Agnello Sequeira

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SUMMARY

Resourceful Procurement Manager with 21+ years of vast experience in high-volume, dynamic purchasing environments. Dedicated to exceeding expectations & exceptional business results. Has a broad experience in tenders, contract management, inventory control, & warehouse space planning, complete cost analysis from low cost countries etc.

Boundless energy, capable of adopting a number of roles simultaneously, swift & agile. Looking forward to the next efficient role within Procurement Management of a global organization. WORK EXPERIENCE

Nov 1999–Present Procurement Manager - Rasana engineering Ind. Co. LLC – UAE (Steel Eng. & Space

Frames/ Eltete Middle East FZE – UAE –

Honeycomb Paper Packaging)

Cost Analysis: Drive cost reduction efforts

working collaboratively with the business

stakeholders (Product development teams,

Quality & Operations team)

Strategic Planning: Supervises short and

long-term procurement strategies designed to

reduce cost and improve quality and service.

Establishes policies and procedures for

procurement department.

Building Vendor Relationship: Develop

strong relationship with vendors and

developed volume generating promotions that

effectively impacted the business.

Quality Standards: Assists in the

communication to suppliers to match delivery

and quality expectations & standards.

Authorize Product Specifications: Ensure

that the product specifications and suppliers

are suitable for commercial use through a

validation process.

Manage Suppliers Claims: Minimize supplier

claims and charges through effective

application of supplier agreements and strong

negotiation.

Assess Supplier Performance: Research

new suppliers, challenge the incumbent

suppliers for innovation and monitor existing

relationships.

SKILLS SET

Experienced Strategic Planner.

Logistics Coordination.

Cost Control familiarity.

Adaptability & Self-Motivated.

Team Building Expertise.

Time Management Ability.

Mediation / Dispute Resolution.

Decision-making strength.

System Improvements.

Leadership Qualities.

Analytical & Negotiation Skills.

Strong Communication Skills.

Ability to work under pressure.

Amicable Personality.

CCNA: Ability to install, to

configures, and troubleshoot

medium-size route and switched

networks.

Operating system (Windows

2003/2008 Server): Installation,

configuration and Administration of

Windows.

Substantial experience in ISO 9001:

2015, ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS

18001:2007 auditing.

Ability to gauge the degree of

compliance of the system to ISO

standards.

MS Office & Internet Proficient.

PERSONAL INFO.

Marital Status: Married

Nationality: Indian

Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi

Driving License: UAE (Light Vehicle)

Interests: Football, Basketball,

Volleyball, Cricket, Chess, cycling,

travelling.

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Negotiation ability: Lead supplier selection/pitch processes in alignment with business partners and negotiate contracts up to final authorization including dispute resolution, approving and qualifying suppliers as well as authorization of contracts and purchase orders.

Maintaining purchasing Reports: Ensure and monitor daily, weekly and monthly procurement activity report and present to operations, finance and board.

Organize Bidding Process: Review quotations (rfq) and organize competitive biddings from various suppliers to obtain the best quality, delivery, and price for goods and services.

Deliver growth Innovation: Work with management and company peers in the development of new product launches, analyzing supplier performance, and catch speed to Market. Ensure materials are available to meet operational demand.

Clear Customer Communication: Interact with both internal & external customer regarding anticipating unfavorable events through data analysis; prepare control strategies which promotes an openness, honesty and sincerity work environment.

Training & Development: Evaluating training needs for staff, providing mentoring, coaching & support to staff.

Manpower Management: Conducted efficiency and productivity improvement studies in all business units and consult respective business heads on utilizing existing manpower effectively as well as accurately forecast future manpower requirements to support business growth.

Competitive Analysis: Manage the procurement process for key projects, ensuring the selection of suppliers with the capability to meet our needs, high service standards, efficient executions and competitive rates.

Achievements:

Lead negotiations for the paper packing unit with new contracts and reduced procurement costs that delivered 45% ($2 million) annual savings.

Negotiated cost saving to 30% in various buying aspects with alternate suppliers, alternate materials, continually search for cost savings opportunities for the steel manufacturing unit.

Successfully designed both regional and global procurement strategies with annual purchases of over $100 million.

Managed contracts, approved orders, and finalized negotiations, reviewed and processed vendor/contractor grievance and claims. Reduced inventory holding cost 40% or $1.5 million using periodic review system and techniques to the stock levels agreed with the relevant operations managers per business unit. Achieved 100% on- time-in-full (OTIF) delivery from suppliers.

Conducted pre-qualification exercises for 500 plus suppliers across 20 categories. 2003– Present Management Representative (QA Manager)

(ISO 9001-2015, 14001:2015 EMS and OHSAS 18001:2007)

System Implementation: Successfully implemented integrated management system

(IMS) which describes several previously separate management systems grouped together to form a single system for Quality ISO 9001-2015 + Environment Management system ISO 14001;2015+ Health & Safety OHSAS 18001:2007.

Integrated all existing management systems (IMS): Ensure consistency and avoidance of conflict with attendant waste (materials, documentation, energy, personnel skills, space, etc.)

Process Implementation: Ensuring that processes needed for the integrated management system is established, implemented and maintained & reporting its performance to top management.

Customer & Market Study: Continuous improvement tracking and posting of established key performance indicators, maintained the trend analysis of customer 3 Page Agnello Sequeira

requirements, customer feedbacks, customer satisfaction & respond to customer complaints.

Auditing Process: Design, Manage & implement process level audit program reducing traceable quality issues and maintain all controlled documents and forms.

Point of Contact: Act as a liaison to 3rd party auditors. Also coordinate auditing process with subcontractors and vendors.

Business Development: Develop & deploy business process and internal control improvements.

Risk Analysis: Initiate and complete project to analyze shipping methods to determine quality risks and understand costs across multiple supplier and Intel locations.

Reporting System: Create new reporting platform to communicate progress reports, audit results etc.

Maintain ISO Standards: Implement ISO standards to comply with current company procedures & market requirements.

Regulatory Compliances: Maintain all regulatory compliances with respect to statutory requirements, EMS audits authorities and thus maintain a better relationship with the regulators.

HSE Manuals: Prepared HSE Manuals as per our company policy & mandatory requirements.

1999– Present IT Manager

Skilled at overseeing all technology aspects within the group & complex company networks (LAN, WAN), installation, implementation of ERP system with a focus on efficiency & performance optimization.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

1994 - 1997 Customer Service Engineer – Nebula System & Services, Mumbai, India EDUCATION

2015 Post Graduate in Business Mang. (Supply Chain Management) - Mahatma Gandhi University 2014 MBA (Supply Chain Management) - Kazian Global School of Business Management 2009-2012 Bachelor of Arts – Vinayaka University, India 1991-1994 Diploma in Electronics & Video Eng. – St. Xavier’s Technical Institute, Mumbai, India 1997 Diploma in Web Designing – Interman Computers – Sharjah 1995 Attended (GRADIETE formally termed as AMIETE) – Institute of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, New Delhi - India

1994 Diploma in Computer Hardware & Networking – Nalanda Institute of Computers, Thane – India 1989-1991 Higher Secondary Certification (HSC) – R.J.Jhunjhunwala College (Mumbai Board) – India 1989 Secondary School Certification (SSC) – St .Pius High School (Mumbai Board) – India CERTIFICATION

Chartered Institute of Purchase and Supply – CIPS (005671279)

Computer hardware and networking Technician.

ISO 9001: 2015 Certified internal auditor – TUV NORD.

ISO 9001:2008 Certified internal auditor.

EMS 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007 HSE internal auditor.

Fire Warden and Fire Fighting Course.

Lean Management Course

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