Sandeep Singh
Bangalore
Summary
Accomplished procurement professional with an extensive career of over 22+ years and an impeccable track record, targeting assignments in procurement and real estate with a reputed organization.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President & Global Head-Procurement & RE
Movate Technologies Pvt. Ltd (Formerly CSS Corp)
Bengaluru
07.2022 - Current
- Leading global procurement efforts to efficiently and effectively enable spend owners, such as business units and functional partners, to maximize the value they receive from suppliers to meet their objectives.
- Responsible for developing and implementing procurement policies, and driving improvements and efficiencies in procurement activities.
- Addressing stakeholders' queries, concerns, and potential escalations across different business units and continents for all sourcing activities.
- Ensuring on-time training and skill enhancement for team leads to remain relevant to the latest skills, market conditions, and supply chain-related challenges.
- Partners and stakeholders relationship management.
- Working closely with stakeholders and partners to enable the continuous cost take-out. I have achieved $3.6 million worth of CTO over the last 24 months.
- Improving PR to PO TAT by 7% year-on-year with regular reviews.
- Designed incentive programs that motivated staff members while ensuring CTO, and savings targets were met or exceeded.
- Cultivating a culture of collaboration among department heads to facilitate cross-functional project execution.
- Collaborating with executive team members on major decisions regarding company-wide initiatives.
- Ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations related to procurement activities.
- Providing organizational leadership and collaboration with executive partners to establish long-term goals, strategies and company policies.
Director & Group Head: Procurement & RE
ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd (OLA)
03.2021 - 06.2022
- Spearheaded global procurement and RE leasing activities for entire group across India, UK, ANZ and Europe.
- Group level sourcing for IT, Telecom, Admin, Facilities, Marketing, Project CAPEX, Travel, Immigration, HR and Professional services for all functions for total cumulative spend worth $200+ Mn.
- Headed negotiation for real estate leases for new offices, renewals and surrenders.
- Developing and implementing organisation procurement policies and processes to ensure a consistent and standard approach and to drive improvements and efficiencies in procurement activities.
- Ensuring supplier base optimization while leading sourcing activities from RFQ/RFP creation to invoice resolution.
- Ensuring work load balance through optimal utilisation of resources, establishing effective liaison with stakeholders.
- Achieving goals on price savings, CTO, supplier movement (Payment Terms and SLAs) to Catalog or Contract.
- Minimising contractual risks to the organisation and managing business relationships with vendors in accordance with Group Procurement and Independence policies.
- Professionally managing the relationship with key stakeholders to provide strategic insights on business needs, resolve complex issues and deliver high performance cost, service and quality outcomes.
- Establishing performance standards and evaluation processes to assess and report on procurement activity in terms of progress, results, customer satisfaction, value and cost.
- Front ending all governance, statutory and process improvement audits & ensuring timely Implementation of corrective actions for all observations.
- Finding & Implementing regular improvements in Oracle Fusion to enhance end user experience for requestor, buyer, finance functions.
- Working closely with Ola Electric SAP ERP team for implementing a flawless workflow for Group sourcing requirements.
- Active engagement for implementation of Microsoft D365 ERP for Ola Foods.
- Providing expert advice to key stakeholders on all aspects of procurement for existing & new initiatives.
Vice President - Procurement, RE & PMO
Mphasis Limited
09.2006 - 03.2021
- Global procurement for Admin, Facilities, Marketing, RE CAPEX, IT, Telecom, Transport, Travel, Immigration, and professional services across multiple support functions.
- Negotiation of larger RFPs going up to $50 million, with significant savings across multiple deals.
- Supplier rationalization to reduce the overall base and achieve CTO by volume consolidation.
- Drive improvements and efficiencies across procurement activities, and ensure adherence to corporate policies.
- Implementation of corrective actions for all findings across governance, statutory, and process improvement audits.
- Facilitated the adoption and execution of new origination, procurement, and contracting practices (company-wide spend analysis, auctions, ERP, and global sourcing programs).
- Led regular meetings with the Executive Steering Team, Operations Management, and Procurement Team to track and report the progress of the overall sourcing program.
- Identifying and managing commercial, contractual, operational, reputation, and supply chain risks to minimize negative impacts on organizational objectives while encouraging opportunity and innovation.
- Implementation of Oracle R12 and transition from R11.
- Headed global real estate (leasing and projects) for India, the USA, the UK, the EU, China, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore, Japan, and Sri Lanka, covering over 2 million SFT across SEZs, STPI, and PEZA campuses.
