Soubhagya Mishra
Bangalore,KA
Summary
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified for 13+ years of industry experience, adept at establishing strong business partnerships, utilizing consultative approach to deliver mutual value.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
Magnit Global
08.2025 - Current
- Company Overview: Magnit is a global pioneer in contingent workforce management. Backed by 30+ years of innovation, our industry-leading Integrated Workforce Management platform combines modern software, proven expertise, and world-class data intelligence.
- Spearheaded strategic client engagement initiatives.
- Managed vendor performance to maximize profitability and achieve financial objectives.
- Identified opportunities to streamline processes and improve office operations and efficiency.
- Drove supplier optimization and procurement efficiency through vendor consolidation, performance enhancement, and strategic negotiations to improve supply chain resilience.
- Negotiated and executed contracts for Magnit.
Leader - VMS
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (Formerly SUEZ)
11.2021 - 08.2025
- Company Overview: Currently Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (Formerly Suez) is a French-based utility company which operates largely in the water and waste management sectors. Suez is the largest private water provider worldwide, by number of people served.
- Operations Management (Contingent Workforce):
- Strategic Optimization: Developed and implemented strategies for program optimization and process improvements, enhancing operational efficiency.
- VMS Implementation and Management: Facilitated implementation and UAT of VMS tool while driving its global strategy and adoption and managed entire VMS operational process for external workforce, including onboarding, offboarding, supplier management, and invoice management.
- Governance: Contributed to the governance of external worker policies, including auditing transactional flow to ensure adherence to process and policy guidelines.
- Team Leadership: Directed a team of 4 and managed the Global Operations (People & Process) team with significant spend exposure.
- Comprehensive Support: Provided comprehensive support for approximately 500+ contingent workers across various organizational functions.
- Supplier/Vendor Management:
- Cost Reduction: Negotiated vendor contracts, resulting in reduction in overall engagement costs.
- RFP/RFI Management: Spearheaded RFPs/RFIs and new vendor onboarding programs, ensuring a streamlined and compliant vendor selection process.
- Performance Review: Assessed vendor scorecard competencies to ensure compliance and high performance.
- Risk Mitigation: Identified and mitigated financial, operational, and compliance risks associated with vendor engagements.
- Procurement (Indirect):
- Bidding: Spearheaded RFQs, RFI's, RFPs, RFX's activities while taking charge of supplier negotiations across labor categories/regions/countries.
- Strategy & Negotiations: Responsible for defining and executing contracting strategy, as well as low $ indirect spend; successfully carried out all RFQ activity and supplier negotiations to optimize value generation while minimizing risk.
- Analysis: Performed benchmarking, collected market analysis, and managed Preferred Supplier Network and Strategic Suppliers.
- Communication: Fostered productive communication between senior procurement, business leaders, and assigned categories.
- Stakeholder Collaboration:
- Collaboration: Worked closely with internal stakeholders, including finance, and operations teams, to align vendor management strategies with business objectives.
- Financial Management:
- Budget Analysis: Analyzed vendor spend and forecasted budgets with operational leaders, identifying and executing cost-saving opportunities.
- Financial Efficiency: Implemented process improvements that drove financial efficiencies without compromising service quality.
Program Lead
Pontoon Solutions
09.2017 - 10.2021
- Company Overview: Pontoon (A division of Adecco) is a global HR outsourcing company specializing in improving an organization’s talent. We manage the contingent workforce and statement of work resources on behalf of our clients, as well as source and recruit direct hires.
- Managed and monitored Cisco’s contingent workforce, ensuring efficiency across all requisition stages.
- Managed new-hire onboarding in the T&M model, contract renewals for CW workers, and timely renewals of service and procurement SOWs.
- Optimized service efforts for procurement transactions for contingent labor in a high-quality, cost-effective manner.
- Evaluated managed service and project SOWs for SLA clarity, timeline accuracy, and deliverable success.
- Spearheaded cost-savings negotiations with both Vendors/Suppliers and Cisco managers.
- Collaborated with Program and Supplier Managers to ensure consistent communication and training on program SOPs.
- Led a team of four, driving professional growth and efficient delivery of outcomes.
- Delivered financial outperformance and maintained strict adherence to Pontoon standards.
Delivery Lead
Magna InfoTech
09.2015 - 09.2017
- Company Overview: Magna Info Tech is one of the leading staffing firm that specializes in IT contract and permanent recruiting.
- Drove successful implementation of Manpower Planning strategies encompassing Requisition Management, Vendor Relationship Management, Employee Referral (ER), Talent Management.
- Developed effective strategies for refining and managing the preferred recruiting vendor process. Conducted thorough evaluations of vendor performance.
- Experienced in efficiently improving Time-to-Candidate ratios through effective recruitment strategies.
- Managed measurement, monitoring, and management of vendor and operations at client site to guarantee adherence to contractual obligations.
- Assisted vendors in identifying and devising action plans to resolve any performance issues.
Lead Recruiter
Artech Info Systems
11.2012 - 09.2015
- Company Overview: At the forefront of the staffing industry, Artech is a women-owned business enterprise (WBE) committed to maximizing global workforce solutions on behalf of its clients.
- Implemented strategic initiatives with hiring managers to consistently meet staffing targets and maintain a steady pipeline of qualified candidates. Demonstrated expertise in vendor management, vendor development, and third-party hiring.
Technical Recruiter
Quantronix, Inc.
12.2011 - 11.2012
- Company Overview: Quantronix is a leading software and services provider of Staff Augmentation, Business Consulting, Software & Product Development and IT-enabled Services.
- Executed end-to-end IT Recruitment procedures, catering to PERM, Contract-to-Hire, and Contractual positions nationwide and managed recruitment process.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Odisha08-2010
Skills
- Program Management
- Procurement management
- Supply Chain Management
- Supplier/Vendor Management
- Contingent Management and Strategy
- Operations management
- Contract Negotiations
- Vendor Management System (VMS)
Accomplishments
- Implemented Vendor Management system.
- Successfully implemented Scorecard model.
- Successfully implemented Supplier Mentorship program.
- Part of JP Cycle Time Project - achieved to reduced cycle time from 25 days to 16 days.
Certification
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, 2019
Timeline
Program Manager
Magnit Global
08.2025 - Current
Leader - VMS
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (Formerly SUEZ)
11.2021 - 08.2025
Program Lead
Pontoon Solutions
09.2017 - 10.2021
Delivery Lead
Magna InfoTech
09.2015 - 09.2017
Lead Recruiter
Artech Info Systems
11.2012 - 09.2015
Technical Recruiter
Quantronix, Inc.
12.2011 - 11.2012
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications
Biju Patnaik University of Technology