Ripudaman Verma
Nokia, Corporate Sourcing Services- Global Category Manager
- Role
- Global Category Manager -business Services, Training, Travel and Event Management at Nokia
- Location
- Ghaziabad, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ripudaman Verma
More than 22 years of Expert experience in the areas of Category management, Strategy creation & implementation, cost reduction, Stake holder management, Project Management, Supplier payment terms improvement, reduction of tail spends, Contract Management, direct & indirect procurement, Supply Chain Management, Vendor Development, order management, logistic & Reverse logistic. • Presently working with Nokia Networks, Global Category Manager - Corporate Sourcing Services - Professional Services, Training, Travel and Event Management • Earlier worked with Tata Teleservices Ltd, Delhi & Haryana as Executive (Purchase), Spanco Telesystems Ltd, Gurgaon as Sr.Exective (Purchase) & Bharti Airtel Ltd, Delhi as Officer - Supply Chain Management • Experience in Indirect & Direct procurement, Professional Services, Facility, Capex / Opex procurement, Vendor Development, Work Order Contracts, Materials Management, planning & maintaining large inventories. • Proficient at developing cost effective vendors for procuring Services, materials, spares and consumables.
Experience
Global Category Manager -business Services, Training, Travel and Event Management
Jun 2021 — Present · Noida, IN
Managing more than 200 Million euro Annual spend category - Professional Services - Sub contracting services, Business intelligence & e services, membership, document records, quality assurance, translation, technical writing, Funding, Airlines, Accommodation, Ground transportation, Visa, Reporting Services, Training, event management, etc.Long terms / Short term Strategy creation & UpdationImplementation of approved Strategy in Business Services AreaResponsible for KPI Performance of Business Services category, Price Reduction, Total payable day, Continues Improvement projectsSupplier relationship, high & complex negotiations, Total cost of ownership calculations, Saving validation & ReportingSpend review, solution for complex low spend suppliers, Reduction of tail spend suppliersCreating & updating E2E commodity process Drive for Digitalisation of Process & DemandCreating & finding opportunity for Automization of process in own areaCompliant contract management in own AreaSupport in internal / External AuditsOperational Support to colleagues for contracts, order, RFI, RFP executionsCoordination with Legal & contract managers to ensure valid Contract clauses in AgreementSupporting Business Team for operational & Procurement related challenges & Mitigation plan
Education
SCDL
PGDBA, Operation
2006 — 2010
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