Procurement Consultant
Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners)
Total years of experience :31 years, 5 Months
Conduct, research and analyze the supply marketplace
Build relationships with key clients, sub-consultants, sub-contractors and suppliers
Maintain working knowledge of business trends including industry issues, cost drivers, pricing, and market conditions
Lead effort to design strategic sourcing team alignment for improved work processing and customer satisfaction
Contract management activities for various professional services and disciplines
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop business scope requirements and manage supplier relationships
Lead, manage & facilitate the management, negotiation and closure of contracts in line with organization expectations
Provide leadership and strategic guidance in a matrix environment to drive optimal bid results and minimize risk in coordination with Corporate and Regional Engineering, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, and Compliance
Develop and execute a long-term strategy to facilitate improvements for procurement services and ensure consistent and high-quality value delivery
Compliance driven environment to Industry Standards, best practices and ISO
Overlook the proper execution of the contracts after award
Setup the procurement process
Build the procurement and contract team
Approved by Saudi Aramco as Procurement Consultant
Manage 3 departments: Fire &Gas Technical, Sales & Marketing and Procurement (20-25 members).
* Participate in Management Board meetings discussing the strategies, budgets, future planning,
forecasts, financial, human resources and HSE matters.
* Supervise & ensure the profitability and growth of the company YTY
* Revise & advise on principals’, suppliers’ & clients’ agreements/contracts.
* Participate in company’s ISO procedures, policies & registration/pre-qualifications.
* Oversee the departments’ resources and manpower.
* Monitor the Sales pipelines & opportunities of the departments.
Main Project Executed:
Lead/responsible of the generation of a comprehensive price list of all Alcatel-Lucent portfolio to MTN HQ
based in South Africa.
Key Responsibilities:
* Manage MTN Global Account in EMEA (NWCA, SEA, ME)
* Manage the different MTN bids (multi-technologies & Turn Key offers) issued by the OPCO’s of 21
countries &/or MTN Head-Quarter.
* Lead & Manage the B&P team located in different countries
Responsible of producing an optimized solution, a good quality offers
* Preparing and conducting presentations on Wireless products portfolio - radio part BSS for 2G:
GSM/GPRS/EDGE+ (BTS, Micro BTS, MBS, BSC, TC, MFS & OMC-AR).
* Bid management & overall offer integration for MTN-Yemen, MTN-Sudan & MTN-Lebanon HQ accounts.
Developing Effective Interpersonal & Communication skills.
Introduction to the Alcatel GSM network and Alcatel Base Station
Subsystem (BSS
BSC/TC description, Alcatel 9100 BTS description and
Introduction to GPRS, Alcatel.
Digital Overlay Network project
Qatar/Qatar Petroleum - Oil Company: PDH network.
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible to provide full technical support for ALU customers in UAE and in the region.
* Conduct the on-site testing & commissioning.
* Provide support to the sales & Pre-sales teams.
* Conduct Factory Acceptance Tests in Belgium, Germany and U.A.E.
* Assist/Hands on ASAM 7300 (ATM based, ADSL & SHDSL).
* Assist in the installation of servers (K & J series) using Unix & proprietary software applications.
* Assist in training preparations.
* Administrative coordination, correspondences, repairs, deliveries, etc...
Manage the Fire &Gas Technical department (10-15 members).
* Participate in Management meetings discussing the budgets, projects, human resources and HSE
matters.
* Supervise & ensure the profitability and growth of the department.
* Revise & advise on clients’ agreements/contracts.
* Participate in company’s ISO procedures, policies & registration/pre-qualifications.
* Oversee the departments’ resources and manpower.
* Manage all the technical activities of the on-going projects.
* Control the budgets of the department and projects.
1511BA multiplexer and its tributary boards,
Manage the telecommunication team.
* Responsible of the design, procurement, Installation & Commissioning and Maintenance of the
communication, safety, entertainment (Audio-visual) systems.
* Coordinate between the departments: The design office,
Promote and sell the following products: Uninterruptible Power Supply, Chargers & Converters and
Sealed lead acid & NI-CD batteries.
Rehabilitation of private MT/BT Cells: Take the census of, organize & supervise, in all the Lebanese
territories, the work executed by contractors to rehabilitate the private MT/BT Cells (Meters & protection
Responsible of Setting up & the maintenance of the satellite receiving stations, Dishes, Microwave Links
* Participate as a member of the technical team in many Live Outdoor Broadcasting (O.B.) events.
* In-charge of the installation, maintenance and supervision of a VHF broadcasting station that includes a
VHF Transmitter, Antennas, Microwave links, Lightning protection, UPS and a diesel generator.
etc…) being responsible of the overall (End to End) offers.
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* Ensure the team to follow-up the offer process set by the company.
* Ensure to have a high quality, competitive, optimized & winning offers.
Computer Aided Design for a Telecommunication FM amplifier