Mohammed Abdullah

A result-oriented professional with extensive experience in the full procurement cycle and supply chain management, including material planning, global and local sourcing, inventorying, distribution, and commercial functions. Exceptional expertise in developing new and alternative sources/products to ensure supply backup and cost savings. Demonstrable record of utilizing a process-oriented approach to accomplish profitability, service, and organisational objectives. Adept in designing and implementing key sourcing strategies, formulating budgets, forecasting, trend analysis, and system analysis and integration. A hands-on leader skilled in coaching, mentoring, and motivating cross-functional teams to promote operational excellence. Leverage strong communication and interpersonal skills to influence and build sustainable relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and partners to achieve organisational goals. Multilingual proficiency in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Arabic.

Key Achievements:
- Executed procurement saving programmes and surpassed the chemical raw material savings for the year 2019 by 24% through improved planning, negotiation, and an emphasis on alternative source/product development resulting in net savings of over $26M (SAR 100M).
-Developed and launched key and strategically significant product alternatives to facilitate better pricing deals and to guarantee continuity in supply.
-Trained, coached, mentored, and led a junior team to take on senior roles while delegating work to enhance employees’ skills and to drive capacity building.
-Exceeded the KPIs target of cost savings by minimising out-of-stocks (OOS) to limit losses, inventory control, and demand forecasting.
-Commissioned successful automation within the procurement workstream in the ERP, which promoted paperless transactions and accomplished the transition of the previous manual systems from PR2PO.