PAVITHRA D

• Conduct comprehensive technical and commercial due diligence of new acquisition opportunities, including financial analysis, market research, and risk assessment.
• Coordinate a set of targeted diligence questions to assess the target company's commercial strengths, market positioning, customer base, and revenue drivers.
• Through the acquisition due diligence process, assess the technology risks associated with the integration and perform initial infrastructure and business management system requirements gathering and analysis.
• Evaluate the strategic fit of potential opportunities into project pipeline and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Provide subject matter expertise and consultation in acquisition program management (PM) lifecycle activities, in concert with sustainment engineering, P2P, logistics to the integrated planning team.
• Participate and contribute to the development and coordination of strategic acquisition planning and pre-award activities and documentation, including - Early Strategy and Issues Sessions (ESIS), Acquisition Strategy Panels (ASP), Statements of Objective, Statements of Work, Performance Work Statements, Requests for Information (RFI), Justifications and Approvals (J&A).
• Maintain and monitor internal data management and communications (including project trackers, closing, and financing checklists, etc.) to ensure project value is preserved throughout its life cycle.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, legal, finance, asset management and external partners, to ensure seamless project execution and to ensure post-closing contract and regulatory compliance.
• Plan integration strategies, realize and accelerate deal value, plan for an issue-free Day 1 experience and manage priorities across internal cross-functional teams.
• Lead process and system discovery, gap analysis and partner with the Business Systems team and other functional leaders on systems integration strategy.
• Define the metrics for successful integration by managing the delivery process, roles and responsibilities, operational norms, and compliance in the function.

Sourcing

• Create, maintain, and execute a multi-year sourcing strategies for several complex, projects and/or purchasing opportunities focusing on cost optimization, ensuring continuity of supply and/or services, and driving benchmarking and alignment across.

• Integrate business specifications and sourcing strategies for several complex purchasing areas into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes, models operationally efficient supplier management practices, and define the strategic oversight of multi-tier supplier selection.

• Manage, and drive improvements upon supplier evaluation frameworks, identify gaps or trends across supplier strategic business and performance reviews, and drives corrective actions.

• Partner with suppliers to drive innovation and improvement, transform operational capabilities, and proactively identify and manage risk.

• Evaluate procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors across categories, accounting for key stakeholder relationships and dependencies, analyzing root causes of issues, linking insights to improvement strategies, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements.

• Lead contract and price negotiation activities for one or more purchasing categories cross-functionally and ensures that price, capacity, and strategic business needs are met, while also reflecting cross-functional engagements with suppliers.

Compliance

• Apply an end-to-end understanding of procurement processes and policies, and the tradeoffs between the key suppliers to drive business impact by applying market intelligence to define, develop, and influence the adoption of channel strategies cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally that enable scalable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality, and timeliness of delivery.

• Lead decision making around the execution and evolution of various workstream processes, identify and seek solutions to compliance areas/gaps, and influence leadership to drive change internally and/or externally.

• Ensure adherence to policy, educate stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and drives the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues. Influence current and future policy direction as needed to mitigate risks across business units and enable suppliers to meet business requirements.

• Collaborate with Procurement stakeholders to ensure awareness of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, and to drive timeliness, accuracy, quality, and consistency across supply chain requests.

• Serve as subject matter expert on the SLA, milestones, and/or deliverables, and manage any escalations related to policy non-compliance.

• Leverage data to anticipate and mitigate risk and negative business impacts by ensuring compliance with agreed-upon terms, communicating delay potential to stakeholders, and driving the execution of contingency plans cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally as needed.

Contracts

• Identifies issues related to procurement requests and collaborates with business and engineering partners to proactively drive process and system improvements.

• Oversee price and procurement requests via workflow process or technology as applicable in support of product and service requirements, ensuring procedural compliance, and managing the resolution of highly complex pricing issues raised by other sourcing personnel.

• Create and deliver contract execution plans, defining control processes and approaches that drive consistent alignment with business requirements and support continuous improvements in the execution of contracts within and across organizations.

• Create robust negotiation strategies and cost targeting through understanding of market dynamics, benchmarking, and trends.
• Create business unit sourcing strategies to support the delivery of compute, storage, and network hardware to our worldwide network of Data Center.
• Lead the creation and definition of future technology directions for network systems and drive supplier technology roadmaps with internal cross-functional partners to ensure Cisco's architectural and technical requirements are met, as we employ new design models to increase the network efficiency, scale and reliability.
• Develop standard and customized REP/RFQ processes that drive optimal supplier selection and value.
• Conduct market research and plan the alternative supplier base (S/W, H/W, SaaS etc)
• Negotiate business T&C’s relating to payment terms, delivery terms, DPA, inventory strategies, lead time and pricing. Execute the contracts/amendments like SOWs, DPA, SDPA, MSA, MLA etc. • Advocate on alternate global supply sources, and more strategic SaaS players in the market.
• Conduct quarterly business reviews with external vendors and internal business.

• Define, develop, and establish new projects/programs that enable immediate business operation needs as well as support long-term priorities required for software and licensing distribution routes to market.
• Communicate new major customer affecting programs to both support resources and executive leadership.
• Responsible for ensuring projects meet timelines and cost commitments.
• Oversee project staff, including vendors, partners, and sub-contractors.
• Accountable for project/program KPIs such as: Cost, Quality, Business Impact, CSAT impact.
• Handle proposal evaluations and selection of new standards domains of strategic importance to organization.
• Manage project/program risks, create risk mitigation plans and setup governance to keep projects on track.
• Create status reports for stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Build/refine/automate processes, templates, instructions, playbooks, educational & mentorship material for the community.

• Monitor forecasts and quote as to identify changes and predict effects on supply chain activities.
• Develop and execute governance models to handle relationships of strategic suppliers that drive innovation, value, and competitive advantage.
• Identify prospective supply partners and lead sourcing engagements and competitive bidding (RFI, RFQ, and RFP)
• Provide regular updates to key stakeholders on commodity price and lead-time movements along with recommendations on relevant actions.
• Manage new supplier qualification process with the goal of improving quality, reducing cost and with better service and lead times.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure that products are compliant to all relevant standards and have all country certifications required for sale in the target markets.