Procurement Specialist
Arabian Geophysical & Surveying Company (ARGAS)
Total years of experience :8 years, 4 Months
▶ Vendor Management:
- Established and maintained relationships with vendors to ensure timely and quality delivery
of goods and services
- Negotiated vendor contracts and terms to achieve cost savings and quality improvements
- Conducted vendor evaluations to ensure compliance with company’s obligations & policies
- Coordinated with other teams/ departments to resolve vendor issues and improve vendor
performance
▶ Contract Management:
- Managed contract negotiations, and compliance for several projects/ vendors
- Drafted and negotiated contracts with suppliers and vendors
- Developed a standardized contract template that reduced contract review time
- Maintained a database of all active contracts and monitored deadlines
- Managed contract amendments, extensions, and terminations
- Ensured compliance with all contract terms and conditions
- Prepared reports on contract performance for senior management
▶ RFP (Request for Proposal):
- Developed and managed the RFP process for procurement of goods and services
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and define project scope
- Drafted RFP documents and managed the distribution and response process
- Evaluated vendor proposals and provided recommendations to senior management
- Negotiated contracts with vendors to achieve cost savings and beneficial terms
▶ Purchase Order Management:
- Created and processed purchase orders, tracked order status, followed up on deliveries,
managed changes to purchase orders, and resolved purchase order issues.
Identify suppliers of goods and services.
Purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets.
Negotiate terms with suppliers such as price, quality of goods, deadlines, expectations.
Communicate with suppliers and relevant departments regarding updates and details of goods.
Create purchase orders (on SAP) and correspond them with supply requests and orders.
Monitor and advise on any issues which present risk or opportunity to the organization.
Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures during negotiations and contracts award process.
Assess and evaluate suppliers and contribute to performance reviews to ensure contract compliance.
Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery or invoice issues.
Identify and contact local manufacturers for an upcoming project.
Assist project manager in all administration functions and processes.
Prepare and provide documentation to internal teams and clients.
Retrieve necessary information (personnel & project related).
Act as the point of contact for project participants.
Prepare, organize, and distribute all necessary project materials.
Communicate relevant information between management and staff.
Work with the project team to prepare and submit daily and weekly reports.
Create updated Project’s Org. Chart based on occuring changes as the chart’s keeper.
Request IT services and report IT issues on IBM.
Review documents submitted by vendors to ensure fulfillment of
requirements and ensure accuracy in all SKU.
- Generate accurate purchase orders and distribute them within standard time
frame.
- Resolve receiving error issues in database during creating PR/PO.
- Monitor and follow up purchases through the delivery process.
- Ensure that all necessary documentation has been collected from vendors.
- Organizing and filing support documents submitted by vendors.
- Maintain a helpful filing system for tracking invoices/ Quotations to ensure
easy-access whenever needed.
Plan, prepare and deliver lessons to a range of age groups.
- Prepare and set exercises in a creative and interactive way.
- Organise and get involved in social activities such as competitions & school
parties and events.
- Undertake administrative tasks, such as keeping student registers and
attendance records.
- Mark and provide feedback on oral and written progress of each student.