Navin Chaudhary

• Develop procurement strategies that meet corporate goals and Group compliance • Represent procurement at Executive-level meetings, collaborating with cross-functional and external stakeholders to align strategic sourcing and risk management. • Drive continuous improvement through process innovation, vendor risk management, and strong contract negotiations for complex multi-year contracts. • Support the sustainability and diversity goals as part of Responsible procurement (e.g. RAP)

• Partner with Senior Supply Chain stakeholders and Global Centre of Excellence to deliver cost improvements from the spend, improve operating free cash flow (inventory), and flexibility to business needs. • Develop a sourcing strategy aligned with business needs to leverage of PepsiCo scale and knowledge. • Develop and maintain 3rd party relationship strategies to drive sustainable competitive advantage • Manage executive level, cross functional priorities & relationships to deliver sustainable year on year efficiencies • Lead supplier performance and contract compliance – providing regular financial, service and quality forecasts • Lead the execution of required governance and process changes to ensure compliance to relevant policies.

• Lead category strategy development, supplier market developments, risk management and supplier performance. • Manage the end-to-end sourcing process including RFx, negotiation and contract execution. • Analyse and recommend best commercial value based on TCO, Should-Cost Analysis or Insourcing vs. Outsourcing. • Analysing current and future market trends and supporting in identifying sourcing opportunities for Woolworths. • Responsible for development and execution of negotiation strategies to maximise value and terms and conditions. • Analysing all potential risks at the category level - such as supply continuity, safety & health, quality, environment, revenues or the Woolworths brands at risk and support development of appropriate mitigation strategies.

• Provide strategic sourcing direction across functional areas and programs that involve strategic outsourcing and vendor management across multiple Facility Management (FM) portfolio • Set savings targets and goals for FM, Sourcing programs, and developing metrics for tracking performance • Engage business stakeholders for requirements gathering, potential opportunities and management buy-in • Lead negotiation and contracting process to achieve best value and preferred terms and conditions • Manage transition process of introducing new supplier through communication of agreed Key Performance Indicator and Service Level Agreement • Active vendor management in the form of quarterly business reviews for supplier development and management

• Responsible for identifying the regional sourcing opportunities that improves bottom line • Responsible for regional sourcing projects as part of procurement strategy 2014-16 • Responsible for planning, implementation and change & communications management for procurement projects • Engage/ lead country sourcing projects and support local procurement teams in planning, implementation and execution • Develop strategic relationships with business stakeholders to identify the business needs, align procurement strategy and buy-in for sourcing projects • Responsible for managing business stakeholders through regular communication and reporting on project progress, processes, issues and challenges • Regular engagements in purchasing activities such as RFx development, supplier negotiations, contracting, etc • Ensure project management process and sourcing tools are leveraged for implementation of sourcing projects

• Responsible for identifying the regional strategic sourcing opportunities • Responsible for managing sourcing projects, including data collections, supplier identification & management, authoring the RFX documents, leading supplier negotiations, contract award and leading the implementation works • Responsible for stakeholder engagement and driving the procurement projects • Providing supports for country procurement activities when requested, including project management, document reviews, supplier identifications, etc. • Supporting the use of procurement technologies to Asia Pacific countries, including spend analysis and sourcing tool • Supporting the procurement contracting activities by authoring and reviewing procurement contracts • Regular engagements in purchasing activities for Asia Pacific regional office • Assist in the purchasing activities like supplier negotiation, purchase ordering, contracting and receiving for the AP regional office

• Responsible for supporting the Asia Pacific regional strategy formulation & analysis • Provide PMO support in the project control & governance process • Provide PMO support through facilitation of workshops, meetings and creating PMO deliverables • Regular interaction with both internal and external stakeholders in coordinating project information • Responsible for managing the annual PMO work-stream market research analysis in support of strategy • Responsible for ensuring the market research deliverables are in line with key stakeholder requirements and tie to business requirements / needs • Responsible for performing detailed data analysis, provision of executive summary and presentations • Provision of ad-hoc market research support for specific regional needs (e.g. competitive benchmarking, feasibility analysis, market opportunity analysis, etc.)

Pursuing my Global MBA program in Logistics & Supply Chain Management at S P Jain Centre of Management

Project Planning: • Prepared planning deliverables such as Schedule, Document Control Index (DCI), Man Power Histogram and S Curve • Effectively monitored and controlled project by preparing Progress Reports, Lag Analysis, Tracker, Updating Schedule • Ensured seamless multi-disciplinary co-ordination for project deliverables • Prepared reports of performance evaluation of on-going projects for top level management reviews Central Planning: • Successfully conceptualized and established sub-department “Central Planning” within 3 months • Prepared monthly budget for various ongoing projects to forecast required man-hours for respective projects and provide input to Finance department • Prepared management reports for company’s business standing, project progress based on earned value management • Successfully tested and implemented SAP-SD module to streamline the business processes and trained two subordinates as end user of SAP-PS, MM & SD modules

Double Gold Medalist as Dean’s List Candidate in both semesters I & II

 Gold Medalist for securing the highest GPA in Mechanical Engineering  Gujarat State & University topper for the academic batch 2004-2008 in Mechanical Engineering  Won Vishwakarma Award from The Institution of Engineers (India) in Mechanical Engineering, Gujarat, 2008  Received Best Student’s Chapter award at national level during my tenure as Convener of The Institution of Engineers (India), 2008