Rachana Rana

• Managed relationships and negotiations with key suppliers at senior and strategic level.
• Supported contract negotiations with key suppliers to secure value for money, quality standards, and delivery terms.
• Created and maintained supplier relationship and evaluation process to assess supplier performance and compliance.
• Introduced innovative eProcurement processes to streamline purchasing efficiency.
• Supported purchasing strategies and processes to meet business goals and operational needs for price, quality, and delivery, including terms and conditions, supplier selection and removal, supplier evaluation, supply chain rationalization, vendor-managed inventory, supplier consignments, and safety stock.
• Helped build a vendor base that supports competitive advantage through global sourcing, spend consolidation, and technology use.
• Developed and applied purchasing vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to enhance business performance.
• Led departments under control, coaching, mentoring, and developing direct reports to support high performance, continuous improvement, added value, and cost reduction.
• Worked with key stakeholders to support delivery and compliance with purchasing strategy.

• Led procurement of indirect spend (marketing, sales, HR, admin, IT, supply chain) for GIL head office, managing an estimated annual spend of INR 200 Cr.
• Leading development and implementation of procurement strategies across multiple categories targeting cost reduction by 15% through requirement consolidation, supplier selection & contract negotiations.
• Working towards procurement process optimization and order processing TAT reduction through process streamlining, leveraging technologies and improving communications.
• Conducted comprehensive spend analysis to identify patterns and key leverage points for cost reduction and overall procurement process improvement.
• Negotiated and established long-term contracts for risk mitigation, cost benefit, quality of product / service and advantageous terms and conditions.
• Manage end to end contract life cycle including drafting, reviewing and ensuring legal compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Managed vendor selection, development, and evaluation to meet regional needs while ensuring vendor registration compliance with global standards.
• Adopting procurement programs within geographical scope and ensuring consistency with the Global SAG category by working closely with the SAG Category Leads.
• Ensuring compliance with internal policies , procedure , external regulations ethical procurement practices & sustainability.
• Contributed innovative ideas and solutions to enhance team performance and outcomes.
• Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services.

• Managed Complete Gamut of Capex & Revenue procurement for 9 Iron ore & 2 dolomite / limestone mines with estimated installed capacity of 10+ MT and annual spend of INR 300 Cr.
• Successfully handled end to end Project Procurement of the new projects of Metal recovery plant (MRP) with estimated expenses of 500 CR over span of 3 years.
• Crafted and implemented procurement strategies with proven track of achieving cost savings on 10% through supplier consolidations, negotiations and requirement consolidations.
• Handled complete supply procurement of key categories of MRO, of HEMMs , Electrical tom ensure supply continuity and in-intruppted operations.
• Worked on Service Contracts of AMC for IT infrastructure & Mine Exploration & development related requirements.
• Handled end to end procurement cycle (RFQ/ RFI/ RFP,negotiations, auctions, Approvals) for assigned category and 100% achieved PR to PO TAT targets.
• Adopted various procurement tools for PO processing, Negotiations to align procurement practices inline with group level initiatives.
• Handled department related Internal & external IMS audits.

• Improved software quality through comprehensive audits in the NPD centre.
• Involved in definition and implementation of NPI and Group quality initiatives towards setting of simple and robust processes.
• Identifying Process improvement opportunities through CAPA, Data analysis and facilitating projects to improve process efficiency and effectiveness.
• Conducting process rollout sessions / Internal Training Sessions to different functions / new Joiners for new / revised processes.
• Provide data and interpretation of measurements and audits,
• Mapping of different business processes and implementing various matrices in the organization for capturing the data for high quality services within organization.

Handled customer complaints for consumer & industrial solution Business with help of Quality tool TECHS. Root Cause Analysis & Implementation of corrective actions against defect reporting. Responsible for continual Improvement activities to enhance the quality system, such as 5S, Kaizen, etc. Reviewed of CAPA & Tracking of implementation of corrective actions. Conducted internal & External Audits & closing of audit findings, creating audits finding. Responsible for publishing MIS data for plant & Initiating corrective / Preventive actions as & where applicable.

Derived a solution set across development teams through market requirements, product contract & positioning for Multi- function Transducer (MFT). Worked closely with marketing, R&D teams to draft market requirements for current & upcoming feature enhancement in product by conducting market research.