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Global Procurement Professional | Deloitte |16 Years | Strategic Sourcing, Contracting & Team Leadership | Ariba | SAP | Cross-Industry Expertise | World War II Nerd

About

I lead global procurement and sourcing operations in high-ambiguity environments, where scale, governance, and execution quality matter more than theory. Over 15+ years, I’ve built and run procurement operations across industries including aviation, steel, textiles, IT, and private-sector healthcare—working with large global organizations and complex stakeholder landscapes. I’ve led teams of 100+ across regions, owning sourcing strategy, contracting governance, vendor performance, and operational stability through change. My focus is on making procurement decisive, reliable, and strategically credible—not just compliant. I work best in environments that value accountability, clarity of ownership, and leaders who expect outcomes, not optics.

Location

Hyderabad

Work experience

Manager - Supply Chain & Network Operations at Deloitte, Aug 2025 - Present · 10 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Senior Procurement Consultant at Conduent, Mar 2025 - Jul 2025 · 5 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Managing HW, SW and IT service requirements for Government Healthcare Services. • Finalizing SOW with business personnel and obtaining approval from legal. • Floating RFPs to different vendors, summarizing the details and liaise with business and procurement leadership to finalize award. • Sending RFQs for HW and SW requirements and creation of bid summaries for approval. • Managing subcontracts and associated amendments and change orders with different vendors. • Creation of PRs in Ariba and follow up for approvals on GP and SCT calls. • Work with suppliers and internal stakeholders for reconciling rejected/delayed invoices. • Managing subcontracts and associated amendments and change orders with different vendors. • Creating and tracking change requests for T&M labor resources with different suppliers.

Procurement Operations Delivery Specialist at Accenture, Feb 2019 - Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Led a procurement operations team. (Team size - 44). Team activities included req to PO, spot buys, PO acknowledgements, expediting etc. Finalization of SOWs, RFQs, bid analysis and reward. Obtaining non-disclosure agreements, certificates of insurance and T&C agreements. Resolution and payment of overdue invoices with AP. Assisting in vendor onboarding by obtaining relevant documents from suppliers and following up with client stakeholders for closure. Mentoring the team - process knowledge, effective communication, aged PR resolution, quality checks, SLA adherence, feedback, career progression. Monthly, quarterly and annual governance calls with senior management and client stakeholders.

Professional 1 at DXC Technology, Jun 2016 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Responsible for negotiating maintenance contracts and maintaining supported inventories(hardware) for different vendors (IBM, TG, CISCO, Oracle etc) for client “Zurich Insurance Company” (both EMEA and NA regions). Preparation of quotation analysis and business justification of maintenance procurement with assistance from technical teams for presentation to senior management. Preparation of documents for PRB requests required for maintenance requirements and their approvals from senior management. Creation of PR and PST requests for new POs and their approval on the weekly PG (Procurement Governance) call. Correcting and updating of the TAMIT inventory on a weekly basis by liaising between various platform and technical teams. Ensuring uninterrupted maintenance support to the IT devices of the client and cost saving by regularly validating and updating the supported inventories. Assessment and submission of daily E-Form (both hardware& software) requests for the Australia region by checking with concerned personnel for maintenance requirements. Job Enrichment – New Account “Xchanging Insurance Global Solutions” added to responsibilities. Responsible for Hardware and Software renewals of contracts with various global vendors like RedHat, Oracle, IBM, McAfee etc, local vendors like Tiger PLC, Netnames, BMC Software etc and third party vendors like Softcat and SoftwareOne for the London market. This includes the whole cycle of validation, RFQs, PRB documents creation, submission and follow ups, purchase requisition creation and approval follow ups, PO creation and invoicing.

Management Trainee at GENPACT, Apr 2015 - May 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos, Gurgaon, Handling “upstream” contracting activities in the L48 region. (Mainland United States) – Creation of Master Agreements, Sub-Agreements, Change Orders, Amendments to contracts, Price books, Contract briefs and Contract Workspaces using Microsoft Word as specified by the concerned Procurement and Supply Chain Management Specialist. Initiating the counterparty due diligence (CDD) activity for new suppliers. Setting up of new vendors/suppliers in Ariba. Obtaining digital signatures from both B P and supplier representatives on approved drafts and uploading of final contract documents in the appropriate workspace in Ariba. Assessment and review of existing contracts and all related documents. Providing support to the Sourcing team as required in the following activities: EOI (Expression of Interest), Supplier Screening, RFIs and RFPs.

Education

PGDBM, Marketing and IT, J K Business School

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering, Padmanava College of Engineering