Procurement Manager, MENA region
Olayan Kimberly Clark Saudi Co LTD
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :24 years, 2 أشهر
Working as Procurement Manager, MENA region (Reporting to EMEA Procurement Team Leader) as managing of 2 Tactical Buyers with additional responsibilities:
• In charge of all the cost transformers (CT) projects related to the procurement team within MENA region as well as the individual saving target.
• Managing all the sourcing of all the MRO, spare parts, materials, services, manpower, waste management (service / selling) Co-packing service, packing items such as carton, Corrugate, labels, ink, etc. including import materials logistic for the mills located within GCC (Dammam, 1st industrial city, Saudi Arabia and Askar, Bahrain) along with any other requirement within my category covering all MENA Offices.
• Manage of all projects’ activities within MENA.
• Review all the purchasing contracts and communicate with the legal department for final review and approval than process with it thru the contract online program called EtQ.
• Managing/ coordinate with the buying center for all the transactional process for PO approval.
• Monitoring the KPI (included GRIR, P2P, workflow, Open PO, Open Delivery, Missing POA, etc.) on weekly basis.
• Implement /Restructuring the categories responsibility among the team based in Europe and MENA.
I am working as Senior Buyer acting as Procurement Manager (Report to Country Manager) with the follow responsibility:
•Develop and implement approved purchasing strategies for major assigned commodities that deliver improved value to the company.
•Manage the procurement process to ensure timely completion of purchase order issue for all released PR’s.
•Establish and build effective working relationships with all internal customers, ensuring that Procurement team has a complete understanding of their needs and that the customers understand the procurement process and Exiros Procurement’s role.
•Monitor and assess supplier performance on a regular basis.
•Participates in negotiations with suppliers for major purchases of goods, analyzes the bids, if any, and recommends the best vendor to the procurement team.
•Investigates suppliers, interviews representatives, selects and determines vendors to be placed on the approved vendor list.
•Build strategic relationships with the suppliers to develop sound business relationship, mutual trust and confidence, locally and internationally.
•Reviews supplier quotations and approves or rejects prices, terms, delivery dates or traffic routes, if not in line with the purchasing policies and procedures.
• Make an agreement after negotiation as Trial agreement, short term and long term Agreement.
•Handling the Import & Export Shipping
* Spend more than USD 13 Million annual (Based on 2014) without the global agreement
thru the sister company (Exiros).
I worked as Field Buyer (Report to Procurement Manager) with the follow responsibility:
• Lead the Procurement team to review the scorecards on a weekly basis and make sure that we are under the target for all report and have good reason if not and follow up with each buyer to update them with any new rules and process that may effect the work and performance. Also, work closely with Accounts Payable to solve any issue related to Purchase Order and payment.
• Local Purchase: Get Quotations with the best prices after negotiation with the vendor either in/out of Saudi Arabia for the Departments Requirements and when I have an approved Purchase Requisition (PR), I convert into Purchase Order (PO)to follow with the vendor (or Logistic if out of Saudi Arabia) for the delivery of the materials/ Services as mention in the quotation and get the documents to pass it to Materials Department/ AP for process to close the PO and avoid any delay of the payment.
• EDI Purchase (Electronic Data InterCompany): Run the report for all materials required and search in all Plants/ Manufactures of Halliburton availability to place the PO against them after communicate with Material Department in the Plants/ Service Customer in Manufactures with the most economic shipment cost. Then, follow up with the Logistic Department for the shipment status and what may require importing this shipment such as Permit, Certificate of Origin, Government Approval Telex, etc.
• Make a vendor set up in the SAP if required to do a work with it after we check/get the documents requires according to Halliburton policy.
• Working on System Application Production (SAP) Program.
Also, I am working as Performance Development Coordinator (PDC) as we have a weekly meeting to discus, suggest, negotiate and adopt all ideas to develop the work performance and work environment.
I worked as Accountant (Report to Accounts Manager) with the follow responsibility:
•Accounts Receivable: recording, confirmation and collect money from the customers.
•Accounts Payable: recording, confirmation and make the payment.
•Expenses Accounts, Banks Reconciliation, Latter of Credit for Supplier and customer and make Trail Balance twice a year.
•Checking the payroll, vacation and making cheques and Drafts.
•Making a primary Income Statement and Balance Sheet as the Auditor makes the final one.
•Reviewing Banks, GOSI and Zakat.
•Working as Cashier several time while the cashier on vacation.
•Make transaction and enter it in computer with DOS System about 2 months, Fox pro about 2 years and Oracle for the rest of the time.
I worked as a Trainee in Accounting Department as accountant for 10 weeks includes:
•Making Bank reconciliation.
•Working in Account Payable on supplier accounts (checking invoices, match the accounts, call the supplier and sending faxes).
•Making Data Entry for transaction and prepare for check payment.
Bachelor of Accounting •Cumulative GPA is 3.6 out of 4.00 Scales. •Study in English language by complete 120 semester credits in subject includes Information Systems Development & Management, Marketing Management, Managerial Economics, Banking & Risk Analysis, Quantative Methods, Human Resource Management, Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Managerial Accounting, Computer Based Information Systems, Organization Theory and Analysis of Strategic Management.
•Diploma Degree in Accounting. •Cumulative GPA is 3.12 out of 5.00 Scales. •Complete 4 Levels of English Course during 1 Year. •Complete Accounting Program which includes Business Administration, Accounting (Banking, Hotel and insurance), Statistic, Computer, Mathematics, Tax & Zakat and Auditing and its applications.