BHUMI SHAH
Senior Specialist Category Procurement
Berlin,BE
Summary
15 years of overall experience towards Direct & Indirect Procurement in Pharmaceutical & Healthcare sectors with a proven record of productivity, quality, and integrity. Handling Key Procurement categories such as IT, SCM, Professional services in HR, Marketing, Legal. Excellent functional knowledge in SAP, Ariba, Ebuy, Stakeholder servicing, Data Management and Spend Analysis, strategic sourcing & category management. Analytical and detail-oriented, able to adapt to a fast pace environment. Highly dynamic and result driven team player with the ability to work collaboratively in a team.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Manager – Procurement
M/s. Hershey India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2024 - 07.2025
- Contract Negotiation & Supplier Development: Leading contract negotiation, including prices, terms, and conditions with approved vendors to obtain high quality, lowest possible cost that meets requirements and specifications. Constantly evaluating potential local-based alternate suppliers to maintain competitive pricing and contingency planning. Interacting with key stakeholders to verify the accuracy of requirements and reach alignment.
- Indirect sourcing and Policy & Process: Indirect Sourcing - Leading the indirect sourcing process within major spend categories. Collaborate with SMEs to establish a setting for competitive bidding, and lead the negotiation process to include the setting of terms and conditions over the span of the agreements. Establishing supplier management and assessment metrics and processes, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Identifying additional opportunity categories to competitively bid. Managing compliance and processes following the Global Procurement Policy and other policies that are required by the company. Ensure best practices and processes are adapted, and core capabilities are achieved.
- Drive productivity and margin for growth, track and deliver cost-saving targets. Use current information in the evaluation of suppliers’ capabilities to maximize Hershey’s utilization and to determine potential uses of other alternatives to improve cost and performance. Total sourcing involvement to support specific functional areas as follows: Operations - Manufacturing/Capital Equipment, Construction/Logistics, Co-man/Co-packer, General Service; Marketing/Sales - Graphic Agencies/Fulfillment Services/Promotions/Sales Representatives; Outsource Services; IS - IS Capital/Consulting Agreement.
- Supplier Management: Developing and maintaining ongoing relationships with key suppliers and establishing effective programs and processes to ensure "best in class" supplier performance with the lowest cycle time. Manage supplier relationships through clear, direct, and timely communications and feedback.
- Projects and Achievements:
- Benchmarking projects toward outsourcing in various categories.
- Vendor standardization in various categories, such as POSM, MICE, and MRO (ongoing), etc.
- Catalogue Optimization.
- Cash flow improvement by enhancing payment terms from 0 to 120 days (ongoing).
Sr. Executive – Purchase
M/s. B Braun Medical India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2017 - 12.2023
- Sourcing for Key Indirect Procurement Categories & Strategic Sourcing of Suppliers for Professional Services such as Market Research, Promo, POSM, Printing Projects, Clinical Research, MICE, Creative Agency retainers etc. SCM services such as Warehouse & Transportation, Packaging, 3PL etc. Legal partner services sourcing and also leading its negotiation for commercial and non-commercial terms.
- Timely review of Top Vendor analysis on the basis of their spend and category followed by their consolidation for all functions and early engagement with stakeholders for project identification.
- Vendor Evaluation, Vendor Analysis, Vendor Rating & Assessment, Stakeholder alignment on all projects, ascertaining Project Timeline / preparing Gantt Chart, jointly defining project KPI & its timely adherence with regular interval monitoring, Feedback / Review process.
- Preparing SOP, periodic review & amending it on timely basis as part of continuous improvement planning.
- Preparing Business Continuity Plan.
- Sole Contributor from site in Driving Automation projects such as Ebuy, Ariba – RFI, RFP, E-auction etc.
- Delivering roles in Stakeholder Management for Global Procurement Supplier Management, engagement and relation building, Sourcing interaction within the Regional Procurement team based out of Malaysia.
- Cost Saving, Maintaining Service Quality, Sourcing and negotiation, grievance handling, providing better solutions & vendor management, Process Streamlining, contract management & renewal etc.
- Key Contributor in updating procurement policies & processes which are in tandem with global procurement policy & framework and also suggesting continuous improvements.
