My Journey
Sept 2021 - Present
Purchasing Specialist
Medline Industries, LLC
Neptune, NJ
Managing direct and indirect purchasing for the Vascular division of the company.
- Developing monthly Spend analysis and KPI charts
using excel dashboards to find cost savings, conducting
RFPs and negotiations for Vendor Sourcing on various
domestic and international projects, Contract and
agreement negotiations with the vendors, PO creations
using SAP ECC, Managing MRP sheets weekly for
critical and non-critical items for multiple locations.
Jul 2020 - Sept 2020
Project Manager
Partners4results
Boston, MA (WFH)
Designing a Grad course in Strategy Development for a Northeastern Professor as a part of the internship (Volunteering) while parallelly looking for full-time opportunities.
Jan 2018 - May 2020
2 Year Graduate course
Northeastern University
Boston, MA, USA
Masters of Science in Project Management
Relevant Courses: Communications & Negotiations, Strategy Development & Implementation
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018 &
Sept 2019 - Mar 2020
On-Campus Job @ Northeastern University
Crew Member
Dunkin Donuts
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Purchasing Co-op
BorgWarner Morse Systems
Ithaca, NY, USA
- Managed multiple procurement projects with high-profile clients parallelly handling Procure-to-Pay Sourcing processes performing negotiations with vendors for different commodities like Plastics, Aluminum, Spring, Steel, Iron casting, etc.
- Leading an ERP implementation project of IVALUA from Ithaca’s Purchasing Unit gathering business requirements, Testing with UAT, and communicating with technical experts on regular meetings.
- Fulfilled responsibility of Cost Reduction projects with detailed spend analysis using advanced Excel tools (V-Look ups, Pivot Tables, Charts, Formulae)
- Supplier evaluation program by sharing Balance-Scorecards with suppliers for improvement.
Skills Gained:
Advanced Microsoft Excel
Vendor Negotiation skills
Cost Reduction - Spend Analysis & KPI Reports
IVALUA ERP System
DirectWorks ERP System
Vendor Relationship Management skills
Source-to-Pay Processes
e-RFx (RFI/RFQ/RFP) & e-Auctions
Skills Gained:
Vendor Negotiation skills
Cost Reduction - Spend Analysis & KPI Reports
SAP Sourcing ERP System
Advanced Microsoft Excel
SAP ARIBA ERP System
Vendor Relationship Management skills
E-Sourcing Processes
e-RFx (RFI/RFQ/RFP) & e-Auctions
Sept 2016 - Dec 2017
Supply Chain Management Executive
Vodafone India Services Pvt. Ltd.
Ahmedabad, India
- Managed domestic and international/global internal markets from the e-Sourcing team by multi-tasking with various Sourcing projects including conducting eRFXs (RFI/RFP/RFQ) & e-Auctions on a daily basis on the SAP platform along with extracting and analyzing reports for each.
- Preparing KPI(Key Performance Indicators) reports for performance metrics and spend analysis, monthly & quarterly for management presentation to publish final numbers.
- Leading ERP implementation project of SAP ARIBA with a team for the migration in the whole company including gathering business requirements, Testing with UAT, and Go-Live of 1st Phase out of 3 while training all internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams with the new system and benchmarking new processes as a continuous improvement approach.
Aug 2011 - Aug 2016
5 Years Integrated Course
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS University)
Mumbai, India
MBA in Technology Management Specializing in Operations & Project Management
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Bachelor's in Technology specializing in Computer Science Engineering
Relevant Courses: Supply Chain Management System, Lean & Six Sigma, Procurement Negotiations, Knowledge Management
Apr 2015 - Sept 2015
Management Intern (Procurement Services & Vendor Management)
Tutelminds TechnoConsultants Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai, India
Succeeded in managing multiple procurement projects developing a new supplier database for the Startup company and maintaining extensive vendor relationships for a variety of products such as packaging, stationery items, IT software, etc. and performing Procure-to-Pay Sourcing processes for each project simultaneously maintaining using Gantt chart tools.