Director Procurement & Contracts
Public investment Funds Projects (PIF)
Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months
• Ensure that the requirements of Wood Compliance Program are appropriately incorporated within the responsibilities of Procurement.
• Responsible for approving and processing all Upstream accounts receivable and payable for subcontracts.
• Managing workload and resource allocations, providing direct proposal and subcontract management support for Wood Capital Projects.
• Administrating major direct purchase material requests with value of ~120M SAR
• Maintained an audit compliance factor greater than 95%
• Oversee/managing subcontracts agreements, change orders and disputes for all UG program.
• Leading the Preparation of commercial proposal packages sent for client approval.
• Ensure the establishment of continuous improvement principles within the procurement sections.
• Effectively monitored project performance by tracking project schedules, budgets and procedures, ensuring corrective action / improvement are taken when required & in accordance with client project management/ execution strategies.
• Manage all Budgetary Estimate Requests & Request for Quotations (RFQ); ensuring cost and schedule compliance with Client requirements.
• Prepare Procurement Strategies and Material plans for Long Lead Items (LLI) in accordance with Client procedures.
• Maintain dialogue / meetings with Inhouse Departments to ensure a common approach to procurement activities is implemented & optimized.
• Ensure compliance and implementation of work processes within the Procurement Team.
• Manage all procurement and contracting activities including, but not limited to, pre & post award management, negotiation, tender evaluation and preparation of Contracts.
• Developed procurement and tendering policies and evaluation criteria
• Designed and implemented a business plan to control spend though out all end-user departments.
• Conduct company wide vendor analysis to preform rationalization
• Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
• Collaborate with key persons to ensure clarity of the specifications and expectations of the company
• Foresee alterations in the comparative negotiating ability of suppliers and clients
• Perform risk management for supply contracts and agreements
• Control spend and build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs
• Evaluate and enhance our operations in local spend while researching and prospecting developments in global spend
• Maintain and improve relationships with key stakeholders
• Ensured minimal stock variance in main warehouse, by spearheading quarterly inventory counts and cycle counting exercises
• Revamped the inventory coding system for stock item for more then +30K line item.
Responsible for formulating, negotiating, establishing, and administering, integrated, low or high-value contractual arrangements and procurement proposals for a range of products and/or services for the company including drafting scope of work and contracts
· Responsible for all Saudi Polymers Co. (SPCo) services and operation requests
· Providing independent liaison and coordination with contracting principals to ensure compliance with contract specifications and resolution of problems and issues, as they arise; arbitrates claims or complaints occurring in performance of contracts
· Evaluating and monitoring contractor performance to determine necessity for amendments or extensions of contracts, and compliance to contractual obligations.
· Analyzing and approving or rejecting internal and/or contractor requests for deviations from contract specifications and delivery schedules
· Proactive interaction with internal customers, contractors, suppliers and government authorities for any required arrangement related to contracts
· Analyzing price proposals, financial reports, and other data to determine reasonableness of prices; reviews and interprets contract provisions to achieve cost efficiencies and reductions where feasible
· Handling contractors pre-qualification including documentation and site visit
· Preparing reports, presentations, spreadsheets and flowcharts.
· Help with maintaining databases and update status.
· Handling department records retention program
· Working closely with users of internal departments including: maintenance, operations, safety and reliability
· Working closely with external contractors and suppliers ensuring smooth delivery of services and materials in line with our end-uses needs
· Responsible for decision making when awarding contracts based on delegation of authority
· Developed a Contract Information System (CIS) to monitor, retrieve and report all contractors/vendors information
Assisted in educating project team members on required project management deliverables
· Assisted project team members to achieve successful execution and delivery of projects
· Identified project risks
· Designed and implemented project status reports and communications
· Developed and managed budgets, determining project scope, liaising between clients and staff throughout project lifecycle, and ensuring objectives were met
· Collaborated directly with business units to assess the technical impact of business requirements and to reach consensus on alternative solutions when necessary in an effort to maintain a consistent yet flexible architecture
· Acted as the main point of contact between many levels within NCB including the Head Deputy, Director of IT, Department Heads, and Sector Heads
· Proactively analyzed trends in global and regional equity markets to assess demand for prospective equity and equity-linked issues
· Improved operational efficiency of finance systems by11% through implementation of streamlined data-management procedures
· Prepared and presented sales pitches and proposals to clients across the region
· Consolidation of all PO’s with AP