SR. PROCURMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER
AL FUTTAIM CONTRACTING GROUP
Total years of experience :20 years, 3 Months
Plan, establish, execute, and finalization of all procurement and supply chain strategies for centralized procurement in cooperation with the corporate in UAE for the purchase of all construction, building materials and CAPEX goods and services throughout the entire groups and projects in KSA. Define purchasing recommendations that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders in UAE. Manage and monitor Procurement operations for assigned business unit, its offices, and jobsites. Maintain regular communication with the business unit functional and project Procurement Managers to maintain knowledge of projects’ progress in order to apply required management direction, or corrective action, while meet regularly discipline and project managers for the same purpose. Identify, and qualify potential new vendors, suppliers and subcontractors in order to secure more cost effective sources for all raw/high finishes materials and to maintain long-term relationships with subcontractors, vendors, trading companies and distributors. Acquire “all Civil, Arch, and MEP materials within budget and facilitating communication between the entire projects and its providers in order to deliver products and services according to plan. Prepare, maintain and review purchasing files and records, price lists, the status of requisitions, contracts and orders, locate suppliers, approve bills for payment, monitor subcontractor performance, calculate the cost of orders, ensure invoices are charged to the appropriate accounts, and monitor inventory transfer forms for bookkeeping records. Manage a team that develops and delivers purchasing and inventory reports, required documentation, and quality reports to ensure all materials need to request comply with projects’ specifications where international and local codes are met within budget and on schedule. Manage and coordinate the data of all of KSA companies’/branches requirements and for ensuring that related activities are performed efficiently, effectively to ensure policy and processes implemented across the organization comply with procurement regulations. Analyze and evaluate the organizations overall procurement trends (spend analysis / categories) to identify the high spend areas to identify the potential areas of control and develop the options to minimize the costs and take proper measures. Liaise with department managers to understand their current requirements and forecast to develop the procurement plan with cost estimates and delivery schedules as per the annual budget. Provide support in client contract negotiations to give Procurement input, communicate Procurement capabilities and anticipate Procurement requirements and staffing. Communicate with the project team and the client in order to execute the procurement requirements of the project within the time, budget and Company and client quality standards and procedures. Identify training needs and direct application of training programs to ensure that the assigned Procurement personnel have satisfactory knowledge of their level of work to perform. Participate in the recruitment and selection process and employees’ performance management issues. Develop and execute negotiation strategies that minimize potential losses and benefit the healthcare organization’s financial performance. Maintain deadlines on deliverables and communicate on an ongoing basis with business partners and internal clients about contractual issues. Review contractual performance of both parties to ensure compliance with terms and to identify conflicts or changes requiring resolution at contract renewal.
Managed daily operations of the department with a primary focus on driving department growth, and develop procurements’ plans and procedures starting from MR to coordinate time delivery of purchases and ensure implementation of procurement policies. Assessed requests for Civil, Architectural, Mechanical and services by ensuring that they are allowable under limitations, specifications and budgets of each project. Prepared spreadsheets and maintain databases to track certain expenditures. Researched and evaluated suppliers in the region based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production capabilities as well as the reputation and history. Defined and managed key supplier relationships to deliver breakthrough performance in cost, service and quality, including technical input to negotiations on contracts for the best price over contracted services and coordinate with selected vendors of supplying and delivery of purchased items. Ensured all materials need to request comply with projects’ specifications where international and local codes are met. Contributed to tendering team and mobilization team in developing procurement plan. Monitored performance of procurement team in Areas and support their negotiations.
Selected Achievements:
Nominated by GM in Qatar to evaluate Procurement and Estimation department’s performance and reorganize the department structure to be able retains the overall growth of the company.
Developed new business relationships, generate and negotiate overseas suppliers, factories and Presenting AMC and its projects to potential vendors through direct communication in face to face meetings, telephone calls and emails.
Provided operational support to facilitate the ongoing project needs for procurement, rescuer time frames and resources to increase and gain profit.
Reorganized department process and procedures to determine optimum staffing levels and to maximize documents cost savings, purchased requisition turnaround and number of POs issued.
Managed and handled the procurement of local and foreign procurements processes of value more than SR 500 million according to Aramco and QP standards and requirements and achieved additional cost saving to the overall project budget.
Provided commercial governance for complex bids and project implementation relating to long term support contracts.
Managed the bid and proposal for Affordable Housing Project, in Iraq that consists of the construction of 4 No. turnkey, enclosed model cities with all infrastructure works, comprising 10, 000 affordable units per development site (40, 000 units in total for the 4 sites- two in Baghdad and two in Basrah), and develop a long term professional relationship with Frank Ennis & Associates Architectural and PWC.
