Regional Procurement Lead - MENA , India & Turkey
CHEP
Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months
Supply chain solutions
• Strategic Sourcing: Defining and executing sourcing strategies, (RFI, RFP/RFQ), in close collaboration with business stakeholders. Developing evaluation criteria, and evaluating commercial tender responses.
• Supplier/Vendor Management: Establish and formalize the vendor’s relationship to create mutually beneficial partnerships, recognize, monitor, and manage vendor risk to the organization,
• Spend analysis: Profiling the spend category, collecting, reviewing latest spend, internal demand data, compiling market intelligence data.
• Risk Analysis and Management: Identifying and mitigating the impact of risks for each procurement process. Preparation of back-up solutions in case of uncertainty or unforeseen problems.
• Contract Management: Implementing, monitoring, negotiating, and drafting contracts; monitor contract compliance. Expertise in contract management includes but not limited to: Framework, Service, Event Management, Revenue Sharing, Barter, Sponsorship.
• Benchmarking/Baseline Analysis: Negotiated solutions against alternate supply market options.
• Procurement Planning: Ensuring procurement plans are established and maintained as well as establishing strong links within the functions to maximize purchasing power and ensuring the best terms and conditions are agreed for all major purchases. Prepare and maintain purchasing records, reports and price lists.
• Best Practice Procurement: Demonstrating continuous effort to improve operations, decreasing turnaround times, streamlining work processes, and providing quality, seamless customer service to end user departments. Participating and leading cross-functional sourcing teams based on the nature of project needs. Reviewing existing sourcing strategies and proposing new ideas to increase efficiency.
• Project Management/ Enduser Support: Responsible for supporting end-users in facilitating relevant sponsorships as per policy including commercial & contracting strategy. Undertake any other ad-hoc duties as assigned.
• Procured/Spend Amount: Within my period of employment, procured goods and services amounting to more than AED 300 million.
• Cost Savings: achieved equal to 22% of the overall spending. In addition, successful negotiation carried out on numerous projects whereby a significant increase in VIK and FOC achieved.
• Skills and Experience Gained: Working in an international environment and procuring globally, has improved my cultural awareness, communication and people skills.
• Achievements: promoted from Procurement Executive to Category Specialist within a year
• Full-cycle Procurement: Working with the stakeholders to identify procurement opportunities across different departments.
• Types of tendering: Price comparison, signal sourcing, comprehensive evaluation (techno/commercial) one or many rounds.
• Training: Increasing awareness of in-house procurement best practice by providing training to fellow colleagues from other departments. In addition, provided training on ERP on a monthly basis.
• Total Value of Procurement: AED 3 million.
• Cost Savings: achieved equal to 12% of the overall spending.
• Purchasing and Stock Management.
• Cost benchmarking.
• Document controlling.
Management Information System (MIS) Relevant modules includes but not limited to: Accounting, Commercial Law, Marketing, Decision Support System, Project Management, Systems Analysis and Design, Data Mining and Data Warehousing, IS Development.
