Tactical Buyer (Services & Indirect Materials)
Nestle Pakistan
Total years of experience :4 years, 0 Months
• Negotiated annual purchases spend/budget of Rs.241 Million in 2011.
• Achieved annual Savings of Rs.16+ mio from the addressable spend in 2011.
• Ensured competitive bidding rules are adhered to ensure diligence in validating new suppliers (by completing supplier visits) before recommending to Strategic Buyers.
• Procurement of machinery & process equipment, IS/IT equipment & supplies, Automation equipment, Electrical supplies, Pipes & Pipe fittings, OEM Spare Parts (including complete Tetra & Wartsilla), Appliances, Safety and Security equipment, Farming equipment & supplies, Coding equipment and Waste management.
• Looking after Sheikhupura, Kabirwala, Islamabad and Port Qasim Karachi Factories, Milk Collection centers and distribution centers at national level.
• Processing of purchase requisitions, purchase orders and development of long term purchase contracts/agreements in liaison with legal, tax and all other relevant departments.
• Supplier management for both local and foreign vendors, maintaining a strategic alliance. This includes the selection, development, performance evaluation and audits.
• Performed daily weekly and monthly reporting (Spend, Parked Invoices, Open POs, Confirmatory POs, GRN/SES, etc.).
• Gate keeper of compliance (Spend, Parked invoices, Open POs, Confirmatory POs, GRN/SES, etc.).
• Furnished resolution of parked invoices on daily basis to designated staff in procurement.
• Implementation of 7 Best practices policy in the spend category.
• Development of the current vendor and keep on searching the new one for the business
Link Budget and Path Profile designing on PathLoss.
• Done many LOS and Technical Site Surveys (TSS).
• Hardware’s Assembling, Software’s troubleshooting.
• Physical Installation & Software Configuration of PDH & SDH links.
• Installation and assembling Hybrid, High and Low ODU.
• Applied Quality Assurance & Quality Control techniques and standards used in Physical Installation.
• Prepared TSS, LOS reports.
• Managed retail activations (Shop Branding & Displays, special POP executions etc) with regional distributors, include retailer specific consumer promotions.
• Up-gradation of strategy plan for marketing activities to achieve the yearly target.
• Coordinated and followed up the marketing campaigns (Product Launching, Promotion, etc.) including ATL and BTL activities and kept strong and continuous communication with the business partners and internal organization to implement such campaigns and ensured nice and on-time execution, while providing all required material (guidelines, creative, etc.).
• Handled all the major Deployment, Resource Management and Team Management to ensure the delivery with critical timelines.
• Enhanced Brand Value & Visibility through clutter-breaking marketing tactics such as Branded Entertainment / Content Development, Product Placement, Viral Marketing, Seeding & Social Media activations.
• Active participation in development and implementation of SOP and processes for field operations
Worked as Transmission Engineer on NEC-Telenor project. Started as a ‘Team Lead’ and later on given a leadership role on the project as ‘Project Co-coordinator’ where I successfully lead/ managed around 12 Team Leads.
Worked as Transmission Engineer on TELENOR project.
• Team’s coordination and management towards the project objectives.
• Link Budget and Path Profile Designing on PathLoss.
• Done many LOS and Technical Site Surveys (TSS) and have knowledge of various equipments like GPS.
• Hardware’s Assembling, Software’s troubleshooting.
• Physical Installation & Software Configuration of PDH & SDH links for Telenor.
• Configuration of NEC Microwave Equipment using Hyper Terminal.
• Configuration of Microwave Equipment (1+0, 1+1).
• Have adequate knowledge of assembling and installation of Hybrid and High, Low ODU.
• Well known about the Quality Assurance & Quality Control techniques used in Physical Installation.
• Documentation: Preparing TSS, LOS reports and Pre-PAT, PAT documents.
• Regular Team Lead performance assessments and GAP management.
Worked as Transmission Engineer on HUAWEI-WARID project.
• Hardware’s Assembling, Software’s troubleshooting.
• Physical Installation & Software Configuration of RTN600 PDH links for WARID.
• Configuration of Microwave Equipment (1+0).
Major assignment was to design a device through which one can connect to Internet and uses it using GSM Networks without using computer modems.
Major work was to study and analyze their different Payphones, GSM Wireless Outdoor Payphones, Line Protection Units, Network Management System and Call Management Systems.
MBA (Marketing)
BS Electrical Engineering