King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States
Supply Chain Management Executive SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT & STRATEGIC OPERATIONS ✔️ A visionary Supply Chain and Operations leader with a demonstrable track record of delivering transformational step change improvements in every major work assignment held. Multi-Industry experience including Upstream Oil and Gas, Downstream Oil and Gas Manufacturing – Refining/Lubricants/Chemicals/Petrochemicals and Industrial Distribution with highly transferable functional and leadership skills. ✔️ Delivered high value P&L results by enabling operational efficiency, revenue acceleration, EBITDA growth, margin enhancement, and business sustainability. ✔️ Deep functional expertise in strategic supply chain management, logistics and operations, procurement, safety and compliance, inventory management and warehousing backed up with expansive leadership skills. ✔️ Highly evolved Business Leadership skills in integrated strategic planning, program and project management, ERP and Supply Chain systems implementation, Supplier Management, Cost Optimization, M&A and divestitures, process management as well as continuous business improvement. ✔️ Diverse international supply chain experience leading global teams and multi-site operations, cross-functional team leader focused on executing supply chain solutions to improve business profitability. ✔️ Highly experienced in starting up and leading high performing teams through effective stakeholder collaboration and effective talent management strategies with a strong focus on outcomes-based performance management. 💥Certified Supply Chain Management Professional (CSCMP) - Supply Chain Management Association. 💥Certified Professional in Supply Chain Management (CPSM) - Institute for Supply Management. 💥Green Belt Lean Sigma Certification
Strategic Leadership to transform Procurement at Clean Earth (Enviri), delivering high impact business value through innovative solutions thereby positioning the Procurement Function as a vital source of competitive advantage for the company. - Created a high performing Procurement team from scratch with a strategic vision and well defined maturation roadmap, delivering over 15% in first year savings and subsequently average of ~5% cost improvement on a year on year basis with Procurement cost as a percentage of addressable spend at well below 1%. - Established world class Category Management process striking a highly collaborative and value driven relationship with Senior Internal Business Stakeholders and Critical Vendor Partners through transformational leadership approach. - Established Procurement Centre of Excellence (CoE) to drive compliant Procurement processes while delivering continuous value improvement in process excellence, innovative contracting, creative vendor relationship and Procurement risk management. - Led implementation of the Procure to pay component of a Company Wide ERP implementation with high acclaim. Continuously driving for benefit realization from the implementation. - Strong leadership on ESG front with focus on Supply Chain sustainability with Supplier Diversity as one of the value drivers.
✅ Crafting and executing consulting services in Supply Chain Management on project basis aimed at delivering business value to clients. Also focused on developing and delivering training packages on Supply Management themes – processes, models, tools, technology, and modern trends in the profession.
✅ Established an integrated Supply Chain Team managing strategic sourcing, purchasing, inventory management and transportation with annual combined activity spend of $0.9 billion and a team of 21 staff supporting 85 locations in the US and 13 in Canada. ✅ Embedded a world class Strategic Sourcing and Category Management Process customized for a sales and distribution business logic with savings valued at 3.7% of annual sales and implemented a hybrid centralized and center-led Purchasing organization model. ✅ Laid foundation for Logistics transformation while establishing a healthy balance between high in-stock rates to maximize top-line sales and low inventory days on hand to minimize working capital. Created an interface model to achieve SIOP objectives. ✅ Led Supply Chain workstream in ERP and process integration of acquired businesses and provided Supply Chain support for M&A activities.
✅ Led a matrix team of 5 staff responsible for delivery of $0.9 B 3–year rail category services contract for Shell’s downstream manufacturing businesses – Refineries, Chemicals and Lubricant Plants with combined annual budget of $5 billion. ✅ Creatively utilized project and category management tools to deliver highly complex and optimized contract deals with all 7 class one rail companies in N. America with 8.6% annual cost reduction. ✅ Established governance framework to resolve inter-business conflicts, developed collaborative stakeholder engagement and risk management frameworks and led negotiations resulting in on-time delivery of contracts with no costly contract extensions. ✅ Designed and deployed a model for post contract award management to ensure realization of negotiated savings in a sustainable manner.
✅ Led a team of 4 high performing staff, responsible for strategic alignment between the Logistics and Supply chain function and the annual $7B Upstream Wells, Production and Projects functions through delivery of modern technology driven logistics, services contracting, and inventory solutions. ✅ Led multiple high value Supply chain improvement projects and executed Category management and contract reviews resulting in savings ranging from 5%-40% of annual spend. ✅ Fine-tuned a SaaS TMS based 4PL™ contracting solution for logistics, inventory, and materials management with a transformational supply chain control tower concept. ✅ Delivered end-to-end supply chain solutions for construction projects valued at more than $5B over 2 years and ensured Supply Chain readiness for multi-billion-dollar new country ventures in South American countries. ✅ Implemented post contract award value stream mapping initiative using a $500 MM OCTG Contract as a pilot. Initiative resulted in transformation of the post award contracting process. ✅ Established strategies for aligning and leveraging Upstream operations and Downstream manufacturing Supply Chain activities using enterprise wide contracting model.
✅ Established the first Logistics and Supply Chain Operations organization in Shell N. America with a total staff of 120 featuring 12 direct reports in support of drilling, production, and construction projects with a combined budget of over $7B per annum. The successful transformation of the Logistics operating model delivered significant cost improvements which contributed to the long-term viability of Shell’s Unconventionals Business in North America and its retention in the portfolio of businesses. ✅ Piloted a logistics cell in Canada and later extended across Canada, US, and Latin America. Established eight Supply Chain operating sites in total with responsibility over transportation, warehousing, and inventory. ✅ Executed a robust 4PL Supply Chain solution with savings of $75 MM in the first year of implementation while transforming the safety culture and reducing incidents by over 40%. ✅ Managed the ecosystem of all Logistics and Supply chain contracts and facilitated M&A activities as well as divestment activities.