Prashant Hegde

Prashant Hegde is a seasoned professional with a strong background in global sourcing, strategy development, and negotiation.

He excels in supplier relationship management, contracts management, RFx processes, and supplier selection, bringing extensive expertise in supplier market intelligence and risk management.

With a focus on stakeholder relationship management, he serves as a strategic spend business advisor, adept at outsourcing and sourcing project management.

His career highlights include acquisition company integration, procurement transformation, and shared services programs such as P2P.

Prashant's skills extend to procurement process design, improvement, policy implementation, and controls.

Having worked in challenging business environments, he offers guidance on business spend and strategic procurement portfolio management to deliver value to customers.

He has a strong managerial background, managing department budgets, staff planning, recruitment, performance management, and staff training and mentoring.

Key spend categories under his management include IT, networking, software, labor, marketing, and professional services.

Prashant holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India and has studied Industrial and Production Engineering at Bangalore University.

His extensive professional experience includes roles such as Senior Manager, Global IT Sourcing at Amazon, Senior Manager, Global Corporate Procurement at Amazon, Procurement Manager at Cisco, and Global Sourcing Manager at IBM, among others.

He has also held positions at renowned companies like GE Healthcare and IFB Ind.Ltd.