Rahul Darade

About Rahul Darade

Experienced Procurement & Contracts Professional with demonstrated history of working in Manufacturing, MRO Aggregation & Retail Brownfield Projects.• Good knowledge in the technical aspects and ensure quality of goods purchased are benchmarked with the set standards.• Skilled in Procurement, Annual Service Contracts, New Vendor Development, Vendor Management, Inventory Mangament, Sales Forecasting and Logistics Management helps in meeting the targets and deadlines.• Hands on experience on working with SAP & Oracle System on accounting procedures.

Experience

1. Manager Procurement & Contracts

   Aditya Birla Group

   Oct 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Leading complete Indirect Procurement and Contracts for Civil, Mechanical, HVAC, Electrical of retail chain of Aditya Birla Group\'s Retail Stores for Jewellery\'s vertical PAN India.Define SOP, process improvements and strategic implementation for new stores.working closely with vendors and legal team for New purchase and Annual maintenance contracts for HVAC, ELECTRICAL DG SET, LT PANELS, UPS INVERTER on long term basis.Packaging Procurement for Warehouses and Elements transfer with logistics.Responsible for benchmarking of the products, proposing annual rate contracts for bought out items and commodities mention above.Development of alternate vendors to balance geographical constraint which lead to cost saving considering logistic part.Alternate product development inline to design team for better cost optimization.Monitor contractual compliance with procurement and SCM policies.Evaluate vendor’s performance, prepare vendor evolution reports basis on QCD & making relevant improvements.Monitoring & controlling the inventory levels at pan India warehouses, maintaining the records of the purchase details and relevant history.Coordinating with accounts dept for the payment status of vendors. GST assistance for the smooth operational excellence between client and supplier.

Education

• Mumbai Educational Trust, MET League of Colleges

  Dioloma, Mechanical Engineering

• Vishwakarma University - VU

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Operations Research

  2016 — 2018

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Mechanical Engineering

  2012 — 2015

Skills

• Autocad
• Automation
• Cad
• Matlab
• Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Ptc Creo
• Six Sigma
• Project Management
• Solidworks
• Project Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• English
• Sap Basis
• Engineering
• Kaizen
• Microsoft Office
• Leadership
• Team Management
• 5s
• Manufacturing