Group Partner, Procurement and Procurement Manager
Al Ghurair Properties & Al Ghurair Energy - Al Ghurair Investment
Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months
Al Ghurair Investment - Al Ghurair Properties and Al Ghurair Energy - Dubai, UAE
Properties Development, Real Estate, Facility Management, Mall, Hotels, Commodities, Construction Equipment, Factory Machines, Foods, and Nutrition Supplements.
Manage the entire supply strategies and operations for real estate development. Provide consultancy to the other Business Units on setting strategies and the procurement function development. Control CAPEX and OPEX Spend, projects upstream contracting, and tendering processes. Transformed the Procurement Department by developing an efficient digitized procurement process, team skills uplifting, SLAs, SOP, and Policy development. Laid down the base to establish the “Procurement Centre of Excellence.” Support the “Group-wide Procurement Function” as a Group Partner - Procurement to achieve group-wide saving targets, consolidate requests, and improve processes with intensive exposure in the construction, foods, transportation sectors. Set the strategic plan and manage transactional risks. Lead negotiations to ensure the company maximum benefits and costs saving while securing quality products/services. Negotiated and re-negotiated contractual terms to reduce costs to the minimum through the COVID19 pandemic with a successful global supply risk management plan. Assigned strategic consultants to optimize the core business.
Procurement Manager - Industrial, Construction, and Precast
Manage the entire supply operations. Establish and maintain a database of approved vendors and suppliers. Research and propose system improvements, present recommendations with detailed cost-benefit analyses. Streamline purchasing procedure by consolidating purchasing forms. Research multiple sources for supplies, evaluate proposals and negotiate contracts. Hire, train, and supervise purchasing staff. Ensure the compliance with ISO requirements and standards.
• Achieve safety stock levels for all essential 99.5%
• Secured various sources and suppliers for all important items including raw materials and MEP 98%
• Managed vendors relations and extended credit terms to 90 days 99.5%
• Benchmarked vendors and applied KPIs to measure their performance 100%
• Contracted major manufacturers & suppliers for the supply of materials on quarterly basis supply plan replacing traders 96%
• Smashed the procurement costs down by millions generating revenue for the company 98%
• Met deadlines and achieving targets under pressure 99.9%.
Area Procurement and Logistics Manager - Firefighting Systems, Industrials, and Contracting
Managed the entire procurement and logistics operations. Managed vendors and revised agreements. Massive increase in alternate sources for all commodities. Adjusted minimum/maximum reorder points for inventory items, redesigned inventory values, and warehouses locations. Researched and developed key supplier applying KPIs. Recruited and trained purchasing, logistics, and inventory control teams. Responsible for Procurement, Inventory Control, Logistics and Customs Clearance Departments. Supervised custom clearance activities and cargo delivery to company's warehouses.
• Maintained strong business relations with suppliers that are resulting in ensuring delivery schedules.
• Negotiated contracts with the main suppliers that led to a reduction of materials delivery time from production increase in credit limits and deferred payments intervals.
• Carefully, assigned freight forwarders with strategic locations in origins - such as USA, UK, and UAE for exports from Watania’s Logistics Center in Jebel Ali Fee Zone - to handle the shipping operations directly to cut costs by 35% of the logistical costs.
• Invented Logistic Centers in origins to allow cargo consolidations to lead to apply the “Economies of Scale Principal.”
• Established two Logistics Centers in Alexandria - Egypt and Jebel Ali Free Zone - UAE to split and distribute orders.
• Reduced service contracts costs by 32%
• Acquired agencies to control the market.
QUOTES
• Cited by CEO for being “black horse in logistics, procurement and strengthening suppliers' relations.”
• Cited by GM for being “fast learner, hard worker & a successful Logistics & Procurement Manager.”
• Cited by CM for being “innovative and cutting costs in logistics, a hard negotiator in procurement.”
Procurement and Logistics Manager - General Trade, Import and Export, Chemicals, and Petrochemicals
Led and coordinated all aspects of purchasing and supplier development activities. Built an efficient and empowered Purchasing Team. Monitored the activities and ensured that proper Purchasing procedures followed. Prepared periodic and extraordinary reports and maintained current data on vendors. Tendering preparation and reporting to CEO. Reduced company operational costs through shipping agreements with carrier and freight forwarders over space and containers availability, payments agreements and delivery duration reduction. Supervised custom clearance activities and cargo delivery to company’s warehouses.
• Secured rock-bottom prices for chemical products that encouraged ordering massive quantities for selling at the market price resulting in an extra margin for the company.
• Secured three Paraffin Oil strategic suppliers that led to huge margins for the company.
• Awarded of four petrochemicals tenders favor four large petrochemical businesses in Egypt.
• Reserved containers and vessel’s space with Maersk at the peak time of the US exports which led to meeting PVC deliveries successfully in a very tight time.
Research study on the relationship between transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant leadership styles and business sustainability. • Portfolio Management • Project-Based Strategic Leadership • Project Portfolio Performance and Organizational Effectiveness • Business Essentials • Business Readiness and Innovation • Contemporary Challenges in Business • Business Strategy and Innovation for Competitive Advantage
GPA: Excellent (3.58/4) Research: Investigating The Supplier-Distributor Relationship First Semester - International Logistics Management. - Economics Theory - Custom Legislation and Custom Clearance - Sea Transport Second Semester - Supply Chain Management - International Marketing Management - Theory of International Trade - Air & Inland Transport Management Third Semester - International Finance Management - eCommerce - Negotiations Management - Insurance & Risks Management Forth Semester - Commercial Law & Arbitration. - International Trade Systems - Import and Export Management - Logistics Decision Support Systems