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SANTOSH YADAV

Thane

Summary

Carrying total 16 years of experience in customer services (Domestic & International companies), Complaints management, Team management.

Managing Procurement, Vendor Management since 7 years +, results-driven procurement professional expertise in identifying cost-savings opportunities, managing vendors and negotiating contracts. Proven track record of successful cost optimization and supplier performance management. Methodical Procurement with background overseeing purchase of goods and services on behalf of organization.

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager - Procurement

Tata Capital Limited
05.2023 - Current
  • Negotiated contracts with suppliers to obtain favorable terms and pricing.
  • Conducted spend analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
  • Developed and maintained relationships with key suppliers for smooth communication and to meet required expectations.
  • Analyzed supplier contracts to confirm compliance with company policies and procedures.
  • Negotiated pricing and terms with vendors to secure best value for company.
  • Generated reports on purchasing activities to support management decisions.
  • Identified opportunities to reduce lead times and improve inventory management.
  • Reduced costs by streamlining contract bidding and procurement processes to assure best prices for materials and services.

Assistant Manager

Aditya Birla Finance Ltd
05.2016 - 05.2023
  • Manage & control Capex and Opex: Manage cost within the budget without compromising on quality and service standard
  • Managing payments in coordination with finance team and several internal project owners
  • Raising monthly provisions to accounts for projected expenses
  • Sharing Opex and capex reports to all stake holders for current standing of Budget
  • Ensuring expense is within approved budget in case we have any unbudgeted expense need to ensure we have required approval as per approving matrix
  • Ensuring cost is allocated to respective functions, locations, branches, In case incorrectly allocated, we evaluate it quarterly and then share correctly reports to finance team and get it correctly updated.
  • Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
  • Mentored team members to enhance professional development and accountability in workplace.

▪ Annual Maintenance Contract & Agreements, Procurement of IT requirement in cost effective manner. Managing approximately 125 vendors for different nature of business Viz. Software’s, Licences, Hardware’s, Peripherals, MPLS Links, UPS, Cloud datacentre, Outsourced resources.

▪ Vendor on-boarding, basis the requirement raised from management. Understanding vendor’s nature of business, terms, and conditions. Post successful discussion and basis on management conclusion, getting vendor empanelled.

▪ Scrapping of assets (Laptops, Printers, UPS’s) under Tech-Refreshment.

▪ Raising POs for products and services as per requirement. Getting products and services procured on need basis ensuring approval is received as per company guidelines.

▪ Co-ordinating with finance team to ensure payment is processed in time, resolve any queries or concerned they have in terms of payment processing. Sharing details for capitalising capex items.

▪ Keeping track of vendors and their SLA to ensure bills/invoices are cleared as applicable.

Audits and internal discussion:

• Managing internal and external audits to ensure we are following company standards and compliant to the guidelines set by the management.

• Working on improvement areas and ensuring audit observations are worked upon accordingly.

• Sharing daily, Weekly, Monthly report to internal stake holders for current standing on Budget, invoice, and Agreement status.

• Liaising with legal team to ensure agreement and legal documents are executed.

Subject Matter Expert

IBM Daksh Business Process Pvt Ltd, Orange
10.2009 - 05.2016


  • Inbound technical support for the EE broadband/Phone and TV users
  • Handled on job training batches
  • Department: Goldcoin (U.S)
  • Inbound Customer Service for Citibank customers on checking account queries, blocking cards, raising fraudulent transactions to the fraud team.

Birla Sunlife
10.2006 - 02.2009
  • Managed a team of 15 members handling customer’s customers queries pertaining to Insurance (Traditional and ULIP’s)
  • Personal Details

Education

Bachelor’s - commerce

Mumbai University
Mumbai
03.2004

Skills

  • Vendor Management
  • Procurement of goods and services
  • Operations management
  • Negotiation
  • Annual Contract Management
  • Self-motivated, adaptability to change
  • Customer Service, Escalation, Team management

Accomplishments

    Represented company for “Train the Trainer” program to the other LOBs of Aditya Birla Capital in Delhi.

    • Handled VPC migration project in terms of vendor agreement, co - ordination with internal and external vendors to ensure smooth transition.

    • Appreciations received from different team and management for out of the way efforts.

    • During Covid some branches were closed/ merged. /Moved , have manged refurbishment of IT assets for cost save. Got 1st prize for customer satisfaction survey “Team- Voice of Customer”

    Worked on different projects to increase FCR, quality scores
    of the process (EE-Orange).

    Attended training on workflow management and handled RTA/WFM (EE-Orange).

Timeline

Manager - Procurement

Tata Capital Limited
05.2023 - Current

Assistant Manager

Aditya Birla Finance Ltd
05.2016 - 05.2023

Subject Matter Expert

IBM Daksh Business Process Pvt Ltd, Orange
10.2009 - 05.2016

Birla Sunlife
10.2006 - 02.2009

Bachelor’s - commerce

Mumbai University
SANTOSH YADAV