Balaji Sekar
Chennai
Summary
Insightful Manager with experience directing and improving operations through effective employee motivational strategies and strong policy enforcement. Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations. Talented leader with analytical approach to business planning and day-to-day problem-solving.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Procurement-manager
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2010 - Current
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
- Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
- Conducted monthly inventories of raw materials and components on work floor.
- Controlled costs and optimized spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
- Improved operational planning and business frameworks to enhance resource utilization and reduce waste.
- Carefully read and interpreted requisition orders to understand specialized terms and requirements.
- Procured critical parts and assemblies to develop and coordinate sourcing requirements.
- Maintained effective and lasting vendor relationships through dynamic communication, collaboration and intelligent questioning skills.
- Negotiated with vendors on freight costs, cutting shipping prices by 40%.
- Drafted and delivered bid invitations to supplier firms.
- Prioritized important customers by reviewing logistics and handling shortages, delivery schedules and office functions.
- Oversaw inventory control, accounting and supply reports.
- Identified new and more cost-effective suppliers through participation in industry networking events, purchasing advantageous packages and cutting costs.
- Researched new vendors and partners to obtain most cost-effective pricing for goods, saving company 3lk in one year.
- Performed competitive market and sales analysis and applied best practices to drive business strategy.
- Made valuable contributions to planning of promotions, pricing and inventory levels, enhancing inventory flow, revenue and profits.
- Reduced production downtime by overseeing quality control and assembly.
- Performed yearly store audits in collaboration with managers, designers and sales associates to provide feedback.
- Reduced downtime in warehouse operations by ensuring reorders were aligned with store sales and backlog.
Quality Analyst Associate
Max Newyork Life Insurance
06.2008 - 05.2010
- Developed and maintained quality assurance procedure documentation.
- Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
- Kept inspection journals and daily summary logs as required.
- Monitored inbound and outbound calls made by employees to provide constructive feedback.
- Implemented test scripts and recorded results.
- Participated in weekly meetings with IT department.
Junior Processing Officer
Citi Group Global Services
07.2005 - 05.2008
- Determined credit risks by reviewing files in advance and comparing data against internal checklists and guidelines.
- Made careful determinations based on skilled analyses of submitted documentation covering credit histories, employment records and current financial status.
- Applied grades to each loan application based on established criteria to keep institutional risk low.
- Worked with processing team members to communicate errors and obtain missing information for current applications.
- Checked personal and team calculations to validate information and underwriting decisions.
- Trained junior team members in underwriting procedures and loan quality grading standards.
- Reviewed team underwriting decisions to identify incorrect actions and reverse previous decisions when merited.
- Evaluated performance of less experienced underwriters and helped improve overall work quality by implementing improvement plans.
- Proactively identified solutions for customers experiencing credit issues.
- Explained very technical financial information to applicants in easy to understand language.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Commerce
Jaya College of Arts And Science
Chennai04.2005
Skills
- Contract Development and Management
- Team Leadership
- Project Management
- Budget Controls
- Supplier Relations
- Invoice Reconciliation
- Income and Expense Management
- Business Analysis
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Supply Chain Planning
- Order Placement
- Procurement Procedures
- Price Negotiation
- Vendor Relationship Management
- RFP, RFQ,PO Creation
Certification
· ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Version 4) Certification
· IT Service Management Foundation based on ISO/IEC 20000
· Six Sigma Green Belt [External Certification] – CSSGB
· Process: Agile Way of Working Foundation
· Profession Scrum Master
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Procurement-manager
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2010 - Current
Quality Analyst Associate
Max Newyork Life Insurance
06.2008 - 05.2010
Junior Processing Officer
Citi Group Global Services
07.2005 - 05.2008
Bachelor of Arts - Commerce
Jaya College of Arts And Science
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