In-Charge Procurement
Olayan Descon
Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months
• Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate Procurement & Expediting activities. Management of all aspects of the procurement cycle including technical, procurement and contractual as and when required.
• Develop well-organized and defined policies and procedures for identification and proper implementation of procurement under different contracts.
• Identify areas for process improvement, cost control and reduction throughout all functions of the procurement curve.
• Identify potential vendors and sourcing new vendors to suite the optimum geographical location of Project.
• Monitor and communicate team goals and achievement of goals on a regular basis.
• Ensure cost effective and timely purchasing as per company policy.
• Handle all administrative activities of staff e.g. leaves, travel and performance appraisals.
• Attend meetings and liaise with other departments to develop system and procedures as required.
• Assign Indents/PR and other tasks to team. Review their job and help/advise as and when required.
• Ensure proper budget control. Dispatch monthly report of procurement to all units & departments.
• Ensure issuance for fortnightly reports showing material procurement status.
• Lookup/ Identify possibilities for joint ordering for different BU’s to get bulk volume discount.
• Identifying ways and means to improve imports and expediting.
Lead the assigned group in work related matters.
• Ensure maximum output. Smooth functioning of group and proper budget control.
• Search for competitive suppliers. Supplier evaluation/re-evaluation.
• Assistance in negotiation, finalizing of MOU.
• Sharing current offers with global sales team.
• Analyzing steel market trends.
• Reviewing L/C terms and conditions to minimize risk.
• Arranging logistics for material dispatch and delivery.
• Preparing weekly performance report.
• Maintain business relationship with the existing clients and suppliers.
• Recording all operational activities in (SAGE SalesLogix CRM).
• Ensuring proper documentation is carried out to meet ISO standards.
• Directing day to day activities of the Logistics.
• Arranging Logistics for P-Blade Servers from nearest Warehouse to Client’s site.
• Arranging replenishment of Servers from Hub to Warehouses to maintain MSL (Minimum Stock Level).
• Coordinating Unisys Dispatch to Clients for Server Installation process.
• Generating weekly monthly and quarterly reports for RMA (Return Merchandize Authority).
• Logging RMA activities in Egenera ERP system.
• Implementing new strategies to achieve the client’s SLA (Service Level Agreement)
• Being initial point of contact with the Client.
• Training team on product Knowledge and Tele-Sales Techniques.
• Assisting TSRs to close sales call.
• Maintaining SPD’s (Sales Per Day) of the call center.
• Ensuring clients requirements are met and maximize their satisfaction.
• Preparing weekly sales report.
• Assigning targets to the agents.
• Ensuring targets are met.