Vikas Gurav

About Vikas Gurav

Procurement professional with expertise in strategic sourcing, market research, negotiation, and P2P cycle management with more than 4+ years of experience. Proven ability to optimize costs & ensure timely deliveries through effective supplier relationship and SAM MM proficiency.

Experience

1. Senior Procurement Analyst

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Dec 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Implemented procurement strategies for indirect supply chain commodities (Factory production and site services, Information technology and Corporate services). Performs analyses on support of competitive, single and sole source supplier selection. Supports negotiation of various contract types including FFP, Time and Material & Cost plus contracts. As a PFA hands on experience on different procurement stages like Pre-solicitation in which working on historical analysis, market research to forecast the value for new procurement also building pricing exhibit template based on contract and SOW requirement from Business partner and develop a Pre-sol package. For competitive bid PFA is populate comparative model based on agreed supplier evaluation weightage across technical, cost and other parameters and perform preliminary ranking to down select the supplier. Once Proposal received from suppliers, working on deep proposal analysis based on the market research ( using US BLS data, IHS market, GSA data, loop net and clear Edge consultant, Gartner, etc) for labor, non-labor, travel, Markup, Profit categories and calculated proposed, market and target pricing. During Pre-Negotiation PFA understand the previous, proposed bid details and market situation and develop a Pre-Neg package. After negotiation based on supplier feedback, working on final bid analysis and preparing Pre-Award PRB deck to review with Business partner and management team. During pre-Award per supplier feedback PFA defining whether final negotiated offer is fair and reasonable or best obtainable and calculating savings. Evaluates financial impacts of Payment term and also, performing lease vs buy analysis.

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

  2017 — 2020