Surya Selvan

Assistant Manager of Direct Procurement in Global Business Services of Flex for 9+ years with passion to drive continuous process improvement implementations. Certified as Green Belt 7 years back (2019) and Black Belt (2026) by Flex for the significant contribution to the Flex Organization in terms of cost savings, cycle time reduction, metrics improvement and FTE optimization. Winner of Global Recognition "TOP 30 Under 30 RISING SUPPLY CHAIN STAR" from ISM competing with talented professionals across Organizations worldwide.

Highly skilled in problem solving; an action-oriented, results-driven professional.

Assistant Manager at Flex (2024-12 – 2026-06)

• Lean Green Belt certified by Flex in 2019
• Conducted over 611 training hours, leading Lean Enterprise knowledge sharing sessions & mentoring 10+ GBs to certification.
• Lead 26 large deal transformation initiatives & facilitated 10 global projects. Lead Enterprise level global project initiatives from Executive leadership with direct reporting to VP.
• Delivered total cost savings of $266k in scrap reduction and savings of 25 head count cumulative outcome from 40+ process improvements implemented.
• Demonstrated mastery of Lean tools, Kaizen facilitation, and cross-functional leadership across multiple functions. Drove process improvements, transformation initiatives across APAC, US, Mexico regions. Directly managed head count of 14 and indirectly managed head count of 234.
• Authored 2 Lean white papers and presented the results in Black Belt forums.
• Reporting, Insights & Dashboards - Owned, maintain and publish various dashboards at defined frequency of daily/monthly/quarterly as applicable.

Team Lead at Flex (2021-09 – 2024-11)

Senior Subject Matter Expert at Flex (2021-04 – 2021-08)

Specialist at Flex (2019-07 – 2021-03)

Senior Analyst at Flex (2017-04 – 2019-06)

B.E. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering – Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering (2012-08 – 2016-04)

12th Std in Tamil Nadu - State Board – Sri Sankara Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School (2011-06 – 2012-04)

10th Std in Matriculation – Sri Sankara Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School (2009-06 – 2010-04)