Head of Procurement and Supply Chain
Dunkin Donuts
Total years of experience :3 years, 10 Months
and Cloud Kitchen in the Middle East.
Dunkin' Donuts
Head of Procurement and Supply Chain- UAE and Kuwait - November 2022 - Till date
• Managing strong working relationships with Brands and Internal operations to build and execute procurement strategy and inventory levels are fully understood by all.
• Designed process integration with the Demand Planning, Retail Supply Chain, and Distribution & Logistics functions
• Focus on Category Strategies for the assigned product categories with a focus on spend analysis, Budgets, savings targets, market overview/analysis, risk analysis, risk management, cost drivers, opportunities, internal customers, and tender plans to ensure the highest level of service and efficiency to our internal and external customers.
• Developing new trends of products to help innovations with R&D and Marketing to promote new products as well as cost savings for the Brand and its Franchises with the focus on optimizing products and as per their specifications, without compromising contractual requirements with our Franchises
• Leading CAPEX and project planning to open stores across the Middle East
• Working and Developing contingency across all categories based on requirement and specification
• Working closely with consultancy to Analyse Global Commodity Price trends.
• Implemented Vendor Management and Stakeholder relationships policy to measure effectiveness with Key Performance Indicators and prove the impact and benefits of risk management strategies
• Well endowersed with local legal rules that Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) play with our company risk management.
Achievements:
• I started to implement the contingency with the support from the brand to go live for the local suppliers saving up to $1 M for the year 2023.
• The total spend is $10M/annual.
IPC-Middle East & Africa (SUBWAY®) is an independent SUBWAY® franchisee-owned purchasing company. Our goal is to implement purchasing and distribution programs that help build a competitive environment for SUBWAY® franchisees.
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Headed up Procurement (all categories), New Projects, Food & and supply chain.
• Negotiating all purchasing prices, payment credit terms & conditions and MOQ with Vendors.
• Develop and implement Category management strategies to have clear visibility on the spending of each category for supplier ABC analysis.
• Develop new items and conduct inspections/tests on the products for management approval.
• Reorganized teams and processes to ensure more efficient delivery of services.
• Monitoring contracted Vendor performance taking required action for non-compliance and keeping a track record of Contract details for timely renewal and re-tender.
• Initiated process improvements based on the recommendations made by Project Boards.
• Strategic Procurement is planned to ensure a smooth flow of materials from the Vendors to Stores and from the Stores to the end-users.
• Evaluate Quotes based on Cost, Delivery, Quality and Payment terms.
• Develop new Vendors for critical items to avoid a single source.
• Member of the Executive Committee along with the CEO's direct reports and on the Management Committee with other directors.
Achievements:
• Consolidate the volumes across all stores in Kuwait.
• Re-negotiated the contract with the supplier leads to the food cost down by 5%
• Developing & implementing Procurement Strategies and Processes to ensure that the operation runs smoothly while ensuring that the annual spend is monitored and savings are delivered.
• Implement Cost structure of materials/services.
• Supplier sustainability and innovation capabilities
• Developing Al Mathaaq Franchise Business Strategy
• In addition to the above I was also responsible for:
1. Strategy Development through efficient Business Needs Understanding, Economic, Financial, Industry, Competitor and Supplier Analysis.
2. Strategy Implementation through the efficient execution of Competitive Bidding events, Strategic Negotiations, Supplier Relationship Management, Leveraging and Legal Contracting.
Achievements:
• Helping Ikea brand to revisit the Meatballs in Menu
• Improving the CAPEX cost by sourcing directly from the vendor