Buyer, Central Procurement Department
Life Pharmacy Corporate office
Total des années d'expérience :5 years, 7 Mois
Nutrition, Home Healthcare, Mother & Baby.
•Lead the negotiation for the long-term commitment of the negotiations to ensure optimum contractual terms with supplier.
•Sourcing new supplier to contract with through the development of the sourcing plan and conducting negotiations with the supplier in order to provide the department head with the recommendations.
•Build strategic relationship with the contracted suppliers and the customers to ensure the consistency of supplying needs of organization with quality and best price.
•Procurement Strategy Development, Negotiating and Influencing, Procurement Process, Supplier, Evaluation, Contract Execution, Floating Inquiries, Material Sources, Export Import Documentation.
•Creating and developing a long-term strategic plan for all categories within the pharmacy industry. Developing strong working relationship with principle, supplie marketing & merchandising team.
•Drive the listing/delisting cycle of category SKUs. Create new items form, analyz the items performance and decide accordingly on possible expansions, create seeding plans, monitor the new items performance and for the delisting, through canceling, recalling and prepare liquidation plans to manage the category portfol and to achieve the commercial and regulatory objectives then align with the concerned stakeholders to ensure the proper execution.
•Manage the distribution model of the category SKUs through the matrix (assortment control) and regular model by items arranging, setting minimum display quantity (MDQ) Cosmetic Category Example Setting up 1-3 Meter Of Display unit(Wall or GE) for brands like rimmel, bourjois, maxfactor. Review and update the store matrix plan through the collaboration with the merchandising planning department and define the proper assortment profile for store format to optimize the inventory, achieve sale targets and satisfy customer needs.
•Manage the product display (planogram) of the beauty category items in the stor through the coordination with the space planning and the marketing teams based on thr shoppers insight, the category strategy, the financial objectives and customer decision tree to enhance and facilitate the shoppers experience and communicate the initiative master plan of the category with the concerned stakeholders.
•Support the promotion calendar based on the category strategy: I.e. beauty Agre with the suppliers on the promoted items and offers and secure the required budget and the collaboration with the marketing departments to monitor the impa of the promotions on the sales, market share and customers satisfaction.
•Develop the pricing strategy and tactics for the category items based on the category strategy and role to maximize the financial benefits, increase market shared and maintain the customers satisfaction.
•Lead The collection team to collect organization entitlements from vendor (Rebates, Promo Compensation, service invoices) on timely basis; avoid revenue loss and avoid cash conversion cycle.
Actively seek and communicate local market intelligence
•Manage range & category by being the key source of product knowledge and information across the whole category, new product development and inventory management.
•Providing the necessary reports to the management in order to take necessary Acton whenever required
•Manage new product development, by identifying and implementing new product offers that will increase the competitiveness and differentiation within category.
•Managing daily activities like placing orders, follow up with the vendors for delive and dividing tasks amongst team to achieve core team objectives
•Monitoring and maintaining gross margin percentage, developing and implementing purchase strategies in order to improve the margins
•Purchasing local goods and negotiating with supplier
•Manage promotional program by compiling all sales plan nomination on a rolling quarterly basis
•Manage trade marketing planogram for the year with timely execution.
•Pushing stock for the liquidation of slow moving inventory through the sales manager
•Established near Expiry Stocks Return plan with vendors by returning near short expiring stocks prior to (3-6 months)
•Maintaining the supplier data base, purchase records and related documentation
Disposable) Medical Implants (Stents, Orthopedic)
•Plan and estimate procurement needs and requirements, Store Management Vendor Management.
•Procurement Strategy Development, Negotiating and Influencing, Procurement Process, Supplier, Evaluation, Contract Execution, Floating Inquiries, Material Sources, Export Import Documentation.
•Responsible for performing all purchasing transactions including the preparation inquiries, commercial analysis of proposals and the issuance of purchase orders supervise and direct project buyer's daily activities as well as coordinate the efficient use of the expediting efforts, communicate with the accounting departme to resolve any contractual discrepancies discovered during the billing payable process for all projects.
•Strong track record in purchasing and materials resource management by eliminates / mitigates risks, identify and build progress business systems.
•To maintain optimum inventory levels in the supply chain, and implement supply chain management initiatives.
•Ensuring that all dispatched orders are checked and that all dispensing processe are compliant with the following standards: Pharmacy Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Good Documentation Practices (GDP), Good Warehousing Practices (GWP), Corporate Quality Manual & ISO standards.
•Managing all aspects of the Pharmacy department with respect to: the safe and effective running of the pharmacy, quality of department performance, the capac of the department to cope with demands of business and departmental budgets.
•Training and/or advising all members of the operation teams across all business functions in pharmacy requirements.
•Meeting customer requirements day by day: managing and leading the daily checking and administration activity and managing the team to cope with fluctuations in the level of orders to be checked.
•Providing an out of hour's emergency service in line with internal guidelines.
•Inventory Control:
•ABC - XYZ Analysis