“It has been a long journey for me at mjunction. Having completed an MBA in HR, I joined in September 2003 as an associate who later got promoted/absorbed as an mjunction employee in April 2007. Soon after becoming a permanent member of the organization I was transferred to the EPS department.”

Prior to joining EPS, I was in the administration department of mjunction and I have seen the company grow over the years. I have always tried to give my best for any assignment given to me with complete sincerity. My tenure in the admin department had been a great learning experience and source of personal development. To start with I was given small admin assignments, like travel bookings, daily admin related issues from where I later started taking care of the entire non-IT related procurements, which helped me to understand the nitty-gritty of procurement and has also helped me to carry out my current role in the EPS department with greater efficiency. During my early days in the company I got a lot of help and guidance especially from Korak Saha, Ujjal da, Dipanjan da, Vinay Verma, Linus Lobo, Ranga Rao, Rima di, Amlan da, Binny Matthews, Bishwanath Dass, Tapas da, Sanjib Mukherjee, Kalyan da (Admin dept, Tata Ryerson) and our own MD.

Rima di and I started the project of enrolling ourselves for the Air fare savings with an RC that Tata Sons, Bombay had. I used to be in constant touch with Mr Feroze Mehta from Bombay house, who extended full cooperation to us. I am sure that the current admin team is receiving quarterly incentives from various airlines.

For someone like me, who loved to do travel bookings for all executives, making bookings for Binny Matthews was always a challenge. May be it was just his luck that car drivers missed him out invariably. The travel arrangements for Sanjit da, Linus, Ujjal da were probably the easiest and effortless.

Those were the days when we did not have to take an appointment to meet the MD. More often than not we would gate-crash into his room, to which he never complained and always gave a good hearing to each of our issues, irrespective of whether it was an associate or an employee.
My most important phase in the admin department was under the watchful eyes of Rajarshi Chattopadhyay, whom I lovingly call "BOSS or RC". He made me realise that I had much more in me than what I thought about myself. A number of initiatives were undertaken by the department during this period, some of which included travel control and savings on insurance. Thanks to RC, I got to play a crucial role in implementing these initiatives. The fact that he stood behind me and egged me on, encouraged me to move a step further and then again a step further. Of course, the constant support from Samrat, Surajit and Mousumi as also the cooperation received from Tata Steel admin executives with whom I still share an excellent rapport, has played a key role to make my stint in the admin department a successful one.
Presently, I am in the EPS BU, where I was given a warm welcome. The support provided by all my colleagues and superiors is helping me learn the art of procurement. It's great to be a part of the EPS BU, the Bells house MJ family and also to be seated, in that particular order.