Chetan BHAMARE

Bio

International supply chain and sales professional with 3 years of experience in manufacturing and technology industry. Thorough knowledge of sales, support and procurement procedure with good strategic management and negotiations skills which aided to save average 9% for each refractory material group with the yearly budget management constraints. Efficiently handled different product and supplier analysis throughout my tenures. An expert in information technology with Microsoft products and VBA programming.

Currently

Works at:
Saint-Gobain
Location in:
Chalon-Sur-Saône, France

Chetan has worked/studied in

  • France
  • India

Chetan speaks

  • English
  • French
  • Hindi
  • Marathi

Chetan has experience in

  • Construction
  • Consulting
  • IT
  • Operations/Logistics
  • Technology

Work

2010 – present

International Purchasing Manager

Saint-Gobain , France
  • Roles:
  • Managed the centralized industrial purchasing portfolio from French subsidiaries (Projects in Russia, Germany, Argentina, US worth -20 M€).
  • Prepared and sent Request For Quotation (RFQ) via E-sourcing Platform, negotiated offers, contractual terms and finalized suppliers.
  • Developed and secured suppliers and managed supplier relationships, litigation and product non-conformity issues with suppliers and resolved different logistics issues.
  • Negotiated and finalized yearly sourcing supply agreements with suppliers.
  • Achievements:
  • Achieved yearly budget target with strategic procurement, prize negotiations, payment term negotiations with suppliers and meticulous financial planning.
  • Initiated strategic supplier analysis to broaden the supplier base and develop long term strategic supplier relations.
  • Negotiated and saved around 600,000 Euros on a purchase of 20 million Euros (With constraints of internal sourcing from India and China).
  • Developed a centralized comprehensive database in Microsoft Access extracting key components from SAP for all the refractory material purchases and implemented new applications in Microsoft excel and Access with VBA Macros which has improved the efficiency of purchasing portfolio to almost 30%.
  • Took initiative and developed reference prize database to define negotiation parameters before negotiation and facilitated coordination with previously uncoordinated entities within Saint-Gobain to achieve a conformed international standard for centralized purchasing operations.
  • Implemented strategic procurement for United States entity reducing the overall furnace construction cost by 20%.
2008
(Jan – Aug)

Member of Technical Support

AirTight Networks , India
  • Roles:
  • Acted as a key account executive for domestic and international customers and handled some key customer accounts for all kinds of issues (technical, sales and services) interacting in different time zones with salesforce utility.
  • Provided Market and Product Analysis and different ad-hoc reporting to the sales teams to streamline the sales strategies and coordinated extensively with teams within and outside entities to resolve different issues.
  • Achievements:
  • Developed and implemented website analysis with Application Engineer (IWA, Interesting Web Activities) to identify potential revenue generation analysis through corporate website. Later the program has been integrated into the support team to report to sales director.
  • Comprehensively tested and analyzed the flaws in the new beta launch for conformity enhancements.
2006 – 2007
(Sep – Sep)

Technical Support Engineer

vCustomer Services , India
  • Roles:
  • Acted as a first point of contact for North American customers for technical as well as services issues for Cisco products (Linksys).
  • Acted as a sales executive to sell Linksys services for out of warranty services.
  • Achievements:
  • Achieved one of the highest sales target for North American region for out of warranty Linksys services.
  • Maintained continuous high record of customer satisfaction index on technical issues.

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