Christine Ziade, Senior Procurement Executive

Christine Ziade

Senior Procurement Executive

Marka PJSC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, BA Business management
Experience
17 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months

Senior Procurement Executive at Marka PJSC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2015

• Establishing, harmonizing and maintaining appropriate formalized purchasing policies, compliance and procedures across the business
• Developing a suitable contract database and protocol for ongoing supplier management including ongoing creation and management of preferred suppliers along with a clear contractor overview highlighting key contracted information. (Contract sum, length of term, annual increases, break-clauses etc.)
• Applying a formal tendering process (for major contract)
• Producing, managing and integrating consistent messaging standards across all marketing and communications collateral & channels for all divisions (fashion, sports and hospitality)
• Leading supplier negotiations, recommending supplier selection & implementing contracts designed to encourage continual improvement
• Supporting the business to monitor suppliers’ performance in line with KPIs, contractual obligations & service level agreement
• Providing active benchmarking data & analysis to ensure Marka achieves continued value, creativity, flexibility & sustainability across all divisions
• Working in conjunction with the head of departments & finance team and reporting directly to the Group CFO
• Accounts:
o Hospitality: Reem Al Bawadi, Taste of Italy by Chef Heinz, Champions League, Viccolo, Harpers bazar Café, Morellis Gelato
o Fashion: Essentiel, Carven, Dinh Van, Sonia, Laurel
o Sports: Modells, Nike, Adidas, Champions League
o Luxury: Dinh Van, Shiseido Spa.

Procurement & Estimation Department/ Senior Procurement Officer at Consolidated Engineering & Trading Co.
  • December 2007 to May 2014

Providing required documents pertaining to tenders
- Revising technical requirements & submittals (BOQ, Specs, and Drawings)
- Providing quotations necessary for resources pricing
Completing, supervising and reporting the procurement procedure as per the company's standards & requirements:
- Ensuring procurement of operational requirements of the company with maximum cost saving benefits with no compromise on the quality
- Providing oversight of all procurement in compliance with the company's policies & procedures
- Managing, evaluating and issuing al types of purchase orders, contracts, RFQ etc...
- Receiving & Compiling purchase requisition including complete specifications from production/store along with stock level report of required material
- Engaging support & agreement for the strategy from key stakeholders so that the implementation & compliance are optimal, promote the effective management of vendors to sustain value throughout the life of the contract
- Defining & managing key vendor relationships to deliver breakthrough performance in cost, service & quality including technical input to negotiations on strategically significant contracts
- Negotiating for required quality, quantity, material availability, payment terms and delivery schedule of the materials
- Providing approval of related sector's manager, Project manager, & estimator
- Establishing new processes & systems whenever required for effective procurement across the company

Shop Manager at Fanfreluche
  • December 2005 to December 2013

Handling the follow up with the suppliers in Europe:
 Arrange an average statistic after receiving the bills of the orders done in the fair
 Identify the budget and the number of the goods ordered
 Controlling and reconciling the supplier’s invoices before starting the bank transfer
 Follow up with the suppliers concerning the delivery in order to start the shipment
 Entering the invoices and the prices to PIMS program
 Pricing the goods, and dividing them in order to be distributed to the different branches by PIMS program
 Inventory is a must twice a year
 Entering all the receipts, payments and the banks receipts to PIMS program to be controlled by the audit
 Responsible of opening the summer Branches (Edde Sands Jbeil, Panjea Jyeh) Decoration and Display
 Hand craft (Necklaces, …)

Social and Customer service, Administrative assistance at General Chaplaincy of Prisons in Lebanon
  • Other
  • October 2005 to December 2005

Running mail post office

Education

Bachelor's degree, BA Business management
  • at AUL
  • February 2008

Specialties & Skills

Procurement
Department Budgeting
Department Management
participative decision making,time management, teamwork , self motivation

Languages

Arabic
Expert
French
Intermediate
English
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