Hi, I’m
Tariq Saleem
Summary
- Master’s (Finance) & CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) with nearly 14 years of experience in Supply Chain Risk, Analysis, Market Insights, Master Data Management & Spend Insights.
- Currently working with Verizon Communication – as Program Manager - Supervisor Sourcing - Global Supply Chain
- Work collaboratively to deploy supplier risk management techniques to develop multi-year global strategies which support the delivery of the firm’s commercial and operational objectives
- Partner with Business Owners, internal legal counsel, Category Sourcing expert, Risk Experts, Compliance, Audit & Supplier Risk Office (SRO) to mitigate risk
- Drive Financial Health Assessment initiatives to reduce or contain risk as organization success depend on identifying and understanding the supplier risk and making strategic decision accordingly
- Manage compliance with and provide reporting on the firm’s commitments in relation to citizenship, for example CSR and diversity
- Facilitate sharing knowledge, experiences and best practice within and across global Procurement and Commercial Management team
- Effective organizer, motivator, team player and a decisive leader with the capability to motivate team to excel and win
- Supports Decision to assists sourcing organization with $ 3 bn Savings
- Work to treat every Supplier Risk directed concerns with urgency & integrity and strive to make continuous improvement in every work product and process involved in. Multifaceted, Energetic and Result-oriented professional seeking senior level assignments in Supply Chain with a leading organization of repute. Technical Skills Power BI MS Excel QlikSense Supplier Risk Mitigation Category Market Intelligence Supplier Financial Analysis Analytics & Forecasting Spend Analytics Team Building & Leadership Stakeholder Relationship Management Data Relationship Management
Overview
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Verizon India Subsidiary of Verizon CommunicationHyderabad
12.2015 - Current
UBS AG, India Service Centre, Cognizant Technology Solutions companyHyderabad
06.2010 - 11.2015
Karvy Global Services LtdHyderabad
03.2007 - 08.2009
Verizon, Verizon CommunicationHyderabad
Supervisor
12.2015
Job overview
- With, India = parent company of, Sourcing– Risk, Market Insight, Master Data Management and Spend/ Global Supply Chain
- Telecommunication & Media
- Key Performance Areas:
- Create and develop financial analysis assessments to assist peers and Category Leads with an overviews of category spend trends using historical and forward-looking advanced analytics, make recommendations, and implement supplier or process changes that will optimize by category
- Apply critical thinking skills and work independently to make sound business decisions on behalf of the company
- Act as Information Assurance Analyst and work closely with Category/Business Partner
- Lead complex data gathering for spend analysis requests across the company
- Analyze data for accuracy including identifying and challenging anomalies as well as driving issue resolution in coordination with master data management
- Identify areas where spend is under-utilizing preferred suppliers and work with Sourcing Directors, Managers and Category Leads to pursue opportunities
- Support Category Leads, Managers and Directors with information on Key Suppliers to enable them to understand key spending trends, financial viability and customer specific spend data across key business
- Work with the Purchasing Team and Systems teams to ensure proper classifications of data into taxonomy for proper analyses
- Strong leadership, analytical and strategic thinking skills
Education
ACADEMIA
ASCM APICS CSCP – Certified Supply Chain Professional
Aligarh Muslim University
B.Com (Hons)
University Overview
GPA: 69
ICFAI School of Financial Studies
M.S from Finance
University Overview
GPA: 7.85, Financial Management, Financial Risk Management, Strategic Financial Management, Investment Banking, International Finance & Trade
Skills
Conceptualized & Developed Prudent Scoring Bankruptcy model for the Suppliers, received Verizon Spotlight Award from my VPDesigned & finalized Supplier financial risk platform using Tableau to capture Supplier Risk, relationship, contracts details for our Souring OrganizationDeveloped standard FHA reporting slide for executive reviewInitiated VP level monthly FHA alert for Top SuppliersJune 2010 – November 2015 UBS AG (Swiss Bank) India Service Centre (A Cognizant Technology Solutions company)Hyderabad Senior Analyst (Team Lead)Banking & Information Technology ServicesKey Performance AreasKey Supplier Health Metrics ReportAssessing the financial health of 125 Global Banking, IT & Telecom Firms Financial Statement Analysis, S&P