

Trailblazing procurement executive with over 20 years of global, regional, and local leadership experience across India, Singapore, and APAC— including recognition as P&G’s first Indian woman Product Supply Senior Director. Expert in architecting sophisticated sourcing strategies and building resilient supply networks for both direct (raw, pack materials, contract manufacturing) and indirect (Brand building & social commerce ,supply chain and shared services) purchases, managing multi-billion dollar businesses and leading large, diverse organizations across multiple geographies and cultures.
Renowned for externally focused procurement leadership, consistently bringing the best of “outside-in” innovation and problem solving to deliver breakthrough business solutions delivering cost transformation, cash optimization, and digital advancement leveraging AI-enabled solutions and advanced analytics. Proven track record in designing and scaling shared service organizations, executing complex global transitions, and championing ESG initiatives like supplier diversity.
Certified Growth Mindset trainer & AI practitioner, recognized for shaping high-performance teams, and delivering sustainable business impact through strategic vision and operational excellence.
Visionary Procurement Executive with a distinguished track record of leading large, complex APAC geography, managing $800M annual spend, overseeing a $3.2B Net Sales ecosystem. Owning E2E sourcing strategies across high-impact categories: Brand Building (Creative, Media, Social/E-commerce), Supply Chain (Logistics, Warehousing), and Plant Operations (MRO, Utilities). Specialized in architecting sophisticated sourcing strategies and resilient supply network designs, consistently exceeding 'Beacon' targets on savings and cash flow, while transforming fragmented spend into a unified value engine. Renowned for disrupting traditional Brand building and physical supply chains through AI-enabled digitized capabilities , a master of stakeholder influence, trainer for growth mindset & leading the industry’s ESG agenda through Women Entrepreneur Development program production
Key Strategic Interventions & Achievements:
• Brand Building & Media Transformation:
1. Brand communication : Architected a high-efficiency & effective Brand Building ecosystem by establishing content hub, optimizing agency retainer-vs-flow and pioneering AI enabled content production , delivering 30% cost efficiencies across brand communication supply chain, 5X content volume with fit for use content & doubling the speed to market.
2. Media Efficiency: Delivered double-digit media efficiencies by executing "once-in-a-decade" high-stakes media pitches in Thailand and Malaysia alongside the deployment of localized Joint Business Plans (JBPs) with titans like Google and TikTok. Transformed the regional media landscape through technical interventions, including the activation of expanded YouTube inventories, contextual targeting frameworks, and the operationalization of a centralized digital media hub.
3. Social Commerce: Pioneered P&G’s TikTok Shop portfolio in SEA by designing and governing first-of-their-kind agency models that bridged the gap between TT Media and Commerce, driving regional Joint Business Plans (JBPs) and optimizing Cost-to-Serve (CTS).
4. Strategic POSM Transformation: Revolutionized the APAC retail landscape by architecting the "Extended Brand Building Services" (eBBS) model, consolidating fragmented sourcing into a specialized "One-Stop-Shop" ecosystem that realized 30% cost efficiencies ($6M savings) and pioneered the transition to circular, eco-friendly material solutions.
5. Merchandising Innovation & Scalability: Engineered a regional Center of Excellence (COE) to disrupt traditional labor models & implemented agile, innovative models like Uber-merchandising, syndication, and crowd-sourcing frameworks that optimized fixed-vs-flow ratios and delivered 30% cost reductions across major markets including Indonesia, Australia and Vietnam.
• Supply Network & Commercial Excellence: Strategically Orchestrated a comprehensive Supply Network Design (SND) transformation across ANZ, Malaysia, and the Philippines, delivering an aggregate $50M+ NPV impact through commercial and operational interventions. This evolution transcended mere logistics relocation to become an E2E value creation engine, successfully migrating high-risk 3PL partnerships with zero defects—earning the ‘Instantaneous Start-up Trophy’— while pioneering a "Force for Good" customization model powered by workers with disabilities. By integrating last-mile redesigns, redesigns , in housing and automating customization solutions & DC operations established a future-ready infrastructure across the APAC region.
• Value Creation & Strategic Programs:
• Co-crafted and scaled the vGROW program from India to the entire AMA region, elevating procurement from a cost-engine to a strategic partner that solves complex business challenges via an external ecosystem of startups, incumbents, and academia, generating $40M+ in incremental value and establishing P&G as preferred partner for best and 1st of its kind innovation capabilities acquired by its partners.
• Organization, Citizenship & Stakeholder management
• Organizational Design: Architected a "clean slate" organizational design that centralized operations into strategic hubs and in-housed spends to capture deep industry insights, delivering 20% productivity gains & elevating performance to beacon targets.
