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Manta AirHead of Supply Chain
Apr. 2024Malé, MaldivesLeadership in Procurement & Logistics: Provided overall leadership for procurement and logistics operations, focusing on cost-effective sourcing and building relationships with reliable suppliers for critical components, including aircraft spare parts for DHC-6 and ATR aircraft. Technology Sourcing: Spearheaded the sourcing and integration of advanced aviation technologies, including cutting-edge avionics systems, fluid control systems, and Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies, ensuring alignment with Manta Air’s operational goals. Managed procurement and deployment of advanced Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies at Manta Air, optimizing communication systems and achieving cost efficiencies across a spend portfolio of $50 million. Vendor Management: Implemented robust vendor management processes to ensure seamless collaboration, cost optimization, and alignment with organizational objectives in a dynamic environment. Strategic Sourcing: Developed strategies to minimize procurement and logistics expenses while maintaining smooth operations, ensuring supply chain resilience through comprehensive risk management frameworks. Regulatory Knowledge & Compliance: Ensured adherence to aviation industry regulations and international standards during sourcing and supply chain activities. Responsible for overseeing the performance, maintenance, and lifecycle management of EV batteries in the fleet, ensuring optimal efficiency, safety, and compliance with industry standards. Budget & Cost Management: Leveraged analytical skills to manage budgets effectively, ensuring cost control and financial efficiency in procurement operations, while aligning spending with organizational goals.
BoeingProcurement Manager
Jul. 2017 - Apr. 2024Bengaluru, Karnataka, India•Managing and Supporting India, APAC, EMEA and US for IT Products and services procurement activities worth $200M with a team of 22 members. -Managed direct procurement of aerospace structures, precision equipment, and critical components for Boeing, overseeing a $100M annual spend while ensuring compliance with FAA/defense regulations, optimizing supplier performance, and driving cost-saving initiatives. •Solely responsible for preparing Bid Package for IT product and services till 5 MM by Working on strategy, Writing SOW, Developing/Polishing SOW, Services, Develop Metrics/SLAs, SOW quality, Prepare for Technical evaluation and gather all the information for RFP. •Analyze and consult on requirements for IT products and services and facilitate Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Procurement (RFP) processes, including developing Statement of Work (SOW) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to meet business requirements •Drive compliance by evangelizing appropriate process and controls and ensure that all stakeholders, business groups, suppliers are operating within the defined compliance framework
SAPProject Head
Nov. 2013 - Aug. 2016Bangalore• Handling more than 15 customers in procurement related activities • Supplier enablement. • Negotiations with suppliers for optimum savings to organization. • Sourcing activities including strategic and tactical. • Catalog enablement for both CIF and punchout catalogs. • Troubleshooting for punchouts/Cxml. • Building healthy and long term relationships with both customers and suppliers for smooth operations and better understanding of processes. • Providing presentations to customers and suppliers in domains as per agreements. • Attending conferences and seminars in the United States for uniform and better operations globally. • Live One on one interactions with both customers and suppliers to understand the gaps and bridge them seamlessly by methods of six sigma and lean six sigma. • Completed my PMP certification. • Six sigma certified. • Lean six sigma certification in progress.
AccentureProject Consultant
Dec. 2011 - Oct. 2013Bangalore• Procuring materials and finalizing contracts/services in the areas of technology (hardware and software), infrastructure/facilities, educational books, office supplies, catering services, other services and maintenance contracts. • Vendor identification, evaluation, selection and management • Managing negotiation, commercials, and agreements with vendors in line with existing policy framework/guidelines and organizational values. • Other related responsibilities which may come up from time to time. • Creating requisitions for capex and opex. • Making sure vendor is paid on a timely basis. • Analytics for every month to capture spend on commodities. • Preparing the monthly coverage report on the availability of material. • Material planning for the inhouse manufacturing & outsource vendors. • Ensuring the timely completion of the project. • Using SAP R/3 for Sale Order Booking, BOM creation, Requisition and PO generation. • Coordinating with the supplier to improve the over all quality and delivery , Vendor Development. • Daily co-ordination for project review with superiors.
IBM Global ServicesSourcing Strategist
Dec. 2005 - Oct. 2011Handle end to end sourcing activity. Demonstrated ability to construct and manage RFIs/RFPs/RFQ's; to drive supplier selection processes. Experience in developing & negotiating contracts with existing/new suppliers. Execute/Develop sourcing strategies inline with global and local Procurement Policies. Gathering Business requirements and managing demand management data for various business units and analyze saving opportunities for the client. Develop sourcing strategies which are aligned to cluster business objectives/strategies delivering quantified benefits against performance metrics covering logistics, service, quality, cost, innovation and risk mitigation Drive cost reduction / Cost Control / Cost Compliance. Conduct Supplier Performance Evaluation and engage with suppliers in improving quality of deliverables. Negotiate and manage contracts for all strategic and operational suppliers. Ensuring proper management and administration of contracts. Ensuring that stringent SLAs are signed up with vendors and contracts and managed. Handled products ranging from Third party maintenance, IT products (Hardware, software, technical services), telecommunications and networking, office supplies, travel. Ensuring cost reduction without compromising quality. Procurement activities supported end to end in regions ranging from US, Canada, Europe, India, South East Asia. Client management and interaction. Also completed two projects applying 6 sigma. (Six Sigma yellow and green belt) Have been onsite to Australia for specific projects and handled teams ranging from 2 to 14 people.
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