Abdulrahman Abudawood

Group Procurement Director at Pwc - Saudi Arabia

• Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
• My current job since May 2022

Middle East Procurement director role (internal not client facing) managing all procurement activities within 12 counties in the Middle East.

Director Of Procurement at Al Balad Development Company

• Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
• October 2021 to April 2023

PIF subsidiary - (Centralized Procurement
for Trade & Non-Trade)

Head of Corporate Procurement at PANDA Retail Co. – SAVOLA GROUP

• Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
• May 2018 to October 2021

Built and managed a dynamic team of purchasing professionals to cater PANDA needs
national wide though a well-structured approach.
 Built department sourcing strategies based on certain parameters for each category in
close alignment budget, nature of spends and needs.
 Encouraged innovative solutions to provide added value and quality of services to
internal customers.
 Designed and developed policy & procedures, processes and KPIs along with well-
designed structure to streamline all types of requests.
 Designed pre-approved contracts templates to ensure governance to protect PANDA
rights and interest and reduce contracts sign off process cycle time.
 Ensured continuous improvement and compliance to the policy and procedures across
all level of activities.
 Established and maintained measurable performance metrics for all levels of
procurement activities.
 Built catalogue items in the system to enhance the internal customers experience.
 Developed Reporting system to measure progress status across various projects and
tasks/requests based on certain KPIs and make corrective actions.
 Ensure performance improvement and recovery plans are developed, tracked and
reported as required for supply base management.
 Ensured execution of purchase orders and contracts on timely manner to support the
critical business needs within the agreed timeframe.
 Ensured supply of materials flow is maintained at the optimum level to maintain
sufficient inventory level at all time by considering seasonal consumption.
 Led the national procurement activities within organization by implementing the
strategic sourcing based on the best practices to drive cost cutting and spend
optimization.
 Planned cost reduction initiatives to optimize spends through strategic buying to
understand significant cost drivers.
 Changed operating models to gain added values services provided through the
strategic partners.
 Developed and managed strategic partnership with key suppliers and service
providers.
 Developed an overall vendors/service providers base via prequalification process
which creates sustainable competitive advantage.

Head of category group at National Commercial Bank

• Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
• December 2015 to April 2018

Banking Services, Insurances & Employees’ Benefits and Professional Services (Business
Process outsourcing & individual outsourcing)\]
Managing and monitoring one of the challenging categories group in Procurement
department. This group encompasses three categories, which focus mainly on services. The
primary responsibility as a leader is to satisfy internal customers’ needs in due course.
 Managed a total spend of around SR 1 Billion.
 Conducted frequent meetings with all BUs to look after spend optimization
opportunities to minimize operating expenses by introducing new business
models\solutions with a close eye on quality.
 Managed to improve the bottom line with a saving of 86M in Opex during 2016.
 Developed categories’ strategy to be linked to the Bank objectives in close alignment
with internal stakeholders.
 Preformed quarterly review meetings with Business heads to report progress of
assigned projects\tasks.
 Set up monthly meetings with internal customers to enhance communication and
increase awareness.
 Managed team performance to meet internal KPIs and SLA across all functions.
 Provided proper coaching to category managers to assure efficient delivery and quality
of engagement.
 Supervised and monitored supplier’s performance, contracts, and any related matters.
 Delivered group performance reports to procurement head on weekly\monthly basis.
 Enhanced and improved procurement Processes to reflect all concerns and issues
raised by business units.
 Streamlined all new Business requests by creating proper channels in close alignment
with IT and finance team.
 Built contract templates in coordination with legal team to meet the bank interest in
terms of risks mitigation and required scope to enhance sign off process.
 Contributed in enhancing procurement policy & procedures to meet the bank interest
and BUs needs.

• January 2016 to January 2017

Shifting Auto Lease car delivery services from 5 local clerks to more specialized companies who
provided better quality of service in addition to tracking performance solutions.
 Worked closely with BU & PMO to evaluate, select and build two existing companies
from our file who are suitable to handle such project.
 Carried out knowledge transfer to new service providers to handle the required service
efficiently where there were no professional service providers in the market to tackle
such scope.
 Accomplished a cost optimization of 6M saving in Opex.
- Annual renewal of Insurance policies (1 Billion portfolio) Project - bank wide. (15
Policies)

Manager

• June 2012 to July 2015

Managed couples of categories within procurement department. Insurance category was one
of the most vital in terms of scopes and criticality. The main goal is to Maintain and improve
effective communications across all functions\stockholders to satisfy the needs of each
business, where proper strategic plan for assigned category is jointly arranged.
 Generated saving according to agreed annual spend.
 Built strong relationship with internal and external customers, to facilitate early and
regularly involvement when it comes to demand planning processes.
 Planned and led strategic sourcing projects, and engaging stakeholders in earlier stages
accordingly.
 Planned and managed implementation of sourcing project result (timeline, resources,
quality and cost)
 Defined the supply base (SOW) in alignment with internal and vendors to secure
sufficient capacity and set plan for implementation.
 Prepared RFQ, RFP and RFI for suitable purposes as needed.
 Drafted and amended contracts by ensuring adequate legal input are fulfilled.
 Managed and monitored supplier’s relationship and performance in close alignment
with stakeholders.
 Maintained an updated list of qualified vendors to provide the best possible quality of
service to our internal customers in line with bank requirements and guideline.
 Supported sourcing projects by giving guidance to internal customer, providing
methodology and sharing any other relevant experience/ expertise.
 Conducted applicable prequalification documents with vendors to ensure compliance
with internal and external governance guideline (SAMA).
 Generate appropriate analysis, e.g. spend reports, and supplier’s performance
evaluation report as required in close alignment with internal customers and suppliers
to ensure proper execution and compliance with agreed category strategies.
Advanced Engineering Projects Est. - (Procurement

Deputy Manager

• September 2007 to March 2008

Assisted in managing SAR multimillions procurement / purchasing activities and budgeting for
22 school construction projects under the company contracts with the Ministry of Higher
Education (MOHE) in various locations within Jeddah, Makkah, and Madinah areas.
 Managed day-to-day procurement / purchasing activities to support projects
requirements.

Assistant Manager at PMO

• Pakistan
• April 2006 to August 2007

Monitored suppliers’ performance and deliveries lead time to ensure requested
material specifications compliance and prompt deliveries.
 Helped to Maintain up-to-date lists of contractors and pricing arrangements to ensure
that the company gets the required material at the best competitive prices and quality
with the most favorable payment terms.
 Participated in preparing supporting documentation, conducted market surveys and
developed market analysis to assist formulating and developing company procurement
/ purchasing strategy.
 Assisted in developing the projects consolidated BoQ’s forecast and estimated
deliveries schedules of materials needed for each project site.
 Conducted frequent projects sites visits to ensure projects engineers’ satisfaction of
materials qualities and deliveries lead times.
 Participated in the development of specifications for services, equipments, products,
supplies and substitute materials.
SALAMA Est. for Contracting & Maintenance - (Project Management)