Dhiraj Sharma

About Dhiraj Sharma

Results-driven Sourcing Specialist with 6+ years of experience enabling high-velocity new product launches across e-commerce and manufacturing. Demonstrated ability to deep-dive market gaps, assess supplier capabilities, and build scalable, cost-efficient vendor networks. Delivers strong business impact through data-backed category management, supplier evaluation, and negotiation. Earns trust with cross-functional teams by driving launch readiness, ensuring supply continuity, and raising supplier performance standards across Health & Personal Care, Toys, Pets, Baby, packaging and shipping supplies materials.

Experience

1. Sourcing & Category Specialist Health & Personal Care, Toys, Baby, Pets, Buying & Merchandising

   Amazon

   Feb 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Sourcing Framework Development: Built a scalable, category-specific sourcing model for Consumables, HPC, Baby Care, Pets and Toys, aligned to demand and consumption patterns; optimized assortment mix and lead seamless end-to-end implementation.•Vendor Relationship Management: Fostered monthly engagement with vendors to ensure fill-rate adherence, quality compliance, and timely supply of critical SKUs for smooth operational flow.•End-to-End Operational Control: Planned, organized, and controlled all activities, including techno-commercial vendor evaluation, recommendation, negotiation, ordering, logistics, and delivery to FC.•Building a strong Sourcing and Quality team, providing role clarity and guidance to ensure consistent performance and achievement of targets.•Collaborating with other verticals such as Brand, Category Marketing, Compliance, and Supply Chain to drive sales, growth, GMs, and NPPM for Private Labels.•Emerging the overarching sourcing strategy with focus on transforming the procurement function into a value creation group by working in collaboration with stakeholders, cross function partners, and strategic supplier alliances to generate values proposition for customers.•Managing the supplier manufacturing process to insure they meet delivery performance metrics. Also influencing the supplier’s manufacturing processes, technology decisions and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations.•Audit qualification and management of new suppliers, including conducting comprehensive factory audits and social compliance audits to ensure adherence to ethical and regulatory standards. Additionally, performing detailed evaluations of product-level manufacturing processes to verify quality control and production consistency.

Education

• Dav public school

  12, Science

  2011 — 2013

• Accurate institute of management and technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering

  2013 — 2017