Angad Sarangi

- Managing business improvement activities through the IMPACT Center and LEAD Center, realising financial savings targets
- Driving profitability improvement initiatives by cross functional collaboration with various stake holders
- Supporting diagnostics and analytical work for identification, evaluation, planning, tracking, and execution of projects with cross functional teams
- Delivering training to build capabilities of operating teams to drive continuous improvement
- Management of performance improvement teams and driving synergy initiatives

• Collaborate and communicate between internal departments, as well as external stakeholders
• Extensive market research and analytics of data to support strategic decision-making, and prepared various documents, reports, and presentations.
• Demonstrated financial acumen by proficiently preparing and managing budgets and financial reports for procurement department.
• Innovating and executing strategic procurement initiatives.
• Pioneered and led agile-driven digital transformation endeavors spanning the organization, resulting in heightened operational efficiency, crash lead times by 43%, and improved cost-effectiveness.
• Handled confidential and sensitive information with discretion and tact.
• Business case analysis, reporting and summarize for top management enabling quicker Go/No-Go decision
• Program management for various projects which includes but not limited to procurement transformation, vendor development, mergers, organization redesign, etc
• Overlooking daily management activities like Order approvals, vendor on boarding final approval, important meeting preparation, engagement plannings, etc

• Mitigated business risk and improved customer lead times through thoughtful supplier network design.
• Studied technical aspects of managed category to identify key quality attributes and cost containment levels.
• Visited supplier offices and plants to investigate facilities and capacity to meet quality requirements, specifications and delivery dates.
• Researched, prepared for and led supplier negotiation process for managed category.
• Developed and executed spend category to support business objectives.
• Successfully led and managed annual procurement of industrial equipment, amounting to INR 400 Crores
• Held full accountability for overseeing end-to-end Procure-to-Pay cycle within global supply chain, ensuring operational efficiency and accuracy
• Devised and executed robust strategies for inventory management, category management, contract negotiation, risk mitigation, vendor development, and expenditure control.
• Collaborated seamlessly with Tata Group to drive procurement synergy by participating in centralized mega contracts
• Utilized advanced data analysis techniques to spearhead supply chain digitization and enhance performance through implementation of various tools such as GEP for Catalogue Management, Demand Aggregation using SAP, and Tableau for Payment Term Monitoring.
• Played integral role in agile project management as assistant to scrum master, ensuring successful completion of projects bringing in annualized savings of 10Crore every year.
• Led cross-functional team focused on monitoring category performance, identifying opportunities for improvement, and executing cost-saving initiatives.

• Played crucial role in the infrastructure, signalling & telecommunication section of a Railway siding project.
• Responsible for overall project planning, contractor management, supervision and commissioning of the project.
• Mechanical maintenance shift-in charge for the plant operations. Area of responsibility includes from raw material handling, grinding unit and packing unit.

• Major in Operations and Minor in Marketing
• Awarded Gold Medal in Academic Excellence (Dean's Merit list)
• Professional development completed in LEAN SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT Certification – By KPMG

• Completed with a CGPA of 9.47/10
• Professional development completed in Mechanical design specializations in Catia & AutoCad
• 1st Runners up at Endurance Race of International Go-Kart Championship
• Winner of Landslide Simulation Event in Mega ATV Championship by AutoSports India (2016)