Arshad Zubair
Senior Sourcing Lead
Thane west,MH
Summary
Dynamic sourcing and supply chain professional with over a decade of experience managing global teams, optimizing procurement strategies, and achieving substantial cost reductions. Recognized for driving organizational excellence and implementing innovative e-sourcing solutions
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
2025
2025
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Sourcing Lead
GEP Solutions Ltd
07.2023 - Current
- Leading a diverse global team of 22 professionals across India, Europe, and Latin America to manage indirect spend categories, driving cost optimization and process excellence for pharmaceutical clients.
- Managed key categories such as Marketing, Distribution & Logistics, Professional Services, MRO, Facilities, Lab & Equipment, and Clinical Services across US, Europe, Canada, and EMEA regions.
- Delivered 7x ROI to the client with an average of 11% savings on the spend addressed, exceeding service-level agreements and securing consistent cost reductions.
- Spearheaded process improvement initiatives, standardizing templates and SOPs to enhance work quality and efficiency.
- Provided strategic training to team members, boosting productivity and driving continuous improvement.
- Prepared and presented detailed KPI achievement reports to leadership, driving actionable insights for organizational growth.
- Designed and conducted e-sourcing training programs for management trainees, ensuring skill development in tail-spend management.
- Collaborated on campus and lateral hiring efforts through interviews and mentorship programs, strengthening organizational talent pipelines.
- Worked on multiple categories: Marketing, Distribution and logistics, Professional services, MRO, facilities, Lab & Equipment, and Clinical services.
Sourcing Lead
GEP Solutions
07.2021 - 06.2023
- Individually addressed a spend of $6.4M in 2021 with an average savings of 13%.
- Main POC for categories like distribution and logistics, CMO, Marketing and services.
- Drive continuous improvement for the team and the process.
- Prepare monthly reports for the KPI achievements and present to leadership.
- Secure the saving percentage as per the service level agreements.
- Train the team members to improve the efficiency of the team.
- Conduct interviews for campus and lateral hiring.
- Driving organizational improvement activities.
Assistant Manager
Gabriel India Ltd
07.2015 - 09.2018
- Established and sustained E-Sourcing at Gabriel for 3 years: Making efficient use of Ariba platform to conduct E-auctions for raw material, consumables, scrap, logistics and packaging.
- Addressed spend of 4654Mn INR through Ariba and achieved a saving of more than 421Mn INR.
- Spend analysis and building project pipeline for E-Sourcing for entire year and then executing the projects as per time line.
- Preparing auction strategy and finalizing it with the buyer.
- Preparing RFX and auctions, conducting vendor training and executing auctions.
- Commodity management & price negotiations.
- Vendor Assessment and vendor introduction and development for critical projects.
- Strategic Vendor Development for actualizing huge cost savings and mitigating supply chain risks of single sources.
- Heading the cost saving cell for 6 plants of Gabriel. Delivered savings of 116Mn INR in FY15-16, 102Mn INR in FY 2016-17 and shall be achieving 160Mn INR in FY 17-18.
- Conducted 18 successful cost reduction workshops over the past years. Contributing savings through projects of VAVE, localization, alternate sourcing, global sourcing, standardization, ZBC, weight actualization and vendor consolidation.
- Part Development: Developed highly complex parts for Electronic Shock Absorber for Gabriel, and for customers like Piaggio for Export business.
- Formulating MIS reports of cost savings and reporting them to the top management for facilitating the decision making process.
- Developing MIS systems for better data handling, like VAVE portal & Vendor portal.
- Analyzing Vendor business growth to push bill discounting and pursuing volume discounts from vendors.
Senior Engineer
Gabriel India Ltd
07.2014 - 06.2015
- Reduced Inventory of Imports from 90 day to 45 days, and reduced the in house inventory of Piston rods by implementing JIT, and milk-run for Nashik and Pune supplier hub.
- Handled 25% of the total number of parts purchased.
- Developed Heijunka system in SAP for automatic scheduling of parts to be procured.
- Worked on Warehouse outsourcing project.
