CAREER SUMMARY

• Executive Global Logistics Leader with 20+ years of experience and a proven background in supply chain management, strategic sourcing, procurement, and transportation, leveraging expertise to secure and deliver needed materials and services on time with robust cost savings

• Leveraged expertise to manage a $440M spending budget, utilizing strategic sourcing to deliver $16.3M in savings initiatives

• Negotiated and secured various critical contracts, including 4PL operations contracts totaling $26M and 3PL global heavy-weight air freight contracts worth $80M

• Provided strategic on-site project management, delivery, receipt, inventory, and warehouse management of globally sourced project equipment, successfully supporting 6.2K shipments totaling $1.2B

• Functioned at Nokia, providing program management concerning the telecommunications project providing Air Scale Upgrades, overseeing all functions related to material management, successfully executing 3 months ahead of schedule

• Successfully performed in 3 different business divisions, managing 8 projects as SME and liaison responsible for the review and presentation, as well as providing advisement for forecasting, risk management, budget, and data-based process improvements

• Led a team of 25 direct reports, including logistics specialists, overseeing shipments and leading negotiations for long-term rate agreements with ocean carriers and vessel chartering, generating almost $42M in savings

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

GE GAS POWER – NY

Global Logistics Sourcing Leader 2021 – 2022

• Responsible for standing up and leading the team for logistics sourcing, overseeing a team of 3 direct report Regional Managers with 25+ indirect reports, establishing the processes and procedures for global logistics sourcing, delivering quality logistics services to 6 different business segments

• Leveraged expertise to manage a $440M spending budget, utilizing strategic sourcing to deliver $16.3M in savings initiatives

• Performed high-level negotiations concerning global logistics service contracts supporting all modes, including air, land, ocean, warehouse, and customs brokerage

• Negotiated and secured various critical contracts, including 4PL operations contracts totaling $26M and 3PL global heavy- weight air freight contracts worth $80M

• Organized and facilitated the Global Logistics Commodity Supplier’s Conference for 2022, providing strategic dialogue with the top management of 45 suppliers

• Led strategic negotiations for FTL, FCL, LTL, warehousing, customs brokerages, parcel, and 3PL contracts, totaling over $50M

• Created and established a structured agenda based on the quarterly business review (QBR) with 6 global strategic suppliers, focusing on KPIs and 96% EDI compliance

GE GAS POWER/TGE – LA

Materials & Logistics Manager 2020 – 2021

• Provided strategic on-site project management, delivery, receipt, inventory, and warehouse management of globally sourced project equipment, successfully supporting 6.2K shipments totaling $1.2B

• Oversaw the operational management of 5 warehouses consisting of 45K sq. ft. each and 3 laydown yards of 850K sq. ft., successfully managing to deliver project execution 3 months ahead of schedule

• Responsible for the project management of 1.250K purchase orders consisting of critical project equipment, overseeing all aspects from order to successful delivery

• Developed and cultivated customer relationships, establishing and maintaining communication to expedite any needed problem- solving, as well as ensure product delivery on time and on budget Suranjoy Das

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• Supply Chain Management

• Logistics Management

• Materials Management

• Strategic Sourcing

• Team Leadership

• Project Management

• High-Level Negotiations

• Inventory Management

• Continuous Process Improvement

• Supplier Relationships

• Cost Reduction & Focus

• Global, Cross-Functional, & Executive

Collaboration

• Contract Management

• Lean Six Sigma Methodologies

• Procurement

• Land, Air, & Sea Transportation

CORE COMPETENCIES

BECHTEL/NOKIA

Materials & Logistics Manager 2018 – 2020

• Performed as a subject matter expert at Bechtel in Dover Plan, NY, migrating cost exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic, establishing efficient operations management to aggressively cut costs of more than $1.2M on heavy haul trucking operations

• Functioned at Nokia, providing program management concerning the telecommunications project providing Air Scale Upgrades, overseeing all functions related to material management, successfully executing 3 months ahead of schedule SAMSUNG ENGINEERING – SOUTH KOREA

General Manager, Logistics 2014 – 2017

• Oversaw a team of 6 logistics project managers, providing the successful management of all global logistics functions, defining the scope of work, and implementing 6 SOPs, 15 SLAs, 150 RFQs, 250 purchase orders, and administering over 20 sub- contracts for the organization

• Responsible for the service contracts totaling $35M, performing high-level negotiating, generating a 30% cost savings totaling

$12M for the Lotte MEG refinery project

• Performed detailed reviews of supplier invoices, ensuring the best possible terms and conditions supporting $23M in contracts

• Leveraged expertise to drive logistics project execution for 12 global hydrocarbon projects, successfully providing logistics services and ensuring compliance from proposal to fulfillment BECHTEL CORPORATION – US, CANADA, THAILAND, SAUDI ARABIA Procurement & Logistics Manager 2007 – 2014

• Successfully performed in 3 different business divisions, managing 8 projects as SME and liaison responsible for the review and presentation, as well as providing advisement for forecasting, risk management, budget, and data-based process improvements

• Performed data analysis and leveraged findings to develop and implement continuous process improvement and KPIs, driving a 12% increase in productivity and staff retention

• Delivered on-site projects management, including $330M in spend on LNG process modules moving from Thailand to Australia for a QCLNG project

• Oversaw the project procurement that included the management of 8 direct reports and a $240M budget consisting of goods and services, supporting the Iron Ore project located in Canada

• Responsible for expediting the delivery of 3 vital major electrical packages to the project site in Canada, successfully delivering oversized equipment through extremely icy conditions on time and on budget

• Managed a supply chain project for 950 globally sourced equipment, supporting the coal-fired power project in Wisconsin

• Facilitated strategic remote project management supporting $265M in spend, moving LNG process modules from Indonesia to Australia for the APLNG project

• Analyzed and approved over 2.5K supplier invoices for both goods and services, ensuring alignment with PO and sub-contract terms and conditions

• Leveraged expertise to deliver on-site project management and materials management of $180M worth of long-lead critical equipment, including conveyor system, GIS, and other project equipment from globally sourced locations to the Rio Tino project site in Labrador, Canada

• Directed the management of the challenging task of land transport for 2 heavy and oversized Power Transformers of 390MT each, traveling 1.450K miles from Houston to Ohio

GE POWER – US, HONG TOWN/TAIWAN, S. KOREA

Global Logistics & Materials Leader 1998 – 2007

• Led a team of 25 direct reports, including logistics specialists, overseeing shipments and leading negotiations for long-term rate agreements with ocean carriers and vessel chartering, generating almost $42M in savings

• Responsible for on-site end-to-end project material management supporting the Gas Power Plan rebuilding 8 units of a gas turbine rotors in Hong Kong

• Managed the inventory and labor for two 67.500K sq. ft. warehouses in Taiwan and three 50.400K sq. ft. warehouses in Korea, ensuring consistent on-time and on-cost delivery

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

ALSTOM POWER – Senior Materials Supervisor

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

SUNY, NY – M.SC., INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT SIX SIGMA YELLOW BELT CONTRACTS MANAGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS VESSEL CHARTERING HEAVY HAUL TRUCKING

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