Ramesh Malamandi Gururajrao

Part of Global Operations team, managing procurement planning and execution for a large Business Unit within Unisys India, for the past almost 10 years. End to end Procurement lifecycle management beginning from baselining the plan for the year, along with cost estimation for each line item with a clear target on the savings which contributes to the bottom-line of the organization spend. Manages both IT and non-IT procurements for the Business Unit with a budget of USD 700K Strong hold on the communication and vendor management, which results in better negotiations and strategic benefits to the organization. During 2021, through effective negotiations and strategic sourcing, brought in savings of USD 82,000 from the planned and approved budget for procurement. Leveraging Spend Analysis as a tool for tracking the expenses and providing input through MIS reporting for enabling decision making about strategic procurements Uses Reverse Auctions as a tool for strategic sourcing, which would build a strong competition among vendors and gets us the cost, which is beneficial to the organization Maintains a live tracker on the procurements, so that, we know, in terms of spend, where we are heading to Manages RFQ and RFI Other than Procurement Domain Weekly seating utilization analysis – Part of the recoverability process. Effective utilization implies that the return on investment is on a positive note. Seat utilization management is part of this exercise Monthly RAG dashboard across Software Development Group – An MIS level view on the status each of the project on a monthly basis with a trend chart