Head of Indirect Procurement & Procurement Excellence at Americana
Americana, Kuwait Food Company
Total years of experience :19 years, 8 months
Working for Americana Group of Companies (Restaurant & Food Business) directly invested
& owned by Mohammed Alabbar founder and chairman of Emaar Properties.
Responsible for the Group wide Indirect Procurement across Restaurant Business (1700+ restaurants) and Food Business (28 factories) across Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt
- To craft and design the non-existent Centralized Indirect Procurement department from Scratch
- To hire, select and develop Procurement Team members for Indirect Procurement
- To develop the Group Procurement Policy, a first for Americana, covering both Restaurant and Food Businesses and implement holistic processes across the group
- To craft Strategic Sourcing and Category Management Infrastructure to address key categories for saving generation: MRO, Kitchen Equipment, Logistics, Facilities, IT etc
- To lead the Sourcing activities for the aforementioned categories
- To develop and streamline group wide product and service contracts together with Legal department
- To establish Procurement best practices on sourcing, negotiations, supplier selection and whole Procurement process across all group companies
- To form and sustain a professional and high performing Procurement team ensuring the team receives the appropriate training and development structure
- As a member of the senior management team for Procurement, to attend and
contribute updates to Leadership Team
Working for noon.com group of companies (noon e-commerce, noon express, noon fulfilment and noon payments) directly invested & owned by Mohammed Alabbar founder and chairman of Emaar Properties.
Main responsibilities;
- Designing & Forming the Procurement Department structure and the capability framework of the department
- Forming the Procurement Policy / Structure and whole P2P cycle to ensure transparency, traceability and audit controls
- Selecting & Leading the implementation of a full fledged ERP Solution (Oracle) with State of the Art Procurement Suite
- Crafting a fully automated, audit-able e-Procurement approval System, integrated with
Oracle
- As a Senior member of the Leadership Team take part in new hirings across the Company, taking lead in creating the Culture of the Company.
- Help creating process across various department such as HR, Finance and IT for developing Group Standards and Best Practices.
- Covering the whole addressable spend for Opex & Capex expenditures for Operations, Logistics, HR, Facilities, IT, Finance, Marketing, Investments, Product, After Sales & Call Center of noon group companies
- To lead the Procurement Team to ensure all tenders are conducted as per contemporary Procurement standards and Global Audit controls
- Recruiting, forming and training high performing teams with KPI and reporting driven approach
Responsible for the ME area ( Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen)
To lead Middle East Procurement Teams to fulfill the below activities but not limited to
- To manage all Indirect & Direct Procurement activities of British American Tobacco Middle East for around 100 mio GBP spend
- To drive the successful delivery of Area procurement targets through the leadership of the specific Zone procurement team.
- To lead the operational management of the Area Category, Sourcing, Stakeholder & Supplier management functions.
- To drive execution of an Area approach that is aligned to BAT Above Market resources (Regional & Global)
- To ensure the Area team support Global Procurement to drive a “OneProcurement” vision..
- To drive a professional and high performing Area procurement team, ensuring the team receive the appropriate training, development and reward needed to
deliver the business goals
- As a member of the senior management team for Procurement, to attend and contribute updates to the Procurement Planning Team and Procurement Operational Team on both Area and Above Market level
To Lead the Commercial Procurement Team to fulfill the below activities but not limited to;
To manage the procurement of designated indirect goods and services for BATTurkey nationally and develop innovative and sustainable sourcing strategiesand processes to deliver significant competitive advantage to BAT Turkey by effectively using hats of procurement; account management, sourcing management, supplier management and category management
-Responsible for Managing Indirect Procurement Team for All BAT Commercial Projects including but not limited to; Marketing, Supply Chain, IT, Logistics, Facilities, HR, Finance.
-Full Integration with BAT Above Market resources (Regional & Global) and guidelines with Account Management, Category management, Strategic Sourcing and Supplier management modules which includes responsibility for implementing global and geographic category strategies and sourcing plans at end market level.
