Mary Pramila
No.*, Karamchand Layout, Lingarajpuram, Bangalore-84
E-Mail: - **********@*****.***
Phone: - +91-962*******
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Organisation ef EDUCATION FIRST
Founded in 1965, EF is now the world's largest Private
educational company with a group of 15 subsidiaries and
nonprofit organizational centered on language learning,
educational travel, cultural exchange and academic
programs. Since 1965 EF operates 400 schools and
offices over 50 countries across the globe and
expansion continues every year.
Period Oct 2010 to May 2013
Designation Global IT-Procurement Administrator(Hardware/Software)
Job Description Responsibilities
IT Procurement: Timing Market Research to gain
knowledge on new products and technology and their
prices. Procurement of required IT Hardware equipment
(servers, switches, laptops etc.) for schools and
offices across the Global remotely in line with the
projects. Meeting the SLA's on time without any
escalations.
Ensuring selection of vendors for the requested
equipment by the Clients & ensure Correct and timely
procurement of required equipment with good
negotiations and required knowledge on taxes and
duties.
MS Licenses: Responsible for the Microsoft procurement
process, from placing the orders till installation and
co-ordinating with users on the due invoices for
payments and maintaining optimum stock of both hardware
and software.
MIS: Tracking the sale across different client accounts
for the Global suppliers and reporting to seniors.
Contract Renewals: Timely renewal of contracts and
orders with their database and selecting the
appropriate vendors and contractors.
Vendor Management: Single point of contact of all the
vendors related to hardware and software along with
finalising the terms and conditions for all the
purchase issues. Knowledge of contracts, warehousing.
Knowledge of ERP systems.
Strictly adhered to budgets and maintained thorough
accounting records with the finance team.
Mentored junior buyers by a training and monitored
their progress into full-time positions.
Resolves delivery problems and complaints, vendor
disputes. Negotiate payment terms, defects and warranty
and guarantee issues and maintain good relationship
with vendors.
Developed and negotiated long-term contracts with
supplier with standard policies and reduced procurement
costs.
Delegating projects and tasks to junior staff and well
managed and informed team as per the required
standards. Make sure that the team perform and review
them accordingly.
Involved in selling off excess, damaged and inventory
and stock.
Administering the online purchasing systems.
Preparing & processing requisitions, purchase orders &
invoices for purchases with good planning and
scheduling of orders with the custom clearance
documentation. Co-ordinate with the internal teams with
strong relationship.
Organisation Indian institute of hardware technology ltd
India's largest IT Education Organization offering high
quality Industry specific cost effective professional
computer Training at individual and corporate levels.
We are based out of Bangalore, India having a strong
presence in the Indian market with over 200 plus
centers and a couple of others outside India. A 2
billion $ company (Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd. (BCCL)
India's largest media house with brands like Times of
India, Economic Times, Times Internet, Zoom TV, Radio
Mirchi have investments in our company as IIHT's
equity partners.
Period October 2007 to Oct 2010
Designation Procurement/Logistics Head
Job description Responsibilities
Procurement & Co-ordinating: of courseware's with Major
Alliance partners i.e. Microsoft, Cisco, Red hat,
Oracle EMC2, Net App, &Symantec. Maintain account of
courseware consumption & liaison for feedback,
consumption, vouchers and creating reports for internal
consumption & Sales fore cast.
Fulfilment: Planning & forecasting the stocks with
external agency for all SBU's i.e. ELS, GLS, ILS&ALS.
Fulfilment of Entire Marketing Collateral's,
Vendor Management: Solely handling Bid-Management &
Finalizing the vendor's. SPOC for all the External
Agency (Printers, Transport & quality control) for
Accounting & Operational Requirement's.
Distribution: Handling a team 6 for Supplying
Courseware worth $80.000p.a to 220 centres in India and
16 Locations across Asia & African's Region.
Collections: Ensuring the outstanding payments of
courseware from centres and are collected in a timely
manner.
MIS: Procuring & compiling monthly, quarterly sales and
consumption report. Monitoring the courseware
consumption as against the centre collections.
Technical & operational support: overseeing
communication channel for all the 220 Centre's &
International operations through their respective
regional offices i.e. log sheet/course delivery manual,
Course PPT's Etc,
Certification: Monitoring the certification for all the
centres against course wares and payment details for
all the alliances i.e. Microsoft, Oracle, Sun
Microsystems, Red hat etc. Online confirmation for the
each and every students across the country.
The Accomplishments
Creating a Robust Process for entire Logistic team &
across all Regional office's
Creating a deemed office of university in IIHT for
Academic Learning Solution Business.
"Welcome Partner" Introduced special package for newly
inducted center for supporting smooth functioning for
initial few months of operations.
Special Sales package for Alliance partner which has
created a growth of 20 to 22% year on year.
Successfully met Cisco Compliance Audit consecutive 3
years & with 0% escalation.
Organisation IMS Learning Resources Pvt ltd
Period April 1999 - October -2007
Designation's Counselor 1999 -2001Center Manager 2001-2003 Regional
Logistics & Procurement Manager
Job description Responsibilities
Counselling - Counselling and guiding students
regarding their Career Prospects towards the
competitive exam CAT as well as handling their
complaints.
Coordinating - Planning different batches (involving a
database of 2000 students) as per student enquiry
between three different centres at Bangalore.
Maintaining material stocks with Head office.
Overseeing events such as The Achiever's Workshop (
that trains students who have received called from the
IIMs)
Business Development - Participating in marketing
events held at different colleges, supporting sales
people in business development and training the staff
on new strategies for the business, utilizing inputs
provided by the company.
Training - Mentoring and Motivating the Logistics Team
through weekly meetings and updates on procedural
changes that need to be incorporated.
Quality of Delivery - Monitoring and organizing the
quality of facilitation through Venue Reports across
all centres
Recruitment - Single point of contact for entire class
co-ordination in terms of faculty and other related
recruitment for the Bangalore region.
Appreciated Strengths
. Planned Worker & Committed
. Team Player
. Focused
. Quick learner
Extra-Curricular Activity
. Member of the school singing team
. Head girl of the class
. Member of the college organizing committee
Educational Background
Year Degree/Universit Institute Marks/CGPA
y
2012-2013 MBA Symbiosis Center for Distance Pursuing
Education
1991-1994 B.Sc. (PME) Jyoti Nivas College-Bangalore average of
51%
1989- 1991 PUC Jyoti Nivas College-Bangalore Secured 51%
1989 SSLC St. Josephs' Convent, Secured 58%
Bangalore
Personal Details
Date of Birth 14 January, 1974
Languages Known English, Kannada & Tamil
Hobbies Traveling, Music, Cooking and Sketching