Ravichandra Pureti

Procurement professional with over 10 years of experience, and a strategic sourcing consultant who dealt with fortune 500 companies, across multiple industries; with each project having a minimum spend of $2 Million US Dollars and overall average spend at $100 Million US Dollars; and 50% of the IT projects ranging between $100 million and $174 million dollars

Work Industry:
Worked in the IT/Telecom practice for major clients, which includes a major Telecom giant

Work involved:
• Involved in complex sourcing projects
• Identifying projects through spend analysis
• Led various teams in negotiating a variety of IT software licensing, IT software development, IT programming and IT hardware projects
• IT security assessments, audit check points and due diligence
• Specialize in 3rd party software outsourcing contracts, and key elements
• Designed several sourcing models
• Knowledge management
• Led the sourcing support teams, who work on supplier profiling, MI activities etc.
• Setting up new processes, transition and sourcing process flows/process improvements

Key Skills:
• Commercial Negotiations
• IT/T Knowledge Management
• Project management
• Contract management
• Identifying Pipeline Projects
• Client Management/Stakeholder Management
• Base-costing/bench marking
• Networking (Telecom sourcing projects)
• Change management and Process improvement initiatives