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Parag Joshi

Summary

Affable Solutions Consultant with 9+ years of experience helping companies connect customers with ideal solutions. Dedicated to taking ownership of full customer lifecycle .Consistently evangelizes for high-quality products and exceptional services. Keen to form strong, lasting business relationships between clients and providers.

Awarded Shining Star of the year (2018-19) at Zycus for demonstrating exemplary customer handling skills

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Solution Consultant

SirionLabs
09.2024 - Current

1. Consulting the clients to help them provide solution to manage their contracts using the SirionOne CLM tool.
2. Leading and Managing the Projects.
3. Preparing Project Scope, Project Plan, timelines, setting Milestones to achieve the finalized goals and deliverable in collaboration with project team and stakeholders.
4. Identifying and Managing Project dependencies, critical paths, Stakeholders and Team.
5. SPOC for client stakeholder and delivery team.
6. Schedule the Workshops meetings for Design discussion of CLM tool.
7. Schedule the discussions for Legacy Migration and Integration.
8. Requirement Gathering, Gap Analysis and prioritizing the Gap deliverable.
9. Log the new requirements on Jira tool.
10. Preparing user stories use cases, Flow chart and writing system requirement specifications.
11. Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks, and devise contingency plans and Risk Management.
12. UAT preparation, UAT sign-off, project Go-live preparation.
13. Tracking project milestones and deliverable.

Technical Lead - Product Development

Harman Connected Services
09.2023 - Current
  • Maintained internal product knowledge database
  • Distinguished product issues and gathered information on customer experiences
  • Assist Legal, Procurement team members, category managers to oversee implementation of process improvement tools
  • Conduct 4 Weekly meetings with vendors to understand requirement and guide them on outcome
  • Manage internal stakeholders on best practices while implementing a solution

Senior Functional Consultant

Icertis
07.2021 - Current
  • Working in the Partner Enablement team, I am responsible for supporting partners in their implementation of projects
  • Enabling Icertis Global Partners with Icertis Implementation process & methodology, Customer Value & Adoption, CLM Best Practices & Continuous Knowledge Sharing
  • Coach Partner team members on skills to drive project success, customer satisfaction, product value & adoption
  • Tap opportunities to cross sell and up sell to existing and new customers from Icertis solution portfolio.
  • Deliver integrations between CLM and client applications like SAP,Oracle,DocuSign,Salesforce and other custom ERP/CRM applications
  • Drive process improvement workshops by giving feedback


Business Analyst/Specialist

Novartis
04.2019 - 07.2021
  • Synthesized current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings and recommending changes
  • Providing data driven insights at category level to support category strategy formulation & revision and annual budget allocation
  • Supporting the category team in billed rate analysis, market intelligence, supplier auditing, supplier identification & financial profiling, RFP process and negotiations, To automate reoccurring reports by collaborating with the required team
  • Handle several Corporate Spend categories to build, test and implement category strategy

Senior Procurement Analyst

Zycus
03.2018 - 04.2019
  • Handling Spend Implementation and multiple Spend Operations projects to realize saving opportunities to the customer
  • Analyzing and building reports for the customer which they find it helpful for their data analysis
  • Automating the process of data analysis to ensure minimal human intervention and accurate output
  • Sharing knowledge with team members
  • Demo of the reporting tool to customers, understanding their requirements and trying to give them the best possible outcome with the reporting tool.

Senior Procurement Analyst

Zycus Infotech, Anayst
07.2017 - 03.2018
  • Received ‘Achievers award' for the year 2015-16 at GEP
  • Successfully implemented 10 Spend projects including one of the biggest projects of GEP
  • Successfully executed the role of ‘UAT Tester', performing various testing of upgrades on our reporting tool
  • Awarded Shining Star of the year (2018-19) at Zycus for demonstrating exemplary customer handling skills
  • Certifications 7 Step Strategic Sourcing Process ., Handling Spend Implementation and multiple Spend Operations projects to realize saving opportunities to the customer
  • Analyzing and building reports for the customer which they find it helpful for their data analysis
  • Automating the process of data analysis to ensure minimal human intervention and accurate output
  • Sharing knowledge with team members
  • Demo of the reporting tool to customers, understanding their requirements and trying to give them the best possible outcome with the reporting tool
  • Conduct training for freshers, help them to execute Spend
  • Operations projects to help them learn and grow in the organization
  • Handled various domain projects from including Food & Packaging
  • Industry
  • Worked with Category Managers to deliver reports of strategic importance
  • Procurement

Senior Spend Analyst

GEP Worldwide
01.2017 - 07.2017
  • Categorization & Vendor Normalization of spend data
  • Delivering various spend reports to customer for various business types across multiple regions
  • Executing Spend projects and finding saving, opportunities for customer
  • Regular customer engagement through weekly calls to ensure healthy engagement

Spend Analyst

GEP Worldwide
07.2015 - 12.2016
  • Spend Analysis tool configuration, reports building, classification and enrichment of spend data
  • Delivering various spend reports to customer
  • Executing Spend projects implementation with senior members assistance
  • Understanding & Learning Procurement products

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics

Mumbai University
08.2011 - 2015.07

12th State Board - Science -

MSBSHSE
07.2009 - 2011.03

10th State Board - General Studies

S.E.S High School & Junior College
06.2008 - 2009.03

Skills

Information gathering

Timeline

Senior Solution Consultant

SirionLabs
09.2024 - Current

Technical Lead - Product Development

Harman Connected Services
09.2023 - Current

Senior Functional Consultant

Icertis
07.2021 - Current

Business Analyst/Specialist

Novartis
04.2019 - 07.2021

Senior Procurement Analyst

Zycus
03.2018 - 04.2019

Senior Procurement Analyst

Zycus Infotech, Anayst
07.2017 - 03.2018

Senior Spend Analyst

GEP Worldwide
01.2017 - 07.2017

Spend Analyst

GEP Worldwide
07.2015 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics

Mumbai University
08.2011 - 2015.07

12th State Board - Science -

MSBSHSE
07.2009 - 2011.03

10th State Board - General Studies

S.E.S High School & Junior College
06.2008 - 2009.03
Parag Joshi