Volvo (Swedish truck manufacturers mostly operating in Europe, North and South America and Australia) | Bengaluru

Experience Material cost Analyst- Controlling and Product Finance

• Spearheaded a 7-member cross-functional cost reduction workshop in France, generating ideas worth €150/vehicle in savings across Renault Trucks’ product lines
• Analyzed price variances in BOM across multiple components, identified root cause abnormalities, and implemented corrective actions saving €12,000 annually.
• Led a 2-member team to automate the BOM clean-up process using Microsoft Power Automate, improving process efficiency by 15% and freeing up analyst bandwidth.
• Strategized and categorized input timelines across roles for SCOS, covering 70% of total material costs and enabling structured cost forecasting.
• Forecasted Engine long block pricing on a monthly basis using Provision and Actual YTD data within the Volvo-Eicher JV framework.
• Assigned role of ‘Experienced MCE’ for single-handedly managing the highest number of ARVs in France with 100% on-time report delivery, outperforming peers across a cross-border team

Tata Motors Limited (India's largest automotive manufacturer, commercial and passenger vehicles) | Pune

Senior Manager Cost Engineering- Purchasing and supplier Quality

• Generated and syndicated cost reduction ideas worth ₹20 Cr by identifying and recommending an efficient alternate material through classical VAVE methodology
• Led a 12-member cross-functional team to conduct a Supplier Cost workshop, driving collaboration between design, purchasing, and production to identify cost reduction levers
• Conducted benchmarking workshops across four teams to create cross functional synergy, generating cost-saving ideas worth ₹50 Cr across vehicle programs
• Negotiated directly with suppliers on component pricing, achieving approximately ₹30 Cr in savings while maintaining quality and delivery standards
• Automated the Nylon Pipe costing model from MS Excel to an in-house application, saving 400 person-hours annually and improving costing accuracy
• Developed a Should Cost model to accurately estimate part costs for exhaust systems, air tanks, and other components, improving cost estimation accuracy by 80%
• Led development of an in-house automated should-costing tool that reduced cost estimation turnaround by 70%, built a historical cost database, and facilitated design-to-cost analysis for new sourcing decisions
• Collaborate closely with Vehicle Module Teams (VMTs) comprising members from the Engineering Research Centre (ERC), Purchase, Advanced Quality, Forward Model Quality (FMQ), and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure seamless execution of cost optimization strategies for new and existing programs

• Awarded Bronze Accolade by senior leadership at Tata Motors for leadership excellence and showing agility in VMT workshop and achieving cost targets.
• Accolade presented for displaying exceptional leadership behavior of #Motivating Self & Others.
• Accolade presented for displaying exceptional leadership behavior of #Leading Change

• Bachelors in Technology, Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar

• Core Member of Profile Committee for PGPX2026 Batch.
• Managed events as General Secretary of the Mechanical Engineering Society (MES), facilitating faculty-student communication and institutional coordination.
• Awarded Best Speaker in a Mock Parliament for structured argumentation and persuasion under pressure.
• Cleanliness drive on Shivgange trek and installed Dustbins as Volvo CSR activity