Procurement Manager
Awok.com
Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months
• Managing team of 5 managers, 21 buyers based in Dubai, and 6 buyers based in China part of the global sourcing team.
• Developed a performance management system for the procurement team with specific quantitative KPIs.
• Converted procurement process to a fully automated system and eliminated manual trackers processing.
• Increased website assortment to reach 5000% over a period of 3 years, as the main reason for revenue increase.
• Increased partnership of suppliers and sellers reaching 1700 active ones.
• Successfully managing a monthly budget of 10 Million Dirhams.
• Introduced, developed and built Market Place Model.
• Converted payment process from cash to credit-based process highly contributing to cash flow enhancements.
• Built Jumia Marketplace in Egypt, which is the first model in Rocket Internet world-wide
• Successfully on-boarded more than 500 active vendors within the first 3 months, resulting in assortment increase
• Developed selection and terms negotiations process, determining customer market needs, growing selection across sub-categories, and support for marketing campaigns.
• Responsible for all marketplace products’ categories.
• Successfully managed sellers’ relationships resulting in an increased volume of promoted products on the website which enormously contributed to revenue growth.
• Responsible for developing short- & long-term expansion strategies on the state of key top-line and bottom-line metrics and risk factors.
• Responsible for building sellers’ awareness and education of marketplace model & portal
CATEGORIES: Computing, Consumer Electronics.
• Part of the Start-Up team
• Built products’ brands profile thru a comprehensive selection process
• Developed vendors relationships and loyalty
• Assessed market procurement conditions, recommended annual terms and implemented procurement strategies.
• Developed category procurement support strategy along with buying operations department and driven continual process enhancements
• Consistently achieved sales targets.
• Managing team of 5 purchasing specialists.
• Identified new suppliers, agreed on terms and negotiated supply agreements where appropriate, including discount structures and volume rebates
• Achieved deals with more than 45 days of payments and marketing funds by 5%.
• Created stores profitability by interacting with customers and providing prompt and courteous customer service to all customers in stores.
• Handling corporate team procurement process.
Procurement Supervisor reporting Procurement Manager (Industry: Retail)
• Promoted from purchasing coordinator to Procurement Supervisor, and eventually led the entire warehouse team.
• Identify new suppliers, agree on terms and negotiate supply agreements where appropriate, including discount structures and volume rebates. Achieved deals with more than 45 days of payments and marketing funds.
•Prepared production of Pricing and movement.
•Deals and orders follow up and send monthly sales report to consignment suppliers.
• Receiving Spare Parts./ Checking the and testing it before the production
REPORTING: Team Leader.
