Meherdad Irani

About Meherdad Irani

Detail-oriented Risk Operations Manager bringing 17 years of experience with strategic…

Experience

1. Gic Risk Ops Manager Engagement and Capabilities

   General Mills

   Feb 2010 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Establishing the strategy and routines of detecting and assessing emerging risks as part of a continued investment of prioritizing proactive risk and resilience routines. Playing a critical role of enabling disruption prevention and reduction of recoveries in partnership with cross-functional supply chain and enterprise teams.• Worked closely with Procurement, Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain Leaders executing global and local strategies, working toward the development and management of strategic operations.• Evaluating and identifying current supplier financial health risk and conducting financial due diligence to ensure long-term supplier viability. Setting correct KPI where the Organizations can periodically review their suppliers’ performance scores and segment them based on their risk scores.• Engaged on Strategic Planning projects to reduce manufacturing and distributions costs.• Implemented key procurement strategies like as risk analysis, OTD commitment & improvement, process improvement & ensured that strategies are aligned with organizational objectives.• Initiated cost reduction initiatives consolidating tasks, eliminating non-value-added processes and complete re-engineering of processes and systems.• Implemented changes in SAP to significant cost savings, streamlined numerous processes, ensuring consistency and corporate adherence.• Led cross-functional team for all Supply Chain to improve supplier relationships and performance.• Updating daily/weekly/monthly operations metrics and coordinated cross-functionally to report operations performance.• Development of strategic alignment between Business Units and Supply Chain to improve efficiency of operations and deliver value to the Organization.• Optimized corporate processes in the areas of Innovation, Collaboration and Procurement (Source to Pay: Spend Management, e-Sourcing, Contract Management, Procurement & Ordering, SRM, Performance Management, Change Management).

Education

• Lala Lajpatrai Institute Of Management

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Business/Commerce, General

  2000 — 2005

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Business/Commerce, General

• Activity High School

  I.C.S.E, English Language and Literature/Letters

  1990 — 2000

Skills

• Customer Service
• Forecasting
• Supply Chain Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Sap
• Esourcing
• Vendor Management
• Supply Chain
• Inventory Management
• Project Management
• Logistics
• Leadership
• Retail
• Team Management
• Business Analysis
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)