First Last Name
Sydney,Australia
Summary
Dynamic Category Manager with a proven track record at Sydney Water, excelling in strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management. Achieved significant cost reductions through innovative procurement strategies while fostering collaboration across multinational teams. Adept at contract compliance, driving project success, and enhancing commercial outcomes in complex environments.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Category Manager
Sydney Water
Sydney
03.2024 - Current
- Collaborated with stakeholders to align business priorities and enhance commercial outcomes for Sydney Water.
- Oversaw sourcing activities to meet business requirements while ensuring timely delivery and optimal governance.
- Managed contracts to realize expected benefits throughout contract terms, leading contract managers as needed.
- Facilitated engagement with contract stakeholders to maintain transparency and foster positive relationships.
- Executed strategic sourcing initiatives to drive sustained cost transformation and CAPEX optimization.
- Led multinational teams in effective project management and category management practices.
- Oversaw procurement processes for MRO mechanical and electrical services, including SCADA and high-voltage maintenance services.
- Ensured compliance with contract management operating model while supporting successful project outcomes.
Contracts Manager Bank Transition
Suncorp
Sydney
03.2023 - 08.2023
- Managed and reviewed all eligible contracts for transition to bank.
- Identified contract treatments based on legal framework for novation, modification, or transitional services.
- Renegotiated contracts with suppliers through collaboration with internal business stakeholders.
- Collaborated with C-level executives and legal teams to finalize over 300 agreements for SML separation from Suncorp.
- Ensured compliance with contractual obligations on both sides of transactions.
Procurement Manager
Mirvac
Sydney
02.2020 - 03.2023
- Led development of construction methodology, staging plans, and site logistics in live environments.
- Collaborated with estimating team to align methodology with program schedules and preliminaries.
- Supported delivery teams with budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and commercial governance.
- Interfaced with architects, designers, engineers, and clients to resolve technical issues efficiently.
- Coordinated procurement work streams for hospitality refurbishments and structural upgrades.
- Executed successful tender submissions for high-end commercial and hospitality projects.
- Created a methodology and staging library to reduce project manager input in tenders.
- Negotiated senior-level contracts to secure favorable terms for Mirvac.
Associate Director –IT Hardware & Software
UBS India
Mumbai
04.2019 - 08.2019
- Negotiated with vendors to procure materials and services, ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Equipped team to efficiently coordinate with the indenting department and suppliers on specifications.
- Led a team of five professionals managing IT hardware and software procurement worth $900 million.
- Conducted spend analysis for the software category, identifying opportunities for vendor rationalization within four months.
- Ensured business operations adhered to local laws and regulations.
Management Consultant
Accenture Management Consulting
Mumbai
03.2014 - 02.2019
- Assessed current organizational structure and processes against leading Oil & Gas standards to identify improvement areas.
- Designed an operating model and governance framework to enhance efficiency.
- Performed workload assessment, crafting a proposed operating model for the organization.
- Established a training plan and transition roadmap to support operational changes.
- Partnered with leading FMCG company for material spend analysis, leveraging Value Engineering for cost-saving measures.
- Implemented Zero Based costing strategies that resulted in 5% reduction in total spend across three sites.
- Defined Smart Consumption policies while enforcing Category Ownership at the organizational level through strong compliance measures.
- Developed Should Cost Models for multiple materials, uncovering a minimum of 5% cost reduction potential in vendor settlements.
Global Sourcing Manager
John Deere
Pune
03.2012 - 03.2014
- Utilised supplier relationship management (SRM) technique to measure supplier performance and increase collaboration towards mutually beneficial goals including corporate social responsibility, sustainability and diversity and inclusion programs
- Develops, builds and maintains an ongoing relationship with assigned suppliers to monitor and improve supplier performance; measures the performance of the supplier and defines corrective actions; obtains assistance from other functional representatives such as quality, product engineering, etc. as appropriate. Led negotiation of supply agreements with specific suppliers resulting in cost models, an implementation strategy and a documented agreement, ensuring the Company meets its overall goals for cost, quality, continuity of supply, etc.
