Procurement and Contracts Manager
Dammam Airports Company
Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months
• Contribute to the Procurement & Contracts strategy and business plan as it relates to Contracts &Tender Management, develop and supervise the execution of the department annual plan and milestones to achieve the overall business plan.
• Manage and maintain strong business partnerships with key stakeholders across Dammam Airports Company, and contribute to instilling a culture of trust and transparency with internal stakeholders, enabling smooth and constructive business interactions.
• Assign individual objectives of direct reports, in conjunction and aligned with the approved
• divisional KPIs, and periodically evaluate their performance in a fair, transparent, and objective manner in accordance with the Dammam Airports Company and Employee Performance Management procedures.
• Manage the development and execution of Contract & Tender Management policies, procedures, business processes and work flows, ensuring that they
• Prepare, conclude, and maintain strategic agreements.
• Manage processing of RFQ s, RFP's, Bid evaluation, master agreements, release orders for material.
• Monitor agreements against budget, schedule and KPI s and attribute and provide corrective solution assistance where appropriate
• Own and execute strategic sourcing plans aligned to business needs and overall objectives.
• Manage and develop a network of supplier relationships ensuring value across quality, service, cost and innovation.
• Maintain files, records and documents related to all purchasing activities including vendor pricing and work order information for future referencing.
• Negotiate contract agreements for products and services.
• Assess contractor performance to identify the need for amendments of existing contracts.
• Prepare and edit contracts between the company and potential clients.
• Handle breach of contracts in a timely manner.
• Provide needed guidance and support to store and logistics team to perform needed daily tasks and act as point of escalation for the team to resolve daily issues.
• Ensure compliance to company guidelines and to purchasing policies and procedures during supplier negotiations and contracts.
• Monitoring and controlling open PO’s, and ensuring PO’s is up to date and optimized.
• Developing vendors into strategic partners; identifying and developing potential vendors/ suppliers for achieving cost effective purchases of materials and achieving reduction in prices and timely delivery.
• Develop and maintain a supplier database to strengthen the procurement process.
• Responsible for running all sourcing projects to check out the market prices and quality of service and to float new biddings once necessary EX: Generators, Air Compressors, Forklifts, Cranes, Inspection Services, Machine shop tools & etc....)
• Negotiates the prices for services and/or products.
• Participate in operational forecasting plan reviews with the assigned portfolio operations segments.
• Support finance and logistics in resolving reception and invoice discrepancies for assigned portfolio
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