Buyer
Al - Futtaim Carillion
Total years of experience :29 years, 8 Months
Responsible for enhancing the company’s profits by acquiring suitable goods at a competitive price through sensible planning and careful purchasing.
•Handling requisitions & purchase orders requests and Coordinate delivery procedures and follow-up time schedules.
•Negotiate the best deal for pricing and supply contracts and ensure that the products and supplies are high quality.
•Organize and execute Procurement activities for materials to provide effective and efficient services to meet the Project and Client needs.
•Analyze the areas of concern (for procurement related activities), identify risks/impact in project execution and suggest possible solutions and corrective actions.
•Ensure proper negotiation with Vendors (T&C, schedule, commercial aspects etc.), commercial evaluation and selection of Vendors
•Frequently communicate with internal departments, suppliers, and others to resolve various complex problems.
•Build working relationships with auditors, vendors and third-party suppliers.
•Keeps constantly apprised of economic / business situations as they affect purchasing policy; make recommendations to adequately meet those changing conditions.
•Analyze current procurement activities and recommends improvement through more efficient procurement methods, quantity discounts, standardization, value analysis and cooperative purchasing.
Responsible for performing tasks that will maximise business opportunities in a new and existing markets. Establishing, maintaining and developing working relationships with both internal and external partners.
•Monitoring the day-to-day commercial performance of each account within a portfolio.
•Check and identify accounts that are likely to become a bad debt.
•Playing an integral role in new business taking responsibility for the on-boarding of new clients.
•Conduct reviews on accounts on a regular basis to evaluate clients’ demands & usage of their account.
•Developed comprehensive account plan for designated key accounts that included account set up and on-going customer support and training on data, software, and custom solutions resulting in the discovery of major up-sell opportunities.
•Supervised and analysed account activity and delinquent reports at account level resulting in fewer billing and payment errors.
•Increased revenue retention by enhancing and aggressively pursuing integrated customer relationships resulting in decreased customer cancellation requests.
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