Faizan Malik

 Formulate strategies to reduce employed man power, ground equipment and other technical resources per aircraft turnover for incremental profitability.
 Work with Dubai dnata centralized best practices team to ensure utilization of best methods (statistical models and software tools) in the development of forecasts & future sourcing initiatives.
 Prepare Capex/ Opex budget for the company and provide spend vs revenue analytics to periodically assess business (BRM) views strategically.
 Liaise frequently with operational depts. to reduced costs & complexity by targeting aircraft turnaround KPIs.
 Build strategic relationships with all operational and external stakeholders through interaction to achieve and maintain preferred ground handler status.
 Develop multiple scenario models for the management to identify new business potentials, lead cross functional teams to realize and achieve potentials, impacting bottom-line profit.
 Identify multiple efficiency potentials for rationalization of kilos/ man-hour, headcount employed and FTE reduction.
 Team lead for High potential group (HiPO) for the development and execution of new productivity initiatives to improve cost to serve and benchmark industry best practices.
 Formulate internal and external business process and control documents (SIPOC, BPMD, Policy documents), KPI trackers and strategic programs to capture key business deliverable.

 Successfully used big data analysis to formulate cost reduction based procurement strategies.
 Create multiple sourcing strategies to predict statistically lean product & channel based procurement.
 Identified total supply chain costs by mapping end to end product movement from suppliers to customers.
 Reshape sourcing, manufacturing and distribution techniques to agile value chain concept.
 Propose strategies to reduce working capital, warehousing cost & transfer of risk to optimize value chain implementation of $300 million Supply Network.
 Design sustainable procurement policies by identifying multiple suppliers across regions.
 Present model to implement NGSN (Next Generation Supply chain Network) in EMEA and APAC region.
 Apply lean, agile and flexible value chain concepts to increase market share from 5% to 15% by 2018
 Identify key inflection points to anticipate impact of demand change among multiple upstream partners.

 Optimized inventory levels which resulted in $5M reduction in the working capital.
 Wide experience of managing sub-contracting with supplier locally and globally for procurement, third party development and manufacturing.
 Successfully administered procurement of Direct Material $50M with zero stock outs.
 Administered effective adherence to procurement policies for material purchase, import, storage and distribution and inventory levels.
 Maintained average inventory levels from 18 days to 14 days for Finished Goods and 42 from 82 days for Direct Materials.
 Proactively liaise with local and global suppliers across multiple time zones to manage procurement of direct material.
 Performed MRP for material, inventory and ordering through SAP (R3), ensuring system policy integrity throughout procurement process.
 Advance use of SAP MM, PP and SCM module to perform day to day tasks.
 Troubleshoot SAP based BOM update, vendor master data & product code update with relevant authorizations.
 Developed and implemented a supplier performance assessment scorecard to help evaluate, track and improve supplier performance in the areas of direct & indirect materials and services.
 Performed various Service Level Agreements (SLA) negotiations with major suppliers to secure sourcing of critical materials.
 Assisted in contract negotiations with local suppliers resulting in price saving.
 Introduced Vendor Collaborative Planning for major local material categories.
 Experience of working with a broad range of senior stakeholders across multiple departments.
 Undertook projects to mitigate non-confirmatory compliant procedures (NCR) as per audit observations.
 Formulated process to initiate Productivity Savings accumulating to approx. $ 01 million per annum through source and spec rationalization.
 Explained budgetary deviations and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to Director Supply Chain, Regional Material Planning team, and Global Procurement division.
 Implemented tools to optimize logistic schedules according to fleet availability, transportation constraints & load mix, by minimizing costs and ensure timely product availability.
 Planned import of renowned brand from international market for local market demand.
 Implemented PMI global standard procurement processes across warehousing, vendors and materials.

 Successfully negotiated contracts with multiple vendors including contract drafting, cost negotiation and deal closure.
 Day to day procurement policy based decisions to reduce procurement costs and obtain maximum benefits.
 Specialization in vendor handling, quotation formatting, price negotiation in line with procurement policies.
 Inventory management for finished goods to minimize stock out situations.
 Strategic pricing and discount techniques to increase footfall at Emporiums and generate sales leads.

 Check & challenge finished good inventory and formulate inventory valuation for optimal stock management.
 Order tracking system to track finished goods supply to retailers through different channels.
 Research on Neilson data for performance stock evaluation (numeric/weighted handling) and new market development.
 Reduce implied working capital for marketing POS related materials through efficient bidding policies.
 Use ERP and COTS (Compact Order Tracking System) for channel development, trade optimization and target realization.