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Andrew Smith


287 Custer Street, Hopewell, PA 00000

andrew_smith@example.com

(000) 000-0000

Professional Summary

•         A goal-oriented professional with over 10 years of experience in Sourcing, Contract Management, Negotiation, Stakeholder Management, SLA Management, Escalation and Issue Management, and Quality Management 
•         Expertise in Sourcing & procuremet of indirect categories like IT, Professional Services, HR, Marketing & Banking Operations
•         Excellence in developing the overarching sourcing strategy with focus on transforming the procurement function into a value creation group by working in collaboration with stakeholders, cross function partners, and strategic supplier alliances to generate year-over-year productivity
•         Accomplished significant and sustained savings and improved cash flow though longer payment terms and reduced supplier lead-times; brought additional savings by accelerating synergies following  negotiation on Contract related Terms and Conditions.
•         Senior level Procurement experience in building and optimizing Sourcing & Supply chain capability to achieve business objectives of growth, cost optimization and superior delivery capability through innovative solutions, effective collaboration with suppliers, cross-functional co-operation, senior level partnerships and risk management. 
•         Result oriented professional honed with a cross-cultural exposure having strategic outlook, excellent project management, financial analysis skills and delivery capabilities.

Employment history

Sr. Procurement Analyst, Davis LLC. Maryalicefurt, Delaware
Oct. 2018 – Present
·         Directed Global Sourcing projects for a range of services, such as MAP (Marketing, Advertisement, and Printing), FIPS (Facility, Infrastructure, and Professional Services), Customer Services and Information Technology.
·         Contributed as a  Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Escalation Management, Issue Management and SLA Miss.
·         Engaged in RFX management, which involves generating, introducing and monitoring e-sourcing events such as RFI, RFP and e-auction on ARIBA platform.
·         Delivered sourcing support, which included Supplier Identification, Supplier Interview, Set Evaluation Criteria for the event, Draft RFI and RFP, Commercial Bid Evaluation and Negotiation on supplier terms and conditions.
·         Led competitive bidding using a multi-step sourcing process and utilization of e-auctions through Ariba.
  • Acts as a point of contact for the end user and is responsible for end to end lifecycle of the project which includes: coordinating completion of vendor onboarding and SRP activities, completion of contract which includes preparing contracts based on the buy and Terms & Conditions redlining, redline review and negotiations. 
·         Focussed on accomplishing savings of 5-10% on total baseline spend on most of the projects handled and supervised.

Assistant Manager, Padberg, Dickinson and Robel. Croninmouth, Michigan
Dec. 2016 – Mar. 2017
·         Functioned on five phases of sourcing starting from Internal Need Analysis, Spend Analysis, Building Category Strategy, Strategy implementation, Contract Implementation to Contract  Management
·         Understand requirement & manage expectation of  Internal & External Stakeholders through Exco and HoP meetings
·         Directed negotiations & sourcing engagements including process activities such as e-sourcing, RFX, Project management
·         Delivered guidnace and support to team members in drafting, negotiating and implemented various types of contracts such as Master Service Agreements, Standalone Agreement, Statement of Work(SOW), Extension, Renewal and Amendment.
·         Initiated ,created and executed a project to manage contract to report no expiry project for UK and India Contracts on monthly basis.
·         Synchronized with international Solicitors, Advocates, Business Unit located all across world and GCMs to understand existing and future requirement, manage expectation and resolve any ongoing issue
·         Controlled a team of 5 Associates to manage sourcing projects for business units and category manager
·         Advanced Service Level Agreements for internal stakeholders and KPI to measure Vendor Performance 
·         Organized team performance and liable for Performance Management and Performance Improvement activity
·         Engaged in recruitment and selection of buyers for vacant or new position through interview

