Durdana Farid, Senior Procurement Buyer

Durdana Farid

Senior Procurement Buyer

MBC Group

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis
Éducation
Diplôme supérieur, CIPS Qualification Level 4
Expérience
17 years, 11 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :17 years, 11 Mois

Senior Procurement Buyer à MBC Group
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis avril 2012

.-Working on projects that have clear and defined deliverables.
-Applying strategic approach towards the procurement functions
-Assisting in defining and applying new procedures and processes to enhance the workflow and add value to the procurement department
-Being a part of the Supplier evaluation process.
-Maintaining and developing long term relationships with the suppliers
-Contracts management
-Producing structured project reports.
-Client Orientation, maintaining and developing the relationships with the internal customers

Assistant Procurement Manager à MBC Group
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis février 2016

- Mapping spend, per department and per category. Developing a strategy and planning negotiations to reduce spend
- Category management and strategizing spend pertinent to each category that is core to the business with the focus on Broadcasting, IT and Facilities
- Negotiation Planning, focusing
- Contract management, with all the key suppliers, managing KPIs and performance management.
- Supplier relationship management with all the key vendors, ensuring a strategic relationship is
maintained with the supplier.
- Process improvement, ensuring procurement procedures are slick and are optimally implemented.
- Internal client focus

Buyer à MBC Group
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • avril 2009 à avril 2012

- Liaising between suppliers, manufacturers, relevant internal departments and customers;
- Checking costs, quality and levels of service;
- Reading and negotiating on major contracts and monitoring and managing their progress by liaising between the finance, Legal and technical departments.
- developing market knowledge and contacts for new products and services;
- Identifying potential suppliers;
- evaluating bids and making recommendations based on commercial and technical factors;
-Have been a part of the team that worked towards putting the systems and procedures in place which resulted in achieving CIPS certification.

Procurement Expeditor à MBC Group
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • décembre 2007 à mars 2009

-Supervising personnel assigned to Expediting or other procurement functions.
-Review purchase orders to determine items being manufactured, scheduled shipping date, destination, priority of order and receipt.
-Contact suppliers by mail, telephone, e-mail to verify delivery schedule, adherence to specifications and required delivery date.
-Communicate as necessary to correct any delays.
-Arrange for storage and/or distribution of materials upon arrival as required.
-Review jobsite receiving reports for completeness and accuracy.
-Input data into database formats.
-Maintain assigned department and project documentation files.
-Assist with other procurement functions as required by supervision.

Procurement Assistant à Al Tayer Group
  • Émirats Arabes Unis
  • août 2002 à janvier 2004

• Order processing
• Coordinating between the suppliers and the warehouse and between the stores
• Handling the coordination between the Customer care unit and the Procurement Department
• Worked with JDEdwards

Éducation

Diplôme supérieur, CIPS Qualification Level 4
  • à Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
  • décembre 2016
Baccalauréat, IT/IS
  • à University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, U.K.
  • novembre 2001

Bachelor of Business Administration (Honors) in Information Systems Done from Sky line Sharjah (Affiliated)

Diplôme, Software Engineering
  • à Aptech Computer Training Institute, Sharjah, U.A.E.
  • octobre 1999

Higher Diploma in Software Engineering Aptech Computer Training Institute, Sharjah, U.A.E.

Specialties & Skills

Materials
Market Knowledge
Software Engineering
Word, Excel
PowerPoint
Access,
Explorer
foxpro, sql*plus, sql, developer 2000, visual basic, c, c++ (cpluzpluz), shell, html

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabe
Moyen

Adhésions

Chartered Institute of Purchase and Supply
  • Fellow
  • January 2014

Formation et Diplômes

Practical Project Management (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Practical Project Management
Date de la formation:
May 2015
Durée:
30 heures
CIPS Leadership Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Leadership Training
Date de la formation:
September 2015
Durée:
18 heures
Diploma in Procurement and Supply (CIPS QUALIFICATION) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
CIPS
Date de la formation:
November 2015
Durée:
50 heures

Loisirs

  • Photography
    Exhibited in Art Couture Won competition at Art Couture Exhibition One image Got selected to be printed on the first Batch of Arcadian Apparel