Procurement Manager
Paradis World
Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months
-Responsible for supplier negotiations, selection, contracts, management and compliance based on Paradisworld strategic sourcing process.
-Responsible for 200 Million USD Spent majorly on MEP ( Mechanical, Electrical, and plumbing) for the community in Gabon.
☑ Responsible for the building of basketball courts and football pitches along with their equipment in the community.
☑ Develops solicitation (RFPs & RFQs) and contract procedures, guidelines, instruments and techniques according to established policies and procedure, ensuring that the company’s requirements are effectively catered.
☑ Ensure a robust and commercially driven business case is prepared to support recommendations for award, proving assurance to management that the best agreement has been obtained.
- Develop and implement sourcing plans in alignment with the business requirements.
☑ Establish global understanding of supplier market and competitive landscape. Proper suppliers’ profiles and market research and analysis are conducted.
☑ Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards.
☑ Prepare reports on purchases, including cost analysis and variance.
Lead the logistics team to deliver welcome packs consisting of Debit and credit cards as well as cheque books.
Lead the operations side of the Money Smart Project
Handle all day to day activities and manage customer concerns including 150 deliveries all over UAE per day.
Assign bank representatives to customers per emirate as per given capacity or adhoc solutions when irregular circumstances arises
First point of contact between ADIB and Fetchr (3rd party Warehouse) where packages are kept at Secure Chamber
Attend the handshakes and make sure the drivers leave on time with all required material
Provide reports of delivered vs undelivered packages to ADIB higher management as well as capacity reports
Act as HR when it comes to personal issues, vacations, and salaries for all direct reports.
Make random calls to clients who received their packages to inquire about the level of satisfaction and other questionnaires in regards to how pleasant or unpleasant their delivery experience was.
• Lead the engineering, procurement, production, and quality team to successful project completion.
• Assist in negotiations of large contracts & bids
• Ensure projects are delivered on time as per contracts with end users & contractors.
• Ensure document submission resulting in advance payments are done effectively to enhance the company’s cash flow.
• Regular interaction with key clients in regards to project progress.
• Ensure invoicing is done for delivered projects and liaising with Sales Managers.
• Handle day to day activities of all operations at Jebel Ali Facility.
• Lead a team of 6 Buyers to achieve a total of 600 K USD savings on the Fiscal Year 2014.
• Increase the payment terms for 70% of the total supply spend to 60 days.
• Identify top 12 MENA suppliers and organize /lead the audit and evaluation review involving QHSE team.
• Reduce Supply base by decreasing the number of suppliers from more than 450 for each commodity of purchases to 250.
• Lead the team to reduce stock from dead/slow moving inventory by $300K.
• Manage Procurement team and coach every individual of the team to bring all the buyers to the satisfactory competency level of knowing the supply base, system and procedures
• Acquire Random Quotations for Projects & Engineering & Proposal Purposes
• Send Supplier Request Sheets / QHSE Evaluation Forms / NDA Forms to Suppliers & Follow up on their arrival
• Interact with Vendors & Legal Manager if any issues with Confidentiality Agreements
• Negotiating with Vendors on Value of PO s & terms of payment as per our Standard Terms & Conditions
• Creating Purchase Order as per requirement from Projects & Engineering
• Create procurement sheet to track all the PO released and their OA dates for each project
• Send Weekly Updates on Projects to the respective Project Manager via Tracking Sheet
• Follow up with vendors in regards to their delivery timings
• Provide vendors with the required information on shipping advise
• Follow up with vendors to provide the necessary certificates along with Purchase orders supplied
• Assist Vendors in payment issues if any
• Using a saving approach towards any purchases and keep track of them to assess at the end of 4th Quarter
• Responsible for informing accounts about Currency & Terms of Payment & their updates
• Update the Lead Time of Vendors on the system.
• Responsible for updating latest price for each item on the ERP system
• Audit Subcontractors along with QA representative
• Ensure 5S Standards are well kept within the area of work
• Analyze Dead Stock & Slow Moving Items & attempt to sell them to clear inventory value.
• Ensure best prices & deliveries are given to Proposal Team for submission to clients.
• Further negotiate on earlier quotes once bidding jobs are on hand to improve company margins.
Proserv - Production Technology Services
MRP Planner
• Responsible for loading new part numbers and attributes to the AX ERP system.
• Maintain accuracy of any changes made by engineering.
• Assess stock holding for current requirements and establish supply chain or production needs
• Release requisitions to procurement for any purchase order requirements
• Create works orders and attach appropriate routing to the part if not available.
• Work with warehouse to ensure production kits are ready when required
• Expedite sourcing for critical path items.
