Nabeel Rahman CSCP

Lead a AED 1B medical consumable portfolio for the company’s flagship, encompassing both short and long-term initiatives. Direct spend management and develop category strategies for medical engineering, laboratory, Medical consumables, and Hospital supplies both direct and indirect category. Managing a budget of AED 1B. Prepare category strategy for medical consumables for M42 Coprporate, covering Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, 18 hospitals, and 100 sub-facilities. Research and analyse the competitive landscape to identify potential opportunities. Present category strategies to the Executive team, securing buy-in and facilitating implementation. Address category challenges by driving solutions and coaching procurement leads for efficient task execution. Conduct strategic planning sessions with the Executive team, performing SWOT analysis, scenario planning, and market trend analysis.
● Oversee supply chain operations for medical consumables across Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Imperial College of London Diabetic Center, National Reference Laboratory, Danat Al Emarat Hospital, Health Point Hospital, Amana Healthcare Medical & Rehabilitation Hospital, Capital Health Screening Center (CHSC), Abu Dhabi Telemedicine Centre, Mubadala Health Dubai, HealthPlus Network in Abu Dhabi, and G42 Healthtec.
● Streamlined operational processes to reduce costs, leading direct and indirect team of 15
● Formed the Product Evaluation Committee to streamline the addition of new products.
● Launched cost-saving initiatives that led to over AED 20 million in annual savings.
● Negotiated annual vendor contracts, achieving approximately 10% year-over-year growth in category savings.
● Enhanced YoY savings by 10% and improved EBITDA margin through volume negotiations, usage control, and the addition of new products.
● Reduced dead stock inventory by AED 5 million by deploying workgroups across supply chain and clinical teams, mitigating future inventory buildup.

Designation Chronology:
August 2016 - Present: Supply Chain Manager
February 2015 - August 2016: Warehouse & Procurement Section Head
February 2014 - February 2015: Warehouse In-charge

Joined the organization as Warehouse In-charge and crafted an exponential growth curve meriting multiple promotions to roles of increasing authorities and responsibilities up till the position of Supply Chain Manager through exceptional performance

• Demonstrated highest standards of technical excellence, business objectivity and professional independence and successfully added new respiratory lines in the organization:
- chaired the project of installing new IV Cannula and IV set lines in the Abu Dhabi Medical Devices Co.
- pioneerd the 3PL concept and its implementation within the organization (Jebel Ali, Miami, and Ghana)
- designed structured business continuity frameworks for contracts warehouses thereby drastically reducing shipping errors
• Objectively advanced operational and financial health of the organization by generating annual savings of 5 Million AED by applying efficient sourcing and vendor management strategies
• Presided the process of fundamentally remapping operations to eliminate gaps. Presented tactical leadership and applied strategic initiatives that generated massive savings by trimming down:
- 20% material cost - 5% manpower cost - 10%logistics and other operational expenses

Key Responsibilities:
• Commanding a variety of supply chain operations to ensure efficient, and cost-effective processes for customer order management, procurement, warehousing, inventory control, in-bound/ out-bound freight logistics in addition to production planning and control.
• Spearheading a 15 member team - leading the development of strategic plans aimed at improving operational quality and efficiency with full accountability of over 40Million AED annual OEM and raw material budget.
• Contributing to the bottom line of the organization by applying analytical, forecasting and planning skills; evaluating past performance to forecast procurement needs while deploying cost saving approaches to attain budgetary constraints.
• Steering the entire procurement function which includes setting supplier qualification strategies, evaluating orders, negotiating contracts and resolving issues to maintain smooth operations and keep costs controlled.
• Driving all warehousing and inventory control operations to a new level of operational excellence; optimizing procedures along with adequate stock keeping to ensure uninterrupted flow of resources with economical cash cycle.
• Organizing and controlling logistical operations to ensure all United Nations Aid Shipments reach to the correct location (across the globe) at accurate time and in immaculate conditions.
• Leading initiatives to ascertain attainment of desired improvisations; proactively eliminating operational issues/ bottlenecks while generating daily exception reports and advising management on approaches that enable vertical business growth.

Key Responsibilities:
• Integrated strategic planning with day-to-day warehouse management to drive operations like receiving, storage, and transportation of medical/ non-medical products to a new level of operational excellence, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Powered the inventory management function; documented movements, computed forecasts, physically moderated existing levels, reconciled and updated automated systems, and efficiently resolved issues in case of any variations.
• Maintained an optimum stock cycle compared availability with current stock, identified precise quantity/ quality in case of shortfall and initiated procurement to eliminate bottlenecks.
• Collaborated efforts with cross-functional departments to develop purchase forecasts; prepared purchase orders and conducted market surveys to identify suppliers that meet organizational quality standards and price requirements.
• Anchored operations to ensure all organizational systems, policies, and processes of warehouse and SCD comply with applicable international and Quality management standards (CE, ISO 13485, ISO 9001, SFDA, & FDA) at all times.
• Cultivated professional and proactive relationships with key officials at various Government and regulatory bodies. Ensured all requirements pertaining to people/ documentation/ processes are in place to seamlessly acquire new product registrations, import permits, license etc.

Key Responsibilities:
• Led warehousing management operations - monitored receipt of goods, ensured effective handling and safe storage, conducted physical count and reconciled with data storage systems while ensured all quality and HSE requirements are met.
• Planned, organized and monitored the receiving, storage and distribution of goods to ensure smooth operation as well as enable location and distribution of goods to concerned department in an expedited manner.
• Personally compared and contrasted items received with order forms, ensured safe and proper warehousing of the same while resolved matters pertaining to damaged/ inferior quality goods by mediating with suppliers.
• Administered labelling of all incoming/ outgoing shipments, organized logistics as well as developed and maintained proper records as per standard operating procedures.
• Designed warehouse layout in order to optimize space, make then functional and well-suited; maintained facilities in supreme conditions at all times while deployed structured processes to improve efficiencies.

Key Responsibilities:
• Served patients by interpreting prescriptions and providing accurate medicines with precise dosages; clarified patient query, advised on how to take them while ensuring that medicines prescribed are suitable and within the law.
• Closely monitored inventory of medicines and other medical supplies. Managed the procurement function and medicine/ drug handling in line with best management practices as well as maintained the premises in high-quality standards.
• Worked in close collaboration with Doctors, health care specialists and other medical professionals to analyze medicine requirements. Streamlined processes and mentored new-joiners to enhance overall efficiency of the pharmacy.