PROCUREMENT HEAD
PIONEER VISION GROUP
Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months
ABOUT PIONEER VISION GROUP: Pioneer vision group is basically Al-Ain based group established in 1998, it is mainly construction, Interiors & Joinery, Aluminum, Quarry marbles, Bowling centers, Advertising & marketing, typing center & other food chain restaurants group. Its currently operating as main construction group with its well equipped interiors & joinery, aluminium divisions supporting its construction co. by name B.E.G.C.M which is contracting major construction projects in Al-ain & Abu Dhabi. Al-Ain Center for Care & Rehabilitation is one of their major semi-govt. welfare foundation owned by the Group owner.
Job Role: Procurement Head responsible for managing over all procurement for the group & implementing effective procurement system for the construction & building engineering divisions.
Duties:
Re-designing & proposing ERP based procurement process for engineering divisions to implement & operate proper procurement structure.
Heading mainly central Purchase & procurement department for overall purchases & procurement for the Group.
Organize & supervise project procurement with planning & detailing all the procurement tasks as per deadlines schedules to various projects, divisions & food chains.
Weekly, monthly & quarterly planning & scheduling purchase requirements of all divisions.
Handling & liaising sub-contract agreements for construction projects & others.
Auditing division stores, Purchase plans, routine procurement activities to ensure proper implementation of procurement system.
Forecasting & analyzing market situations for future availability of goods or in case of market shortages closely ascertaining alternative sources of supply to avoid production delays.
Calculating lead time for purchase of equipments & items from international suppliers, shipping & sailing time coordinating with shipping agents for timely deliveries.
Meetings with Financial boards for Purchase Planning & budgeting for the on-going projects & other tendering projects.
Ensure, monitor & evaluate all the documents raised are correct and duly signed by authorized signatories & goods receipts raised are correct against deliveries and tallying current physical inventory also ensure purchase requisitions are raised in time and cross check final purchase orders to avoid errors and omissions.
Making recommendations & addressing issues to be resolved regarding purchase & procurement.
Managing & supervising a team of Purchase officers to operate & function complete purchases as per the SOPs.
Reviewing all the purchase orders & approvals to purchase, reviewing comparisons terms & conditions.
Implementing procurement procedures all across the company and ensure all SOPs are followed inter-company and regulatory authorities such as Dubai ports, Customs authorities and other civil defense requirement are met.
“Team Leader - Procurement & supply chain” Dec 2010 - Mar 2015
About Dnata: Dnata is a leading International Airports Ground handling & Air side services providers is a Dubai based company with its operations in more than 57 countries. Its Major Subsidiary is Emirates Airlines with other major Subsidiaries Dnata Travel, Dnata Cargo, Dnata Aviation College etc.
Achievements:
Successfully secured & passed all Management training & courses.
Managed to provide supply chain & aircraft appearance services with current recourses to all Major Airlines as the operations since 2012 expanded 4-5 times.
Acquired Appreciations for my services from Majors Airlines BRITISH AIRWAYS, DELTA, SINGAPORE AIRLINES, and VIRGIN ATLANTIC & EMIRATES AIRLINES.
Successfully provided services as per the required SOPs to all Major airlines without any complaints & issues during my 5 years or services.
Job Role: Managing and supervising Aircraft Appearance Airport warehouse for overall procurement, Stocking, inventory Control, Distribution & logistics to support department’s operations in the ramp for all turnaround aircraft.
Duties:
Organize, lead, supervise & control entire Aircraft Appearance operations & management.
Manage & facilitate entire procurement of goods & materials local & foreign shipments.
Process & facilitate customs clearance, duty exemptions, port clearance documentation & transportation.
Forecasting & scheduling requirements of goods in advance & maintain reorder levels status to plan next orders & maintain min. inventory level of 65% to operate 48 hours running turn around operations of aircrafts in Dubai airport.
Leading, assigning & detailing teams for operating fast running inventory, Levels & grading stocks, packaging & distribute for all scheduled turn around aircrafts.
Liaise & Communicate with Dubai Airport police Authorities for obtaining goods & Material Goods Entry Pass (MGEP).
Liaise & coordinate with Emirates Airlines Stores & offices, EK Engineering, Airside Safety authorities, DA Authorities in logistics & procurement matters.
Analyzing & forecasting prices of chemicals & equipments purchased from UK and other countries & monitor exchange rates to plan & execute orders with minimum lowest prices & control costs.
