Rachita Rampal

Leading the sourcing activities for the Openeir, eir Business and Network group of the organisation. Some of my key Responsibilities: - Maintaining a strong partnership with internal stakeholders, - Managing the OPEX and CAPEX budget for CTO group and develop Sourcing strategies to meet the budget challenge; - Analysing and determining cost reduction opportunities by leveraging volumes and optimizing the supplier base. - Leading strategic sourcing activities such as Contract negotiations, vendor management, price benchmarking and risk assessment, for assigned category with spend from €100k-€50M. - Managing the supplier commercial relationship and drive their performance as per contracted deliverables whilst getting cost improvements; - Engaging in RFx development and execution to minimize the Total Cost of Ownership. - Aligning vendor terms to group DPO targets;

Verizon Services Ireland Limited is a hub for innovative and entrepreneurial sourcing and technology professionals; operating a Centre of Excellence in Sourcing that sets new standards for global business. My key responsibilities were: -Managing internal stakeholder, understanding and determining their business and technical requirements; -Negotiating, contracting, and managing supplier relationships to meet global organizational needs whilst implementing sustainable cost reduction & service improvements; -Conducting RFI/RFPs, analysing supplier proposals and drive consensus on supplier selection; -Sound experience on Cloud platform and Software Virtualisation contracts; -Working on large and varying types of data to understand supplier spend and develop cost saving strategy; -Working on internal projects with Project Management team and managing project timelines from concept to completion. -Leading Verizon’s Diversity Program for Network’s team by reaching out to suppliers, ensuring €1B diverse spend is reported