Mital Shah

• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
• Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships within organizations and with vendors.
• Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.
• Planning, Creating and implementing purchasing strategies, and review new projects.
• Use techno-commercial negotiation skills to close the best deals for the company.
• Anticipate market trends and demand.
• Developed new advance purchasing processes and delivery systems and put into day to day purchase use.
• Identify and mitigate risks, such as supplier risks, market volatility, and supply chain vulnerabilities.

• Prepared multiple reports and put in regular use for management and business team analysis. i.e. Business Spend analysis, Risk Analysis, Functional and other dashboard with MIS reporting, Economic research and trend forecasting, Maturity Assessment, Cost saving, supply market research and analysis in support of category strategies, purchase price cost analysis, cost modeling.
• Provide commercial and analytical support to Planning & Sourcing team.
• Collaborate with other departments to determine organizational needs by participating in the development of specifications, inventory levels, replenishment cycles and product lead time.
• Closely worked with an external consultant team "E&Y" to enhance efficiency of various processes.
• Realized cost saving of 15-18%.

Monthly & quarterly planning based on forecasting & sales for both domestic & import materials.

Review of RFQs & float the same to potential vendors.

Maintaining inventory and purchasing records, conducting vendor research, rate negotiations, placing purchase orders, overseeing shipping schedules, maintaining purchase records, overseeing vendor activities, and managing inventory.

Preparing cost sheet of NPD materials.

Import material tracking on daily basis.

On-boarding new vendors by adhering policy & with necessary approvals for domestic & imported materials.

• Analyzed vendors and select most suitable to deliver high-quality products at competitive pricing.
• Managed vendors and suppliers to meet objectives related to cost, delivery performance and schedule.
• Participated in Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly management status reviews.
• Utilized and developed SAP & Excel based program to prepare MIS reports, Vendor evaluation and weekly dash board data.
• Negotiated lead-time, cost and quality to obtain maximum company benefit.
• Utilized SAP to generate request for quotes, PR and PO.
• Actively participated for business excellence projects with various external consultants. i.e. E&Y and Renoir.
• Maintained ISO documentation for the purchase dept.
• Realize cost saving of 3 to 5% of total purchase goods.

• Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to facilitate and moderate classroom discussions and student centered learning.
• Collaborated with HOD to create dynamic, ongoing curriculum development and instruction improvement program.
• Created excitement and enthusiasm in classroom by delivering engaging subject matter.