Pranjali Jagdish Rao
Procurement Excellence Manager @Unilever
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WORK HISTORY
Procurement Excellence Manager @Unilever
Mumbai, IN
Lead procurement operations for raw materials in India, supervising € 650 Mn spending involving 340 suppliers and 7500 materials while prioritizing service, quality, resilience, agility, and supplier performance.• Designed risk-based material segmentation framework to enhance procurement agility, enabling targeted sourcing and inventory strategies that improved material availability and reduced high risk material exposure by 8%• Spearhead procurement model for India\'s first Supply Chain Nerve Centre, crafting intelligent system that provides proactive material availability alerts and prescriptive recommendations to mitigate supplier risks and prevent shortages.• Coordinated first cross-geographical material reallocation within Unilever\'s global network to mitigate plant shutdown risk, establishing a crisis-response and inter-regional collaboration model• Led pilot of Electronic Certificate of Analysis to digitize supplier documentation and eliminate manual checks at factory entry points, enhancing compliance, speed, and data integrity
EDUCATION
SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
Master of Business Administration, Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management
Delhi Private School, Sharjah
Senior Secondary School (PCM with Computer Science)
SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
PGDM, Majors: Operations and Supply Chain; Minors: Marketing
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Chemical Engineering
Delhi Private School, Sharjah
Secondary School
Esade
Business Administration and Management , Global Fasttrack Program
ABOUT PRANJALI JAGDISH RAO
I am currently a Procurement Excellence Manager at Hindustan Unilever Limited. Prior to this, I was a Management Trainee with HUL as a part of their 12 months Unilever Future Leaders Program (UFLP). I graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management in Operations and Supply Chain Management from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, batch of 2023. I served as the Placement Coordinator and member of several committees including the Placement Preparation Committee, Academic Committee, Music and Dance Club. I interned with HUL, emerged National Winner of HUL L.I.M.E and represented India at Unilever Future Leaders League.I have previously worked as an Assistant Manager at Vedanta Limited - Aluminium & Power and have 24- months experience in the logistics sector. I primarily worked in the Dry Bulk Chartering domain. My key roles were to manage import shipments of raw materials like Alumina and Coal, shipment tracking, Port Operations and Post Vessel Fixture Operations. Having worked with various departments helped to me develop a holistic idea about the shipment industry.I am a Chemical Engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (NITK, Surathkal). Here, I was an active member of the Rotaract Club and the National Service Scheme under which I have tutored English to underprivileged children. I have been a rank holder in academics for 8 consecutive years at Delhi Private School, SharjahI am a travel enthusiast and an avid trekker. I like painting and reading in my free time.
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