Aravind Jamakhandi

•Sourcing Strategy Execution: Implement and manage sourcing strategies, mitigating supply risks to ensure uninterrupted business continuity. •Global Strategy Alignment: Contribute to regional and global sourcing strategies by integrating local market insights and requirements. •Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with engineering teams to fulfil R&D order requirements, ensuring smooth coordination and delivery. •Supplier Development: Manage and develop country-specific suppliers, enhancing performance and fostering long-term partnerships. •Supplier Issue Resolution: Serve as the first point of escalation for local supplier challenges, ensuring timely and effective resolution. •Strategic Process Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of sourcing processes, implementing improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. •Sourcing Plan Execution: Develop and execute detailed sourcing plans; evaluate supplier responses, validate outcomes with stakeholders, prepare award recommendations. •Supplier Relationship Management: Build and sustain strong supplier relationships, fostering competitive pricing and identifying cost-saving opportunities. •Commodity Ownership: Act as the local sourcing owner for assigned IT products and services for R&D. •Business Alignment: Collaborate with key stakeholders to align sourced materials and services with business needs, ensuring procurement outcomes.

Strategic Procurement Analyst (Global Indirect Procurement) (March-20 to Present) •Overseeing all travel procedures and operations. Managing relationships with travel agencies and vendors •Conducting reviews with vendors and informing vendors of their responsibilities and obligations. •Analyzes industry trends and procurement performance to support Travel category reports results of analyses to the program manager •Management of Contracts/Agreements for the travel category which involves working with Category managers, Suppliers to get needed attributes, etc •Partnering with the category managers/leads to support finalizing and managing budgets, reporting the actual vs. planned, forecast vs. budget, etc. Also, working with finance for the approval. Handling approximately 45 Mn spend yearly. •Managing end-to-end Procure to Pay (P2P) process for the Indirect category: Supporting Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Supplier Follow up, Expedite, Price list adherence, tracking GR & AP •Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to assure the timely supply of goods and services to clients •Handle invoice disputes and resolve the same by working with AP to make sure suppliers get paid on time/excess & incorrect payments are not made •Partner with internal teams to help create and drive tools and process improvements that affect purchasing and vendor management workflow Procurement Operations Analyst (Global Indirect Procurement) (March-18 to Feb-20) Vendor Administration: •Perform Work allocation to the team members and manage any queries within the team. •Management of onboarding of new team members and completing the process training. •Provide coaching, and knowledge transfer to develop team members to be more effective in their current roles •Co-ordinate between various teams in Procurement/Finance and Approve supplier profile creation to the database for further engagement

Category Delivery Assurance & Sourcing Center: •Conduct Global and regional sourcing events and work closely with Business Functions in managing Costs and Supplier engagements for less than 50K USD for labor requirements. •Established connect forum between Procurement and Finance function to review invoice payment to vendors as per contractual agreements across regions •Support Category team with required details for procurement under various category products and services •Contact vendors by obtaining quotations/bids to award purchase orders. •Perform Negotiation with suppliers for pricing, delivery schedules, and payment terms •Build a strong relationship with customers and ensure customer satisfaction. Quoting: •Source Price quotes for External accounts to fulfill procurement needs across the region from suppliers and OEMs •Evaluate project scope and requirements to determine sourcing approach and methodology to be applied •Execute RFI, RFP, and RFQ process for Reseller accounts and Third-party accounts based on BoM and projects •Perform in-depth analysis of proposals submitted, draw conclusions, prepare comprehensive summaries, and present back to the client in a concise manner. •Collaborate with Category Managers to understand commodity strategy. Based on inputs received, share the current market price received for further approval or take the necessary decision •Identify areas of process inefficiencies and suggest improvements to improve efficiency and effectiveness •Provide coaching, and knowledge transfer to develop team members to be more effective in their current roles •Provide End to End Procurement (Request to Delivery) ownership to Clients

Bachelor Of Science