Jitendra A WANKHEDE

Experience

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  Mungi Brothers

  Jul 1999 - Jun 2000

  Quality Control Engineer

  Responsible for ensuring quality of material at receiving, in process & final dispatch

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  Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd.

  Jul 2000 - Jun 2002

  Purchase Officer

  • Responsible for purchasing of all Capex’s & Non – Production Materials.

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  National Dairy Development Board

  Jul 2002 - Sept 2005

  Purchase Officer

  • Responsible for purchasing of Capex’s, Packaging Material, Raw Material & All Non– Production Materials. Annual Rate and Service contracts adhering to govt. tendering procedures.• Managing a team of 6 staff members.

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  TATA AutoComp Systems Ltd

  Oct 2005 - Oct 2008

  Member Purchase

  Import & Export:• Freight forwarder Panel Management based on their strengths in region, optimum prices and best services criteria.• Planning and scheduling for import procurement for Automotive Plastics Components, Bought out Parts, Capital Equipment/ Machines & its spares, Min. Stock Level spares with ensuring its timely delivery.• Co-ordination with Customs House Agent, Shipping Lines & Air lines for timely Delivery Orders & Customs Clearances of the shipments by arranging DEPB Licenses and monitoring its utilization. Non Production Procurement:• Defining and deploying strategy for procurement of Capex and Non-production Materials & Annual Maintenance, Rate & Service contracts.• Scrap and Hazardous Material disposal as per CPCB/MPCB and govt. statutory requirements.• Managing a team of 2 trainee buyers. Show less

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  Tech Mahindra

  Oct 2008 - Jul 2010

  Sr. Technical Associate (Project Manager)

  • Concept selling of Co-location center to Customers & ensuring satisfactory delivery of services to Customer. • Proposing cost effective solutions. Managing the Time & Money Contracts with Customers.• Developing & implementing various reporting and Quality systems for smooth functioning of the programme.• Managed total team size of 365 resources with 8 direct reporting managers.

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  Valeo India Private Ltd.,

  Jul 2010 - Apr 2017

  • Developing and deploying long term commodity strategy for the region, in line with global strategy, addressing global as well as Regional needs in a global multi-sites manufacturing environment to drive overall lower cost of ownership.• Select & Evaluate new potential suppliers meeting current as well as future needs, in line with company technological development plan, over next 5 years on rolling basis. • Maintain strong relationship with various plant purchasing managers/project buyers and different operational & industrial networks to ensure their buy-in and full understanding of the strategy for deployment. • Firm, fair and objective engagement with Strategic suppliers fostering an environment of long-term dependability and trust based mutual growth.• Cost reductions through negotiations, resourcing, VA/VE & creating productivity reservoirs. Show less • Overall responsibility of procurement for serial purchasing managing a team of 3 buyers.• Prepared Cost Models & LPP and trained Buyers to evaluate the cost of parts and make use of the same for effective negotiation with vendors. • Standardization of price structure with suppliers for effective and transparent pricing and facilitate price changes due to raw material based on agreed indexation rules. Mitigation of Price increase requests. • Ensured year on year annual cost savings to the tune of avg. 4%/year through negotiations, supplier base rationalization and strategic resourcing efforts, Technical Productivities (VAVE) for assigned segments by creative productivity reservoirs.• Leveraged cross-functional resources to qualify alternate sources of supply across segments that were previously mono sourced, ensured cost competitiveness and a robust business continuity plan. Show less

  • Sr. Manager Commodity (Strategic Sourcing)

    Jan 2012 - Apr 2017

  • Dy. Manager Purchase

    Jul 2010 - Dec 2011
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  VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES

  Apr 2017 - Aug 2020

  Business Group Segment Leader

  • To build, elaborate and deploy strategy for Rolled Aluminum for Europe Region consisting of 8 manufacturing plants, 12 manufacturers and 10 countries with a total purchasing of 125 M€. • Managed an international and multicultural virtual team of 15+ productivity and project buyers for the Europe Region.• Chairman for sourcing committees for Europe Region ensuring to regulate load, capacity & dependency during business award process. • Lead all negotiations with Suppliers for long- term contracts and entering and managing the contracts with legal & managing co-development contracts with suppliers.• Lead Supplier Risk mitigation and Manage supplier relationship, fostering improvement of QCDI performance and closely monitoring.• Build midterm visibility on new business awards and force bundling at earliest project stages. • Prepare and drives annual purchasing budgets. • Creating and Managing productivity reservoirs – Successfully kept reservoir of 5+ M€ at all time during the tenure. Show less

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  Valeo India Private Ltd.,

  Sept 2020 - now

  Sr. Manager Global Sourcing

  •Performing Market Research on different commodity markets for newer technologies and electrification of vehicles, identifying the competitiveness for export potentials and proposing strategies to segment network along with roadmap for potential export opportunities.•Identifying long term, sustainable, quality and international mind-set suppliers, engaging them with strategic alignment and long term contractual agreements.•Ambition to reach 110 M€ export sales by 2025 – Starting with Greenfield in Sept’20, so far the OI is 100 M€ converting to 50 M€ export sales by 2025. Show less