Ipsita Das

Head - Procurement
Kimberly - Clark

Experienced management professional with approx. 20 years of continued career progression accompanied by key accomplishments in highly competitive industries. The beneficiary of empowered work environments where broad responsibility and decision-making have been pushed down into the organization, resulting in exceptional exposure and work experiences.

Hands-on and leadership experience across a range of SCM functions including purchase, production planning, inventory management, customer service, forecasting, transportation and distribution with a diverse group of divisions, products, and services.

Well-developed business and supply chain understanding attained through diverse assignments in PPIC, Purchase, and business analysis at both staff and manufacturing locations.

Currently, leading the country procurement function, responsible for efficient sourcing of materials, goods and services adding up to ~US$ 70-80 Mn and delivering ~3-4% value efficiency YOY. Successfully led strategic drive of localization from 0% to 60% in the last 5 year bringing in significant competitive advantage for India business. This has been done through collaboration with cross functional teams of P&TD, manufacturing, Regional & Global teams to deliver benefits e.g., Cost savings, BCP readiness and cash flow management. Working closely with the Supply Chain Team for ensuring OTIF for product delivery, inventory targets and NPL as planned. An active participant of India SC Team ensuring end to end delivery along with my colleagues to deliver top line as well as bottom line to support India business and delivering common SC KPI’s of India team. As a part of core team delivered Greenfield project for India with on-time delivery in given cost to build and commercialize a future ready facility for Personal Care products with 50% gender diverse workforce. I have been a mentor to the team providing them perspectives of building a career in K-C using my own experiences.

Have worked in various companies across India like Jubilant (Noida), ITC Ltd (Kolkata) , Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (Hyderabad) , DSM- Sinochem (Gurgaon), Diversey – Sealed Air (Mumbai)  and now currently with k0mberly-Clark India Pvt Ltd (Mumbai).