Akeem Tolulope, Head of Supply Chain GCC

Akeem Tolulope

Head of Supply Chain GCC

Averda International

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
20 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 1 Months

Head of Supply Chain GCC at Averda International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2014

As Head of Averda Supply Chain/Procurement across GCC, I am tasked with ensuring optimal use of FTEs within the department and high level of engagement with internal and external customers.

• Restructuring the entire GCC Supply Chain Department, consolidating and re-aligning responsibilities and tasks.
• Identifying Suppliers critical to AVI operations based on spend analysis and proposing the most efficient ways to manage suppliers.
• Continuously reviewing company procurement, sourcing and warehousing needs and engaging with internal Oracle consultants on ways to improve/adapt the AVI processes for increased efficiency and reduce unnecessary bottlenecks.

Consultant at Truespend
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2014 to November 2014

• Providing consultancy services in procurement, indirect sourcing, spend management, category management, spend and opportunity analysis, eSourcing to multiple industries i.e. IT, Energy, Telecoms e.t.c

• Currently providing procurement, category management and indirect sourcing advisory services to an Oil & Gas group in Nigeria by providing additional resources to support their existing teams while also managing their total annual spend of approx. $200M

Regional Procurement Manager at Schlumberger
  • United Kingdom - London
  • September 2008 to September 2013

• I coordinate all procurement specialists and buyers in the SSA to support all segment operations.

I manage all aspects of Procurement/sourcing services for all the segments within the region
• Obtaining required products/services in a timely, cost effective manner to support operations and eliminate operation downtime.
• I continually monitor, evaluate and improve supplier performance data of price, quality, on-time delivery and service.
• Coordination work with internal customer departments to resolve all issues relevant to the supplier or products/services requirements.
• I analyze and strive to maintain up-to-date knowledge of market trends, pricing, availability, capacity, technology and supplier capability relative to the assigned portfolio of goods/services.
• Identify savings opportunities relative to suppliers and parts assigned.
• Development and implement sourcing strategy relative to the product or services assigned

Contracts Engineer at Consolidated Oil
  • Nigeria
  • June 2003 to August 2007

Expansion of existing retail network and maintenance of existing outlets by managing construction of new outlets and carrying out maintenance of existing with an annual budget of $ 7M for maintenance of existing network.

• Managed the regional rebranding (financial and projects) of 54 outlets in a region and responsible for procurement/award/supervision of the projects.

• Lead a team of engineers to the successful supervision and completion of $2M university outlet project in my assigned region.

Production Engineer(Internship) at ChevronTexaco Nig Ltd
  • Nigeria
  • July 1999 to January 2000

Overall monitoring of all equipment on production platforms
Ensuring efficient operations for all separating equipment
Preparation of production platforms for drilling/workover activities i.e. gravel packing, water flooding e.t.c.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Hult International Business School
  • August 2014

Fulltime Master's in Business Administration

Master's degree, Economics(Energy)
  • at University OF Surrey
  • September 2008

A comprehensive study of Microeconomics, Econometrics, Quantitative Methods (Calculus & Statistics), Energy Economics & Technology, Economics of International Oil & Gas, Macroeconomics; Growth and Natural Resources, Natural Resource & Environmental Economics, Regulation & Competition in Oil and Gas, Energy Modelling with a strong bias to the Energy sector/industry.

Bachelor's degree, Petroleum Engineering
  • at University Of Ibadan
  • September 2001

A study of principles of exploration and production of crude oil and Natural Gas,; courses included: Reservoir Engineering, Drilling Engineering, Petroleum Production Engineering, Petrology, Stratigraphy, Petroleum Geology, Applied Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geological Mapping & Interpretation, Calculus, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Natural Gas Engineering, Volumetric & Phase behaviour of Hydrocarbons, Oil & Gas property Evaluation, Natural Gas Processing, Basic Well Testing, Oil Pollution and Control, Numerical Analysis, Statistics, Engineering Drawing

Specialties & Skills

Procurement
Microsoft Excel
Lean Sigma
Business Development
Microsoft Office
MS Office
MS Excel
PEEP (Petroleum Economics Software)
Negotiation
Procurement
Contracts & Tendering
Project Management
Supply Chain Management
Expediting (Logistics)

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Class based (Training)
Training Institute:
PEEP Petroleum Economics fundamentals
Date Attended:
September 2008
Classroom based (Training)
Training Institute:
Energy Institute, London
Date Attended:
November 2008