ABOUT

Results-driven Project Management professional with 8+ years of experience and a proven track record in strategic business analysis and material cost control within the Automotive and Oil & Gas sectors. I possess expertise in performance management, leading business improvement initiatives, enabling data-driven decision-making, and optimizing variable costs to support organizational growth and profitability. Interest towards leveraging the power of Generative AI to drive innovation and solve complex problems.

Through collaborative teamwork and effective communication, I aim to lead projects that optimize processes, minimize costs, and achieve sustainable organizational growth.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Performance Measurement

Developed and implemented KPIs to track project performance and procurement process effectiveness, resulting in material cost efficiency and other variable efficiency improvement.

Created data-driven dashboards to facilitate communication and strategic decision making for procurement activities.

Strategic Analysis & Portfolio Management

Aligned procurement strategies with overall business goals, ensuring project selection directly contributes to achieving company objectives.

Prioritize, plan, and executed a portfolio of procurement projects, maximizing return on investment and achieving strategic targets.

Communication & Collaboration

Spearheaded cross-functional collaboration with departments like R&D, Finance, Operations, and Logistics to ensure seamless integration of procurement activities with the overall business vision.

Facilitated clear communication across teams and stakeholders by preparing regular reports on project health, key milestones, and performance metrics

Continuous Improvement

Fostered a culture of continuous improvement within the procurement department, identifying opportunities for process optimization and efficiency gains.

SKILLS & SOFTWARE

Time management

Stakeholder management

Business case evaluation

Strategic planning

Data driven analysis

Management reporting

AI Prompt

Analytic thinking

Swift assimilator

MS Office + Project

ProQ

SAP MM

EDUCATION

PGDM in Project Management

Centennial College, Canada - 3.5 / 4 CGPA Jan 2018 – Dec 2018

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering

Anna University (Affiliated ), India - 8.1 /10 CGPA May 2008 – Apr 2012 ad49h0@r.postjobfree.com

+91-735*******

Chennai, TN, IN.

Hariharan Sukumar

Bachelor’s (Mech. Engr.), PGDM (Project Management - Canada) EXPERIENCE

PROJECTS

Business Enhancement drive - Lead for organizing and coordinating 30+ Tech Days, VAVE workshops and Business drives with supplier

Packaging cost optimization - Lead in data analysis on packaging cost and optimization of packaging cost project by -10% worth of -100 MINR

Material cost steering – Sub lead for contributing and executing ideas to improve contribution margin of lead models by -10% in material cost efficiency.

Localization - Sub-lead for data analysis on import parts and developed strategy to localize 3500 MINR worth of import parts between 2022 to 2024.

Outsourcing - Sub-Lead in generating production assembly outsourcing initiative and business analysis for expansion of 100 Sqm. of production space

Supplier consolidation - Coordinator in driving strategy for supplier deletion and consolidation to reduce supplier base by 20%

Digitalization - Coordinator in Use-case generation & implementation of digitalized supplier end VAVE portal

Sustainable Packaging - Committee member for developing strategy to implement sustainable packaging

Bus Body - Project assistant in Business analysis and evaluation of bus body outsourcing. ACHIEVEMENTS

Awarded “Extra mile - 2023” – Leading & supporting multiple projects to improve variable cost

Awarded “Spot Recognition – Q1’23” – Improving Localization % through special drives

Awarded “Spot Recognition – Q3’23” – Analysis and reporting on Top management ADHOC tasks

Awarded “Entrepreneur of 2022” – Leading 12 Tech Days, 5 VAVE drives & 5 Business review

Manager – PMO in Procurement

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles

Program Management Associate – R&D

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (RLE – 3rd Party Payroll)

Project Associate - PMO

Loblaws. Toronto, Canada.

Project Coordinator – Special Projects

NRP Project Pvt. Ltd. Chennai, India.

Project Engineer

Moss Engineering Pvt. Ltd. South Sudan, Africa.

Graduate Engineer Apprentice – Procurement Dept. Madras Fertilizers Ltd. Chennai, India.

Mar 2022 – Till Date

Nov 2021 – Feb 2022

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

Jul 2016 – Dec 2017

Jan 2014 – Mar 2016

Aug 2012 –Aug 2013

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Management / PMO Associate

Managed and coordinated multidisciplinary engineering activities to ensure projects are executed in a safe, efficient, cost-effective, and timely manner.

Coordinate with Head office, consultants, and clients to complete the project according to schedule & budget. Ensured memos are received by every stakeholder of the projects in timely manner without any delay.

Stakeholder Management in terms of analyzing the influence and developing strategies to execute

Risk Management in terms of identifying the risk and making sure the team is aware of the situation’s impact and, assisted in solving and allocating resources to mitigate it.

Reviewing, evaluating, and tracking KPI for the project on a biweekly basis.

Prepared progress status reports on a daily, weekly & monthly basis and documentation of the project’s tasks according to the company’s standards. Generation of special reports as needed. PowerPoint presentation to brief the project status.

Prioritizing the task according to the escalation raised by the client and allocating the task to the resource as per the severity and deadline.

Agile management to iterate the process as per projects needs to avoid overrun by anticipating the scenario. Project / Planning Engineer

Prepared project schedules for the projects and updated changes on time with respect to project progress using MS Project and Primavera P6.

Earned value reporting to determine the difference between actual and budgeted with respect to schedule and cost.

Knowledge in preparing Resource Histogram, S curve and 2 weeks ahead schedule for the project.

Identification of critical activities and prioritizing resources accordingly in the completion of the project on time, forecasting risk and analyzing for a better project schedule.

Prepared progress status reports on a daily, weekly & monthly basis and documentation of the project’s tasks according to company’s standards. Generation of special reports as needed.

Managing the contracts and change management documents for the smooth running of the project without any overruns.

Inventory controller

Prepare and Process purchase requisitions and complete purchase orders on time as well as follow up on completion and delivery times.

Preparing and maintaining purchasing documents.

Tracking and following up with suppliers & warehouse on orders and other changes.

Creating PO and PR through SAP. Experience in configuring material master & vendor master.

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