SUDESH's CV
SUDESH SHINDE
PROCUREMENT TRANSFORMATION LEADER
Profile summary
Strategic procurement transformation leader with 35 years shaping supply chain outcomes across global markets including extensive GCC experience. Multilingual professional fluent in 4 languages, known for driving enterprise resource planning implementations and governance frameworks. Committed to optimizing operations and aligning procurement strategies with organizational growth objectives.
Career highlights
Procurement and ERP Transformation: Drove enterprise wide ERP Next implementation across 5 business functions while establishing procurement governance covering all purchasing activities.
Supply Chain Optimization: Directed end to end supply chain operations leading 8 professionals, reducing inventory by 25% and improving OTIF performance by 15%.
Financial Recovery and Operations: Recovered outstanding receivables exceeding 830,000 USD while directing procurement, operations, and commercial support functions.
Major Project Procurement Portfolios: Managed procurement portfolios exceeding 20 Million USD for power transmission and distribution projects while delivering savings exceeding 2.5 Million USD.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reports to executive leadership while directing procurement operations and business process improvement programs, partnering internally to align supply chain functions with broader enterprise growth objectives.
- Drives enterprise-wide ERP Next implementation across 5 Business Functions.
- Serves as Management Representative for implementing the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System.
- Establishes procurement governance covering 100% of purchasing activities and qualifies 27 strategic suppliers.
- Deploys standardized sourcing procedures to reduce procurement cycle times.
Guided manufacturing, strategic sourcing, and production planning across domestic and international operations, steering a team of 8 professionals.
- Managed a procurement portfolio exceeding 7 Million USD, overseeing domestic and international procurement operations.
- Reduced inventory by 25% through improved planning and inventory optimization.
- Improved OTIF performance by 15% through supplier collaboration and procurement planning.
Steered procurement, operations, and commercial support functions for Thermolab Sales and Services in Mumbai from 2018-04 to 2022-04, governing financial recovery and project execution processes while coordinating suppliers and internal workflows.
- Recovered outstanding receivables exceeding 830,000 USD, supporting financial stability.
- Refined business processes to enhance operational efficiency across core functions.
- Strengthened procurement planning to support ongoing engineering operations.
Directed procurement and facilities support operations across UAE locations, steering supplier relationships, subcontractor management, and contract administration supporting facilities management services.
- Established procurement governance across multiple UAE projects.
- Strengthened contract administration and vendor management while improving procurement compliance.
- Reduced procurement risk through structured supplier evaluation and improved qualification processes.
- Managed a procurement portfolio exceeding USD 20 Million for power transmission and distribution projects.
- Delivered procurement savings exceeding USD 2.5 Million through strategic sourcing and negotiations.
- Managed procurement activities for power transmission and distribution projects valued at 10 million USD.
- Executed purchasing activities for projects totaling 70 Million USD in value.
- Administered supplier contracts and material orders to meet project execution requirements.
- Executed strategic sourcing activities aligned with engineering deliverables.
- Negotiated supply agreements for pharmaceutical manufacturing inputs and capital equipment.
- Evaluated vendor proposals to secure required materials for engineering operations.
- Coordinated project execution activities across multiple engineering teams.
- Aligned procurement workflows with plant expansion timelines.
Education
Business Management
Materials Management
Chemical Engineering
Languages
English · Fluent
Arabic · Intermediate
Hindi · Fluent
Marathi · Native