Lead Procurement Specialist
Nestlé - Pakistan
Total years of experience :6 years, 1 Months
• Responsible for managing warehouse in UAE & KSA.
• Set up formal processes and systems for warehouse facilities & Provide on the ground administrative support to all warehousing teams
• Responsible for managing end-to-end warehouse operations
• Set up and strengthened new & existing processes and systems for Wadi warehouse to meet management strategic initiatives resulting in cost optimization and speedy delivery.
• Managed roll out of new processes over a period of 3 months, training of 20 staff.
• Ensured effective communication and cascading of strategic initiates of cost optimization and efficient delivery processes downstream.
• Expanding the 3PL network from 1 to 3 service providers: led successful negotiations with two 3PL network on rates and service quality, resulting in 20% saving on logistic services.
• Monitored overall performance of 4 delivery solutions providers
• Took ownership of overall administrative responsibility - finance, compliance, day to day management of the warehouse facility and handled on-ground administrative support to all teams.
• Launched in house Last Mile team for delivery in UAE & KSA. Network of over 4 cities in UAE and 7 Cities of KSA.
• Responsible of strategic alliance with Brands and official distributors.
• Increasing product range across category by 2000 SKU’s.
• Monitored end-to-end process from updating content, stock & price update to procurement of products.
• Aligning with marketing for brand presence and promotion on both online & offline marketing.
• Partnering with offline sellers and providing the opportunity of alternate channels for sales while creating diversity in product range.
• Monitoring and facilitating sellers with Wadi operations and ensuring smooth transition for them to work autonomously.
• Ensuring timely exposure to consumers of the right brands. Running season sensitive campaigns
• Closely monitoring revenue targets and adjusting campaigns accordingly to ensure revenue target are met.
• Grew the category from 0.2 Million to 0.7 Million in 4 months.
• Established a network of offering 1000 unique Amazon SKU’s for UAE market.
• Payment reconciliation of supplier’s and ensuring timely payments to suppliers.
• Procurement of project based goods and services within tight deadlines
• Generation of Request for Proposal (RFP), Request of Quotations (RFQ), Purchase Orders (PO)
• Commercial evaluation of quotations and proposals
• Vendor negotiations & Logistics provision for goods imported
• Maintaining Vendor for competitive services and prices and conducting vendor performance evaluations
• Maintaining Inventory records and issuing materials to concerned team members
• Obtaining necessary approvals for purchase and payment to vendors
• Verification of medical claims and preparation of monthly payroll
• Support on Recruitment operations including documents/profiles processing and interview scheduling
• Handling the internship portfolio and stipend processing for North region
• Experience/visa letter Issuance
• Resolution of employee queries over the HR Service Desk
• Routine intra-department coordination for outsourced resources
• Preparation of weekly headcount report of HR service (North)
• Maintenance of regional HR E-Records
• Coordinated with vendors for ordering give away for the employees
• Initiating purchase request and orders \n• Maintaining invoices of vendors & payment milestones \n• Implementing organization changes and adaptation \n• Managing Supply Chain and Inventory control \n• Using SAP Material Management Module for organizational processes \n• Preparing & managing IT budgets \n• Creating material/service records in SAP \n• Ensuring timely processing of IT/HR requests and acquiring approval from CIO/CEO if required. \n• Corresponding and coordinating with suppliers to ensure planned delivery of material/service.
• Tabulating and updating the HEC project stakeholders. \n• Processing feedback forms collected from Pakistan’s largest event ITCN Asia 2011, generating leads for revenue generation. \n• Creating research document to compare different digital strategies of major MNCs in Pakistan and NEPA region. \n• Analyzing and tabulating tenders \n• Updating the media coverage \n• Managing Facebook page
Worked with Practice Development And Process Engineering & Finance and administration teams. During the stay had various opportunities to understand the process and methodologies being used by TERADATA for managing and improving its operations.
In my Masters in Operations & Logistics Management at the University of Surrey, UK. I was exposed to a new opportunity that I enjoyed exploring. Studying with student from around the world enabled me to interact and communicate with people that were different in their thought process as well as working styles. The degree itself was of my great interest and being exposed to different approaches and softwares to complete the task enabled me to out grow the fear of known territory. At the university I had the work on SAP ERP where we did cases and made ourselves familiar with the interface. The masters familiarised us with ERP SAP ECC 6.0, Microsoft project & Microsoft Office suite. I have thorough knowledge of master data creation and maintenance of all the business processes ranging from Logistics, FI, HCM, BI/BW, Inventory Management, and Project Systems to Controlling at the end user level.
Our degree was a general degree in business administration however a few electives were offered in order to direct the degree towards a particular field. we had various projects some of which are highlighted below.
Projects
Final Year Research Project:
Empirical research project on the change in consumer perception after implementation of pictorial warning sign on cigarette packs using both direct and projective techniques to analyze hidden motives/perceptions of consumers.
Entrepreneurship:
Designed a business plan of bringing a 3D cinema in Islamabad involving a comprehensive analysis of the market and funding bodies to gather funds.
International Business:
Studied and compared the standing and working environment of Shell Pakistan, Oman & Malaysia.
Project Management:
Devised a plan to successfully run an event. Coordination of resources and funds on the right time to achieve the dead lines of each task.
Management Information System:
Carried out analysis of the use of information system at Pizza Hut Islamabad.
The project focused on providing solutions & identifying the loophole in their system.
Marketing Research:
Designed and analyzed the market for Victoria Secret’s cosmetic line in Islamabad. A comprehensive research was done in order to devise a marketing plan. Focus groups, expert opinions, questionnaires were used to support our research
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