Adil Al Adwani

Team leader for Procurement ACICO blocks factory.

Created and adjusted procurement strategies to support broader organizational objectives,
maintaining flexibility in response to shifting priorities.
Built and nurtured long-term supplier relationships, focusing on collaboration and mutual benefit
rather than rigid performance metrics.
Led continuous process improvements, optimizing procurement efficiency through ongoing,
incremental changes.
Facilitated communication and collaboration between departments, offering adaptable support to
meet evolving needs.
Oversaw the procurement budget, ensuring alignment with financial goals while allowing for
flexible adjustments as priorities shifted.
Assessed market trends and risks, providing insights to inform strategic decision-making and
risk management.
Managed supplier contracts to ensure alignment with company policies and long-term goals,
focusing on sustainability and compliance.
Maintained procurement records and provided regular reports, offering high-level insights that
supported organizational objectives.
Led and mentored the procurement team, fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented work
environment.

• Managing the entire procurement and purchasing department for 22 schools and 5 offices across three counties in Nova Scotia, Canada.
• End to end procurement, managing procurement activities from the requisition to tendering to contracting ending with issuing purchase orders. Following up with change orders and progress reports on existing ongoing contracts.
• Handling all procurement related inquiries and policy development within the Tri-County Regional Center for Education.
• Updating information systems (SAP) to better improve procurement user related technology.
• Ensuring safety, background verification and COVID related compliance with vendors in regulating all procurement related activities within the schools.
• Awarding multiple contracts through procurement analysis and scoring followed by evaluation.
• Maintaining complete public transparency of all procurement related activities to ensure fairness and open competition within the market.
• Preparing Tenders and Requests for Proposals (RFP) for the Regional Centre
• Assisting in TCRCE projects - working with Operations staff to strategize the project and the project spend and being involved in the tendering process from start to finish.
• Maintaining an accurate and complete filing system for purchase orders as well as their supporting documentation for TCRCE.
• Maintaining and updating contract and product pricing for the Regional Center
• Attending provincial Joint Purchasing Committee meetings, on behalf of TCRCE and ensure proper communication levels are maintained.
• Maintain supplier relationships including meeting with vendor sales representatives and maintain key supplier list for TCRCE.
• Processing requests and purchase order through SAP and ensuring accurate delivery of goods and invoicing.

Preparing and Drafting Tenders and Requests for Proposals (RFP) for the Regional
Centre as an Example.
Preparing and drafting some RFPS for all 8 regional center of education within Nova
Scotia.
Posting Tenders incompliance with the Province on the Public Procurement website,
managing TCRCE account with the province.
Project management - working with Operations staff to keep projects on-time, one-budget, and
ensure the tendering/RFP process is updated and compliance with policy from start to finish.
Maintaining an accurate and complete filing system for over 2500 vendors with audit trails
incompliance with public procurement policy.
Maintaining and updating contract and product pricing for all contracts under the regional
center for education.
Member Joint Purchasing Committee, responsible to set purchasing targets, standards and
compliance measures across all 8 regional centers for education. Negotiating contracts with
vendors on behalf of the Mash Educational sector within the province.
Communication with Province over Public procurement policy and compliance.
Responsible for on-going supplier relationships, vendor sales meetings, and overall, in
charge of key supplier list for the regional center of education.
MProcessing requests and purchase order through SAP and ensuring accurate delivery of goods
and invoicing incompliance with Accounts payable. Recommending new features for future roll
out of the S4HANA. Updating the province with standing offers and
contracts on new Ariba guided buying roll out.

• Procuring goods, services and construction required by all departments of Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority (MRHA) and Housing Nova Scotia in accordance with established procurement policies and procedures.
• Coordinating with multiple departments and people to meet and discuss project kickoffs as well as reviewing previous projects.
• Provide guidance and advise in accordance with procurement policy and procedures
• Diplomatic and Sensitive mediator between multiple stakeholders for various housing projects
• Reviewing Contracts and following up on Extensions or Renewals
• Published purchase order in timely manner.
• Publishing and managing tenders from end to end in a time sensitive manner on behalf of the provincial government
• Receiving quotes and analyzing bids.
• Working knowledge Yardi Property Management software
• Performed warehousing duties and versed in Keystone Network Key Control software.

Procuring goods, services and construction required by all departments of Metropolitan Regional
Housing Authority (MRHA) and Housing Nova Scotia in accordance with established procurement
policies and procedures.
Coordinating with multiple departments and people to meet and discuss project kickoffs as well
as reviewing previous projects.
Diplomatic and Sensitive mediator between multiple stakeholders for various housing projects
Reviewing Contracts and following up on Extensions or Renewals.
Published purchase order in timely manner.
Publishing and managing tenders from end to end in a time sensitive manner on behalf of
the provincial government.
Receiving quotes and analyzing bids.
Working knowledge Yardi Property Management software.
Performed warehousing duties and versed in Keystone Network Key Control software.

• Published competitive multi-vendor tenders within 48 hours turn around time of receiving requisitions.
• Ensured inclusive and fair participation through time sensitive deadlines on proposal submissions.
• Issuing Purchase Orders and vendor invoices in a timely manner to ensure the timely flow of various good/services ranging up to millions of dollars in value.
• Received and coordinated meetings with delegates from multi-national vendors (KPMG, Oracle & McKinsey) with friendly and professional attitude which reflected my employer’s positive image.
• Apart of the team which automated vendor sourcing from a previously manual sourcing system.
• Managed multi-million-dollar commercial contracts both physically and digitally with no clerical errors.
• Trained and motivated top performing new colleagues on the job with no oversight.
• Fast learner where I learned tendering/procurement software and operations and able to excel in new environments.
• Undertook extensive contract negotiations with various construction and service vendors.
• Sourcing supplies with competitive prices and evaluating vendors and products.

Published competitive multi-vendor tenders within 48 hours turn around time of receiving
requisitions.
Ensured inclusive and fair participation through time sensitive deadlines on proposal
submissions.
Issuing Purchase Orders and vendor invoices in a timely manner to ensure the timely flow of
various good/services ranging up to millions of dollars in value.
Received and coordinated meetings with delegates from multi-national vendors (KPMG, Oracle &
McKinsey) with friendly and professional attitude which reflected my employers positive image.
Published purchase order in timely manner.
Apart of the team which automated vendor sourcing from a previously manual sourcingsystem.
Managed multi-million-dollar commercial contracts both physically and digitally with no clerical
errors.
Trained and motivated top performing new colleagues on the job with no oversight.
Fast learner where I learned tendering/procurement software and operations and able to excel in
new environments.
Undertook extensive contract negotiations with various construction and service vendors.
Sourcing supplies with competitive prices and evaluating vendors and products.