Key Achievements:
• Consistently achieved an annual savings of 3-5% through innovative solutions, effective negotiations, process improvements, consolidation, and operational efficiencies.
• Negotiated Rebate based on spend based discounts with outsourcing services providers, saving the company $250K over three years.
• Negotiated a 10% reduction in third party services contract costs by leveraging competitive bidding and innovation.
• Negotiated contracts with over 30 suppliers within a 3-month period for the insourcing of the Managed Services Program (MSP) from third-party suppliers into Oracle.
• Collaborated with business, finance, legal teams and suppliers to streamline global procurement process workflows for outsourcing services, reducing contract processing time by 25%.
• Negotiated value add or soft savings with suppliers by agreeing additional support or resources or improvement in SLAs at no extra costs.
• Designed and implemented digitisation of IR35 process

(now called DXC) December 2004 to April 2008 Key Achievements:
● • Delivered at least 4% YOY cost savings against agreed targets.
• Managed more than 20 RFP/RFI per year in collaboration with the line of business and other stakeholders like legal, HR and customer teams.
• Managed to improve profit margin by 5-10% for sales & marketing teams by securing competitive pricing at bidding stage using market intelligence and extensive negotiations with potential suppliers.
• Monitored contract performance and recommended corrective actions, reducing project delays by 10%.
● Key Responsibilities:
● • Reported to the Purchasing Manager.
• Procured IT Hardware Maintenance Services and Contingent Resources to meet the requirements to deliver services to various private and public sector customers to the tune of $10m within EMEA region.
• Led and manage the complete RFP process.
• Supported sales and marketing teams at pre-sales stages in developing customer bids and proposals by understa

Key Achievements:
● • Overhauled the inventory system, reducing shrinkage by 25% through process redesign and stringent control measures.
• Reduced logistic cost by 15% by simplifying and improving Supply Chain Process.
• Secured reduction of acquisition costs by 20% and lead-time by 10% by conducting vigorous and aggressive negotiations.
• Implemented robust quality testing process to minimise rejection in collaboration with technical team and vendors and maintained 99% accuracy in stock levels and cutting a rate of returns by 10%.
• Negotiated improved return process with vendors, cutting holding cost by 20%.
• Audited supplier factories in China, Taiwan and Europe to secure quality hardware and components and improved quality standards.
• Collaborated with technical teams to develop specifications and quality standards for PC/laptops components like mainboards & power supply, improving lead-time by 15%.