Senior Procurement Analyst MEANPT Region
SC Johnson
Total years of experience :10 years, 8 Months
● Managing all required Packaging & Raw Materials and contract manufacturing services ensuring timely supply, good quality at the lowest possible prices.
● Responsible for all procurement operations for respected countries.
● Working proactively with marketing and sales for the monthly planning ensuring alignment with commercial action plans
● Buys all required raw materials, packaging components, and contract manufacturing services at specified quality at the agreed service level at the lowest possible prices.
● Ensures availability and competitive supply by using the Strategic Purchasing Process (SPP).
● Implements, and maintains a vendor performance evaluation system.
● Develops relationship with the existing and new suppliers.
● Negotiate and concludes commercial terms with the suppliers.
● Leads cost savings initiatives.
● Working with the key stakeholders on progressing projects assigned using agile methodology to maintain effective results
● Project planning and tracking
● Analyze the business and provide value added information to drive profit and cost efficiencies (Eg. SKUs analysis, country P&L)
● Working with the team to identify the areas for operational and financial improvement
● Developing new reports and methods for decreasing the no. of errors and facilitate daily work using AI
● Prepares price projections for planning and budgetary purposes.
● Recognize and evaluate sales, promotional campaigns, and other opportunities to secure reduced prices
● Assess supplier’s products to ensure that they comply with specifications and meet the organization’s quality standards
● Analyze and evaluate suppliers’ bids, tenders, proposals and quotations
● Negotiate prices and delivery conditions
● Commit to purchases (within established limits of authority) with terms that are in the organization’s best interest
● Interpret inventory requests, productions schedules, purchase requisitions, orders and other documents to coordinate purchasing activities with the organization’s current and anticipated demand for goods and materials
● Monitor the quality and timeliness of materials and goods supplied
● Follow up the status of purchase orders with vendors to ensure timely delivery
● Communicate status of orders with internal customers
Deploys Indirect Sourcing Commodities' strategies at Country level
Ensures demands execution in line with Indirect Sourcing instructions and operational targets
Support Project Team and Other Internal Clients
Establish the local strategy in line with indirect sourcing strategy of Alstom and with the project
requirements
Active participation to local supplier panel elaboration to fulfill localization constraints
Creates return of experience and identify bundling opportunities
Communicates and ensures the application of WoW (Way of Working)
Lead supplier selections, negotiations, specific agreements, local supplier panel & performances
Challenge and benchmark suppliers’ panel for optimum service & cost balance
Responsible for cost management with suppliers (savings, claim managements, etc...)
in charge of strict application of DOA/POA procedures for supplier choices and contracts Support
Project Team and Other Internal Clients:
Lead sourcing activities following project / other internal client’s needs (conformity to cost
management, planning, etc...)
Ensures to be in line with the scope (with support of related stakeholders) and with the associated
budget while leading the RFQ
Responsible for putting in place internal meetings/reviews for each RFQ, in order to ensure the joint
agreement (technical/operational + commercial) before giving GO for any supplier choice
Comparing prices amongst various vendors in order to make sound purchasing decisions
• Work within a given budget to purchase goods and services
• Ensuring that products are delivered in a timely manner, and that the quality of the goods
received is satisfactory
• Negotiating with vendors on price, payment terms, mode of shipping, and delivery
• Ordering goods such as office supplies on a continuing basis in order to maintain certain
inventory levels
• Following up for the deliveries
• Checking invoices for accuracy, and follow up with the accounts payable department to
issue payment
• Evaluating the performance of certain vendors in order to decide whether or not to
continue buying from them
• Inventorying items in order to determine which ones need to be purchased
• Entering data concerning inventory and order amounts
• Working with Supply Chain director on 6L project to ensure cost saving and increasing
revenue
• Preparing the team KPI’s and monthly reports
• Working with indirect and direct materials
• Responsible for payment process of Henkel IMEA countries
• Dealing with Accenture team in India to make sure that the process is followed
• Being a liaison between Henkel in all countries (IMEA Region) and Accenture team
• Reviewing Accenture work in terms of reporting and data entry
• Providing an excel training for Henkel new candidates
• Contacting suppliers for the balances checks and payments delays
• Solving technical issues with the responsible teams for the stakeholders
• Creating SSC Cairo dashboard including the KPIs, age population, teams’ performances
and teams’ diversities figures.
• Guaranteeing timely and accurate submission of all PTP reporting requirements
• Maintaining hands-on knowledge of all processes performed and where assistance is
needed in processing deliverables
• Suggesting new improvements and ideas to enhance current PTP processes
• Communicating with Business Units and local countries, troubleshooting errors and
responding to inquiries as needed
• Analyzing and determining the validity of vendors invoices by matching price, quantity,
and terms with Henkel's purchase orders, receiving reports, or other guidelines
• Ensuring accurately and timely processing of invoices in conformance with Henkel's
guidelines
• Assuring timely month-end Purchase to Pay (PTP), material management and finance
closing activities
E-sourcing Specialist assignment in Henkel Bratislava
• Preparation and set-up of sourcing events in online tool
• e-tenders and e-auctions - Administrative support of online tool
• Making sure that suppliers and internal stakeholders have access the sourcing event
• Ensuring that all relevant information is correctly displayed and ready to be viewed by all
participants of sourcing event
• Communication with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth running of the
sourcing event
• Participation in projects and process improvement initiatives
• Providing tool and process training to internal stakeholders and colleagues
• Preparation of reports on e-sourcing activities
• Daily tracking of projects activities and project key inputs into Tracking file
• On-boarding new suppliers into system
• Verifying and cross-check of data consistency and data correctness before distributing
reports
• Be pro-active and participate in shaping the best-in-class process
• Support regional stakeholders in middle office tasks such as tender preparation, gathering
of documentation, communication with internal stakeholders, project follow up and analysis,
etc.
• Other associated tasks and duties as assigned by supervisor
In charge of all the social media activities for the brand
• Responsible for direct customer contact emergency and handle their problem effectively
• In charge of the photo sessions for our products to be advertised on the company website
• In charge of the events preparation and implementation, i.e.: Mother’s Day bundle
promotion
• Follow up with the departments’ heads on the tasks issued by the GM
• Being a liaison between the board of directors and the line managers
• Ensure effective communication between all the departments
• Attending conferences and meetings along with taking minutes and preparing agendas.
• Handling all the administration tasks
• Ensure good communication between the head office in Dubai and the other one in Cairo
• Responsible for the spot checks and sudden visits for the stores to ensure an effective
operation system applied
• Support managers and colleagues
• Finalizing and following up marketing deals
• Filtering data bases
• Assessing the results of marketing campaigns