Santhosh Mohan

It’s been 7.5 years of experience in procurement, in which over 5 years of that experience was in heading the procurement and store’s function, overseeing a value of over 13 million USD yearly.

In my current profile, I'm handling the entire supply chain function of Al Jazeera International, which is a facility management and catering company with a foot print across the MENA region.

Procurement Manger at AL Jazeera International Catering LLC., Abu Dhabi | January 2021 to present

• Maintain a 5% lenience on the procurement spend v/s annual budget of the organisation
• Ensure the smooth execution of tenders for the company's requirements of AED 24 million.
• Implement forecast planning to ensure key items are procured in a cost effective & efficient manner.
• Use robust contracts management disciplines, KPIs and SLAs to mitigate risk & ensure contract performance.
• Setup a resilient supply chain and ensure supplier performance as per company standards.
• Review Supplier pre-qualification criteria are followed and evaluate suppliers on a timely basis.
• Create dynamic conflict resolution models with all stakeholders.
• Ensure all PRQ are closed in the established timelines to ensure 100% stake holder satisfactions.
• Reduce dark spending and establish a B2B account for repeated cash purchases.
• Proactively evaluate the ERP systems and data bases to identify and eliminate gaps & suggest improvements.
• Reduced the turn-around-time to 3 days for enabling site and gained substantial cost reduction by becoming

SPOC for the project site team, sales, and administration teams for site enabling undertakings.

• Achieved a 95% hike in DMS implementations across the organization.

Lead Projects at Tata & Sons [TPSSL & TCE], Bengaluru | Aug 2016 to Dec 2020

• Applied local sourcing & reduced downtime by 18 % due to project location instability.
• Implemented stand-alone procurement & materials management software.
• Resolve any conflicts that arises to ensure the procurement & Supply are prioritized.
• Advise Clients on the interpretation of procedures for procurement & supply.
• Recognize requirements in order to actively reallocate resources to achieve 100% efficiency in stock.
• Create dynamic cost models that can be used to access cost & margins to as per the organization interests.
• Evaluate in-house procurement applications and advise the development team on system improvements.
• Review the data capture methods and analytics & advise developers on the required improvements.
• Source and issue contracts for site Enabling activity for the company’s developmental projects to USD 13 M
• Collaborate with stakeholders to recognize and manage the risks that can disrupt supply chains.
• Reduced capital investments & mobilization time for projects by developing vendor consortiums.
• Ensure that the code of ethics is followed in procurement to the highest standards.
• Evaluate the procurement and logistics ERP systems and data bases, and make recommendations to top management for data integrity, cost reduction, and increased transparency.
• Establish and maintain a project site stores for the all projects in the Indian region.
• Oversee the operation of the project site store and perform random audits
• Developed a dynamic productivity and cost model to track the remote working during the implementation of the company’s Business continuity plan.
• AI-powered data & trend analysis dashboard’s which enabled real time reporting.
• During the 2018 Kerala floods, TATA & SONS was the first on the ground for the HADR operations.

Jr. Exe at Muthoot Risk Insurance & Broking Services Ltd, Thiruvananthapuram | Aug 2014 to Mar 2016

• Send out RFQs and prepare comparisons for various General insurance products in accordance with internal client requests.
• Issue purchase order to insurance company’s
• Prepare and Submit Budget v/s Actual reports.
• Co-ordinate with 800 + Branches and there RFQ’s of the TN region of India.

• CIPS L4 | Pursuing
• Ethical Procurement & Supply | CIPS 2021
• MBA in Operations Strategy & Technology Management
• Bachelor of Computer Applications | MGU 201