Sr. Procurement Specialist, Prohaska-Frami. Port Kayce, Arizona
Feb. 2014 – Jul. 2014
  • Process Associate for Procurement and Supply Chain Services were managed day to day.
  • To ensure seamless supply of goods or services by actively managing all aspects of the supplier lifecycle through strategy, business engagement, tender, negotiation and contract management.
  • Vendor set up, entering requisitions and creation of Purchase orders, following up regularly with sites and suppliers for effective supply chain Process.
  • Sending out reports on Status of the Non-PO compliant invoices and distribution of the invoices to vendors and payment status to the client.
  • Based on Market research and online tools select a gamut of suppliers for a particular service and based on rate comparison and feedback from the stakeholder’s award the contract.
  • Negotiating with the suppliers based on comprehensive market research & as per the budget allocated by the stakeholders.
  • Presenting a case study on a given contract, while the contract is being reviewed by the management.
  • Working proactively with the supplier(s) to ensure they understand the contract terms and requirements and meet all the prerequisites before they sign the agreement.
  • Proactively communicating with the stakeholder’s and suppliers to ensure we are all on the same page and the end result is a clearly defined scope of work covered under the contract.  
  • Perform spend analysis on an ad hoc basis. 
  • Effective communications skills both written and verbal, basic understanding of the legal terms used in the contract, Knowledge on insurance requirements, tools such as (white page, Thomas net, word, excel and power point) and negotiation skills are a prerequisite to perform the above role.
·      Work in close relationships with departments globally including Sites, Suppliers, Buyer and Accounts Payable. One Stop Shop for everyone.  
  • Process involves analyzing the Market Conditions and effectively negotiating with suppliers.
  • Identify new source of Suppliers for Raw Materials.
  • Helping Sourcing Managers to acquire prices from Market for Raw Materials.
  • Manage RTP (Requisition to Pay) process. 
  •  Interacting with entire team to make sure quality of work is maintained with minimal or no errors for the team.  
  •  Handling the day-to-day activities of the team by conducting Team Hurdles.     

Procurement Officee, Kertzmann, Witting and King. Hermanchester, Florida
Apr. 2010 – Aug. 2010
  • Managed a team of 4 customer service personnel in a multi-base Project. 
  • Review the reports based on the metrics on a regular basis
  • Coordinate meetings with functional management to discuss project impediments, needed resources or issues/delays in completing tasks
  • Working on the complete supply chain starting from indenting, floating enquiry and processing order for the fulfillment of the end user requirements. 
  • Coordinate with suppliers, client’s departments.
  • Maintain Stock Position 
  • Confer with requester to identify cost-effective alternatives for fulfilling the request as specified and negotiate with suppliers for best pricing. 
  • Find out ways to increase delivery Compliance segment wise.
  • Vendor Queries and Helping in cutting down Vendor base.
  • Network with the global Procurement/Supply Chain Management function to identify, implement, and maintain content. 
  • Identify areas for improvement to further minimize administration and enhance usability. 
  • Central administrative support, including preparation of quarterly reporting (MIS) of key performance.
  • Central point of contact for site content leads/users and technical support groups to resolve functional and accessibility issues. 
  • Identify potential suppliers; interview prospective suppliers; perform value analysis and bench-marking analysis.
  • Expedite delivery as required; take corrective action when deliveries are incomplete or defective.

Technical Support Associate, Reinger, Heaney and Crist. Port Maribeth, Maine
Aug. 2007 – Sep. 2007
  • Working on the Bellsouth internet services, fast access DSL. Process combines of different troubleshooting issues like basic computer issues conflicting with the internet service, and also working on the line concerns. 
  • Taking the escalation depending on the knowledge base, and the concern of the customer. 
  • Training the agents on the process updates. 
  • Assisting the Customers of BellSouth Internet Services DSL by helping to configure DSL hardware and software. 
  • Retaining Customers of BellSouth DSL by providing service which leads to superior customer satisfaction, Log issue and all customers’ contacts into the customer data-base, translate end-user business needs into working solutions and provide technical resolutions for their issues that have been identified. 
  • Share best practices with the team. 

