Latesh Singh

Experience

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  Maruti Suzuki India Limited

  Jun 2006 - Oct 2007

  Engineer

  Engineer in Supply Chain Management

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  GPIL - China

  Sept 2007 - Nov 2008

  Asst. Manager

  Direct Sourcing Exposure/ Emerging Market Sourcing:• Drive Sourcing related activities within PA/DU such as pre studies, end to end cycle of projects, quality issues etc.• In order to understand the product competitiveness, product quality and availability visited various suppliers’ with specialization in emerging market categories such as fasteners, motors, pumps etc.• Have been responsible for raising new Quotations, Comparing their price levels awarding them business, and maintaining Specific Purchase Agreements for all interconnect Suppliers in China.• Also been responsible for maintaining suppliers performance cards as well as escalating risk areas.• Responsible for supplier evaluations, Global and domestic sourcing for Generators, engine spares, motors and water pumps.• Understand and utilize the total cost of ownership (TCO) methodology in sourcing decisions and negotiations.• Extensive data analysis to identify Demand & secure Supply resources with cost factor. • Extensive Involvement in Technical Quality checking of Generators, Water Pump, Garden Tools.• Negotiating with Suppliers on Price, Discounts or rebates offered based on the respective category and benchmarking the same with industry standards.Strategic Involvement• Key involvement in designing process improvement initiatives and KPI monitoring on yearly basis.• Driving and conducting weekly and monthly calls and meetings with global Sourcing teams, and various stakeholders for various projects, and aligning team and project timelines accordingly.• Key involvement in implementing Top level strategies.Man Management• Leading / motivating teams ensuring their career development plans are in place.• Identifying training needs and preparation of internal and external training plans.• Exhibited strong leadership quality and expertise in training and monitored the performance of the staff to ensure their efficiency. Show less

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  Genpact

  Feb 2009 - Nov 2012

  Assistant Manager (Strategic Sourcing).

  Spend Analysis: Consolidate and analyze spend across the entire organization, categorize the supply base and corresponding spend, enrich the data, develop high-level commodity strategies, and then prioritize categories and projects. Extract - Automated extraction of all spend data from internal and external business systems and ERPs. Validate - Ensure spending data files are accurate and complete Cleanse and Classify Data - Enable efficient, accurate, and preferably automated rationalization and classification of data elements and attributes. Eliminate discrepancies between incorrect naming conventions and maps spend data to industry-standard classification systems (e.g., UNSPSC).Enhance - Enrich cleansed spending data with complementary business information, including existing contract terms, alternative parts references, suppliers' financial status and performance information, etc. Analyze - Support role-based analysis of actionable spending information. Enable export of cleansed and enhanced spending information to third-party analytical tools. Strategic Sourcing: Understand & Analyze the Indirect Spend of various commodities. Spend Classification based on commodities, Normalization and Cleansing. Project Spend Visibility of Various Commodities with Potential deflation Opportunities using various sourcing strategies. Identify potential cost saving projects using the optimize solutions, leveraging the business opportunities across multiple locations for various commodities. Design RFQ layout and Package, and communicate with bidding supplies, consolidate the status reports and present to the client for approval. Drive the deflation projects for various commodities with Procurement Strategies and met the targets of deflation. Supplier Analysis, Selection, Market Analysis and Contract Negotiation. Gate keeping of various commodities to arrest the buy leakage. Daily Review meetings with Indirect Sourcing Leaders, Suppliers and Requestors on various projects. Show less

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  Infosys

  Nov 2012 - now

  Sourcing Coordinator

  Key Deliverable:-•Working as a Sourcing Specialist within “Operational Sourcing function” for world’s second largest mining Company.•Part of service delivery team, and actively involved in identifying cost reduction, innovative sourcing, value generating projects, and complex projects.•Project Manager for various Sourcing Projects related to supply of goods and services, across the Sites and Business units, some of them includes Cable Repairs, Industrial Gases Contracts, Security Guard Services, Chemicals , Emerging Market Sourcing, Medical services Contracts, Offsite Repairs etc.•Managing projects in Ariba, and focusing on Project cycle time reduction, improve value and fast deliveries of results.•Examining, evaluating and determining all aspects of total cost reduction opportunities for the sourcing & procurement of products and services.•Analyzing Spend for identified/assigned projects and categories, and Preparing Bid Package, coordinating bid event (RFP/RFQ/RFT) and evaluating & negotiating with vendors for best price and various other terms & conditions.•Liaisoning with Legal and Contract teams and hands on experience in understanding the Legal and compliance aspect of Contract writing.•Monitoring various suppliers KPI’s namely cost, quality performance, delivery performance and developing improvement strategies as per the business needs. •Complete ownership of the Contracts and conducting yearly and periodic review meetings with associated suppliers, involving all stakeholders, across East Australia, and playing key role in driving strategies decided by management.•Accountable for the overall development and implementation of sourcing strategies and supply market intelligence for the particular categories across various business units.•Key driver in running Continuous Improvement programs and bringing down cycle time of projects and bring overall efficiency in process, and adding more value to client. Show less

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  Newmont Corporation

  Apr 2023 - now

  Sourcing Coordinator