Candidate

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First Name: Rajat Kaul
E-Mail Address: kaul87@gmail.com
Country: Canada
Phone: 6476712676
Current Job Designation: Senior Procurement Consultant
Job Designation Applying For: Senior Procurement Manager
Total Years of Experience: 14 +
Copy your Resume / CV in this box: RAJAT KAUL
647-671-2676 • kaul87@gmail.com • https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajat-kaul-mba/ • Brampton, Ontario

Senior Procurement Consultant
Self-driven • High level of initiative • Global Sourcing/Supply Chain Best Practices • Proactive attitude • People Management

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
• 14+ years of experience in Global Sourcing/Procurement Operations, Contract Negotiations, Supplier/Vendor management, Interactive Bidding and Stakeholder Relationship Management (Category Heads, Business Leads, Function Heads) in diverse environments
• Excellent people management, interpersonal, contract negotiation and relationship building skills
• Strong business knowledge in Supplier/Stakeholder Contract negotiations, Vendor relationship management, Evaluate/Create Business Proposal and Quotations (RFx/e-auctions), Spend Analysis, Market research tools and Competitive
Analysis
• Strong proficiency in conducting Gap Analysis as well as SWOT Analysis (Category specific) including a wide variety of
methodologies for implementing internal and external strategies
• Proficiency in working on Ariba and SAP MM module and Microsoft Office suite

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS - CONTRACT AND SOURCING MANAGEMENT:
• Sourcing and business management – created & executed various time & material saving processes in the healthcare related projects. (MediSystem)
• Contract management and sourcing - generating Savings of 2.6 million with spend throughput of 12 million; category – IT (Servers, SAAS, ASP); levers - incubation of global suppliers and coupling respective activities. (Sobeys)
• Worked on a multi-billion-dollar telecom project, achieving $200 million in savings through strategic procurement and vendor negotiations. (Supply Ontario)
• Achieved over 95% in KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) from existing baseline of 80% for categories like CT/AMI/MRI, this remarkably increased efficiency and profitability for a US based healthcare company.
• Reached a total of $3.5 million in cost avoidance over 10-month period for ASP and SAAS contracts for a US based multi- billion-dollar financial company (Metlife)
• Generated 4.5 million savings from negotiation existing sole sourced contracts through introduction of e-auctions and incubation of market aggregators over the period of 11 months from mix of direct and indirect categories (Accenture)

WORK EXPERIENCE:
Senior Procurement Consultant (IT & Telecom), Supply Ontario, Canada 01/2024 - Present
• Led strategic procurement initiatives, managing vendor relationships and sourcing contracts for IT and telecom services.
• Developed and executed procurement strategies for enterprise-wide Vendor of Record (VOR) arrangements.
• Provided expert guidance on contract negotiations, risk assessment, and compliance with public sector procurement policies.
• Advised senior leadership on procurement strategies, risk mitigation, and supplier performance evaluation.
• Established strong partnerships with ministries, stakeholders, and vendors to optimize sourcing outcomes.
Manager - Strategic Sourcing and business management, MediSystem, Canada 08/2021 – 12/2023
• Managed/executed various T&M processes for the business unit.
• Contract drafting, negotiation and sourcing with/from healthcare service providers.
• Working day-to-day with the stakeholders/SL team on various critical business management related projects for
acquiring/on-boarding other healthcare business/clients.
• Worked with Project management team for procurement of materials/goods, services and/or supplies.
• Managed process to select suppliers for procurement of non-contracted materials/goods, services and/or supplies which
were considered non-leveraged, local spend (as defined by Strategic Sourcing policies) within the dollar limit.

