Arun Kamalakar Jamdar

Address:Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, Jebel Ali Ind. Area 1&2, Dubai, UAE

Contact No:+971-55-850-6613; Email:

SENIOR PROCUREMENT ENGINEER/PURCHASE & PROCUREMENT PROFESSIONAL

Seeking a challenging opportunity in industryfor personal and professional growth

PROFILE

A performance driven senior procurement engineering management professional with over 11 years of experience in procurement management, material management, vendor sourcing and management, logistics, procurement budgeting and cost control.

Currently working as a Senior Procurement Engineer at Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction.

Excellent skills in consensus building, organization and price negotiation with proven acumen to develop effective procurement strategies and policies to achieve optimum cost of services.

Possess knowledge of procurement, planning, commercial operations, distribution, and logistics along with strategic ability in striking coordination with all involved divisions to ensure smooth materials.

Acquired knowledge in procurement processes, process mapping, budgeting, integrated business planning, quality management, and materials management while developing new vendors with skills in managing material, strategic sourcing and controlling inventory.

Ability to develop new vendors & achieve cost saving purchases within the set time.

Capability to develop and oversee operating budgets and communicate with other departments, vendors and executive management to meet procurement goals.

Understanding of business needs and translating them into sourcing strategy, developing & improving purchasing programs to meet corporate objectives.

A hands-on problem solver with a high rate of achievement and an appetite for new challenges evolving innovative solutions.

Ability to analyze and understand business requirements, sales and marketing strategies, customer-value maximization, developing new business processes and revenue streams.

Competent to create win-win relationship with customers while ensuring customer satisfaction by achieving delivery and service quality norms and thus leading to repeat and referral business.

Enriched with the ability to learn new concepts and develop team to maximize productivity and control costs through the most effective uses of manpower, available resources and time management.

Dynamic professional with experience in project coordination & management, resource optimization, reporting & documentation and project execution. Excellent man-management and leadership skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Bid Management

Procurement Management

Purchasing

Coordinating

Proactive and Industrious

Inventory Management

Vendor Analysis/Development

People Management

Problem Solving

Requirement Analysis

Planning & Forecasting

Logistics

Contractual Negotiations

Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DOOSAN HEAVY INDUSTRIES & CONSTRUCTION JAN 2008 ~ Present

Senior Procurement Engineer, Apr 2010~ Present

Reporting to General Manager (Procurement)

Industry: EPC Contractor

Project: DEWA (Dubai Electricity & Water Authority), Jebel Ali 'M' Power Station

Project Value: AED 10.0 Billion, Consultant: Fichtner Consulting Engineers

  • Responsible for transformation of the commercial forecast in to the meaningful demand forecast, for use in capacity planning and inventory planning.
  • Implementing key procurement strategies of material and ensuring that strategies and schedules are aligned with organizational objectives and buyers’ commitment analysis.
  • Planning and controlling all phases of inventory including cost-benefit analysis by reviewing the operational practices, identifying the areas of quality failures and processing changes for qualitative improvement.
  • Reviewing existing systems/procedures and design internal controls/quality audit checks for various operational areas for achieving higher operational efficiency, resource rationalization and cost reduction.
  • Playing Vital role in economizing the cost and enforcing proper stock control while maintaining updated stock control systems as basis for planning future capacity requirements.
  • Reviewing / assessing technical specification to determine suitable vendors and suppliers by analyzing and evaluating all purchasing requisitions to ensure clarity and completeness in description of material.
  • Preparing and issuing requests for quotations to qualified vendors as per company’s approved vendor list while reviewing vendors and suppliers quotations to determine best price and deliver date.
  • Negotiating with suppliers to ensure that target prices, company’s terms and conditions are met with overall responsibility of managing overall procurement functions through detailed planning.
  • Responsible for preparing comparative analyses documents related to specs, price, delivery conditions and mode of transportation by coordinating various technical reviews with projects and end users.
  • Coordination on logistics with overall accountability of import/export documentations to the nominated clearing agents.

Assistant Procurement Officer, Jan 2008 – Mar 2010

Reporting to the Manager (Procurement)

  • Responsible for the procurement of all equipment, goods and services for the company at the best prices by performing a stringent negotiation with vendors.
  • Assisted in formulating budgets for timely procurement of materials to ensure smooth execution of projects and planned, negotiatedand finalizedorders’ while successfullymanaged its documentation.
  • Negotiated with suppliers for finalizing the price terms and defined delivery timeliness for materials thereby ascertaining uninterrupted construction works and production.
  • Assisted in budgeting and allocated funds for procurement and sourced while monitoring the incoming material supplied by vendors, ensuring their quality as per specifications.
  • Assisted in evaluation of new vendors and reviewing purchase requisitions, prepared and issued purchase orders whilst negotiating the best prices, delivery and credit terms and source new vendors.
  • Evaluated inventory levels with overall accountability of product development and enhancement wherever suitable.

NECTAR BEVERAGES PVT LTD., DHARWAD, KARNATAKAMAY 2003 ~ DEC 2007

Assistant Purchase Officer, Jan 2005 ~ Dec 2007

Reporting to the Manager (Purchase)

Industry: Beverages

  • Oversaw purchasing of raw materials and packaging materials based on material requisition while actively involved in documentation and maintenance of records as well as reports of inventories and material.
  • Managed materials and manpower resources to register maximum productive output, established & set up technical assistance on functional sites.
  • Received, reviewed and initiated process on materials requirement and managed enquiries, tenders for material and service procurements while preparing comparative statement of offers received.
  • Procured materials for stock as per the requisitions, negotiation and vendor development while effectively and appropriately prepared reports for entire Purchase Department as per compliance standards.
  • Performing quantity survey, preparation of rate analysis for various items of works, liaison with superiors.
  • Finalized suppliers in consultation with superiors and negotiating favorable terms and conditions with the suppliers and generated and maintained necessary reports related to material purchase.
  • Took remedial action on discrepancies observed while comparing actual bills and approved quotations/purchase orders.

Sales Executive May 2003 ~ Dec 2004

Reporting to Manager (Sales)

  • Implemented appropriate selling techniques to promote and sold the company's range of products by planning, locating and establishing contacts with new customers.
  • Prepared sales quotations as per the company pricing policy and organizing follow-up visits and report weekly in writing about sales activities along with the status of the pending proposals and achievements.
  • Conducted new market development activities, identified newer business opportunity & generated revenue for the organization by initiating contacts with prospects.
  • Identified and developed new streams for long-term revenue growth by collaborating & assisting the sales, marketing & merchandising team and maintaining relationships with clients to achieve repeat/ referral business.
  • Established healthy business relations with dealers while organized & monitored promotions and clearance sales.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor of Business Administration, Sikkim Manipal University, India (Pursuing Distance Education)
  • Diploma in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Maratha Mandal Polytechnic, Belgaum, Karnataka, India in 2003
  • Technical Skills: MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Windows98, XP, NT

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 13thMay 1983

Passport No:G0386041

Nationality: Indian

Visa Type: Residence Visa-Company Sponsorship (transferable)

Driving License no:1433492

Languages known: English, Hindi, Marathi and Kannada

References:Available on Request