- Works with engineers and suppliers on product specification, making recommendations to ensure a quality product at the lowest total cost and meeting cost targets; supports the Engineering Change Management (ECM) process so design changes and product improvements are implemented in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Led target costing and cost management support for Enterprise Product Delivery Process (EPDP) cost goals, focusing on Shareholder Value Added; develops and implements communication plans to key stakeholders, internally and externally.
- Key Highlights & Achievements
- Cost saving insights: Implemented successful cost Reduction projects of cross commodity changes – Castings to Sheet Metal by saving 17% to 30% on part prices
- Should Cost Models: Worked with several stakeholder to calculate Should Cost Models for Castings in various geographies. This helped to project local vendors for exports & to achieve cost reduction targets
- Long Term Agreements (LTA): Successfully implemented raw material consolidation for Castings Aligned proposal key Vendors, Raw material Suppliers and Global stakeholders. Successfully signed tri-partite agreement, which ensured all price increase proposals to negotiate through OEM
Senior Sourcing Manager
Cummins
Pune
10.2011 - 03.2012
- Contribute in implementing and enhancing the firm’s policies for knowledge management and management for the firm's intellectual capital
- Assess the current performance of the various functions and identify areas of improvements in efficiency and effectiveness. Assist the leadership team in defining a clear set of value propositions and assist in the executing of its future organization strategy
- Develop strategic programs, communication plans, and other attainable change management approaches to implement desired transformations in the organization.
- Standardize and simplify processes to enable cost effective operations with the best use of technology Fast Close and Reporting. Make recommendations to management through presentations or reports for product.
- To bring efficiency across the organization, also looked in various aspects of business:
- Market Intelligence through competition Benchmarking
- Understood business requirement and advise on the strategic sourcing process of selecting the vendors that can best meet those requirements at the highest value
- Understood and advised cost reduction initiatives, contract opportunities to leverage the buying power of the organization
- Projects
- Forgings to Sintering
- Identified saving opportunity to convert Forging parts in sintering for better quality and cost-effective product with minimum 25% reduction
Asst. Sourcing Manager
Mahindra & Mahindra
Mumbai
08.2006 - 10.2011
- Conduct financial analysis & utilize same for Costing, Indexing & Commercial settlements
- Mapped In-house Foundry buying requirements with Casting Commodity sourcing team. Utilized price benchmarks along-with various inputs raw materials used for manufacturing Castings
- Conducted Spend analysis, Request for Information, Request for Quotes for various commodities/products
- Visited Vendors for evaluating operating models, conducting quality checks & evaluating capacity requirements
- Created Scorecards for Vendor Assessments based on parameters like Financial Assessment, Quality Scores, Transformation Capabilities, Long Term Vision, Organization Structure and so on
- Creation of Commodity Risk Profiles or called as Differential Sourcing Strategy which included Product portfolio matrix, strategy drivers, business needs, price competitiveness, TCO-Total cost of ownership structure, Supplier Market analysis, global scenario and various other parameters which affect product
- Projects
- Value Engineering
- Lowered materials cost by creating TCO models for new launch product by 10% which netted the company more than $1.25M in 3Years
- Award
- Awarded by leadership for successfully implementing maximum high value cost reduction ideas within Procurement Team of 150 executives
Education
Bachelor’ Degree - Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF PUNE
Skills
- Contract and compliance management
- Strategic sourcing and cost analysis
- Supplier relationship management
- Project management
Timeline
Category Manager
Sydney Water
03.2024 - Current
Contracts Manager Bank Transition
Suncorp
03.2023 - 08.2023
Procurement Manager
Mirvac
02.2020 - 03.2023
Associate Director –IT Hardware & Software
UBS India
04.2019 - 08.2019
Management Consultant
Accenture Management Consulting
03.2014 - 02.2019
Global Sourcing Manager
John Deere
03.2012 - 03.2014
Senior Sourcing Manager
Cummins
10.2011 - 03.2012
Asst. Sourcing Manager
Mahindra & Mahindra
08.2006 - 10.2011
Bachelor’ Degree - Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF PUNE
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