Procurement Manager
Kuwait Food Company
Total years of experience :9 years, 6 Months
The restaurant division owns exclusive franchise rights for the management and the operation over 1800 restaurants that represent some of the world’s leading food & beverage outlets in 13 markets across the Middle East, North Africa, and CIS.
My primary objective is to transform the procurement organization across the restaurant division managing more than 290M USD addressable spend in indirect categories such as but not limited to CAPEX, OPEX, MRO, facilities management, cleaning supplies, IT, marketing, transport, etc.
While directly reporting to AMERICANA Senior Procurement Manager I am also responsible for:
• developing and executing the procurement strategy in line with company vision and objectives
• leading the procurement transformation from traditional methods into strategic sourcing and category
management complemented by analytics
• developing new suppliers whilst maintaining existing supplier relationships
• analyzing of current market trends and new innovations
• continuously improving working capital
• leading a cross functional team to implement a ‘’Zero Base Budget’’ concept for the Indirect categories
• safeguarding COGs by ensuring best practices and leveraging global procurement initiatives
• coaching of regional/local procurement team to support the procurement transformation of the Indirect
Categories
Managing all the Purchase Requisites of Local Food & Non-Food items for all the QSR Chains within Kuwait Food Co. UAE/Oman - Hardees, KFC, Pizza Hut, Chicken Tikka, Krispy Kreme, T.G.I. Fridays, Olive Garden & Red Lobster.
Liaising with Local & External suppliers on a daily basis to fulfill the order processing time and the delivery lead time.
Maintained the optimal inventory level within our warehouse for local items at all the time possible.
Managing the stock availability of all the new Campaigns within all the chains and securing the stock in advance to properly execute and avoid any bottlenecks throughout the Campaign period to avoid stock run out issues and no stock issues within our warehouse.
Supporting in the accomplishment of warehouse SLA in regard to the proper utilization of the storage space within the warehouse.
Preparation of Daily Stock Reports for all the Local stocks categories for all the chains within Kuwait Food Co. UAE.
Tracking of Import Shipments and receiving of the products with the correct allocated article codes into the ERP System.
Preparation of LPO, FPO, Internal MEMO & GRN.
Capturing the Contract logs for all the Local Raw Material suppliers and also maintaining the contract logs for service-related jobs - AMC and SLA.
Negotiations with the suppliers for getting better quality product at the best price whenever there is a new requirement.
Processing of all the internal orders from various departments within the company.
Securing the Stocks for other Markets like Oman on a monthly basis and arranging to deliver the same to Oman through our freight forwarders on a monthly basis.
Supporting all the departments within the organization (HR, Marketing, Operations, Quality Control, Commissary Centers, Maintenance, Project Management, MIS, Finance, Fleet, Admin…) in all the new requirements and helped in closing all the issues at my level itself rather than escalating the same to higher management.
Handling and execution of all the operations related duties.
Preparation of Purchase Order for the local & international suppliers.
Follow ups on the payments and contract terms with different suppliers.
Handling all the Import Shipments, Customs clearance process, Duty Exemption process, Inventory Management and other Logistics clearance and delivery process.
Liaising with the raw material suppliers and getting the best quality raw materials with the best price suitable both for the company as well as for the supplier.
Execution of new projects within the company. I was responsible for finalizing a contract for a key Raw Material Supplier and on finalization of the contract I made a profit of AED 3 Million for the company.
Creation and registration of all the new vendors to the companies registered vendor list in the ERP System.
Proper follow up with the manufacturing plants on daily basis as on the availability of raw materials and finished goods so as to update the suppliers and the sales team to act accordingly.
Preparation of LPR, LPO and GRN.
Good knowledge about the ERP System (GP- Microsoft Great Plains) used within the company.
Getting the daily Raw Material Status Report from all the manufacturing plants.
Coordination between all the departments and making sure that all the deliveries and follow-ups are done properly on a timely basis.
Preparation of all the different internal memos, supplier contracts.
Handling all the spare parts imports for the manufacturing plants and delivering the parts on time always.
Preparation of daily stock report, LPO-FPO status check, Inter Organizational Memos, Supplier Contracts and follow ups on the Payment Process.
• Graduate Certificate in Management, University Of Wollongong, Sydney Business School, Sydney Australia (May 2014)
• Bachelor in commerce (Taxation), Siena College of Professional Studies, Cochin.