-To ensure the business is compliant with procurement policy and actively manage any compliance issues.
-To own the relationship between procurement and its customers at end market level in conjunction with Global Category Management principles.
- To challenge demand and requirements and manage customer expectations to ensure compliance and drive continuous improvement.
- Focus on Talent Development; Team building; hard & soft skills development
for the Procurement Team
- Lead a Team of Five
“Indirect Procurement Executive” reporting to Commercial Indirect Procurement Manager & Turkey Head of Procurement
- Responsible for Indirect Procurement categories of Supply Chain, Logistics, Fleet, Facilities, Security (CIT & Premise)
-Management of own categories with strong focus on Supplier Account Management, Category Management, Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management
-Management of Procurement Projects in line with BAT Strategic Sourcing Processes in aforementioned categories with Stakeholder departments.
-New supplier finding, establishing (e)RFx processes, management of Tender & Contract processes with Legal & Stakeholder departments.
-To create, manage & improve Preferred Supplier Database
- Manage cost reduction programs locally and in collaboration with other BAT Opco or End markets to support Regional & Global initiatives
-Working as an Account Manager for own categories in Turkey with strong
Collaboration with BAT AME & Global Team
-Procurement Projects Implementation in the Merger of BAT & TEKEL with successful on time in full delivery
-Creation of BAT Turkey Digital Approval system for Supplier Selections, Contract Approvals and master data creation
-Helping forming of BAT Turkey Procurement Policy and Structure
“Supply Chain Strategy Senior Specialist” reporting to Supply Chain Strategy
Manager & Supply Chain Strategy Director
-Business Process Development and Supply Chain Activities Development
responsible
-Definition and Management of UZEL Corporation Supply Chain Strategies in
Agricultural, Automotive and Parts Business Units.
-SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) Model based Supply Chain KPI
definition, design and implementation for UZEL Business Units
-Internal Change Management and Program Office for the Design (Blueprint
definition) and Implementation Phases of UZEL Supply Chain Transformation
Project.
-Worked together with German, Italian and Turkish Consultants in the two
phases. Definition of As-Is & To-Be design of Demand Planning, Supply
Planning, Production Planning, Material Management, Purchasing and
Operational Excellence with Consultants and UZEL team. Creation of
Interference analysis and solution finding.
-Core Support for implementation of SAP Supply Chain Management 5.0 (APO)
Demand Planning (DP), Global Available to Promise (GATP), Production
Planning (PP/DS), availability check and Supply network Planning (SNP)* as
UZEL Project Lead.
-Creation and Design of Necessary SAP ECC 6.0 and BW reports for Supply
Chain Improvement and Monitoring including Purchasing, Logistics, Production
Planning and Marketing/Sales Reports with IT
-Consultancy Assessment and selection, Agreement creation and handling
together with Legal Affair Department
“Management Trainee” Assistant Category Manager reporting to Group Purchasing Manager
-Assistant Buyer responsible of Category Management. Supply Chain Activities including; Demand Planning; Purchasing, Logistics (for follow-up), Selling (Inc.
Active in-store if necessary), Marketing (Insert, Flyers and Competition handling), KPI monitoring (Supplier Revenue, payment date and performance analysis)
-Management of existing and new Suppliers both Worldwide and Domestic.
Contract / Agreement management.
-Full responsibility of Category Products using SAP; Product and Supplier
-Selection; Market Estimation and Sales Plan, Purchasing terms and agreement,
Purchase Requisitions creation, logistics (follow-up), Selling conditions setting
(Buying Margin, Cash Margin), For Import Products Turkish box design and Turkish User Manual Creation. Constant update of buying and selling terms on SAP. Managing Store Stock on Selected Products.
-Reporting on Buy & Sell Volume, Buying Margin, Cash Margin, Stock Turnover, Supplier Performance Analysis, Earnings per Store Floor Area etc.
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