Hari Jayasekara
Procurement Transformation Director - Consultant @ Optus
About
Senior Procurement Director/CPO/Commercial Director bringing 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience from within industry and consulting, working across multiple geographies, running global multi-regional teams. I am passionate about establishing procurement Procurement and Commercial organisations which focus on delivering broad range value to the business. I pride on bringing key best practices from other functions and industries and incorporating them into the Procurement value chain to drive innovative and solution-focused procurement operating models. Experience across multiple industry sectors - Energy, Retail, Telecommunications & Media, Mining, Financial Services Deep experience in Procurement organisational integration and transformation (full end to end Operating Model change) Experience in both Regulated and Unregulated Procurement environments Originally from Sydney, Australia, now living in London, UK
Australia
Sydney
Oil & Energy
IT Transformation, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Transformation, Cost Reduction, Project Delivery, Litigation, Consulting, Analytical Skills, Cost Management, Dispute Resolution, Infrastructure, Strategy, Procurement, IT Outsourcing, Licensing, Budget Process, Commercial Management, Legal, Negotiation, Financial Analysis
Experience

Senior Vice President, Group Procurement (CPO)
Greater London
Leading the Procurement (Indirect & Capex/MRO) function across 10 countries spanning UK, EU, US & APAC Energy Trading (Commodities & Financial) & Supply business undergoing a total business transformation as well as a Procurement Transformation. Key successes included: • Driving the Procurement Transformation Program reflecting the new Procurement Op Model strategy – including: - Integration of Procurement teams across the geographies - Re-designing Procurement process to be compliant with EU Regulated Procurement - Design and implementation of new Procurement Op Model/strategy with a focus 3 pillars: (i) a commercial value driver (ii) data-lead decision making and (iii) driving procurement customer- centric efficiency - Development of integrated tech stack to reflect the To-Be One Procurement & Finance organization across S2P, incl successful implementation of greenfield P2P system (SAP S4Hana and SAP Ariba) - Design & implementation of greenfield Commercial Management and Strategic Partner Management capability to provide Transformation commercial support and drive partnerships and innovation across partner eco-system. • Providing Senior Executive Leadership to drive major end-to-end Business/IT transformation across the entire business – Finance/Accounting, Trading, Sales and Corporate/Back-office. • Implementation of new Procurement People, Culture & High Performance Strategy • Implementation of Procurement Strategy and Operational Roadmap to support initiative prioritization and continuous improvement of Procurement Function • Development of Procurement AI Strategy & Use Case Roadmap and successful deployment of internally developed of Contract Optimization and Review AI tool (C.O.R.E)

Head of IT Procurement & Market Data
London, England, United Kingdom
Reporting to the CPO, responsible for the global IT Procurement and Market Data Category • Implemented greenfield Strategic Supplier Relationship & Commercial Management Framework to manage strategic supplier relationships and critical IT programmes. • Rebuilt a strategic procurement engagement model which underpinned on key focus areas: (i) understanding long term business demand/strategy (ii) enhanced business engagement/governance (iii) data/analytics • Was part of the IT Leadership Team, leading technology enablement of the business.

Commercial Lead/ Director (Interim)
London, United Kingdom
Was interim Commercial Director/Lead on a largescale (c£150m) IT Transformation programme for a large UK Retailer, accountable for overall P&L management and commercial assurance of programme Had ownership of Contract Management, Finance and Commercial PMO Rebuilt commercial team to support significant growth and complexity of programme to ensure the commercial capability was right-sized to support the significantly increase programme spend and associated commercial and delivery risk.

Partner, Procurement and Commercial Management
London, United Kingdom
Procurement Director / Consultant - Experience in the Procurement Transformation - development and implementation of new P&C Operating Models into large FTSE100 organisations Client Account Lead for a FTSE30 Big 6 UK Energy Utility client Working on multiple large complex IT transformation programmes, both client and vendor sides, providing commercial advisory, negotiation and best practice Deep experience in all IT Categories (IT Services, Software/SaaS, Hardware/Infrastructure) Successfully negotiated multi-million pound contracts, including re-baselining, negotiating service level agreements and commercial models Successfully designed and implemented a Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) framework, including implementation of commercial and operational reporting to track vendor performance/cost to serve Delivered over £multi-million direct savings from negotiation of contracts and commercial disputes Managed international transformation programs and teams for global blue-chip clients

Senior Commercial & Contract Manager
London, United Kingdom
Commercial Manager on a large Digital Transformation Programme with one of UK's largest digital retailers (Jan 2014 - onwards). Commercial Manager on one of the Big 6 Energy clients (April 2010- Dec 2013). Role involves the commercial management of multiple complex and high-risk contracts/projects in excess of £150m, which are on the internal Accenture 'High-risk' contracts watch-list. Lead multiple commercial and contractual restructure and renegotiations of a number of contracts. Involved in multiple sales and bid (RFI and RFP) opportunities, acting as the commercial lead, responsible for commercial and contractual management and negotiation during sales opportunities.

Paralegal
Law Partners Solicitors & Barristers
Sydney, Australia
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