Rahul Gokani
Pune,MH
Summary
Dynamic procurement professional with extensive experience managing multi-regional sourcing activities, focused on cost optimization, compliance, and timely delivery of goods and services. Expertise in tail spend optimization through strategic analysis and management of low-value, high-volume purchases, resulting in significant cost reductions and supplier consolidation initiatives. Proven track record in negotiating competitive pricing and favorable terms with vendors while upholding quality standards, alongside effective resolution of invoice discrepancies in collaboration with finance teams. Adept at maintaining accurate vendor databases and overseeing lifecycle management of IT assets, ensuring compliance with licensing agreements across diverse regions, including the UK, USA, Canada, India, Singapore, and Israel.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Buyer
Altera Digital Health India LLP
06.2025 - Current
- Manage procurement activities across multiple regions ensuring cost optimization, compliance, and timely delivery.
- Handle tail spend optimization by analyzing low-value, high-volume purchases and implementing supplier consolidation strategies.
- Negotiate competitive pricing and favorable terms with vendors to achieve cost savings while maintaining quality standards.
- Resolve invoice discrepancies by coordinating with finance and vendors for accurate and timely payments.
- Maintain and update vendor databases to ensure accuracy, compliance, and proper documentation for onboarding.
- Oversee procurement and lifecycle management of IT assets using asset management tools, ensuring compliance with licensing agreements.
- Manage Annual Maintenance Contracts (AMC) and Annual Renewal Contracts (ARC), including negotiation and timely execution.
- Execute procurement activities for global regions including UK, USA, Canada, India, Singapore, and Israel, ensuring adherence to regional compliance and tax regulations.
- Developed and maintained strong relationships with key vendors to ensure timely delivery of materials.
Procurement Analyst II
KH India GCC Pvt. Ltd.
01.2024 - 05.2025
- Achieved $400k till today by price negotiating and merging the data for received requirements
- Associated with global procurement tactical team for indirect sourcing up to 1MN USD for Facilities, MRO and IT Hardware Category
- Collaborating closely with Business Unit Stakeholders to understand their needs and establish strategies for achieving better results in terms of their goods' requirements
- Possessing thorough understanding of purchasing strategies, procedures, and principles
- Creating Purchase Orders, Processing and entering Contracts in Contract Management tool for managing and retrieving documents
- Identified issues, analyzed information, and provided solutions to problems
- Developing and investigating supply sources, issue requests for quotations, proposals or bids for those items not covered by existing purchase agreement and prepare summary and comparison
- Responsible for the receipt of Inventory goods and non-inventory goods
- Maintaining inventory stock and delivering shipments received to internal customers
- Reconcile inventory discrepancies, receiving and issuing errors, and accounting problems
- Organize/prioritize daily, weekly, and monthly duties with minimal supervision
Senior Procurement Specialist
Allscripts India LLP
06.2019 - 12.2023
- Achieved around $150k savings on every year by introducing new vendor and increasing the payment terms of regular supplier
- Associated with global procurement strategic/tactical team for indirect sourcing up to 500k for IT, Marketing, Financial, Professional Services, Facilities, and Resale
- Inspect incoming requisition for correctness and re-distributing or referred when appropriate
- Assign sources of supply in accordance with category mentorship or other relevant sourcing instructions
- Resolve operational issues with the suppliers, sourcing specialist and requester related to the quality, delivery or receipt of good / services, invoice payment, return of materials, etc
- Handle required changes to PO and closure of the PO
- Issue, as needed, Requests for Quote to acquire pricing, delivery, and other commercial terms
- Engage partners -e.g
- Requestors, sourcing specialist etc, to finalize the purchase decision
Assistant Officer Commercial
Sanghi Industries Limited
10.2018 - 06.2019
- AMC of plant related mechanical tools and tackles items
- Offices HVAC AMC
- ARC for Stationary items
- End to End 25 to 30 requisition handled daily basis
Purchase Manager Level 3
EPP Composites Private Limited
04.2018 - 10.2018
- Handled Raw Material Logistics for 7 Plants
- Review and monitor purchase requisitions
- Manage supplier communication
- Deal with invoice discrepancies
- Ensure compliance with strategic procurement
- Running compliance checks on all PR(Purchase requisition) incoming via ERP
- Create POs post successful compliance checks
- Ensure on time delivery of material to support production
- End to End 15 to 20 requisition handled daily basis
Purchase Executive
Galaxy Stamping Private Limited
11.2016 - 03.2018
- Convert released requirements in purchase orders considering valid conditions, communicate externally & negotiate if necessary
- Reviewing order confirmations (e.g
- Delivery date, price, payment terms, etc.) and invoices as well as archiving of order related documents
- Monitoring delivery dates, order confirmations, and packing slips and sending out dunning letters in the event of delays
- Support the automation of order transmission and receipt of order confirmations, e.g
- Via EDI
- Local maintenance of purchasing data in SAP
- End to End 15 to 20 requisition handled daily basis
Purchase Executive
Senor Metals Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 03.2016
- Manual Purchase Order
- PO copy sending to suppliers
- Taking GRN
- Inventory Management (Issue and Receipt)
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering - Mechanical
Shantilal Shah Government Engineering College
Bhavnagar, Gujarat06.2013
Skills
- Sourcing
- Price Negotiation
- RFX(ie RFP,RFQ,RFI)
- Contract Management
- SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
- SAM(Software Management ERP - Asset)
- HAM(Hardware Management ERP - Asset)
- S2P (Source to Pay)
- P2P (Procure to Pay)
- Inventory Management
- Report Preparation
- Team Handling
- Process Simplification
- Microsoft Office
- Oracle R122
- SAP S4/HANA
- Ariba
- Strategic sourcing
Training
1 Month, Hi-Tech Investment Castings Ltd, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, Purchase and Store Department
Timeline
Buyer
Altera Digital Health India LLP
06.2025 - Current
Procurement Analyst II
KH India GCC Pvt. Ltd.
01.2024 - 05.2025
Senior Procurement Specialist
Allscripts India LLP
06.2019 - 12.2023
Assistant Officer Commercial
Sanghi Industries Limited
10.2018 - 06.2019
Purchase Manager Level 3
EPP Composites Private Limited
04.2018 - 10.2018
Purchase Executive
Galaxy Stamping Private Limited
11.2016 - 03.2018
Purchase Executive
Senor Metals Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 03.2016
Bachelor Of Engineering - Mechanical
Shantilal Shah Government Engineering College