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Saksham Dhama

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Senior Procurement Specialist at inDrive who delivered USD 900K+ in savings and automated sourcing with AI agents.

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At inDrive, I delivered USD 900K+ in direct savings and USD 600K+ in cost avoidance through sourcing and negotiations across APAC. I managed USD 60M+ in spend across 12+ markets and increased Spend Under Procurement Management from 25% to 68%.

I also deployed Claude-based AI agents that reduced average procurement turnaround time from 14 days to under 8, and built an AI sourcing architecture that reduced marketing tender cycle time by 15 days. Earlier, at Cisco, I built procurement analytics across USD 15B+ in global spend and developed automated ETL pipelines for category insights.

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Senior Procurement Specialist, APAC

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inDrive

Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Managed USD 60M+ in APAC spend, delivering USD 900K+ in direct savings and increasing procurement coverage from 25% to 68%. Led AI-driven sourcing automation and built Tableau dashboards for leadership decisions.

Strategic Sourcing Supplier Strategy Cost Optimization RFx Commercial Negotiation Source To Contract Source To Pay Spend Analytics Process Improvement SQL Python Tableau Tableau Prep Snowflake Excel AI Agents Miro

Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Program Manager

Cisco

Aug 2023 - Feb 2025 (1 year 6 months)

Developed supplier-funneling and spend analytics contributing to 40% growth in Technology-category savings. Built procurement analytics and automated ETL pipelines for global spend, supporting category-level sourcing and supplier strategy.

Spend Analytics SQL Python Tableau Tableau Prep Snowflake ETL Supplier Strategy Sourcing Analytics RFX Analysis Pricing Analysis Negotiation

Management Summer Intern

JSW

Apr 2023 - Jun 2023 (2 months)

Mapped procurement KPIs across 21 PR-to-PO stages and designed an exception-management dashboard for procurement governance. Identified data-extraction points and process improvements covering 75%+ of purchase requisitions.

Procurement Metrics Dashboard Design Process Improvement Data Extraction

Senior Analyst

Capgemini

Aug 2018 - Jun 2021 (2 years 10 months)

Designed and tested real-time embedded software and firmware for automotive applications. Optimized low-level software drivers and integrated I2C, SPI, and Serial interfaces, improving hardware interoperability and system performance.