- Negotiated new leases, subleases, renewals, and surrender leases across all countries, and achieved significant savings either by base rate reduction, extended rent-free periods, or waivers around surrender liabilities.
- End-to-end execution for new office buildings, including identification of new sites through IPCs or direct sourcing, compliance sign-offs, design approvals, execution of layouts, and handover to the operations team.
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with landlords at key leased facilities, managing real estate capital and operating expense budgets, providing input into financial planning and expense forecasting of budgets, and consistently seeking, suggesting, and documenting cost control ideas and process improvements.
- Working closely with an external real estate transaction management provider to develop and conduct negotiation strategies, and bringing transactions to closure.
- Led the entire space consolidation program for better optimization of RE space, and surrendered over 3,000 workspaces to bring cost efficiency.
- 10,000+ new workspaces were added in India, the US, the UK, and China, spreading to 60+ new and re-engineering projects across 1+ million SFT.
- Driven Admin, facilities, travel, and transport functions for Mumbai, Indore, Ahmedabad, and Baroda locations.
- Ensured EHS compliance across facilities under management.
Engineer- RE Projects & Data Centre Utilities
Bharti Airtel Limited
05.2005 - 08.2006
- Implementation of new data centre projects across west region.
- Managing entire data centre and VSAT Hub infrastructure for Mumbai, Thane and Nerul locations.
- Negotiation of AMCs, technical and other contractual terms with global suppliers.
- Validation of design, BOM and measurement sheets for new and reengineering projects.
- Cost optimization across locations for infrastructure & utilities by implementing best practices.
- Managing complete procure to pay process for respective sites along with procurement teams.
- Inventory Management of critical spares and consumables.
Assistant Engineer- Power plant project, Operations
Tata Steel BSL (Formerly Bhushan Steel Limited)
07.2002 - 04.2005
- Graduate Engineering Trainee (July 02 to June 03).
- Project implementation with Siemens/ManB&W/ABB Germany project teams as team member.
- Handled operation and maintenance after commissioning of power plant, substation and utilities.
- Inventory management for all areas.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Dr. B R Ambedkar University
04.2002
Diploma - Electronics Engineering
Government Polytechnic, Tehri Garwal, Uttarakhand
04.1999
Skills
- Global & Emerging Market
- Sourcing
- Procurement Planning
- Supply Chain Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Project & Program Management
- Compliance Management
- Risk Assessment & Mitigation
- Strategic Planning & Implementation
- Process Management
- Real Estate
- Admin Management
Awards
- Business Leader of the Year (RU), Mphasis Limited
- COO Excellence Award, Mphasis Limited
- CEO Excellence Award, Bharti Airtel Limited
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Punjabi
Timeline
Vice President & Global Head-Procurement & RE
Movate Technologies Pvt. Ltd (Formerly CSS Corp)
07.2022 - Current
Director & Group Head: Procurement & RE
ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd (OLA)
03.2021 - 06.2022
Vice President - Procurement, RE & PMO
Mphasis Limited
09.2006 - 03.2021
Engineer- RE Projects & Data Centre Utilities
Bharti Airtel Limited
05.2005 - 08.2006
Assistant Engineer- Power plant project, Operations
Tata Steel BSL (Formerly Bhushan Steel Limited)
07.2002 - 04.2005
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Dr. B R Ambedkar University
Diploma - Electronics Engineering
Government Polytechnic, Tehri Garwal, Uttarakhand
Similar Profiles
Shanu JohnShanu John
Senior Business Analayst at Movate Technologies Pvt Ltd (Formerly CSS Corp)Senior Business Analayst at Movate Technologies Pvt Ltd (Formerly CSS Corp)
Capt DeenadayalanCapt Deenadayalan
Sr. Director – Admin Operations at Movate Technologies Pvt Ltd (Earlier Known as CSS Corp Pvt Ltd)Sr. Director – Admin Operations at Movate Technologies Pvt Ltd (Earlier Known as CSS Corp Pvt Ltd)
K KARTICK KARTIC
Technical Project Manager TAC Operations at MOVATE Pvt. Ltd.(Formerly known as CSS CORP PVT. LTD)Technical Project Manager TAC Operations at MOVATE Pvt. Ltd.(Formerly known as CSS CORP PVT. LTD)
C. RathiC. Rathi
Business Development Manager at HTC Global ServicesBusiness Development Manager at HTC Global Services
Sunil Kumar SSunil Kumar S
Associate Director SAP Basis at GSKAssociate Director SAP Basis at GSK