• Citizenship : Championed the Women Entrepreneur Development Program (WEDP), launching academies in 5 out of 7 markets and increasing Supplier Diversity spend to 9.5%.
• Directly influence and manage relationships with 10+ Country/Category GMs and 40+ Senior Directors, consistently achieving "Stewardship" audit scores of >7 and increasing the Org Happiness Index to 79 points (+3pts YoY)
Procurement executive delivering structural, sustainable cost transformation, cash excellence, and robust supply assurance across Asia, Middle East & Africa.Accountable for $250MM+ annual spend, architected diversified and localized supply ecosystems, drove techno commercial flexibility for breakthrough cost interventions, and scaled digitization and organizational capability to unlock product & package superiority and resilient P&L outcomes.Extensive experience in contract manufacturing strategy and execution, enabling agile sourcing models and accelerating speed to market while optimizing cost and capital efficiency.
Key Strategic Interventions & Achievements:
• Cost Leadership & NSS Delivery: Sustained ~6% Net Savings for five consecutive years despite global freight volatility & commodity inflation. Integrated BCP delivering ‘0’ CFR hurt across IMEA amid COVID and geopolitical disruptions.
• Diversified Supply Chain (47% ->89%) :Laid out a wellcrafted strategy to achieve multisourced, industrystandardized supply base diversification, enabling structural cost leverage, improved technical and commercial flexibility, and strengthened supply chain resilience. • (47% ->89%)
• Localization & FX Risk Reduction (45% -> 61%) : Identification, establishment and qualification of Regional sourcing and feedstock localization to reduce FX exposure, shorten lead times, and deliver structural savings, unlocking multi million cost and cash benefits across materials like top sheet, back sheet, absorbency materials.
• Product & Package Superiority at Optimized Cost (80%)Designed and executed a sourcing strategy tightly aligned with business objectives, driving superiority through material innovation and costoptimized design changes.Delivered enhanced consumer competitiveness while safeguarding margin accretion and accelerating speed to market
• Contract Manufacturing Interventions:Designed and executed CM strategies delivering $11MM incremental savings, accelerated speed to market, and deferred capital investments through external manufacturing partnerships.
• Regional Organization & Process Capability :Built local lab capability and invested in talent to accelerate qualification cycles & scale savings. Global Sponsor of Femcare Purchases Digitization scaling esourcing adoption from 20% → 80% , deployed advanced analytics tools, and institutionalized governance and capability programs—recognized with multiple global procurement awards.
Procurement leader with proven expertise in driving packaging cost transformation and cash optimization across multi category businesses. Extensive experience in sourcing diverse packaging formats—flexible packs, rigids, cartons, and corrugates—leading a spend of $100MM, and leveraging strategic sourcing, benchmarking, and supplier development to deliver sustained value and innovation.
Key Highlights & Achievements
• Breakthrough Cost & Cash Delivery: Exceeded stretch target with touching double digit Net Savings for 2 consecutive years & achieved multi million cash deliverable via payment term extensions (+17 days).
• Strategic Sourcing & Benchmarking: Designed and executed sourcing strategies leveraging cost benchmarking, mega bidding, and alternate supply base development. Delivered multi million savings through laminate optimization, rigid packaging interventions, monolayer sachet projects, and corrugate value engineering—including paper optimization and box size redesign to offset raw material inflation.
• Innovation & Supplier Development: Introduced new suppliers and technologies (e.g., advanced laminates, extrusion formats, lightweighting) to create competitive tension and unlock sustained value. Established regional platforms for benchmarking and reapplication and built a robust pipeline of initiatives for future cost reduction and structural competitiveness.
Global procurement leader with proven expertise in designing and establishing shared service organizations and leading large scale outsourcing transitions. Successfully structured commercial governance, implemented innovative pricing models, and delivered operational excellence across multi geography delivery centers.
Key Highlights & Achievements
• Global Governance organization design : Designed and established a shared service governance model spanning Costa Rica, Poland, Bucharest, Manila, China, and India, integrating strategic, commercial, and operational oversight for Infosys partnership.
• Global Transition: Core team member for outsourcing 1.8M transactions across 78 countries and 14 languages, ensuring seamless migration, robust BCP for IT/site/people, and SLA compliance during & post a 10 month accelerated CPS project.
• Structured Commercial Model & Governance: Negotiated and implemented Resource Unit based pricing, performance linked SLAs, and risk mitigation frameworks, enabling scalability, cost transparency, and innovation in procurement operations.