Yogesh Nitnaware

Experiences Sourcing & Procurement Professional with 11.8 years od experience Category strategies for IT (Hardware, Software, Networking, Data Centre, SaaS Services, IT contract staffing) and Non IT categories (Professional Services, Corporate Services , Marketing, Training, Talent Acquisition, Facilities & Administration, Travel, Contract staffing). Execution of RFI/RFP for IT/Non IT categories to bring cost savings, Contract Management and negotiation, Commercial Negotiation, Cost reduction Initiatives, Spend Analysis, Vendor consolidation, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management.

• Spend handled $10Mn-50Mn with 8-14% annual savings.
• Category Strategies for IT commodity which includes Software, Hardware, Data center, Networking equipment’s, Telecom, Printers, PBX, ISP lines, Server support, IT staffing (T&M & Fixed Price) for Global locations
• Category Strategies for Professional service, HR , Recruitment, Training, Admin, Facilities , MRO, Marketing, Corporate Gifting, Contract Staffing for global locations.
• End to end execution of RFP/RFI for assigned projects/category to bring cost savings and value to organization/Business units.
• Engaging with Global stakeholders for successful execution of sourcing project.
• Reviewing contract terms, negotiating with vendors by liasoning with legal and internal stakeholders for IT, Professional and Corporate services.
• Review, Negotiation, Management of contracts (MSA , SOW, CR, CO , Amendments, Addendum, Novation, NDA) for IT and Non IT staff for rate card based model and T&M based engagements.
• Maintaining contract database and proactively initiating contract renewal 3 months before expiry date.
• Engaging with Global stakeholders for successful execution of sourcing project.
• Fetching Spend data from ERP/report database and analysis of spend region wise, vendor wise to draft category strategy for cost savings by consolidating spend region wise, vendor wise.
• Vendor management of all vendors in IT & Non IT services Category.
• Solving issues of internal stakeholders they are facing related to process or contractual staff by acting as mediator between vendor and internal stakeholder, ensuring smooth running of process.
• Quarterly meeting with all vendors to address issues raised by stakeholders.
• Engaging with Global stakeholders for successful execution of sourcing project.
• Working with Finance team to clear pending payments of Vendors.
• Proactively selecting category with higher spend by doing spend analysis and creation of spend dashboard to showcase management, BU's and senior on cost savings opportunities.
• Creation of adhoc reports which will help management to review spend and take decision.
• Creation of Power BI reports, dashboards and presentation to help management with performance of function.

• Completed two days Negotiation skills training conducted by IIM Indore at Syntel Limited
• Advance Excel training at Maersk GSC and Syntel Limited
• Won several awards like Spot award, Employee of Quarter, Impact award.

Advance Negotiation Skills - IIM Indore

Strategies to lead successful negotiation