K Varun Raghava Reddy

• End to End Contract Management Including customer & vendor Management.
• Worked With Transformation teams on cost out initiatives as identified for both IT Hardware and Software Towers.
• Owned vendor Relationships, (Contract & Vendor) Consolidation.
• Signed multi year deals as in when applicable and concluded Multiple Vendor evaluations for high value purchases.
• Savings of 15% achieved on ~$10M - ~$15M
• Cost out targeted at least at 15% -20% year on year reduction/deflation for the renewals.
• Contract Negotiations with Multiple OEM's for IT hardware, Maintenance, Business Software & System Software.
• Inventory Check based on utilization and adapt new technology to fulfill the current requirements.
• Negotiate the Costs for interim purchase and bill back to customer with margins added.

• Capex Savings at an Average of 25% in last one one year and consistently above 20% in the yester years.
• Successful RFP's & Competitive OEM/Partner Bidding for Multiple Offices based Site Set Up Across India with Savings achievement of 20% on the overall Value as compared to Initial Bid's and 30% cost reduction basis Architects Estimate.
• Major RFP Programs Maximizing Cost Savings, Software Licenses -10% -17%, End Point Devices - 28% Annual Cost Reduction, Information Security Purchases at 20% -30%, Employee Transportation & Travel - 15% Annual Cost Reduction.
• Ensured End to End TAT remained in Control at 20 days across all the purchases.
• Managed Procurement Function Based Internal & ISO Audits With Zero NC's Being Recorded in the last 5 Years.
• Multiple RFP's were also Focused on Product Enhancement for fair internal employee Usage & Establishing Corp Standard Purchases for Org Wide Usage and Acceptability.
• Managing a team of professional buyers.
• Monthly Dashboards Reported to Senior Leadership indicating the Savings, Org Benefit Achieved, TAT for Quarterly Cycle.

• Opex Spend Savings at an Average of 12% with Delta of ₹ 10L per Transaction.
• Set up and Negotiated contracts to obtain favorable pricing and delivery structures with about 10 - 20 Rate Cards Finalized Every Year across IT, Facility Based Consumables spend, & Marketing Related rate card Spend.
• Opex Transactions Were Targeted for Quick closure through Automation of Rate Cards with aggressive timeline of 5-7 Calendar Days.
• Minimized New Partner Addition Process with Effective usage of Existing Strategic Partners.
• Purchase Orders, 70-80/month Initiated In ERP, Includes PO Approval to PO Dispatch process to Partners.
• Multiple Process Improvement initiates Were Identified and Implied in the Purchasing process, End result was to Avoid Human Intervention whilst generating PO's
• Developed and strengthened supplier relationships.
• Yearly Progress and Spend Report of all Functions was shared across to the leadership.
• Authorized purchase orders and consumables through Oracle ERP.
• Used Rate Cards to authorize and monitor purchase orders and consumables and Maintained Green Channel for Low Value Purchases.
• Follow UP Emails sent PO Approvers to Achieve the End to End PO TAT.

Key Result Areas

PMO – Management.

• Managing team functions viz. manpower planning, recruitment, Attrition, training, etc.
• Conducting ITC inter project Meetings to Update the first time travelers and optimize the service delivery.
• Participating in SLA reviews and providing inputs to Service Provider organization on the areas of Services, Processes, Manpower, etc.
• Performing internal audits, fixing the process and operational gaps & reporting the progress to the Management.
• Imparting regular trainings to all Stakeholders on the processes designed and implemented to fix the gaps
• Providing business initiatives to the client and to Management in order to provide value add services.

Core Job

• Core Job involved in producing various Analysis and resourcing people per the client requirement on weekly and Monthly basis.
• Monitored and assigned correct severity to an incident as per the SLA.
• Interfaced monthly with client to review monthly performance against the SLA.
• Producing various Analysis reports on daily, weekly and Monthly basis in excel & power point &Visio - sharing across via share point & sky drive.
• Integrating Process flow charts with MS Office programs such as MS Visio, MS PowerPoint & MS Excel.

Key Result Areas

• Attended a comprehensive training in UK accent,principles and processes.
• Passed the Financial Services Authority tests, to comply with client data.
• Furnish the details to the clients by contacting them through email, or chat and telephonic conversations.
• Migrated data from one delivery unit to other.

Highlights

• Accredited with “Accenture UNO award” for the excellent services delivered in the year 2008
• Awarded with Memento for ensuring that the internal quality targets were met.
• Received the customer’s appreciations multiple times for ensuring that the services were delivered with quality and on time.