Manager Management

CURRICULUM

VITAE

NAME: Mr Kamlesh Pancholi MCIPS TELEPHONE No.: 011*-*******

ADDRESS: ** ******* *****

Leicester MOBILE No.: 078**-******

LE4 7TQ, U.K.

E-MAIL: ************@*******.***

QUALIFICATIONS

Feb 2005 Advanced Negotiation - CPM Training

Feb 2002 Corporate Member of Chartered Institute of

Purchasing and Supply. MCIPS

June 1993 BTEC National Cert. In Computers Studies - Charles Keen

College of F.E.

July 1983 Diploma In Electrical Engineering - Loughborough

Technical College

July 1981 Diploma In Engineering - Melton Mowbray College of

F.E.

June 1980 7 CSE + 2 0-Levels - Ellis Comprehensive Leicester

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Kamlesh has set up and is experienced in the use of MRP & MRP II, Kanban

and Consignment stock. He has also set replenishment system on "C" class

products.

Purchasing knowledge and experience commercial and military including

sourcing suppliers, supplier appraisal, negotiating and placing orders.

Management and supervisory experience.

An accomplished business professional and a inspirational leader with 25+

years of experience, skilled at cost saving measures through process

improvement, change management, lean working.

EXPERIENCE

April 2011 - to date NCH Corporation-Europe - Purchasing Manager-

European Indirects

Company Profile

NCH Corporation - a major international marketer of maintenance products,

and one of the largest companies in the world to sell such products through

direct marketing. NCH's products include specialty chemicals, fasteners,

welding supplies, pet products, and plumbing parts.

Duties & Responsibilities:

. Negotiate and manage complex Pan-European contracts: All Indirect

Categories - FM, Legal, HR Car Lease, Marketing, Office Supplies,

Print, Logistics & Distribution (Last Mile Freight) Telecom-Mobile

Phones/Fixed Lines, IT Hardware/Software, Novelties, Packaging,

Translation services, Insurance.

. Deliver cost savings to the business through Pan-European supplier and

cost reduction initiatives.

. Preparing statistical report for OP's Managers, Regional & VP of

operations each European country & executives.

. Set-up Pan-European commercial contracts whilst minimising operational

and commercial risk to NCH for all Indirect categories.

. Produce and publish KPI's reports for each country monthly

. Management reports.

. Process/Tasks re-engineering.

Achievements to date:

. Successfully implementation of Oracle I Procurement (OiP) rolled out

in Europe for which I am the stakeholder.

. Savings achieved against Mobile Phones & Utility for UK 45% & 40%.

. Constantly achieving 20-35 cost saving.

Nov 2005 - March 2011 Wolters Kluwer Group - Specialist, Procurement &

Logistics

Company Profile

Professional consultancy group (Blue Chip Company), t/o 3.5b Euros, global

span from Employment, H&S, Tax, Accountancy & Finance, HR and other

regulatory areas. WK is the number one choice for the professionals 18.5k

employees worldwide.

Duties & Responsibilities:

. Negotiate and manage complex contracts: Car Lease, Stationery, Print,

Logistics & Distribution & print/material production buying.

. Deliver cost savings to the business through supplier and cost

reduction initiatives.

. Execute operational plans and deliver to the Strategic objectives of

the GPU and Group.

. Responsible for supervising purchasing team of three and collaboration

with GPU and EPT, preparing statistical report for

management/executives.

. Set-up agreed commercial contracts whilst minimising operational and

commercial risk to WK

for all indirects such as Temps, company cars, mobile phones etc.

Support and contribute to procurement strategy including European

initiatives.

. Stock management performance reporting against KPI's.

. Management reports.

. Key SAP user .

. Sales Order Processing-wageroll declaration, analysis/query solving of

SO's. Reconcile of cover/daybook on weekly/monthly basis.

. Process/Tasks re-engineering

Achievements:

. Vendor reduction from 3500 to 1600 and ongoing.

. Successfully implement purchasing procedures/processes and MM SAP

. Outsourcing of production with cost saving 4ook

. Vendor rationalisation over 2 year plan with saving of 2.4m

. Saving also achieved in re-negotiating the car lease & stationery

contracts.

