projects as per the requirement.
• Negotiate on the T's and C's of the Agreements and commercial negotiation involving execution of Non-Disclosure Agreement, Service Agreements for services, Schedules for Master Agreements for Purchase of Goods and services.
• Drafting the Statement of Work for specific projects in Software, Hardware and Telecoms services
• Set up calls with the internal stakeholder to have a better understanding of the requirement.
• Interaction with the Indirect Procurement managers to ensure the smooth flow of the Projects to ensure the Contract, Schedule/SOW is signed off by both parties.
• Preparing Order forms for executing the Purchase orders through Purchase-to-Pay AP System like Click Commerce (Emptoris) and Ketera tools through Order Management team
• Also, responsible for setting up new IT vendors across UK and USA in P2P systems by coordinating with support team (internal vendor integration team)
• Responsible for Escalation Management and providing RCA for issues seen during day to day operations and involved in training people and Monthly Operational review reports and decks
Company 2: IBM India Pvt, Ltd. Bangalore, India
Role: Procurement Specialist
Period: 13-Sep- 2010 - 16-Aug 2011 (11 months)
Client: Internal
• Part of the procurement team for Business Services. Job responsibilities include working on SAP systems to create Purchase Orders, analyze Statement of Works and work on agreements with various vendors of IBM.
• Negotiating terms of business with suppliers, maintaining relationships with internal clients and strategic partners/vendors
• Managing the Supplier relationship to a level consistent with IBM's initiatives, and executing sourcing strategies as set out by the Country Procurement team
• Generation of weekly and monthly reports for the Manger's, Client Ops Head's and Onsite Service Delivery lead's review on weekly and monthly basis
Professional Education in procurement and supply
Post Graduation - MBA - Marketing (IMS Hubli, IIBM University, 2008 -2010)
Graduation - Bsc (J.S.S. College, Dharwad, 2005-2008)