Senior Buyer
First National Operation & Maintenance - Nomac
Total years of experience :17 years, 2 Months
Responsibilities & Key Deliverables
• Responsible for procurement for the Middle East & African Region.
• Complete procurement support to Operations & Maintenance and outages projects.
• Responsible to establish supply agreements with local and international supplier to ensure supply as required for the operations and maintenance projects.
• Supplier identification, interaction, building relationship and developing for all types of services and material as required for the business.
• Supporting bidding/proposal team for the costing requirements.
• Supporting, Service Business for the organisation in the Middle East Region.
• End to end procurement support to Operations & Maintenance projects for ME region.
• Establishing MSA agreement with major OEMs, for the service and spare supports in the region.
• Supplier identification and development for critical materials, Commodities and services for the region.
- Managing Procurement & supply chain function for specific business of the company
- Establish and manage supplier contracts.
- Responsible for complete P2P process
• Responsible for total supply chain process for, one of the major project of the company.
• Updation to the project team on day to day basis on the different supply chain issues.
• Developing and sourcing new supplier for the commodities and services as required for the projects and establishing contracts and SLAs.
• Ensuring the delivery of the commodities as the requirement of the project
• Ensuring the smooth payment to the supplier, by interaction with stores and finance.
• Responsible for Procurement of regional plant requirements, including new projects, up gradation projects (expansion plans), spares, equipments etc.
• Support the plant in shut down activities with required materials and services as required.
• New Product/supplier development for critical commodities.
• To establish blanket ordering/rate contracts on the high/frequent spend areas.
• To stream line the purchasing organization for the regional buying team in line with the organizational requirements.
• To establish region specific suppliers to have economies of scale and better control on the process and quality of materials/services provided.
• Responsible for the total requirements of the plant’s and regional office’s Spares, Machineries, Consumables, IT, Admin, Marketing and HR.
• Supporting the different business verticals of the organization, as per the specialized service requirement for all the respective LOB(Line Of Business)
• To manage a team of buyers.
Achievements
• Developed and established, a team of buyers.
• Established a smooth Purchasing process, hence increase in the efficiency.
• Achieved a remarkable turnaround time.
• Commendable number of rate contracts and Blanket orders has been established, hence improved the team efficiency and faster deliverables.
• Considerable savings to the organization through requirement consolidation and rate contracts.
• Purchase & Planning of Assemblies and machined components for, Assembly & special machineries including all type of Jigs & Fixture & Test Equipments (Automation Division).
• High interaction with the vendor and design during the development of component and assemblies in point of critical, functional and technical requirement of the component and assemblies.
• Developing the vendors in point of technical, commercial and delivery requirements of the corporate.
• Being a team member in vendor development team, in point of technical & process auditing, vendor rating, required training coordination etc…
• Identifying the vendors for special requirements & processes.
• Undertake vendor visit at out-station for turn-key activities.
• Process plan support to Vendors for critical component / part manufacturing.
• Follow-up with the Vendors for committed deliveries, receipts at logistics & Inspection clearance for components/Assemblies.
• Co-ordinate with Design & Clarify technical doubts, before or during the course of manufacturing.
• Preparing follow up activities, scheduling, updating and submitting the status of the project to the manager.
• Support for the cost estimation to project managers for quote/target costs submission for new proposals/concepts.
• Scrutinizing of quotations and releasing of purchase orders/letter of indent for all related projects.
• High interaction with design, project managers for quality and delivery during manufacturing.
• Conducting critical part/Assembly discussion in point of quality, process, technicality & functionality including Designer, Quality & Vendor for special projects.
• Interaction with finance for all Vendor related payments and other accounts and finance related activities pertaining to vendors.
• Maintenance and follow up of ISO related documents.
• Coordinating with the Vendor for the development of new items/parts, as per the Quantity, Quality and Commercial Requirements as per the Company norms.
• Continuous Development/Improvement of the Vendor in terms of Process, Quality & Delivery.
• High Interaction with the R&D, Assembly and Quality for the different level of issues/Requirements and coordinating with the vendor to match with the requirements.
• Ensuring the Payments to the Vendors with the regular coordination with the stores and Finance.
• Continuous cost reduction through value engineering, in terms of process engineering in vendor place by adopting simple and new methods of manufacturing.
• Implementing the continuous Improvement of the MAKINO product by the required design changes or process changes.
• Cost reduction of the product by the localization of the parts for the product without compromising the Quality.
• Taking care the Quality line for the customer DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS.
• In charge for the total Quality of the Forging products to the Customer, i.e. Raw material Quality, Forging Process Quality, Subcontract quality, Final Quality etc…
• Daily visit to the customer place to attend different levels of meeting for Quality, Quantity & Delivery requirements.
• Doing process Audit & Check sheet preparations for the each product according to the customer complaint and In-house Rejections.
Obtained CIPS - Diploma in Procurement & Supply and pursuing MCIPS.
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