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Somashekara E

PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS ANALYST
Provide the leadership and accountability of negotiation, commercial contract, and purchasing strategy to a team of purchasing managers with over $800 million global commodities sourcing responsibilities. Developed and managed relationships between Internal Business Units and Global contract manufacturing suppliers for OEM products. Other responsibilities include implementation of long term scheduling agreements, reduction of supplier lead-times, implementation of supplier managed inventory programs, and development of low cost country sourcing initiatives. Other focus includes working closely with cross functional teams including operations, engineering and finance to maximize product manufacturability and costing to increase profitability.
ACCENTURE SOLUTIONS LTD
REVA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560094, India

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
  • Profession
    Purchasing
  • Fields
    Energy
  • Work experience
    6-10 years (6-10 years relevant)
  • Management
  • Skills
    Strong Attention To Detail
    Negotiation Skills
    Work Independently
    team building
    negotiation skills
    PowerPoint
    Excel
  • Languages
    English
    Fluent
    Hindi
    Fluent
    Telugu
    Native or Bilingual
    Kannada
    Native or Bilingual
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    PROCUREMENT OFFICE OR CATEGORY BUYER
  • Desired work locations
  • Freelance
    Non-freelancer

Work Experience

PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

Nov 2015 - Present
Responsible for managing the buying process for a given set of goods. Apply sourcing policy, interface between supplier and entity with respect to specifications and budgets. Positions requiring understanding of a concepts, methods and procedures to enable sourcing execution. 1. Provide a centralized, key role in the successful interaction between Procurement and internal and external customers, globally, to ensure an efficient application of the Source to Pay process. 2. Develop time bound action plans, manage resources for sourcing projects and update stake holders. 3. Responsible for delivering Sourcing metrics - Deflation, % localization and Lead Time reduction. 4. Manage RFQ process : Build RFQs; Solicit, evaluate and negotiate supplier quotes. Evaluate bids and proposals and make award decisions. 5. Closely work with OTR to understand business volume forecast and develop supplier capacity plans to support business growth. 6. Co-ordinate with Materials, Engineering, Quality team to evaluate current and anticipated requirements to ensure efficient execution from the suppliers. 7. Handle fulfillment issues at suppliers; reduce supply chain disruptions to achieve OTD targets.Negotiate and fix price agreements and payment terms with suppliers. 8. Risk Assessments - Lead alternate source development projects and support Qualifications.Drive sole source elimination.

PURCHASE ENGINEER

Jan 2013 - Oct 2015
2 yrs 10 mos
1. Material Creation, Extension, Amend and distribution to the Plants. 2. Validate material specification and enrich the mandatory data with information collected from end user, vendor OEM/OPM and vendor websites. 3. Blocking/Unblocking the material for usage and procurement. 4. Place and follow-up on PO's. Manage relationships with suppliers for PO execution. 5. Understand strategies for assigned commodities and proactively drive initiatives to meet Sourcing objectives. 6. Responsible for On Time Delivery of Fabricated Components and POST ORDER activities from Kick off Meeting to Manufacturing to arrange Quality inspection to Dispatch to Payment and resolving issues at Site if any related to material supplied. 7. Understand the PO and drawing requirements before KOM and ensuring closure of all open points of KOM, before start of PO execution by supplier. 8. Submitting Periodic progress report of work from supplier, after highlighting the constraints if any with action plan. 9. Ensuring, quality inspection at various stages as per requirement and documentation by supplier. 10. Ensuring Proper dispatch documentation for on time payment to suppliers and resolving issues at site after supplies will be part of the Job.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
MECHANICAL
2009 - 2012
Associate’s Degree
DIPLOMA IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
2006 - 2009