Strategic Sourcing Manager
Fatima Group
Total years of experience :19 years, 2 Months
• Implementation of end to end strategic sourcing process. Collaborate with technical teams at plants and Sales and Marketing to prepare and execute demand and supply planning. Understand the business needs of different functions across the group and initiate consolidated procurement to derive cost savings.
• Responsible for contracts management while ensuring all contracts are in place, updated and renewed regularly as per business needs.
• Source develop & manage long term relationship with key strategic suppliers for materials & services to establish and maintain superior quality, supply, service & cost across all materials & services & to continually develop reliable suppliers who can differentiate from competitors on a sustainable basis.
• Manage internal & external stakeholders while ensuring that communication between all stakeholders is done efficiently to ensure mutual understanding.
• Drive and Measure supplier performance evaluation, Audits, Risk assessment and pruning of suppliers and compliance of Global supply management process.
• Collaborate with P2P buyers to ensure delivery against KPI’s of the P2P process.
• Wartsila GLS Supply Management representatives for MEA Sub region (Pakistan, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea) with focus on all categories of Indirect materials and services including MRO, Facility Management, Marketing & Communication, Human Resource, Professional Services, and
Transportation categories.
• Responsible for execution of Sourcing process including eRFP’s/ eRFQ’s. Identification of potential suppliers, monitoring the sourcing process, scrutinize the proposals and negotiations.
• Ensured successful execution Service Level Agreements & Contracts with key vendors and optimized organization’s indirect costs through effective negotiations with the suppliers.
• Identification of areas for potential savings within the allocated categories and analysis of spend related to these categories. To achieve the overall saving targets set for the year.
• Operational purchasing activities of Indirect materials and services for Factory & Head office procurement.
• Managed all imports and exports operations of the company in support to Supply Chain Manager.
• Raw materials and Additional materials replenishments planning as per forecasts.
• As key member of Supply Chain team, ensured effective management of spend through successful execution of account management, demand management & supplier management strategies.
• Procurement of Capital Equipment, Spare Parts and production and machine consumables (Arrange proforma invoice, open letter of credit, arrange import documents, deal with banks for advance and final payment settlement, follow up with supplier and customs clearing agent).
• Execution of purchase to payment process, PO creation in SAP, delivery management, invoice management, PO closings, resolving GR/IR issues.
• Correspondence with Foreign Service providers on agreements and necessary documentation.
• Purchased to payment KPIs improvement in collaboration with cluster team, data analysis from business warehouse (web portal), decide actions for improvement and follow up with stake holders.
• Liaison with commercial banks for Letter of Credits, Bank Contracts, Advance payments to foreign suppliers, and all open import payments.
- Executing all work related tasks related to Imports & Exports financing and Foreign Remittances.
- Processing and collection of Letter of Credits, and follow-up with customers.
- Preparation of CLP's of Import and Export related Clients and Submission to HO for Approval.
- Preparation and Submission of Monthly FX-Return to State Bank of Pakistan.
- Rectification/ compliance of internal, external SBP audit.
- Generating purchase requisitions & maintains EOQ for pathology inventory.
- Issuance of inventory to pathology based on FIFO and in accordance with the expiries.
• Processing of purchase requisition and preparation of comparative statements.
• Issuance of purchase orders and arrangement of timely delivery of goods (capital & expense items).
• Processing of bills for timely payment to suppliers & follow-ups on outstanding PRs.
Achieved first division.
Achieved an overall CGPA of 4.0 throughout the course.
Achieved an overall CGPA of 3.51