Radhashyam Dash

Responsible for End to End Procurement, Sourcing, Vendor Management Globally for the Organization.

- Driving Procurement of Global Backbone Bandwidth Requirement for POP to POP Connectivity. - Handling Procurement of different types of Networking Hardware & Servers for POP Infrastructure Built up. - Responsible for all types of Hardware for IT & Engineering teams spread across the globe at different office locations in different time zone. - I am too handling the Co-location Purchase (Space & Power) for POP set up at different locations globally. - Managing global & domestics vendors. - Managing Global Procurement team who handles day to day procurement of all Consumables, Different types of IT Hardware & Asset Management. - An expert in Vendor Management ensuring Vendor Relationship, Engagement, Driving Vendor Dispute Resolution, Timely Vendor Payment. - Responsible for Overall Cost Savings for the organization by timely efforts & negotiations. - Handles RFP, Vendor Selection Process, Vendor Onboarding etc. - Actively participate in supplier contract negotiation, SLA negotiation, and different types of impact analysis during agreement stage. - Handles different types of vendors like Telecom/ISP, System Integrators, Major OEMs, Logistics Providers, Custom Agents, SaaS providers, Virtual/Cloud Service providers. - Proficient in handling Billing related disputes, escalations. - Proficient in Global Export / Import Compliances, Taxes & Duties, Customs issues etc. - Good at using different types of Procurement Tools, PR/PO Applications & MS-Excel.

Business Commercial – Pricing & Commercial Support for Carrier & Wholesale ILD/NLD Products. • Pricing Analysis of Wholesale & Carrier Data products like MPLS-VPN, Domestic / International Point to Point Leased Lines (Half Circuit/ Full Circuit), Multi Location Internet Leased lines, E1- DID/PRI, Audio Conferencing Services, Toll-Free & Multi location VPN projects, Infra Products like Collocation Services, Dark Fibre, IDC Cross-Connect. • Cost suggestion / Best price discovery for different products to Sales Team, Billing & Finance Team (Pre-Sales & Post-Sales). • Analysis & preparation of price & discount structure for ILD/NLD Data products. • Pricing experience on Annual Recurring & IRU Based Data, Voice & Infra Products Requirement for Wholesale & Carrier Business. • Profit & Loss analysis for ILD / NLD Voice Carriage deals & related financial working.

Enterprise Customer Pre-Sales Support, Pricing RFP/BID Management, Wire Line Solution Designing, Client Presentation, Enterprise Project Planning and Management, Preparation of technical presentation, Preparation of Techno-Commercial Proposal & Solution Document for products like MPLS-VPN, P-T-P Leased Lines, Internet Leased Circuits, E1-PRI/DID, Vodafone Audio Conferencing Service, Toll-Free, M2M Applications. Arrangement of regular product development & training programmes for Sales team/Business Partners & Service Teams Periodically.Provide business development support for fixed line data and voice products to the Enterprise Sales team proactively and reactively.Managing and driving the portfolio of Business Solutions for the circle through growth, in Terms of numbers, revenues, market share and profit, whilst complying with agreed budget, Timescales and policy guidelines & promoting competitive (cost effective) best-fit solution to Achieve Revenue & Order Booking Target and use of Bundling and Innovation across all the Products and services which are supported under the fixed line and Mobility platforms.Analyzing, design and implement solutions for the Enterprise clients while interfacing with the internal technical teams and other delivery teams for ensuring compliance to customer requirements. Co-ordinating with network and planning teams for taking the detail knowledge of network Reachability, availability & feasibility of product in different geographies.Being the SPOC for all large fixed line services bids and RFPs for the Enterprise Sales team. To take care of technical, commercial, financial, legal and regulatory compliances for all bids. Ensure high C-SAT from the respective customers and being ambassador for the Vodafone brand in the Enterprise market in Odisha.Provide feedback from the market on competition, products, new opportunities, operations etc to ensure that Vodafone builds and retains the edge in the Enterprise services market.

Enterprise Service Assurance, Project Planning and Management Pre-Sales Support & Service Delivery,Preparation of technical presentation, Solution Document for all Fixed Wire Line & Non Mobility products. Arrangement of regular product development & training programmes for Sales team.Responsible for delivery of Enterprise telecom products (e.g. Leased Line, DIA, BIA, L3VPN, MPLS VPN, E1PRI, Audio/Video Conferencing, Centrex) to the customers within SLA. Overall responsibility is to push all teams and solve every type of technical and business Issues for successful service delivery. Assuring corporate customers for the services (e.g. Leased Line, DIA, BIA, L3VPN, MPLS VPN, E1PRI, Audio/Video Conferencing, Centrex, Toll-Free and all other wire line and wireless Products), Provided by Reliance Communications. Providing technical support for the Leased line services during outages and faults by co-Ordinating with all technical teams, Field Engineers, Network Operation Centre (NOC).CSAT Responsibility. Regular Customer visits to build a healthy technical and business Relation with customer, by showing the availability and downtime details.Proper Co-Ordinations with all technical teams (OFC team, Transport, Field Access, Wireless, and UBR, Microwave Etc) to provide minimum downtime to the corporate Customers. Planning of Fixed Line projects for enterprise customers. Monitoring the entire project roll-out from the time of planning till Implementation. Allocating resources among team members and guiding team members during the Project, till final delivery. Updating customer regularly about progress of project & development of implementation Activity till the final execution of the project. Bridging up the gap between customer site, customer central desk & field enggs. Ensuring successful compliance of the project as per customer requirement & Satisfaction within SLA. Ensuring revenue generation for the organisation by successful & timely Implementation Of the project.

Ensuring the minimum downtime of point-to-point Leased Lines and Broadband connectivity from BSNL and Reliance. Maintaining the company System Admin, Help Desk to provide better service & better IT Infrastructure. Monitoring the quality of all Video and Audio to be broadcasted and taking necessary actions to improve the quality. Overseeing the maintenance of the following Equipments: CISCO Routers (1700, 2600, 3600 series), CISCO L2 (2950 series)/L3 Switches, Nortel and D-Link devices. IP telephony devices like D-Link VOIP Box, RB Comtech, DAX VOIP devices. Extending online technical support to all district centres. Achievements: 6 Hours of Continuous Live Video streaming with Wi-Fi setup for first time in the field of TV Industries in Orissa. Active member of Implementation of 2 News Bulletins for ETV network as team leader of technical concerns. Developed manuals of Digital News gathering that is now being used in ETV’s all India Network.