Education

Wintheiser College, West Jeffrey, Utah
Bachelor of Arts, Commerce

Awards

Languages

Hindi

Telugu

English

Skills

Spend Analysis

Stake Holder Management

Vendor Management

Contract Manangement

Negotiation

Price Analysis

procurement analyst

  • Categorization, Supplier Normalization, Data Analysis reports created to assist the procurement business of the customers.
  • Planning and increasing Spend Data Categorization Accuracy to provide maximum value.
  • Showcasing elementary forecasted savings obtained by Purchase Price Variance strategy.
  • Formulating Spend Data Audit reports and Data Trend reports in order to display the purchasing trends across various parameters.
  • Set up and negotiated contracts to obtain favorable pricing and delivery structures.
  • Appointed liaison with imports broker in managing direct import orders. 
  • Supervised all data management for company product information.

senior procurement analyst

  • Conducted Requirement Gathering to formulate a TO-BE process based on the AS-IS business process
  • Ideation Initiatives: Development of Automation, resource training management, customer success analysis and research
  • To identify and highlight any risks or opportunities to the internal stakeholders to help organizational goals and to ensure a proactive preventive approach in any situation not in favor of the organization
  • Handling Operational Projects primarily focusing on Spend Analytics, catering to company from Australia.

senior procurement analyst

  • Software solutioning on products associated in the domain of Supply Chain Management and E2E project implementation experience in Waterfall and Agile Project models
  • Worked in different domain with customers across USA and shared best practices for effective adoption of implemented software while maintaining the business goal
  • Conducted Off-site requirement gathering to understand the AS-IS Process and develop a TO-BE Process based on conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
  • Delivered Contract management implementation for various client’s leading to reduction in contract authoring life-cycle, streamlining process with compliance
  • Performed incumbent analysis and replacement assistance of customers migrating from Ariba, Emptoris and Novatus
  • Focused on driving best practices for business of different domain to implement CLM tools in their environment and achieve high user adoption
  • Implemented Request Management solution for various clients with best practices so that incoming and outgoing request are effectively tracked by the management

procurement analyst

  • Compiles, reviews and analyzes data on historical spend and identifies opportunities and implements actions to achieve efficiencies.
  • Conduct procurement planning session with departments’ representatives to ensure understanding of the process and establish responsibilities.
  • Initiated cardboard purchasing project resulting 37% total savings over 8 major terminals.
  • Also involved in Pre-Sales product demonstration or provide assistance in scoping projects or developing proposals.

procurement analyst, inventory planning

  • Creation and management of end-to-end procurement metrics to report employee performance as well as flagging procurement bottlenecks and issues
  • Creation and maintenance of vendor performance metrics
  • Streamlined daily and monthly procurement workflow and metrics for a 300% increase in productivity
  • Managed supply chain workflows through business analytics and reporting

procurement analyst

  • Supporting client (B2B) in Indirect Procurement 
  • PR to PO-SAP Ariba Order management- Create Purchase Order (PO) form Purchase Requisition (PR) for the International Suppliers; Change Order in POs as per requester, PO close and reopen, Good Receiving Navigation, etc. 
  • Resolve incidents within defined SLA, Analyze and resolve the assigned queries/transaction’s meeting the timelines
  • Maintain relationship with internal and external stakeholders i.e Technical team, Supplier Ennoblement, Supplier Data Management teams, etc.
  • Maintain detailed knowledge of the process, Problem-solving
  • Presenting reports (using a spreadsheet) to management on daily, weekly and monthly basis per requirement
  • Operation Tool: SAP ARIBA, SERVICE NOW, RADIX

procurement analyst

  • To work on complete “purchase requisition to purchase order” cycle.
  • To validate the requisition in Ariba, based on over 22 criteria/guidelines provided by the client.
  • To query with the requester about the requirements.
  • To get the required approvals, per the policies.
  • To help the requester in raising the requisition, if/when required.
  • To provide the chat support to the requester, in order to explain the guidelines and to aid.
  • To float the RFQ (Request for Quotation), to enhance the savings, if/when required.

procurement analyst

  • Purchased for two major divisions which comprised 2/3 of the company’s business, managing an average total inventory of $48M.
  • Created and implemented a new purchasing analysis tool using Excel to reduce days on hand inventory. This was done by streamlining SKU level analysis through the evaluation of forecast and trend over different segments of time. From the use of this tool total days on hand reduced from an average of 48 down to 39, leading to an approximate reduction in average COGS by 5%.
  • Automated forecast/demand analysis and purchasing for over 25% of company accounts with the development of a new Excel tool and utilization of new SAP functionality which is now their standard operating procedure.
  • Developed monthly forecast meetings with divisional sales management to improve departmental relationships. While promoting business relationships, these meetings also afforded the opportunity for enhanced forecast planning.
  • Audited current and historical transactional data for accuracy. Through the use of variance analysis in relation to inventory specifications and laid in costs, loss in GP was mitigated and allowed for partial recovery of lost profit.
  • Administered monthly inventory reporting for upper management and assisted in GL entries for product valuation adjustments.
  • Coordinated with warehouse management in logistical and supply chain capacity planning.