Manager - Strategic Sourcing and Contracts, Sobeys, Canada 02/2020 – 06/2021
• Contract drafting, negotiation and sourcing - Catering to a total spend of 130 million
• Deliver against KPIs to measure success based on category targets
• Drafted, negotiated, and closed contracts using Ariba tool
• Develop Category Plans that support the applicable banner's strategy with a focus on generating sales and improved category performance relative to the market
• Communicate category plans to all applicable stakeholders including leadership, other functional areas and vendor partners

• Execute category plans by successfully delivering against the category pricing, promotion, assortment, and merchandising plans that support our strategies and financial requirements by levers like RFP's, direct negotiations, e-auctions, etc.
• Identify new opportunities from multiple sources (RFI) including field merchandising, operations, vendor partners, market visits, etc.
• Manage performance targets for categories by performing stakeholder risk & compliance analysis
• Manage category plans for the following banners (as applicable): Sobeys, Foodland, Safeway, IGA (West), Sobeys Urban
Express and for select grocery categories in the IGA Extra/IGA and community banners of Quebec
• Manage category performance, report maintenance and productivity tasks using MS office
• Track, be knowledgeable and communicate actual category performance versus budget, target and/or forecast
• Build vendor relationships to enable effective negotiations
Global Sourcing - Team Lead Operations, MetLife Insurance (Global Operations Support Center) 02/2019 – 01/2020
• Worked on 2 main categories: Consulting (Professional services, IT, Human resource) and non-Consulting categories (ASP,
SAAS, ISP, etc)
• Vendor management and categorization, Contract negotiation, contract drafting, stakeholder risk management, supplier
score-carding, Catalog creation & Spot buy process, Procure to Pay cycle and Order to cash cycle.
• Drafted, negotiated, and closed contracts using Ariba tool, managed productivity tasks using MS office suite.
• Work with the internal customers to ensure their business requirements are driven using effective sourcing strategies and
procurement policies while working with stake holders, internal departments and U.S. suppliers
• Proactively utilize U.S. market analysis (analyze data) to identify industry best practices, and incorporate them into the
sourcing strategy
• Implement programs to shift demand to new suppliers and/or new processes
• Identify sourcing opportunities banking on the use of reporting tools and leveraging internal customer relationships
• Collaboratively with internal customer, develop bidders lists for sourcing events
• Coordinate vendor interface for MetLife before, during, and after competitive bidding
• Maintain vendor relationships and stay abreast of market trends, including identifying opportunities, issues, market
conditions and economic indicators for assigned commodities or vendors
• Plan actions to obtain cost reductions and process improvements through sourcing events and supplier management
• Create opportunities, develop strategies to influence minority and women-owned business enterprises in assigned sourcing
events. Lead efforts with MetLife customers to encourage competitive bidding (e-auctions)
Sourcing Business Advisory Analyst, Accenture 02/2016 – 02/2019
• Worked on end-to-end Source to Pay cycle.
• Negotiated contract terms and conditions with stakeholders.
• Transitioned various projects in different waves starting with Master Data management, Vendor management and
categorization, Purchase order management, RFX process, Contract management, supplier score-carding, Catalog creation &
Spot buy process, Procure to Pay cycle and Order to cash cycle.
• Performed stakeholder risk & compliance analysis
• Performed optimization of the local sourcing team in terms of cost and quality (suppliers portfolio optimization)
• Managed and launched RFQ / RFP and RFI to achieve optimum value in the selected market (Direct-MRO, Wood, Steel and
Indirect-Stationary, IT, Professional Services, Logistics, LDS-Low Dollar Spend, Spare parts.) and develop new suppliers
• Ensured all purchasing processes for both indirect and direct materials are followed per corporate guidelines
Executive - Marketing, HHEC of India Limited 09/2012 – 01/2016
• Provided support to S&CM team to prepare and execute RFx documentation using standard framework and/or tender
documents
• Managed process to select suppliers for procurement of non-contracted materials/goods, services and/or supplies which
were considered non-leveraged, local spend (as defined by Strategic Sourcing policies) within moderate dollar limits
• Gathered and performed complex analysis of internal spend data
• Negotiated contract terms and conditions (systemic quality or service problems)
• Documentation, report maintenance and productivity tasks using MS office

Assistant Manager Procurement, Sarvodhaya TexStyle Pvt Ltd

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: (WES verified)
MBA – Amity University 04/2009 -
08/2011
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