Ratings, ALT Z Score- Bankruptcy, Financial & Leverage RatiosSupplier Document (Vendor analysis)PowerPoint’s that contain relationship information of supplier in terms of spends, future spends, competitor analysis, Financial Performance (Quarterly & Yearly), SWOT analysis, Industry Analysis, Corporate Strategy, Issues, Dependency & risks, etcSpend AnalysisSpend Analytics process – (Platform based solutions) Data Gathering, Data enrichment, Vendor Group Normalization, Creating categories based on GL Data, expense Item or UNSPSC code, creating rules for mapping commodities, dimensional view, spend reports, Contract Compliance, CSAT Survey analysis, Contract Management & Governance controlPreparing 3rd party spend reports using SAP BW Bex Analyzer and BIQAnalyzing the 3rd party spend and prepare presentations based on the analysis on a monthly basis Currently these reports are being presented to the Group Executive Board (GEB) of Swiss BankISTT: (Initiatives & Savings Tracking Tool)Prepare ISTT reports on initiatives and savings in the area of sourcing, the initiatives and savings are organized along category/commodity levelTracking Initiatives are tracked over 5 maturity levels – from the idea generation stage to the fully implemented and collected stageEach initiative is tracked to the impacted division/business area, which allows for forecasting by time period, business division and cost lineAdditional ResponsibilitiesResponsible for Client Deliverables, Relationship Building & Team ManagementBusiness Development: Market Intelligence, RFI / RFP support and Preparation of Marketing DecksResearch & Analytics: Data Analytics, Competitive Intelligence, Secondary Research, SWOT Analysis and Ad-hoc Consulting support to Client’s Offshore Strategy TeamPlaying a key role in working on client requests coming from all across the globe Identifying, developing, and implementing best practices in research processesTraining team, stake holders on Tools such as BIQ & SAP Business Warehouse, providing on-the-job training to new joinersCompany Profile & Industry Research: Trend Analysis, Financial Summary & Business Segment Analysis, Capabilities & Service Offerings, Headcount Analysis, Recent Transaction Analysis and Competitor Landscape StudiesProcess Metrics: Preparing & updating: Quality metrics, Process Documentation, SOPs, Process Maps, Dashboards, and SLAsMarch 2007 – August 2009 Karvy Global Services LimitedHyderabad AnalystKnowledge Process OutsourcingSector and Market AnalysisSector Analysis consists of in-depth sector research which entails the sector dynamics, demand-supply situation, key growth drivers, segmental analysis, and analysis of various peers in the industryPrepared sector report across nine markets on Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on sector such as Oil & Gas, commercial banking, Insurance and Islamic banking - published in a leading Middle East investment bank websiteResponsible for preparing style guide, questionnaire and storyboard in order to prepare sector reportBrainstorming with the client while handling post-research queries to facilitate a streamline implementationCompany and Equity ResearchCompany research includes studying about business strategy, growth strategy, business verticals and various other fundamentals of the companyFinancial Statement Analysis, Responsible for preparing initial coverage on equity recommendations whenever there are any corporate actions through updatesBusiness DevelopmentSignificant client interactions to understand the research objective and arriving at the scope of the researchProviding analytical research for decision-making at the US Senior Executive Leadership level The deliverables oriented to guide business strategic decisions include economic study, market analysis, business analysis, competitor review, and feasibility studyPrepare project proposals, thematic reports, and pitch reports for the enhancement of the company’s product offeringsAdditional ResponsibilitiesResponsible for maintaining the quality metrics of a core projects; development of the Standard Operation Procedures for data procurement and maintenance of projectsHandled the entire project in several occasionsTraining new recruits on the various intricacies of “earnings bulletin, detail financial analysis report and Industry spotlight” for the US markets
Timeline
Verizon India Subsidiary of Verizon Communication
12.2015 - Current
Supervisor
Verizon, Verizon Communication
12.2015
UBS AG, India Service Centre, Cognizant Technology Solutions company
06.2010 - 11.2015
Karvy Global Services Ltd
03.2007 - 08.2009
ACADEMIA
01.2021
ASCM APICS CSCP – Certified Supply Chain Professional
01.2007
Aligarh Muslim University
B.Com (Hons)
01.2004
ICFAI School of Financial Studies
M.S from Finance