Pravin Shetty

Adaptable professional with extensive experience in Operations, Logistics and Procurement of Containers. Managing vessel/port operations, Landside operations. delivery commitments Procurement Projects and Vendor development. Equipped with exposure to operational processes, pricing, procurement & Vendor development. Detail-oriented and action-biased, excelling in collaboration with strong stakeholder management skills under tight deadlines.

• Successfully delivered the cost saving projects in UAE transportation & Contract Logistics.
• Streamlined rates transparency project to implement the SAPTMS project in the area. Awarded star award for the same.
• Successfully handled Spot project and implemented in Safmarine UAE Area.
• Played key role migration Cost Control, Equipment & Intermodal process of India, UAE & Saudi Arabia Intermodal processes.
• Received the ‘Award of Excellence’ in the year 2011, 2012.
• Visited Saudi Arabia & India as a process expert.
• Part of migration for the operational activities at Maersk Global Service Centre in Mumbai for Great Britain ports, North American Ports & Western Central Asia Inland Process.
• Part of across site’s Contingency Team and referred reliable resource.
• Received the ‘Award of Excellence’ in the year 2008 for successfully handling the Great Britain Migration of ports without hitting the Productivity and Accuracy.

• A.P Moller Maersk – Maersk, Assistant Procurement Manager- Landside Procurement UAE Area, 2022-09-01, present, Leading negotiations and managing complex procurement projects for landside business between 3 Million USD Annual tender and participate in Customer RFQ., Accountable for integrating Contract Management frameworks to ensure compliance, optimized cash flow cycle and scaling upwards/downwards with requirements ensuring capacity management., Focal for Contract template & Service Level Agreements between users and End Customer for watertight Contractual performance Management., Category Management for Leased, dedicated and Spot Trucking., Use of digital tools such as COUPA, Keelvar, SAPTMS, DOCUSIGN & IRONCLAD for analysis and incl. market best practices and competitive benchmarking in procurement process., Running Elaborate RFQ to strategize and segregate the Vendors for strategic relationship., Managing Supplier relationship and act as escalation point to ensure beneficial relationship development for long term gains.
• A.P Moller Maersk – Safmarine/ Maersk, Customer Experience Partner, 2014-12-07, 2022-08-31, Working as a 'Customer Experience Partner- UAE Agency Office'., Handled Global freight forwarders, BCO’s and Local champs., Ensure consistent end to end Customer Experience Delivery., Responsible for Customer satisfaction and all interaction with customer., Focus on Simplification initiatives, promoting Standardization, automation, and Digitization., Drive Spot Product in the UAE Area., Follow up on opportunities logged in Sales force. Creating new opportunities for key client’s basis named account customer., Follow up and successfully resolve disputes raised by the customer reached 95% NPS score survey for customer satisfaction., Pre-calling customers to confirm loadings and plan accordingly resulting to maximize the vessel loading.
• Maersk Global Service Centres, Capacity Coordinator for Capacity Management (Operations), 2011-05-01, 2014-12-05, Working as a 'Capacity Coordinator for South European Region'., Monitor all vessel Capacity to ensure that MSK Allocations are filled to budget capacity and analyse the capacity utilization / Loadable space., Optimize space and yield per vessel., Assist Alliance & Uptake Management in the space management & space control., Monitor and evaluate space availability from Maersk Line & partners., Monitor & recording the slot swap between MSK & Partners., Eliminate operational bottlenecks; recommend network changes and changes to connection patterns., Co-ordinating with Marine team and Berthing planning to check the move counts and Terminal productivity., Monitor and detect transport plan deviations and handle these accordingly., Plan, communicate and execute on contingencies leading to lowest possible effects on costs and service delivery issues., To keep a tab on the network utilization.
• Maersk Global Service Centres, Senior Executive for Inland Operation Transformation (Operations), 2010-12-19, 2011-04-30, Working as a 'Senior Executive in role of LOC Specialist for Western Central Asia Cluster'., Instrumental team member of India, Jordan, UAE & Saudi Arabia Intermodal process delivery., Analysing the Demand and Supply of the containers in Containers Depot’s & Terminals., Over All responsible for coordination with marketing team regarding customer order fulfillment, from receipt of the customer order to delivery to customer., Shipment planning and coordination with production for timely delivery to customer., Monitoring preparation of pre and post shipment documents and their submission to various agencies and agents., Drive evacuation plans in line with global flow plans and coordinate empty import together with location equipment desks, by using the appropriate in-house systems., Ensure daily, weekly and monthly management reporting through all channels is conducted timely and accurately., Doing Vendor Management and monitored payment for the suppliers as per the contracts., Act as a process expert for escalations, exception handling and contingency., Preparing on material balance every quarter to submit to custom office., Handled shipping documents timely and accurately & reported Import status and cost upon shipping done., Coordinate with different stakeholders and act as a Focal point of co-ordination for knowledge process migration of Container Fleet management & Cost Controller Process.
• Maersk Global Service Centres, Senior Executive for Cargo Control Execution (Operations), 2005-06-20, 2010-12-18, Worked as a 'Senior Executive in role of LOC Specialist for Northern Europe & Northern America Cluster'., Operations End 2 End Performance improvements from LOC & GSC perspective., Identifying actions required from LOC & GSC Endeavouring constantly to improve E2E timeliness Performance/ reducing bunker consumption., Keeping and co-ordinating with Customer service for the late gates containers which should be exported., Co-ordination with the Terminal authorities on Import and export containers., Maintaining schedules as planned and working in coordination with other departments., Solving customer’s queries online/Collecting feedbacks from customers., Act as key focal to operational activities related to Export and Import for ports in North Europe and North America., Maintain daily dialogue with customer service, Eastern Europe & North American Capacity and terminal operators.

• Playing Cricket
• Music
• Travelling