Experienced supply chain professional with 8+ years of experience in diverse industries. Trained in world-class business systems, operational processes, and industry best practices to work in a sustainable working environment. Equipped with the skills and attitude to handle a fact-paced, dynamic, and demanding job role that would propel the career into the next level.
Experience
Sierra Technology Holdings
Oct 2020 – Present
Colombo
Senior Procurement Officer
Job Roll -
• Compare and evaluate offers from suppliers and negotiate pricing and contract terms of agreement on behalf of the
company.
• Lead transformational activities to build procurement organizational capabilities and improve procurement efficiency
• Monitoring and updating purchase orders as well as tracking of the costs and delivery dates to compare them with the
purchase orders.
• Review the quality of purchased materials and determine quantities.
• Collaborate with key persons to ensure clarity of the specifications and expectations of the company
• Estimate and establish cost parameters and budgets for purchases.
• Control spending and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs.
• Review analyse and manage all import product with foreign suppliers
• End to end vendor management
Bharti Airtel Ltd
May 2014 – Mar 2019
Colombo
Senior Executive - Sourcing & Contracts – Telecom
Job Description -
• Maintain a healthy vendor pool in the area of procurement assigned to increase competition, reduce dependency and
improve efficiency Manage timely data collection to update operations metrics to achieve productivity targets,
• Contracting high-value and frequent purchases to ensure price stability and reliability with proper reward and
penalty schemes.
• Carryout vendor evaluations quarterly to ensure service levels and take corrective measures on cases where
delivery breaches have occurred.
• Establish competitive pricing through RFQ, RA (reverse auction), and negotiations.
• In absence of proper price comparison, deconstruct the quoted price to an itemized price quotation to arrive at
the right price.
• Explore opportunities for getting bulk discounts by advancing or consolidating future requirements.
• Establish slab level (activity- or order-based) pricing to reuse the evaluations in future purchasing requirements.
• Carry out quarterly price discovery and cost benchmarking of high value purchases.
• Handling PR to PO conversion within the established TAT and compliance guidelines.
• Floating RFP, RA (reverse auction), preparing comparisons, and drafting business justification.
• Ensure 100% compliance with internal systems and processes.
Education
Asia e university, Malaysia
May 2018 – Jun 2019
MSc. Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Management and Logistics
Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Institute