Senior Manager- Procurement Services
Transport & Services Company (ET)
Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months
• Provided strategic leadership for managing strategic global procurement operations/initiatives that drive cost savings and supplier performance improvements.
• Owning a successful track record of delivering robust savings through Procurement transformation.
• Build a culture of continuous improvement, process improvement projects thereby crucial profit drivers.
• Achieved significant initial and sustained operational cost reductions, improved service levels and reliability.
• Successfully delivered high-end projects including but not limited to e-procurement systems implementation, organization restructure, & legal and regulations changes.
• Directing procurement and strategic sourcing operations and services support functions, supplier management, and strategic relationship development for supporting the company’s multi-million in addressable spend.
• Commanding transformation across all aspects of procurement - strategy formulation, operating model creation, driving operating excellence & delivering superior business results.
• Leading end to end suppliers’ relationship management process. Sourcing and onboarding new suppliers, resulting in an increase in supplier diversity whilst decreasing the overall procurement lead time.
• Monitoring department compliance performance; audit, QHSE functions within the evolving regulatory landscape.
• Establishing a framework to monitor procurement performance through spend analysis and reports to drive cost reduction projects, best sourcing strategies & governance.
• Heading a dynamic team of 8, providing leadership through a combination of empowerment and coaching to encourage staff development & elevate procurement team performance.
• Managed a robust suppliers' portfolio. Identified new reliable suppliers & vendors to optimize cost competitiveness, quality, on-time delivery, and service/responsiveness.
• Expert strategic negotiator/influencer, successfully negotiated contracts with key suppliers, achieving robust cost savings and improving contract terms and conditions to mitigate risks.
• Directed Suppliers’ life-cycle management - on-boarding, pre-qualification, performance management to retirement.
• Facilitated continuous improvement initiatives to realize year-on-year incremental improvements & cost savings.
Quickly shifted to a remote leadership model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively managed during a challenging economic period.
• Established supplier management policy, including supplier pre-qualification criteria, evaluation criteria, rating, and performance management process.
• Initiated new practices, supplier classification, supplier code of conduct, best performance, and excellence awards.
• Offered consultative insights around best-in-class Suppliers management practices and benchmarking. Pre-qualified and short-listed suppliers for tenders.
Initiated partnership programs with suppliers for adding value services such as: training, warranty, after-sales services, best practice sharing, and joined social initiatives.
• Implemented procurement procedures and strategies to ensure that delivery, quantity, quality, and cost are met according to set procedures, contracts, and schedules.
• Processed P2P cycle for business units as per the authority level. Delivered challenging targets through stable, transparent procurement operations, control, and monitoring.
• Compilation of various input to create a more complete tender proposal. Collated tender documents, invitations, clarifications, awards and regret letters.
• Master Negotiator pulled off incredible deals with favorable terms.
Generated reports of the purchasing process and developed robust fact-based statistical support tools, price proposals, and financial reports to facilitate informed decision-making.
