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Saravana Babu

BANGALORE

Summary

A Post Graduate in Master of Business administration with over 15 years of experience in Purchase and Procurement of a wide variety of equipment in diverse fields, highly organized, disciplined and detail oriented with ability to excel in any task at hand, adaptable and a good team player willing to shoulder increasing responsibilities, seeking a Middle Management assignment in any dynamic industry.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Consultant IT Procurement

ITC Infotech Ltd
BANGALORE
2021 - Current
  • Financial and P & L Management. Managing the Budget of Approx: 150 Cr. Annual Budget of Opex & Capex of IT function.
  • Vendor Management Identification, Evaluation, Comparison and Finalization
  • Contract Management (Projects,Hardware&Software Annual Maintenance Contracts)
  • Procurement of Hardware, Software, Network Equipment and Peripherals from indigenous and global vendors.
  • Responsible for timely renewal of AMC of IT Assets (Hardware, Software and Network equipment).
  • Bandwidth procurement (PILL, MPLS & NLD-P2P).
  • Telecom procurement
  • Contract management and timely renewal of existing contracts as per the organization requirements
  • MIS- IT, Finance (Provision & Status of Vendor bills Processed Vs Settlement), Fund projection and timely Capitalization of Fixed assets (IT)
  • Vendor account reconciliation
  • Asset Management-Hardware, Software& Network Equipment.
  • Responsible for timely availability of resources (Subject Matter Experts, Hardware& Software) to meet Project delivery timeline.
  • Responsible for Logistics operation of IT department (procurement & Internal Movement)
  • Responsible for timely payment to IT vendors (P2P Process owner for IT department).
  • Managing P2P process with MIS dashboard
    Timely disposal of obsolete assets
  • SLA Management SLA Measurement, SLA Validation
  • Responsible for Process improvement in IT Procurement, vendor Management, IT Governance Process. Coordinator for external audits and statutory audit for IT Function

    Planning & budgeting
  • Preparing budget estimates and financial plans, managing deployment in future period.
  • Preparation of AOP i. e., CAPEX and OPEX and submitting to senior management team
  • Tracking and reviewing all expenditures, reimbursements and expenses for comparison against budgets and develop reports to determine if budgetary goals are met.
  • Working with financial and executive teams to develop financial strategies and cost containment programs
  • Tracking Budget Vs. Actual and highlighting to senior management team
  • Submitting the CR report for capitalization month on month

    AGREEMENT AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
  • Liaison with project team to get into an agreement with vendor
  • Sending the agreement to legal, finance and taxation team for input
  • Once we get the input from the respective stake holders sending the same to process owner for review and inputs
    After getting input from process owner, legal, finance and taxation team sending the clean copy to vendor for confirmation.
  • Once we get the confirmation from vendor on the agreement, preparing the contract summary and approval from which contain details of rationale getting into an agreement and commercial details
  • Submitting the CAF hard copy to legal team for intial and post that getting an approval from chief of function and CIO
    Sending the CAF hard copy to corporate office for obtaining an approval from legal, finance controller, CFO, CEO

    Bills and payment
  • Taking care of complete bills and payment to vendor
    Reconciliation of vendors bills and payment
  • Submitting the IT provision to finance team month on month
    Supporting the team and handling the Escalation

Senior Manager IT Procurement

Tata sky ltd
BANGALORE
2007 - 2021

Education

MBA - Master of Business Administration

Sikkim Manipal University
Bangalore
12-2012

BBA - Business Administration And Management

Madurai Kamaraj University
Bangalore
11-2007

Skills

  • Planning
  • Strategic sourcing
  • Contract negotiation
  • Procurement process
  • Price negotiation
  • Procurement proposals
  • Vendor engagement
  • Global procurement
  • Process improvement
  • Contract management
  • Planning and organizing
  • Purchase orders

Major projects

  • Reduced operational costs by 20 million rupees per annum by effectively working on contracts with telecom providers
  • Cost saving in CAPEX and OPEX 7.5 Cr annually

Timeline

Lead Consultant IT Procurement

ITC Infotech Ltd
2021 - Current

Senior Manager IT Procurement

Tata sky ltd
2007 - 2021

MBA - Master of Business Administration

Sikkim Manipal University

BBA - Business Administration And Management

Madurai Kamaraj University

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