Amjad Sulaiman  , Assistant Procurement Manager

Amjad Sulaiman

Assistant Procurement Manager

Alghanim Industries

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecom Engineer
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Assistant Procurement Manager at Alghanim Industries
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since October 2020

- Supervise and manage team with 3 Procurement Engineers, 1 Buyer and 1 Administrator for F&B : Costa and
Wendys projects, Retail Projects such: xcite and Safat Home, Facility and Maintenance Requests.
- Attend weekly meeting with costa international and wendy international to align with procurement update,
catalogues, design, cost optimization in terms of logistics and agencies.
- Prepare Procurement Monthly report & Track Project Progress, raise risks such delivery delay/pending
Requests/etc with concerned department.
- Monitor KPI for the teams and continuous improvement from the reports extracted by PRF system(power apps),
SAP, Tablue, etc.
- Review, validate and approve PRFs/PORs received from requesters/Buyers by PRF system.
- Publish tenders with contractors (Fit Out), handling Clarification meeting with contractors, Online Bidding,
Price comparison and Cost Analysis, result report for supplier selection with proper documents and justification.
- Negotiations with Sole vendors approved/selected by Costa and Wendys International for different aspects
such:cost, delivery, quality concerns from Business Unit feedback, Bulk Orders etc.
- Support Procurement Director for sourcing with different vendors from the market applies for Prodcut specs as
per Costa/wendys International.
- Follow up Pending Payment/invoices for the vendors in coordination with Finance, Warehouse, project team

Contracts and Procurement Lead at Kuwait Resources House (KRH)
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • September 2019 to September 2020

- Negotiating contract agreements for products and services with vendors.
- Act to effectively manage and administer contracts through subordinate staff.
- Identify problems, develop solutions and make effective decisions.
- Liaise with stakeholders such legal, finance, end user and procurement for contracts reviews.
- Use CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) tool for contract review with stakeholders through digital e-flow,
archive active contracts.
- Support the procurement team in undertaking due diligence of suppliers and ensure that new suppliers are
recorded and registered on business systems.
- Proceed all local purchase orders in SAP system & arrange for delivery.
- Develop and maintain a supplier contract database.
- Work together with the team to gather relevant data, analyze, draw conclusions and make recommendations
regarding procurement activities, projects customer communication.
- Follow up on the payments as an intermediate between finance team and vendors
- Support procurement function in harmonizing process and procedures.
Following up and ensuring that the supplier is shipping the required items specifications and sending the correct
shipping documents.
- Contracts Review & Negotiations with Vendors .
- Prepare Procurement Reports by Fleet Management System ( FMS ), Monitoring and Updating records for
Lease and Purchased Fleet System .
- Handling Contracts and Payment with Properties / Building`s Landlords, Facility Procurement for all Real Estate
Requirement include not limited : Indoor Construction, Lease Contracts, Furniture, Electrical, Mechanical, etc.

Projects Procurement Manager at Huawei Technologies Kuwait Co. WLL
  • Kuwait - As Salimiyah
  • July 2015 to August 2019

Contributed to the development of the procurement strategy and associated plans to meet delivery,
quality, cost and commercial requirements in line with the company policy.
- Identified and implemented appropriate improvements to the procurement system.
- Sourced and procured Materials & Service for Telecom, mechanical, electrical and civil projects,
both locally and internationally for Telecom Rollout and Maintenance Projects for Huawei.
- Accurate and timely quotation management for control and on time delivery.
- Effective cost analysis & Defining Target Price System Mechanism for Projects.
Excellent in Presentation for Strategy, Result & Business Management Decision Points with Procurement Management -
- Committee Decision Makers Members .
- Consistent with procedures and work instructions.
- Review, analyze and summaries purchase requests for accuracy and approvals.
- Negotiation with Suppliers for Pricing, Payment Terms, Contract Terms to achieve Company Targets.
- Handling Commercial Bidding and TCO (Total Cost Ownership) Bidding with Commercial and Non Commercial
Evaluation Criteria.
- Handling Special Scenario Purchase like: Customer Appointed Suppliers and Sales Bound Suppliers.
Support Solution and Sales Team in Pre Bidding Projects Pricing with Customers.
- Frequently Update Benchmark Prices and Price comparison Records.
- Handling Supplier Relationship Management like sponsor meeting and Quality Management System periodically,
Supplier Performance Evaluation & Supplier Portfolio Management which includes Certain Checklist and Records
update to follow up supplier Quality.
- internal Control Financial Report (ICFR) follow up to ensure Procurement To Pay (P2P) Cycle
without overdue amount and paid on time for Suppliers.
- Qualification for New Suppliers, added Category, Official Supplier and Simplified based on Projects
Requirement and Resource Pool Increase in case of service or Materials Suppliers increase to achieve
company targets. .
- Generating & Reviewing Contract Terms and Conditions with Internal Departments like : Legal,
Finance, Project Team . follow Up Amendment Contracts, Renewal, Termination extension, etc.
- Liaison with all departments including and not limited to Finance, Legal, Project Team, HR, Admin, etc.
- Familiar with ERP oracle Procurement System and eflow processes with IT software System.

Telecom Projects Manager at Shabakkat Cellular
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • April 2005 to June 2015

For Ooredoo / Kuwait Project :
- Leading 8 TI Engineers / 30 Technicians & Sub Contractors For SRAN Ericsson Rollout SWAP
project in Kuwait with Rollout 409 Sites for OoredooOperator.
- Operation & Maintenance for Operator Network Elements like : BSC, Transcoders, BTS &
Microwave of NOKIA & ERICSSON.
- Fix Radio Network Faults & Performance degradations, Closing / escalate Trouble Tickets with
NOC monitoring Team .
- Commissioning, integration & Maintenance for Nokia 2G BTS (Ultra Site & Metro Site) and 3G
Node-B ( Supreme & Flexi).
For DU-NSN North UAE project :
- Handled RNC/BSC/TCSM Nokia Commissioning & integration, Commissioned 3 TCSM3i in IMPZ & Abu Dhabi
Musaffah, Commissioned RNC V3 in Um Suqaim, Migration Project from Old TCSM2E to New TCSM3i .
- Following Shelter Maintenance for Alarm System and Power.
- MW Alignment & Commissioning for TN Ericsson for 6p&20p.
- Using Ericsson TEMs after Site On-Air for testing Calls, TRx power values, Inter & Intra Hand Over, Probe &
Assistant Probe ( Huawei) for DriveTest.
- Familiar with Test & Calibration tools like: Site Master ( Anritsu & Bird), Power meter ( Bird), Frequency Counter
(Pendulum) &BER
For ZAIN-NSN Iraq Project:
• Remotely Support for more than 100 Sites in North Iraq for MTC Atheer Project Handling
installation, commissioning & Integration for 2G Nokia BTS . Installation & Documentation for
TCSM & BSC 3i .
• Periodic SW backup execution.
• Investigations major outages.
• Remotely Create Data Base, Integrate & Troubleshoot for BSCs Nokia 3i In Kirkuk & Tikrit in
Iraq for MTC Atheer.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecom Engineer
  • at Jordan University
  • February 2005
High school or equivalent, Scientific stream
  • at Najat school
  • July 2000

92.6 % scientific stream

Specialties & Skills

Integration
Installation
Commissioning
Materials
BSS & Electrical Troubleshooter

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMI-PMP® (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2020
CIPP/CIPM® (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2023