Sowmya S. Harish

Sowmya Harish serves as Vendor Management Advisor at Merchants Bank of India in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she leads the vendor management department and built the procurement and vendor management team from the ground up. She brings 21 years of experience in sourcing, procurement, and vendor management, having begun her career in 2006 as a procurement specialist at IBM and advanced through positions as a sourcing buyer, sourcing manager, commodity manager, and procurement and sourcing consultant with Pipro and Infosys, where she also gained hands-on experience deploying procurement tools for clients worldwide. After moving to the United States in 2017, she managed the IT sourcing team at PwC before joining Merchants Bank of India nearly four years ago. Harish earned a Master's in Business Administration in 2006 and possesses project management skills. She attributes her success to the principles of life instilled by her parents and upbringing, values trust, honesty, integrity, and kindness above all, and advises embracing change as the only constant while maintaining confidence, open-mindedness, and enthusiasm for learning.