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Aasheesh Mittal

Leads our digital procurement work in North America across multiple sectors, and is the global leader for procurement in transactions and M&A activity

Based in Washington DC, Aasheesh leads our work in digital procurement in North America and is also the global leader for procurement in transactions and M&A activity. Working across sectors and industries, Aasheesh helps companies find value in procurement through strategic sourcing and by transforming their operating models.

Recent examples of Aasheesh’s work include the following:

  • leading digital-procurement transformations with more than 20 clients across the aerospace, automotive, basic materials, consumer, distribution, food, industrial, high tech, and pharmaceutical sectors
  • leading McKinsey and client teams to transform strategic sourcing for direct and indirect categories, including commodities
  • designing procurement organizations and operating models for multiple clients to elevate the role and decision rights for procurement, and building capabilities for cost and economic analysis, negotiations, and more
  • building capabilities in multiple client organizations for cost and economic analysis, negotiations, and more
  • developing McKinsey’s “playbook” to capture procurement synergies in mergers, and leading clean teams with synergies ranging from $100 million to $1.2 billion with scope including premerger synergy assessment, postmerger value capture, business continuity, and organizational and operating-model design
  • developing McKinsey’s “playbook” to capture procurement synergies in mergers, including building the supplier collaboration program for a $12 billion company
  • implementing comprehensive programs including lean, supplier collaboration, demand transparency, specification optimization, and transportation collaboration with suppliers for multiple sourcing categories
  • conducting a company-wide transformation review for an automotive supplier to identify opportunities in manufacturing, supply chain, and procurement, in order to identify cost reduction opportunities in multiple procurement waves

Published work

Using M&A to transform procurement,” McKinsey & Company, March 2023

Past Experience

Samsung
Director of operations

Education

Harvard Business School
MBA

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
BTech, mechanical engineering