• Assist with workload planning and scheduling of jobs to best meet customer delivery requirements.
• Evaluate Engineering Change Order with impact to buy items.
• Highlight to engineering any critical path items that require release.
• Interface with engineering, purchasing, warehouse and finance as required
• Establish MRP accuracy and performance metrics and drive improvements
Analyze data to determine opportunities to decrease inventory, improve customer service levels and reduce total costs.
• Took the lead on some lean activities like applying the 3s at the electrical workshop on the shop floor & company program The Magnificent Seven.
• Analyzed all the sales in per the 4 Bus (I/C, T/C, O&G, and Trading).
• Gathered expected forecasts per month & by budget wise vs. targets hit and sales received per week in order to reach 90% accuracy.
Professional Summary
• Experienced procurement professional skilled in managing material and equipment needs. Proven ability to manage staff, develop and oversee operating budgets, and communicate with other departments, vendors, and executive management to ensure procurement goals are met.
• Experienced with sourcing suppliers for purchased goods with an annual value of $ 120 million, negotiating contracts including blanket agreements, bulk commodity pricing agreements, and conducting production planning.
• Possess knowledge of manufacturing operations gained while performing plant surveys at manufacturing facilities to recommend ways to improve operations.
Purchasing Manager (2008 -2010)
• Seeking foreign and domestic reliable vendors or suppliers to provide quality goods at reasonable prices.
• Sourced and negotiated pricing for 800 items with an annual purchased value of $120 million including establishing blanket purchase agreements and bulk commodity pricing agreements.
• Developed strategic suppliers and negotiated contract agreements to reduce the number of vendors from 150+ to a group of 65 core partners resulting in cost savings due to reduced administrative costs as well as quantity price breaks.
• Saved significant costs and increased efficiencies by implementing JIT concept.
• Saved costs by negotiating with suppliers and couriers. Reducing spending by over $ 280, 000 per FY10.
• Track inventory levels of current stock, and stay current on any changes in either the supply of or demand for needed products and local / imported materials.
• Participates in the SOP (Sales & Operational)
• Managing the shipping, handling and storage requirements on components to ensure high quality items are received and issued to the appropriate departments.
•• Just-In-Time purchases to minimize inventory cost and meet end of year inventory target.
• Develop, Lead, Train, and facilitate cross-functional teams in Lean Kaizen Events & other CI (Continuous Improvement) projects to meet specific business plan objectives for site.
• Lead & develop team members to maintain safe and environmentally stable working environment.
• Introduce Visual Factory by designing & maintaining visual controls throughout facility
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop strategies, identify, and evaluate areas of improvement.
• Research & offer solutions to resolve problems
• Determine optimum utilization of equipment, facilities, material flow, and personnel
• Will serve as a Change Agent - leader, promoter, trainer, coordinator, scorekeeper, and key to success of performance enhancement activities.
• Challenges & influences cross functional teams to meet major lean changes such as reduce inventories, eliminate waste, and decrease manufacturing cycle times.
• Define & communicate monthly goals for progress in 5S, VSM, Visual Management, Big K, and Small K.
• Constantly review operations & provide solutions to resolve safety and ergonomic issues.
• Recommends methods for improving worker efficiency and reducing waste of material & utilities such as restructuring job duties, reorganizing work flow, relocating workstations & equipment.
• Assist with development of scope documents and A3 Project Reporting.
• Update & Maintain lean sites and Administer Lean Library
• Perform “Go Look & Go See” in Departments.
• Follows up on Kaizen & influences behaviors & culture through introduction & development of information boards, visual indicators, hour -by-hour tracking, suggestion systems etc.
• Organize & Coach training sessions to educate the workforce on lean principles/ tools and mentor in Lean manufacturing processes.
• Constantly promote and instill the culture of waste identification and elimination throughout the plant in manufacturing and support areas.
• Ensuring accurate production planning for packing and assembly based on marketing requirements.
• Identification of all materials to be scrapped, as obsolete material.
• Performing inventory control by analyzing inventories on hand and doing short/long range planning on material needs based on Production Forecast.
• Decreasing local material stock to two weeks instead of one month.
• Fulfilling production need subject to prod. Plan
• Issuing, Reviewing, and Updating Production Packaging Plan weekly to be sent to the concerned affiliates.
• Issuing Production Volume Report on daily basis for Production & Packaging of Good Cells.
• Issuing Container Configuration to Sales Department on all shipments based on the Export Firm Plan.
Green Belt Six Sigma DMAIC Model.
• First University Degree: B.Sc. Engineering • University Faculty: Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST) Engineering & Technology • Major: Computer Engineering • Graduation project: Intelligent Vehicle System • Project Grade: Very Good