Mohamed Mahmoud, Central Procurement Manager for 5 Branches

Mohamed Mahmoud

Central Procurement Manager for 5 Branches

Egyptian Language Schools

Location
Egypt
Education
Diploma, Diploma in procurement and supply Chain
Experience
15 years, 5 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 5 months

Central Procurement Manager for 5 Branches at Egyptian Language Schools
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2017 to January 2021

• Strategic sourcing of services, materials, and commodities that may involve market research, procurement due diligence, customer utilization analysis, requirements and scope development.
• Development of strategic plans to identify and source alternative materials providing equivalent or superior performance with same or decreased cost.
• Develop, administer, and negotiate supply agreements/contracts, manage supplier relations, and performance to ensure all identified agreements are upheld.
• Develop, communicate, and implement effective procurement strategies that support short, mid, and long-term growth objectives that affect continual development of business and services.
• Seek continuous value improvement of the overall efficiency of the supply chain process.
• Travel to suppliers; evaluate supplier operations, capabilities and limitations.
• Assess and forecast market conditions, and availability of materials.
• Obtain and clarify technical issues relating to materials.
• Provide expertise on material pricing (both current and future).
• Manage pre-shipment samples and supplier certifications.

Supply Chain Manager at Arte Casa
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2011 to January 2017

• Strategic sourcing of services, materials, and commodities that may involve market research, procurement due diligence, customer utilization analysis, requirements and scope development.
• Development of strategic plans to identify and source alternative materials providing equivalent or superior performance with same or decreased cost.
• Develop, administer, and negotiate supply agreements/contracts, manage supplier relations, and performance to ensure all identified agreements are upheld.
• Develop, communicate, and implement effective procurement strategies that support short, mid, and long-term growth objectives that affect continual development of Kemin business and services.
• Seek continuous value improvement of the overall efficiency of the supply chain process.
• Travel to suppliers; evaluate supplier operations, capabilities and limitations.
• Assess and forecast market conditions, and availability of materials.
• Obtain and clarify technical issues relating to materials.
• Provide expertise on material pricing (both current and future).
• Manage pre-shipment samples and supplier certifications.
• Ensure communication and expectations are made to suppliers and the business case is understood.

Marketing & communication senior specialist at Diamond Food Machines
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2007 to December 2009

• Analyzing the market, including competitors and consumers.
• Assist in formulating marketing plan/strategy.
• Executing marketing strategies and campaigns.
• Measuring effectiveness of marketing strategies using surveys, number of leads generates as well as other measures.
• Monitoring and arranging the distribution and production of promotional materials
• Coordinating with and reporting to managers to carry out campaigns.
• Acting as liaisons between the media, suppliers, and clients.
• Start a company Newsletter to be distributed internally and externally.
• Continuously updating the company website with news, stories, etc.
• Prepare and managing the designs in the company's ads (Directory - ad campaigns - mailing) to push and promote according to marketing mix.
• Attending and organizing sales promotional events and exhibitions.
• Interface with customers, management, co-workers and vendors, on contracts, contract support and administration.
• Prepare estimates, proposals and bids, including vendor pricing, coordination with necessary departments and management, utilizing company estimating system and process.
• Prepare strategies for each potential project and follow.
• Assist in developing customer presentations on product services and conduct presentations. Make customer presentations.
• Obtain bid results on all projects.
• Transfer sold project data into project management system.
• Support Project Management team’s efforts to manage sold projects.
• Travel up to 60%of the time.
• Perform site surveys as necessary when dealing with existing site conditions that warrant a survey.
• Attend pre-bid conferences, job-site and customer meetings.
• Plan and track project schedules and equipment deliveries, as necessary.
• Collect market data as required.
• Maintain files of active, pending and sold projects.
• Perform other job functions as assigned.

Education

Diploma, Diploma in procurement and supply Chain
  • at CIPS - The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply
  • October 2020

Level 4 Diploma in Procurement and supply chain

Diploma, Certificate in procurement and supply operations
  • at CIPS - The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply
  • January 2019

Level 2 CIPS Certificate in procurement and supply operations

Master's degree, Marketing.
  • at EMAK
  • November 2011

Professional International Certificate in Marketing.

Master's degree, Human Resource Management.
  • at Cairo University.
  • June 2009

Professional Diploma in Human Resource Management.

Bachelor's degree, Business Managment
  • at Al Mansoura University
  • May 2004

Faculty of Commerce, Department of Business Managment .

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Office
Website Updating
Marketing Mix
Adobe Creative Suite
Ability to learn & use any program or application quickly & professionally.
Microsoft Office software & the Internet
English
Creative Skills
MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, MS Project, Project Workbench and Lotus Notes
Quantitative Analysis
Adobe Photoshop

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Training Course on Time Management. (Training)
Training Institute:
Itqan for Training and Development
Date Attended:
October 2010
Training Course on Buyer Focused Selling. (Training)
Training Institute:
Logos International Training and Consulting.
Date Attended:
June 2010

Hobbies

  • Swimming
  • Hunting