. Re sourcing of distribution and same day courier to single source

produced a saving of 33k

June 1998 - Nov 2005 Datalink Electronics - Purchasing Manager

Company Profile

Medium sized contract electronics manufacturing and Design Company, with a

turnover of approximately 5m. Datalink comprises of two companies Datalink

Electronics and Quasson Datalink in Andover.

Datalink required a Purchasing Manager to create a purchasing department

and move away from a manually based system to MRP II. Focus on purchasing

procedure, vendor reductions and cost saving.

Duties & Responsibilities:

. Responible for supervising three stores and three purchasing staff in

the procurement of materials and preparing statistics for management.

. Deliver tangible negotiated saving to the business through cost

reduction initiatives.

. Develop ever changing purchasing strategies.

. Negotiate and mange complex contracts.

. Set-up agreed commercial contracts whilst minimising operational and

commercial risk to Datalink for raw materials as well as indirects

such as overalls, company cars, mobile phones etc.

Achievements:

. Vendor reduction from 1200 to 300 ongoing target to 150

. Successfully implement MRP II and purchasing procedures

. Stocking policies implemented for Kanban, Re-order point and JIT

. Cost saving from 289818.93 to 219502.14 giving a 24.26% with one

supplier

. Supplier 2 cost saving from 49611.59 to 22633.26 giving a 54.38%.

. Suppliers 3 & 4 savings of 25.07% and 18.15%.

. 60% of component BOM is contracted to TWO 1st Tier suppliers

. 75% of the PCB's procured from 2 suppliers, with lead time reduced

from 20 working days to 10 WD's

. Overall lead times have reduced from 8-10 working weeks to 4-6 working

weeks

. Introduction of KPI's

1989 to 1998 Wadkin Plc. - Purchasing Manager

Company Profile

Wadkin Plc is a Mulitnational Company with distributions site throughout

the world. Manufacturer of wood working machinery and tooling. Approximate

turnover of 200m.

Duties & Responsibilities:

. Responible for supervising one progress chaser and four purchasing

staff in the procurement of materials and preparing statistics for

management

. Communicate with R & D for the procurement of material for NPI's and

to maintain Cost with the parameters or to reduce cost.

. Reduce manufacturing lead times through the use of Kanban/Reorder

point

. Deliver tangible negotiated saving to the business through cost

reduction initiatives.

. Develop ever changing purchasing strategies.

. Negotiate and mange complex contracts.

. Set-up agreed commercial contracts whilst minimising operational and

commercial risk to Wadkin.

Achievements:

. Total spend 20m

. Vendor reduction from 1000 to 90

. Stocking policies implemented for Kanban, Re-order point and JIT

. Cost saving of 5% - 17% year on year average for direct materials.

. Cost saving of Approx. 7% on indirects such as company cars and

service contracts, laptops, mobile phones etc

. Found new suppliers which increased supply availability, supply range

and cost saving relating to the manufacturing process

. Stock holding reduced from 12weeks of stock to 4 weeks of stock

. Made complex contracts abroad (Chezk Republic, Italy, Germany & Hong

Kong)

. Set-up systems with suppliers and customers on market trends and new

products and designs

1988 to 1989 G.E.C. Mechanical Ltd.

Stores Supervisor

Maintaining manual stock records.

Issue of stock on day-to-day basis to M.o.D. standards.

Stock requisition for purchase.

1986 to 1988 Steer Hire Ltd.

Computer Operator/Accounts Clerk

Computer operator.

Sales/Purchase ledger.

Understudy to wages.

1984 to 1986 B.S.S. Plc

Purchasing /Pricing Assistant

Purchasing of stock.

Maintaining minimum stock levels for UK & export.

Maintenance of pricing on computer & manual files.

Constant contact with branch managers & sales force.

INTEREST AND ACTIVITIES

HOBBIES: Setting up procurement systems/procedure for small businesses,

Badminton,

Keep-fit, Reading, & Holidays.

REFEREES:

Personal and Professional reference available on request.

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