PROCUREMENT MANAGER
Managed and Prepared purchase requisitions, approve and issues purchase orders in accordance with company policy and negotiated terms and conditions. Responsible for planning, developing and buying materials, spare parts, supplies and
CONTINUED…
equipments in a timely and cost effective way; timely manner while maintaining appropriate quality standards and specifications and frequently developed expertise to support growth for new projects. Liaised with Account Department to ensure accurate and timely payment of invoices, as necessary for the business with the supplier. Analyzed prices and conduct cost benefit analysis in order to provide cost effective procurement solutions to the organization and developed tender cost summaries including equipment, material and labor calculations for final approval.
Selected Achievements:
Coordinated with overseas suppliers, international projects & logistics to ensure timely receipt and issue of materials.
Played key role to identify new opportunities and to win projects with value of $ 30, 000, 000 in new territories such as Sudan, Djibouti, Bulgaria, and Chad.
Evaluated suppliers and negotiated best prices and conditions to award contracts and to co-ordinate with Legal Department to develop transparent, effective and commercial contracts/agreements in more than 6 countries at once.
Succeed to change the procurement management; to be decentralized in all projects overall the world.
Led a team of more than 50 from engineers, labors, administrators ….ect. in different territories overall the world at the same time.
Enhanced the overall competencies of construction’s procurement department to assist in carry out more than four projects at once, with a value of $ 150 million of each in different territories.
Played key role to define and to initiate projects, and assign Project Managers to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance at client level.
Established proposal database containing final versions of all proposals submitted, and projects pipeline to express the updated status and values of all proposal.
Succeed to register GCC as a main contractor for all UN and USA Army projects overall the world, while focusing on the Middle East area.
EGYPTIAN CEMENT COMPANY - A COMPANY OF LAFARGE 2005 to 2006
Egypt
The Egyptian Cement Company is the second largest cement plant in the world. It is capable of producing 10 million tons of gray cement annually. ECC has become a subsidiary of Lafarge Building Material Holding in 2009.
PROJECTS MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION ENGINEER
CONTINUED
Prepared and reviewed budgets, time, cost, and labor estimates for projects, or services, and applying specialized methodologies, techniques and assisted overseas plants in implementing maintenance procedures, helped to reduce the company wide maintenance budget. Contractual advice and guidance to the project manager throughout the project life cycle and managed and supervised re-measurement work. Managed formal communications from a contractual perspective (internal and external) and contractual approvals as required (procurement, subcontracts) . Updated projects schedule as per customer requirements through interfacing with the PMT Manager, and various Team Members.
* Implemented project management and disciplines in the areas of scheduling, quality control, communication management, cost management and procure management.
* Managed the co-ordination between the plant, processes, consultants, contractors, and client to successfully install and commission the fifth cement production line, which was cost around $ 300 million.
* Managed the co-ordination between contractors, client, and consultant to release the RFP and to award the technical office building project inside the plant with a total value of $ 20 million.
* Coordinated multi-site work flow processes through procurement, shipping and receiving, staging, and release organizations.
CONSOLIDATED CONTRACTORS INTERNATIONAL COMPANY 2004 to 2005
Egypt
At the end of 2004, CCC's total revenues were in excess of U.S. $2.1 billion dollars, and workforce of 69, 000 employees, composed of more than 60 nationalities, in almost every country of the Middle East & Africa.
PROJECTS ESTIMATION ENGINEER
Started to Work at QA/QC department, and promoted to perform work as Estimation Engineer Sheraton Heliopolis Extension Project in Cairo Egypt $ 100 million. Led to prepare the complete cost of bid after analyzing and estimates whole tender and compiling in accordance with different discipline to evaluate the total cost of the project. Analyzed and coordinated specifications, drawings and suppliers quotations and preparing technical comparative statements. Oversee various construction activities and their expenditure on a monthly basis for invoices and reports purpose. Conducted rate analysis for items purchased. Prepared subcontracts evaluation statement & contractual claims
* Managed all costs related to Sheraton project from the initial calculation to final figures and reduced the cost while achieving the client satisfaction and consultant requirements.
* Prepared all variation orders and get it approved from clients & Consultants.
* Assisted procurement to allocate best supplier to increase the profit.
MASTER OF BUISNESS ADMINSTRATION (MBA), 2012 General and Strategic Management, Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, Netherland.
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING, (B.SC), 2004 CIVIL DEPARTMENT Zagazig University, Shoubra Cairo, Egypt