Searching new suppliers & manufactures across the globe for best competitive prices & Quality as per the airlines standards & requirements.
Evaluating performance matters of services & equipments suggestions for improving quality. Such Chemical agents, Cabin dressing materials, Cleaning equipments, safety equipments, transportations, manpower allocation & all related services.
Implement all safety & security procedures & ensure practiced at first & high priority.
Perform audits & physical checks for Quality Assurance, Safety & hygiene standards.
Closely monitoring overall operations to avoid delays & discrepancies.
Courses & Trainings
Aviation Ramp Safety Induction
Aviation Safety & Security Training
Leadership & Performance Matters
United Airlines - Security Training
Dnata Vision, Mission & Values
Airport driving permit training
Dangerous Goods Handling
One dnata One safety.
ABOUT LOOTAH GROUP OF COMPANIES: Lootah Group of companies is mainly into Construction business at huge projects since 1975 all across UAE comprising of Lootah Building & Constructions LLC, Ready Mix, Crushers, Lootah Investments, and Real Estate along with their Huge Industrial Complex of Manufacturing & production units known as Lootah Ajman Industries comprising of Lootah Marbles, Cementation, Aluminium, Double Glazing & Glass Tempering, Furniture & wood Works, Powder Coating, Emirates Foam, Fabrication, National Steel, Bitumen & Road works, Silica Sand, Lootah Detergents, Alpha Water etc. While same set up is installed and run in Africa Djibouti.
Achievements
Successfully managed to keep good relationships with suppliers during global financial crisis & acquired purchases on open credit 90 days & 120 days.
Profited the group by saving 2.5 - 3 million in purchases of Chemicals for Ready mix & cementation by coordinating competitive trade rates with international suppliers & by placing stack orders via L/Cs.
Hired Trained & Leaded junior purchase assistants for purchasing & logistics operations.
Successfully handled purchases for 3 Group LBC, Ajman Industries & Inmaa Djibouti industries.
Exceptional decision making for cost effective purchases of all orders via consolidated comparisons sheets.
Strong relationship building with suppliers & identifying new potential suppliers.
Job Role: Manage & execute Purchase dept. & Lead team of 3 purchase assistants for entire Group’s purchases & procurement.
Duties:
Receiving & processing of purchase requirements of all Ajman factories, Djibouti & LBC.
Receiving, reviewing & assessing all purchase requisitions, floating inquiries to potential & right suppliers gathering complete data sheets & comparison sheets to finalize the orders in time.
Organize, supervise, coordinate and monitor the assigned project procurement activities and personnel at the various stages of work, as well as take the appropriate measures to ensure that the entire project procurement cycle is on schedule and within the budget and in accordance with head contract requirements.
Weekly, monthly & quarterly planning & scheduling purchase requirements of all industries.
Coordinating closely with factories managers, engineers & suppliers to ensure right & correct specifications of items, machineries, and equipments are finalized & ordered.
Close coordination with division stores, managers & supplier’s scheduling & organizing timely deliveries of goods to avoid delays in production pipelines.
Forecasting & analyzing market situations for future availability of goods or in case of market shortages closely ascertaining alternative sources of supply to avoid production delays.
Calculating lead time for purchase of equipments & items from international suppliers, shipping & sailing time coordinating with shipping agents for timely deliveries.
Coordinating with finance & treasury dept. for processing timely payments for cash purchases or timely processing of L/Cs for international purchases or TTs.
Ensure, monitor & evaluate all the documents raised are correct and duly signed by authorized signatories & goods receipts raised are correct against deliveries and tallying current physical inventory also ensure purchase requisitions are raised in time and cross check final purchase orders to avoid errors and omissions.
Making recommendations & advising senior management on purchase issues.
Dealing professionally & smartly with vendors for acquiring best cut prices.
Extensively reading market history for all purchases, drawing comparison & short listing vendors with best competitive prices & delivery structures.
Implementing procurement procedures all across the company and ensure all SOPs are followed inter-company and regulatory authorities such as Dubai ports, Customs authorities and other civil defense requirement are met.
Manage & handle projects accounts & payroll.
Duties:
Bookkeeping & Maintaining Ledger accounts.
Handling Treasury, Bank reconciliations, petty cash.
Project financing, controlling & managing key accounts.
Process Payroll of projects staff & EOBIs (Employees Old Age Benefits) A/c’s.