Abishek S

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ABOUT ABISHEK S

A competent and result-oriented professional with 16+ years of experience in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Contract Management, Negotiation, and Vendor Relationship Management of Indirect Categories. Exemplary relation-building skills and ease to connect to any level within the organization. Track record of effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines. Skills:• Strategic Sourcing (Capex & Opex)• Contract Negotiation• Category Management• Supplier Optimization• Cost Reduction Savings• Project Management• Stakeholder Management• Source to Contract (S2C)• Purchasing Compliance• Continuous Improvement• RFx Processes• Tableau Implementation• Vendor Management• Strategic Sourcing: Supporting the sourcing strategy of the organization, translating overall strategy into a category-specific context with a focus on developing deeper commercial and cost discipline capability• Supply Chain Management: Building and maintaining vendor relations, managing buyer processes, preparing and analyzing reports; managing inbound processes, inventory management, verifying inbound purchase deliveries, and expediting the purchase orders as per the production plan• Procurement: Managing day to day transactional procurement activities such as tendering, e-auctions, request for quotations (RFQ), request for proposals (RFP), managing responses from the suppliers, negotiating, responding to queries, preparing, reviewing, and issuing purchase orders; managing contracts, statement of work and amendments.• Stakeholder Management: Leading cross-functional teams i.e. internal and external stakeholders, to meet project and business needs. Presenting the recommendations to the senior stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.• Supplier Relationship Management: Maintaining interface within supplier’s organization. Managing supplier performance by monitoring KPIs, SLAs, scorecards, preparing pricing spreadsheets and files, spend reporting, procurement records, and data analysis.• Commercial Management: Negotiating with the suppliers to ensure the most beneficial pricing, payment terms, and general terms and conditions are established and in line with the strategy.• Supplier Evaluation: Scoring, evaluating, evaluating, and recommending the suppliers to service the organization with industry best suppliers in terms of quality, and service• Technical Skill: SAP Turbo ECC | Oracle EPS | Ariba | Agiloft | Tableau | Coupa | RFP 360 Tool