Niladri Sarkar
Strategic Sourcing leader driving business success
- Role
- Procurement Leader - Novelis North America at Novelis
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Niladri Sarkar
Helping companies keep a tight grip on costs associated with outsourced products and services. With 20+ years of global sourcing experience focused on purchasing & strategic procurement initiatives, I have been integral to leading teams to ensure growth through cost-savings & revenue acceleration. As a contract negotiations expert, it is my passion to utilize my background in establishing critical relationships throughout multifaceted industries, while executing strategic sourcing efforts. I am consistently utilizing advanced training & coaching efforts to influence team leadership & generating best practices to improve upon organization-wide purchasing processes.Key Achievements Include: Hand-picked as a problem solver for senior level positions, managing a team of 11 members globally dispersed, overseeing a budget of $500M in annual spend, structuring the team and responsibilities, and creating processes to stimulate robust success within a short period of time Recruited to take over the role of Purchasing leader for a loss-making acquisition in Germany, managing an inherited team of 5-direct reports, onboarding them into the organizational culture, and overseeing additional hiring throughout 3-regions, overcoming multiple challenges including different time zones to move the company into a profitable position Led the negotiation efforts with a supplier leveraging a make-vs-buy strategy, overcoming the supply monopoly and achieving a savings of $8.3M with supply continuity assurance for 5-years Negotiated multi-year contracts valued over $1B while mitigating a 15% price increase threat, complex IP ownership and joint development terms, securing the stability of the purchased product and the priceContact me through this profile if you wish to connect.
Experience
Procurement Leader - Novelis North America
Apr 2025 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US
Leading a team of highly skilled professionals dedicated to fulfilling the 3x30 vision of Novelis.
Education
PRINCE2
PRINCE2 (Projects in controlled environment), Project Management
2014 — 2014
Loyola High School
ISCe, Computer Science
1984 — 1997
Nagpur University
B.E., Bachelor of Engineering
1997 — 2001
XLRI Jamshedpur
PGCBM, Business Management
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