Vinay Vivek Joshi

Responsibilities:

• Heading a team of 4 people, alongside being an individual contributer as an implementation lead.
• Training the colleagues on SQL, complete spend process.
• Working in a very fast paced always on-toes environment managing deliverables of multiple customers simultaneously.
• Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.
• Using :

- SQL for managing huge databases for

inserting, altering, table creation,

inner-join lookups, extraction,

updating of data.

- Advanced Excel for analysis

- POWER BI & DAX for Visualization,

- MS Powerpoint for presentations.

- Leveraging Chat-GPT to speed-up the processes

by using apt prompts.

• Facilitate workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
• Facing clients from diverse regions like UK, Europe, USA, Abu-Dhabi, Australia.
• Monitoring project progress, identifying risks and took corrective action as needed.
• Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.

Achievements:

• Worked With one of the TOP-4 consulting firms PwC closely and delivered a very high profile customer with unrealistic timelines, solely, which earned me an appreciation from PwC.
• Mentored and trained employees on SQL and Spend analysis process and made them self sufficient, which resulted in freeing up the data consolidation team from getting burdened up with the adhoc requests on SQL .
• Smoothly steered many critical projects simultaneously by managing, negotiating and successfully convincing the customers on the timelines single handedly with minimal dependency on the seniors.

Responsibilities:

• Data Consolidation using MS SQL Server, Data Cleansing, Item classification, Supplier normalization, Supplier enrichment, forming Reports from available data and publishing reports for the client
• Collaborating with clients periodically to align client’s expectations with solutions capabilities, delivery timeline, potential bottlenecks, among other discussions
• Procurement specific Taxonomy creation .
• Finalizing approach for categorization.
• Categorizing each commodity items according to the product specification, customer information and supplier line of business.
• Quality Analysis on categorized data Identifying and delivering value add through Opportunity Identification Reports such as Supplier Rationalization, Low-Cost Country (LCC) Sourcing.
• Payment Term Rationalization, Purchase Price Variance, Contract Compliance, PO Compliance, Volume v/s Price monthly trend etc
• Delivering cleansed and organized output which is used by category managers to “slice and dice” the spend data in real time
• Sufficiency checks, data cleansing, fixing SLA, insertions updating the data using SQL, customizing taxonomy, performing and supervising QA checks and ensuring flawless deliveries, interacting with the clients
• Automating any redundant, time consuming or repetitive processes using VBA
• Training the colleagues on SQL, complete spend process.

Achievements:

• Have handled 3 implementation projects related to pharma, mining, auto and energy sector.
• Have been a valuable part of the team which had achieved a 100 % scale up by successfully completing 100 pilot projects in 1 year.
• Have handled a pharma client’s monthly refresh activity for around 1 year.
• Reduced the cycle time of the refresh from around 15 working days to mere 4-5 working days by stream lining the documentation, optimizing the existing automation process, automating many repetitive processes using VBA and SQL for which received a “Certificate Of Appreciation” titled as “INNOVATOR”.

Responsibilities:

• Designing of new machines by optimizing the existing machine
• Handling the purchase of the material required to make the machine.

Achievements:

• Designed a mother yarn splitting machine by reducing the space utilization of the machine to half and increase in the speed of spinning form 500 rpm to 800 rpm.
• Worked in a pioneering project of making polyester yarn by recycling the waste plastic.
• Exhibited in a textile expo held at the Goregaon exhibition center our pioneering technology of polyester yarn making by recycling the waste plastic in collaboration with a Chinese firm named Yangzhou Zhichang.

• Experience in project handling and designing of copper processing machines like copper sheet slitting, copper rod/sheet cold extrusion, copper rod pointing machine, copper wire drawing machine etc
• Worked on Auto-Cadd for designing of copper processing machine parts

Responsibilities:

• Managing the stock requirements of bought out components to fulfill the daily production schedule
• Following up and tracking of nearly 1000 items according to the priority
• Vendor development and costing for new components following the vendor rating system
• Managing and handling Raw Material procurement to meet the ferrous and non-ferrous requirement of the division
• Procurement of roughly 30-35 Crore including various ferrous and non-ferrous metals
• Evaluating New Products & Source and finalizing & development for Locks & Locks’ Items / components
• Packaging of locks like corrugation boxes & blisters.

Achievements:

• Handled the Vendor Evaluation & Rating considering their Cost, Quality & On time deliveries.
• Maintained 2 Bin System at Supplier End and ensured on time delivery of Critical items by utilizing TOC Inventory Management Concept.
• Involved in setting up of a heat treatment and electro-plating plant (for shackles) worth 8 crores at the vendor’s place at Dombivli, Mumbai.