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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Languages
Timeline
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Rajasekaran Natesan

Rajasekaran Natesan

Hyderabad

Summary

H1B Visa Holder.

An achievement-oriented and Respectful Procurement Specialist with over 16+ years of rich experience, targeting assignments in Procurement/Supply Chain Management with reputed Power Sector/Mining/Oil and Gas/Heavy Engineering across the globe. An enterprising professional with excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Team Lead - Project Procurement Specialist

Cyient Limited, Hyderabad, India
06.2021 - Current
  • Leading the 10 member team & Escalation management team.
  • Preparing and drive the weekly & monthly report to the customer's higher management.
  • Guiding the team to ensure compliance with applicable procurement policies, standards, and regulations and achieve seamless transactions.
  • Ensure strong communication between teams under leadership to facilitate information exchange and implement change and improvements.
  • Proactively manage customer escalations and ensure deliverables are processed within the stipulated time
  • Analyzing all my commodities' costs and lead time quarterly to know the trend.
  • Develops an overall vendor base that creates and sustains a competitive advantage, utilizing global market exploitation, leveraging spend, and leveraging technologies.
  • Carefully read and interpreted RFx to understand specialized terms and requirements. Also, to ensure scope is specified correctly as to description and use.
  • Negotiate contracts with vendors, securing the best material, equipment, and service prices and terms.
  • Identify qualified suppliers and obtain competitive quotations.
  • Analyze proposals to determine the best proposition and negotiate with successful suppliers before placement of purchase order.
  • Create purchase orders using an ERP system and track transactions through order, receipt, invoice reconciliation, and payment.
  • Serve as the primary contact with suppliers. Maintaining ongoing communication with suppliers to promote workflow and respond to inquiries.
  • Develop and maintain internal interfaces with project managers, project controls, engineering, and other internal personnel.
  • Provide ongoing purchasing contract administration, including revision management, warranty claim resolution, discrepancies settlement, etc., as required during the contract's life.
  • Negotiated contracts with suppliers to obtain favorable terms and pricing.
  • Conducted spend analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
  • Led sourcing process for new vendors to get quality products and services and mitigate risk.

Assistant Manager - Procurement

Tenova India Private limited
05.2019 - 06.2021
  • Expertise in sourcing & procurement of required material like Gratings,Hydraulic cylinder,Motors, gear box; performing cost saving activities, vendor development, comparison statements; maintaining vendor database.
  • Expertise in purchase/procurement management activities involving planning, techno-commercial negotiations, procurement of components from various sources.
  • Performing both Desk & Field Expediting of complete project material for various components to maintain or improve against the agreed manufacturing schedules & project urgency.
  • Scheduling the Weekly and Monthly plan for each vendors handled based on the Project Priority and guided them in the completion of the same within the target date.
  • Expediting the Vendors on the delivery & documents by doing post order follow ups and also visiting the vendor place periodically to meet the delivery as per schedule and project specific targets..
  • Initiating the Vendor Registration Process and Coordinating with Quality & Engineering on Vendor Qualification.
  • Coordinate with the vendors for the timely dispatch of materials and ensure its timely receipt to the Workshop.

Senior Engineer

Vaishnav Engineering
09.2014 - 04.2019
  • Reviewed and analyzed monthly production plan against target volume against capacity and resources.
  • Studied drawing in order to fix production process and also meet customer specification if any. Effectively managing assignments to achieve organizational goals.
  • Analyzed work flow; planned and scheduled customer orders based on materials availability, machine capacity.
  • Develop and maintain status information that provides accurate analysis of raw material, work in process, and unreleased work.
  • Continually looks for opportunities to improve manufacturing time and cost and provides metrics to support improvements.

Senior Engineer - Expediting

Cethar Limited
05.2007 - 08.2014
  • Performed both desk & field expediting of complete project material for various to maintain or improve against the agreed manufacturing schedules & project urgency.
  • Visited suppliers & sub suppliers works for field expediting & inspection visits to verify progress and for stage /final inspections.
  • Verified vendors/sub-vendor deliverable by means of review the quality documents.
  • Supported Project Management team with the updates of supplier work progress during all phases of manufacturing & alerts provided on anticipated delay related to quality requirements.
  • Monitored milestone activities of the critical components and preparing forecast analysis on schedule impact.(in order to avoid delay in completion of critical components).
  • Verified with the sub vendors for availability of documents like, purchase order, drawings, quality plan and painting scheme for placed orders.
  • Motivating vendor for the purchase of raw materials and confirming purchased materials are 100% matching to components placed. If not, followed same to match.
  • Getting monthly plan from contracts department with priority and preparing unit wise / vendor wise monthly and weekly plan for completion.

Education

M.E - Manufacturing Engineering -

M.A.R College of Engineering And Technology
Trichy, TN
2014-08

B.E - Mechanical Engineering -

Institute of Road And Transport Technology
Erode, TN

Skills

  • Purchasing Strategies
  • Price Negotiation
  • Process Improvements
  • Team Leadership
  • Data Analysis
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Problem Solving
  • Vendor Sourcing
  • Bid Process Management
  • Trend Analysis

Accomplishments

    Received Individual performer

Certification

PRIMAVERA P6 R17

Languages

Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Team Lead - Project Procurement Specialist

Cyient Limited, Hyderabad, India
06.2021 - Current

Assistant Manager - Procurement

Tenova India Private limited
05.2019 - 06.2021

Senior Engineer

Vaishnav Engineering
09.2014 - 04.2019

PRIMAVERA P6 R17

01-2012

Senior Engineer - Expediting

Cethar Limited
05.2007 - 08.2014

M.E - Manufacturing Engineering -

M.A.R College of Engineering And Technology

B.E - Mechanical Engineering -

Institute of Road And Transport Technology

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