Supply chain Senior Manager
Vodafone
Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months
Providing input into the annual Supply Chain business planning process and reporting against targets as defined by Supply Chain goals and objectives. Supporting the aggregation of demand planning to leverage Vodafone’s global scale and scope, and Vodacom’s regional scale and scope. Responsible for ensuring the budget holder’s requirements are defined and reflected in local category strategies at the level of CAPEX & OPEX Spend. Understanding internal stakeholders thoroughly, representing Supply Chain and engaging in cross functional activities on a regular basis. Delivering of the stakeholder engagement approach supported where necessary with a clear communications plan. Delivering of category strategies, spend and savings targets in line with Vodafone RBS. Ensuring local spend categories are managed in terms of best practice operations. Supporting requests for contracts and agreements for projects through the negotiation of major contracts and agreements including global contracts where required. Managing the process of RFI's, RFP’s, RFQ's & tenders end to end through Ariba. Ambassador role of representing the local market in the One SCM community and vice versa. Joint working with Category and Enablement teams across the One SCM community Cooperating with the Vodacom Group SCM (hub) function, centralized procurement function (VPC), shared service centers (VOCH, VOCI) and Enablement function as required. Contributing to best practice and provides input into the One SCM best practice forums and programs (tactical sourcing, long tail). Negotiating and concluding contracts with suppliers on local agreements working with Legal and internal stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met. Participating in VPC led contract negotiation as required. Managing local relationships with key category vendors and where required leading regional & local relationships across categories Identifying and supporting evaluation of potential future vendors for local categories. Ensuring key supplier performance and relationships are optimized by working with SPM/ SRM programs where appropriate and required. Ensuring team is provided with a clear definition of roles and responsibilities. Ensuring strategy, goals and objectives, and targets are understood by team. Monitoring progress of team members against objectives and supporting them to reach targets. Leading the team to develop their capabilities and improve their performance.
Single Point of Contact between Commercial teams & vendors in terms of Supply Chain needs · Responsible for all Supply Chain requirements that are translated in to Supply Chain function. · Ensure that Supply Chain standards& deadlines are met & take necessary corrective actions. · Develop added Value translated into Coordinating specific projects like cost reduction, lead-time reduction, SOP Planning, Customer Service & Demand Management. · Coordinate arbitration in cases of supply shortage. · Develop innovative commercial solutions and improvement initiatives. · Manage the delivery of Legal and Financial advice into the supplier interaction and engagement. · Understand the appropriate level of risk propensity within Etisalat. · Maintain and enhance Supplier Relation Management. · Document and track all existing and proposed commercial initiatives. · Reduce the total cost of doing business with Suppliers through innovation and negotiation (ongoing). · Engage with suppliers in an agreed, consistent and simple manner consistent with the Etisalat values. · Take a strategic view of the total commercial relationship with suppliers to leverage the relationship and ensure that, where appropriate, category strategies are implemented · Ensure that Supplier performance is measured, monitored and reported to the Management. · Gurantee having an agreed and reviewable plan to continuously improve the commercial relationship (cost efficiency, increased business, simplification of interaction, and improved product). · Provide team with their annual objectives & cascade KPIs. · Minitor team performance & ensure propre coaching for continus productivity improvement. · Manage buyers workload & assign tasks accordingly.
Buyer Job Description: · Managing RFQ, bidding and tender processes both manual and electronic · Processing requisitions, POs & providing order management support as required. · Negotiate prices to keep cost delivered as minimum. · Handling the indirect expenditure locally & overseas giving propre support to the buisness units. · Contributing to multi-functional teams delivering maximum benefit to the business. · Continuous supply improvements delivered to the business, measured in terms of significant cost reduction, supplier rationalisation management, high levels of service and complexity reduction. · Assess and build annual sourcing initiatives that provide detailed service commodity strategies that identify objectives, leveraged spend initiatives, and milestone timelines · Analyze price proposals, financial reports & preparing evaluation reports. · Maintain regular customer satisfaction report & work on the development. · Prepare monthly saving and KPI reports. · Build procurement plan upon the company plan analysis and management approvals. · Implement computerized supplier database. · Maintain supplier selection criteria, supplier evaluation process & leading evaluation committee. · Monitor suppliers' performance and ensure working according to BAT standard. · Conduct Preferred Supplier performance review meetings and manage supplier contracts, compliance and service obligations. · Setup & monitor contracts database liasing with Legal department. Achievements: · Achieved the required saving target 600K USD of total spend 11, 307K USD. · Successfully Achieved 85% of purchasing Compliance with procurement policies and process. · Launch SAP in Egypt implementing additional various reports that supported the P2P process. · Kick off the indirect project in Medred.
Job Title: Supply chain Specialist Job Description: · Register new suppliers for the company · Supervise supplier evaluation process with nominated committee from the company. · Supervising supplier's performance. · Negotiate prices and update saving plan. · Establish initial annual purchasing forecast according to the expected forecast from annual SOP. · Issue POs and follow up materials delivery up to the factory warehouse · Monitoring stock status on daily basis to align with JIT strategy. · Following POs, Invoices, supplier's payment and day to day deliveries. · Working with R&D, QA & Marketing in implement & develop new models. Achievements: · Complete aligning with JIT strategy and achieving two days stock. · Develop local supplier to decrease defect percentage to the minimum. · Complete commitment with saving targets assigned from the head quarter.