GANGADHARAN N
Summary
Focused procurement manager who effectively serves as the first point of contact for vendors, other departments, and multiple locations. Adept at successfully solving complex problems and collaborating with cross-functional departments and personnel. Highly creative with 11 years experience in purchasing, as well as previous 12 years experience in accounting. Results-oriented and solution-focused professional. Possesses an insatiable drive to achieve and exceed goals. Highly skilled in problem solving, maintaining accuracy, and troubleshooting issues with speed and efficiency.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Buyer
National Grid
01.2011 - Current
- Lead Buyer, including machined parts to build automated equipment
- Maintain efficiency percentage of 96.7%.
- Coordinate logistics for $3.4 million per year operations.
- Rank as one of top five people for problem-solving within company.
- Develop 20+ executive presentations and reports per year to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement.
- Help direct all phases of lean office management projects, from engineering to purchasing and manufacturing.
- Read and interpret AutoCad drawings
- Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, and aftermarket.
- Participate in cross-functional teams.
- Maintain productive relationships with vendors.
- Solve diverse supply chain problems in timely manner and manage supply chain.
- Review, negotiate and finalize contracts, as well as renegotiate key contracts.
- Contact location managers and department supervisors to assess requirements.
- Generate monthly and yearly reports on purchasing operations for senior management.
- Establish clear lines of communication between business and vendors.
- Coordinate distribution processes.
- Procure materials for special projects.
- Maintain regional stock levels.
- Travel to national business locations and vendors.
- Create purchase orders and perform monthly reconciliation of open purchase orders.
- Monitor logistics for bottlenecks.
- Write standard operating procedures for department.
- Develop productive relationships with vendors.
- Assess areas of service concern and develop improvement plans, as well as maximize operational effectiveness within purchasing and procurement.
- Draft professional memoranda and business correspondence within company and with vendors.
Senior Buyer
Crane Co.
08.2006 - 10.2010
- Repeatedly recognized for top performance through promotions following superior performance and demonstrated ability to quickly learn and master complex concepts. Established an accomplishments-driven career highlighted by promotional advancement from earlier positions to increasingly responsible positions.
- Established, monitored, and maintained the automated systems associated with purchasing, such as EDI (electronic data interface), Vensys (vendor warehouse system), and purchase order printing, which was linked to the MRP (materials requirement planning) system.
- Performed business intelligence on behalf of the company to assess distributor product priorities.
- Trained other buyers within the company.
- Maintained the inventory and item database.
- Documented all purchasing training processes and wrote standard operating procedures.
- Calculated annual standard cost for all purchased raw material items for finance.
- Communicated with vendors regarding inventory needs.
- Wrote and expedited purchase orders.
- Maintained key item stock levels.
- Oversaw daily operations of purchasing department at multiple locations.
- Developed and improved vendor relationships.
- Negotiated prices to maintain profit.
- Prepared spreadsheets detailing item information.
- Researched and analyzed national pricing trends.
- Generated monthly and yearly reports on purchasing operations and standard costing.
- Early positions: Trained other accounts payable associates.
- Early positions: Performed duties as fleet administrator, including negotiating contracts with Chrysler.
- Early positions: Researched and resolved accounts payable discrepancies.
- Early positions: Composed effective accounting reports summarizing accounts payable data.
- Early positions: Posted receipts to appropriate general ledger accounts and balanced monthly general ledger accounts to accurately record cost and month end accruals.
- Early positions: Reviewed all expense reports for accuracy and proper expense disclosure.
- Early positions: Successfully implemented new technologies and process automations to encourage continuous improvement.
- Early positions: Coded and entered at least 100+ invoices each day into the in-house accounting software.
- Early positions: Supervised invoice processing, purchase orders, expense reports, and credit memos.Reconciled vendor statements and handled payment complaints or discrepancies.
Early Positions
American Woodmark Corporation
11.1999 - 08.2006
Education
Associate of Science - Business Administration
Lord Fairfax Community College
Stephens City, VA2002
Associates Degree -
Certificates - Business Administration and Accounting
Valley Training College
Stephens City, VABachelor of Arts Program - Business Administration
Shepherd University
Shepherdstown, WVSkills
- Organizational leadership
- Procurement expertise
- Supply chain management
- Contract negotiations
- Vendor relations
- Accounting procedures consultant
- Inventory management
- Strategic planning
- Market research
- Excellent communication skills
- Staff development
- Project optimization
Timeline
Lead Buyer
National Grid
01.2011 - Current
Senior Buyer
Crane Co.
08.2006 - 10.2010
Early Positions
American Woodmark Corporation
11.1999 - 08.2006
Associate of Science - Business Administration
Lord Fairfax Community College
Associates Degree -
Certificates - Business Administration and Accounting
Valley Training College
Bachelor of Arts Program - Business Administration
Shepherd University
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