procurement analyst

  • Manual creation of Puchase Order
  • Purchase Requistion to Purchase Order conversion
  • Blocking of incorrect Purchase Requistion and informing the requester for correction
  • Validation of Purchase Requisition as per Company Standards and Checkpoints
  • Purchase Order Ammendment
  • To generate the reports of the work handled and reporting to the Team Lead

sr. procurement analyst

  • Acts as a point of contact for the end user and is responsible for end to end lifecycle of the project which includes: coordinating completion of vendor onboarding and SRP activities, completion of contract which includes preparing contracts based on the buy and Terms & Conditions redlining, redline review and negotiations. 
  • Actively involved in End-user training whilst sharing the process knowledge of any specific business to certified product trainers 
  • Ensure projects are based on the KRA’s identified during the Run-The-Business Phase.
  • Maintain client relationships and obtain maximum customer satisfaction index with referable customers. Seamless  migration to operations and support team 

procurement analyst

  • Input, analyzed and reported on data covering all aspects of procurement operations.
  • Core work area: requirement gathering, supporting data extraction from various ERPs, data validation & governance, creation of category tree structure (Taxonomy), data classification & supplier normalization, creation of strategic business reports, data miningto derive cost savings by procurement strategies. The end objective is to deliver ROI to the clients and assist them to achieve their KRAs.
  • A customer facing role with a demand for strong interpersonal and analytical skills.
  • To implement Zycus spend analysis module, iAnalyze and to support it in the operationsphase
  • To understand customer’s existing sourcing and procurement hierarchy to create a sourcing tree (basis UNSPSC Taxonomy) to help achieve granular visibility in the spend data post categorization
  • To understand customer’s reporting requirement to configure appropriate reporting parameters on the iAnalyze tool
  • To categorize, transform customer spend data from various ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.) and to present it on iAnalyze to help drive estimations for Savings using various techniques and a definite enhanced visibility into the Spend data.

procurement analyst

  • Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with order management and shipping.
  • Coordinate comprehensive logistical or reverse logistical functions for product life cycles, including acquisition, distribution, internal allocation, delivery, recycling, reuse, or final disposal of resources.
  • Implemented Supplier management and performance solution for various client’s leading to seamless on-boarding and evaluation of suppliers 
  • Define the User Stories and Test Cases; Drive User Acceptance testing  followed with defect analysis and trouble shooting.

procurement analyst (aravo sme)

  • Assisted in developing an automated robotic process to transfer data from our vendor management software (Aravo) into SAP using the automation anywhere software. 
  • Analyzed and repaired issues as a software administrator for SAP 6.0 & Aravo in order to implement solutions for customers by ensuring successful configurations and executions in test environments before modifying data in production environments.
  • Created and designed a portion of the company’s intranet for crucial employee communications (15+ sub-sites) as a procurement content developer.
  • Developed standard operating procedures and documented workflows for current and future process steps

senior procurement analyst

  • Software solutioning on products associated in the domain of Supply Chain Management and E2E project implementation experience in Waterfall and Agile Project models 
  • Worked in different domain with customers across USA and shared best practices for efective adoption of implemented software while maintaining the business goal
  • Requirement Gathering to formulate a TO-BE process based on the AS-IS business process 
  • Planning and monitoring of project milestones: Coordinate with team members and customers to execute delivery on implementation timelines
  • Delivered solutions on CLM tools that portray reduction in contract authoring life-cycle, streamlined processes with compliance and high user adoption.
  • Performed incumbent analysis and replacement assistance of customers migrating from Ariba, Emptoris and Novatus 
  • Implemented Request Management solution for various clients with best practices so that incoming and outgoing request are efectively tracked by the management