- Improved vendor performance, helped them implement VSME and Heijunka practices.
Intern
Anand Automotive
01.2014 - 04.2014
- Worked on consolidating and classifying Packaging items purchase for 5 companies of Anand Automotive in Pune (Gabriel, Spicer, Mahle filter, Mahle Behr and Victor Gaskets).
- Reduced packaging suppliers from 24 to 4.
- Mapped logistics from companies to customer and designed logistics to reduce the transporters.
Senior Strategic Sourcing Analyst
GEP Solutions
09.2018 - 06.2021
- Oversaw every phase of S2P process, from Sourcing to Purchase order to delivery, targeting 100% end-user satisfaction.
- Supported senior company leaders by delivering reports outlining performance to drive process improvements.
- Conducted data analysis to identify bottlenecks in supply chain and develop solutions to optimize operations.
- Built long-term relationships due to prompt and courteous service, maintaining a CSAT score of 4.8
- Was recognized by GEP and the client through multiple performance awards for consistently delivering on savings, compliance to procurement policy and customer satisfaction.
Intern
National Thermal Power corporation
01.2014 - 01.2014
- Understanding the working of rankine cycle and functioning of a power plant.
Intern
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2014
- Industrial training with a project on CNC Part programming of a cam, various steps in production of any product, from material procurement to engineering design, part programming and then execution of it.
Education
MBA - Operations Management
NMIMS
B.Tech - Mechanical
SRM University
HSC - undefined
DAV Public School
SSC (Gold Medalist) - undefined
DAV Public School
Skills
Strategic Sourcing
E-Sourcing
Negotiation
E-Auctions
SAP MM
Ariba expertise
GEP SMART expertise
SCOUT expertise
Proactive
Teamwork and collaboration
Customer service
Team management
Accomplishments
- Pursuing to gain Professional Certified coach (PCC) certification from ICF.
- Handled the position of Vice President Education at GEP Toastmasters Club.
- Handling the environment and education vertical of GEPSI the CSR wing of GEP.
- Successfully organized and hosted UDAAN the vendor meet of Gabriel India limited in 2017, 2016, & 2015.
- Conducted a 2 day training session on methods and strategies of E-Auctions on Ariba Platform.
- Organizer of the KONSTRUKTION domain AARUUSH-13 Techno-management fest of SRM.
- Headed the social initiative, for education of the under privileged students.
- Worked in Camber Racing the student formula team of SRM, as the head of chassis Design and Analysis department.
Extra-Curricular Achievements
Pursuing to gain Professional Certified coach (PCC) certification from ICF. Handled the position of Vice President Education at GEP Toastmasters Club. Handling the environment and education vertical of GEPSI the CSR wing of GEP. Successfully organized and hosted UDAAN the vendor meet of Gabriel India limited in 2017, 2016, & 2015. Conducted a 2 day training session on methods and strategies of E-Auctions on Ariba Platform. Organizer of the KONSTRUKTION domain AARUUSH-13 Techno-management fest of SRM. Headed the social initiative, for education of the under privileged students. Worked in Camber Racing the student formula team of SRM, as the head of chassis Design and Analysis department.
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 02/03/92
Passport Validity
07/01/26
Additional Information
Under training for Professional certified coach (PCC) with Coacharya Institue.
Timeline
Senior Sourcing Lead
GEP Solutions Ltd
07.2023 - Current
Sourcing Lead
GEP Solutions
07.2021 - 06.2023
Senior Strategic Sourcing Analyst
GEP Solutions
09.2018 - 06.2021
Assistant Manager
Gabriel India Ltd
07.2015 - 09.2018
Senior Engineer
Gabriel India Ltd
07.2014 - 06.2015
Intern
Anand Automotive
01.2014 - 04.2014
Intern
National Thermal Power corporation
01.2014 - 01.2014
Intern
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2014
B.Tech - Mechanical
SRM University
HSC - undefined
DAV Public School
SSC (Gold Medalist) - undefined
DAV Public School
MBA - Operations Management
NMIMS