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Ansharah Riaz, Senior Purchases Manager - Media & Marketing

Ansharah Riaz

Senior Purchases Manager - Media & Marketing·Procter & Gamble

Qatar

Master's degree, Masters of Project Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 8 years, 11 months

Senior Purchases Manager - Media & Marketing

April 2022 - April 2025

Procter & Gamble

Karachi, Pakistan

April 2022 - April 2025

Media buying & strategy for Pakistan for all advertising mediums (TV, Digital, Search, OOH, E-commerce), Celebrities/PR/Alliances
& partnerships, Creative Design and advertising Production. Won Media Champions of the Quarter for best media delivery
across Asia Middle East & Africa for consecutive seven quarters.
Developed and implemented PowerBI Dashboards for Media KPIs, enabling precise and data-driven investment decisions across
multiple broadcasters and advertisement platforms.
Led the end-to-end curation of data and visualization for Media industry benchmarking across advertisers, infusing a compelling
storytelling approach to drive insights via PowerBI.
Spearheaded the Global Brand Building and MEA Cash Analytics, driving key insights for optimization across spend pools,
regions and buyers, enabling cash & payables delivery Ix 165 versus target.
Stakeholder management with P&G Executive Board leadership, brands, marketing and media operational team as well as
external agencies and industry leaders

Company industry:
FMCG

Senior Purchases Manager – Plant Localization

April 2020 - April 2022

Procter & Gamble

Karachi, Pakistan

April 2020 - April 2022

Developed and executed the Strategy for end-to-end procurement of all CAPEX, Operations, Trucking & Warehousing, Storeroom,
IT, and Facilities & Labor spend for Pakistan Baby & Feminine Care Localization
Led Industrial Analysis and supplier sufficiency to find and train key business partners capable of meeting the business need
Stakeholder relationship management with Engineering Leaders to enable efficient project planning and execution along with
monthly updates to category Global Senior Vice President
Delivered 28% hard savings on ~$ 70 million spend, enabling the business to reinvest and offset headwinds

Company industry:
FMCG

Senior Purchases Manager – Digital Sourcing (Gulf & Pakistan)

June 2019 - April 2020

Procter & Gamble

Karachi, Pakistan

June 2019 - April 2020

Led plant operation and employee benefits sourcing for Pakistan (Port Qasim, Hub and General Office), Saudi Arabia (Jeddah and
Dammam) and Dubai General Office
Transformed Employee Transportation spend of $ 2 million for all sites delivering Ix 150 savings via competitive industry analysis
and incorporating tax laws for maximizing the return on investment.
Digitized sourcing for all plant operation buys (consumables, storeroom spares, facilities, labor)
Implemented stewardship and compliance measures for all low dollar spends in the region.

Company industry:
FMCG

Supply Chain Innovation Leader & Process Engineer

June 2016 - June 2019

Procter & Gamble

Karachi, Pakistan

June 2016 - June 2019

T&W leader for business units at Port Qasim plant, delivering on-time shipments to distributor and customer with CFR > 98%
Led the assessment of inventory reduction projects to reduce overall supply chain inventory enabling 9% cost reduction.
Delivered Ix110 shipment target of Direct Plant Shipments
Led and trained department on various Loss Eliminations, process optimizations and cost reduction projects
Site Relatability leader enabling data analysis on Proficy via Weibull and Loss Allocation analysis
Certified trainer on Reliability Engineering, Loss Elimination (UPS & WPI) and Autonomous Maintenance

Company industry:
FMCG

Education

SZABIST Pakistan

June 2022

June 2022

Master's degree, Masters of Project Management

Pakistan

GPA (point): 3.95 out of 4

GPA (point): 3.95 out of 4

National University of Science & Technology Pakistan

June 2016

June 2016

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

Pakistan

GPA (point): 3.94 out of 4

GPA (point): 3.94 out of 4

Skills

Storytelling
Expert
Storytelling
Expert
Strategic Sourcing
Expert
Strategic Sourcing
Expert
Purchasing Negotiations
Expert
Purchasing Negotiations
Expert
Stakeholder Management
Expert
Stakeholder Management
Expert
Data Analysis
Expert
Data Analysis
Expert
LEADERSHIP
Expert
LEADERSHIP
Expert
PROCUREMENT
Expert
PROCUREMENT
Expert
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Intermediate
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Intermediate
DATA ANALYSIS
Intermediate
DATA ANALYSIS
Intermediate
ANALYTICS
Intermediate
ANALYTICS
Intermediate
COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING
Intermediate
COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING
Intermediate
BUSINESS NEGOTIATION
Expert
BUSINESS NEGOTIATION
Expert
STRATEGIC THINKING
Intermediate
STRATEGIC THINKING
Intermediate
COST REDUCTION
Intermediate
COST REDUCTION
Intermediate
Supplier Management
Expert
Supplier Management
Expert
Contract Management
Expert
Contract Management
Expert
Negotiation
Expert
Negotiation
Expert
Strategic Sourcing
Expert
Strategic Sourcing
Expert

Languages

English

Native Speaker

Urdu

Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Advanced Certification – Reliability Engineering
P&G Advanced Qualification & Trainer
COUPA Advanced Trainer
Credly Certification on PowerBI dashboard development and analytics