- Projects & Achievements:
- 10% overall Cost Savings contributor to site location spend.
- Pan India Consolidated Contracting for Hotels, Airlines, Travel Management Partner, Logistics, Warehousing & Transportation, REFS etc.
- Key Contributor in Catalogue preparation & uploading the same on Ebuy / Ariba for repetitive purchases.
- Average yearly increase in payment term from 27 to 30 days.
- Lean Practitioner Certification from APAC region for successful implementation of 1) Four eye approval global policy matrix in SAP. 2) Ebuy Automation Implementation Project. 3) Online Vendor creation increasing process efficiency and centralized data storage
- Successful identification of 80% Non-PO spend data and converting them in Ebuy PO to expand spend visibility & enabling saving opportunity to the tune of 5-10% and also boosting process efficiency.
- Successfully completed 2.5 days onsite training for Source to Contract Process at APAC in Penang, Malaysia
- Successfully completed a 5 day long full day extensive Value Stream Workshop of Makigami which strives in increasing process efficiency by identifying time-consuming processes & eliminate wastage.
- Successfully completed 8 hour long extensive Lean Practitioner training towards Administration Training organized by APAC Centre of Excellence team
- Attended online 4 days workshop on way towards implementing Sustainable Purchasing Practices in Future buying.
Executive – Purchase
M/s. Boehringer Ingelheim India Pvt. Ltd
07.2012 - 04.2017
- Category based sourcing and negotiations
- Supplier Evaluation & Rating and Agreement ascertainment / Renewals
- Vendor Creation, Preparing Bids, PO / Agreements, Floating Enquiries to Vendors, Sourcing & Negotiation with vendors, Back End Purchase Operations
- Compliance Officer for Purchase Records
- Achievements
- 10% overall annual cost savings for site location for Indirect Purchases contributing to 60-70% of total spend
- Implementation & execution support for Axapta ERP & SOP creation in India Operations
- SOP Process for Gifting providing solutions by freezing on Rate Contracts with best possible discount
Administrative cum Import Assistant
M/s. Pfizer Ltd.
12.2009 - 07.2012
- Demand Planning for Procurement of Raw Material majorly Active Pharma Ingredients Import and Local Procurement
- Preparation of MRP, Floating Enquires and planning to avoid shortages
- Preparing Bid Analysis, mid-level Negotiation with domestic & international vendors, co-ordination with Vendors for shipment dispatches & non-negotiable documents, co-ordination with Treasury department for Remittance to vendors & original documents, co-ordination with C&F agent for custom clearance / Bonding, Preparing Custom Duty Payouts, stock transfer invoices, preparing Inter Office memorandums etc. in ERP named SUN System
- Co-ordination with CMO’s /plants for delivery of material and updating the same in the Internal Updation sheet.
- Managing Inter Company stock Transfers.
Education
MBA - Operations
ITM University
Graduate Diploma - Material Management
Indian Institute of Material Management
Masters - Commerce
Mumbai University
Bachelors - Commerce
Mumbai University
Diploma - Administration Services
P. V. Polytechnic, S.N.D.T University
German Language -
Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan
Mumbai, IndiaSkills
Strategic Sourcing
Spend Analysis
Analytical & Research skills
Cost savings
Contract Management
Compliance Gatekeeping
Stakeholder Management
SOP & Contract Management
Category Management & Negotiation
Professional Services
Building & empowering Automation
Plan, organize, control, daily operations
Timeline
Assistant Manager – Procurement
M/s. Hershey India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2024 - 07.2025
Sr. Executive – Purchase
M/s. B Braun Medical India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2017 - 12.2023
Executive – Purchase
M/s. Boehringer Ingelheim India Pvt. Ltd
07.2012 - 04.2017
Administrative cum Import Assistant
M/s. Pfizer Ltd.
12.2009 - 07.2012
Graduate Diploma - Material Management
Indian Institute of Material Management
Masters - Commerce
Mumbai University
Bachelors - Commerce
Mumbai University
Diploma - Administration Services
P. V. Polytechnic, S.N.D.T University
MBA - Operations
ITM University
German Language -
Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan