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Omar Ahmed, Senior Sourcing IT & Technical Solutions

Omar Ahmed

Senior Sourcing IT & Technical Solutions·Qatar National Bank

Egypt

Bachelor's degree, Accounting

Work experience

Total years of experience: 5 years, 4 months

Senior Sourcing IT & Technical Solutions

October 2024 - Present

Qatar National Bank

Cairo, Egypt

October 2024 - Present

✓ Consolidate and review the approved IT purchase requisitions on Oracle, in accordance with established bank procedures.
✓ Compare received proposals from IT suppliers and evaluate them upon contract renewals to give recommendation whether to maintain the current supplier or establish a contract with a new one.
✓ Research, identify and assess bank potential strategic suppliers commercial & financial offers according to predefined qualitative and quantitative criteria in coordination with I Procurement- development & Suppliers Relationship Unit.
✓ Negotiate prices with Suppliers to reach for the optimum deals by attending meetings and communicating through emails and signed documents.
✓ Process requests regarding IT assets (printers, PC, scanners, etc.), consumables & supplies (toners, ATM, rolls, RAM, etc.), IT maintenance & supporting services (software support, etc.)
✓ Collaborate with Contracts - Insurance & Tenders Executives to decide on terms and conditions of IT products contracts or call for tender process.
✓ Prepare and issue the IT Purchase Orders to the selected suppliers/successful bidder, in accordance with the bank procedures.
✓ Process IT Purchase Orders through Oracle tool & follow up on the delivery date & time.
✓ Prepare comparison sheet between suppliers' commercial officers in terms of price, terms & conditions, specifications of the required service/product, in coordination with requesters regarding technical specifications.
✓ Maintain correspondence with suppliers on all matters related to purchasing.
✓ Coordinating with the requisitions department to obtain required administrative information and documents necessary for processing the procurement.
✓ Follow up on deliveries and ensure their arrival on a timely manner; handle all complaints that may arise concerning delivery, and apply penalties if required.
✓ Receive invoices and all supporting documents related to IT products/services submitted by business lines and ensure that they are correct according to the established procedures and checklist, and deliver them to Purchasing Accounting & Billing Team to process payments.
✓ Follow up with asset tracking team in creating Bar Code ID for invoice processing related to IT assets.
✓ Request new item or new supplier definition on oracle tool from I Procurement - Development & Suppliers Relation Team.
✓ Participate in attending tender committees for selecting the most suitable supplier/bidder.
✓ Follow up on acquiring approval in releasing LGs from Head of Sourcing, Information Technology & Technical Solutions in communication with I Procurement - Development and Suppliers Relationship Team to process payments.
✓ Ensure the correct functioning and implementation of the permanent supervision, Compliance and Money Laundering, Operational Risk, and Workplace Success Guidelines whenever and wherever possible.
✓ Contact suppliers to schedule/expedite deliveries, resolve shortage, address missed or late deliveries, and other service provisions.
✓ Perform other duties and responsibilities as required.

Company industry:
Banking

Procurement Specialist

October 2022 - September 2024

Palm Hills Development

Cairo, Egypt

October 2022 - September 2024

✓ Research, select and purchase quality products and materials
✓ Appling ERP purchases orders for company departments
✓ Build relationships with suppliers and negotiate with them for the best pricing
✓ Process requisitions and update management on the status of orders
✓ Update inventory and ensure that stock levels are kept at appreciate levels
✓ Coordinate with the inventory team, management, and stock room as required
✓ Assess the quality of stock received and escalate any discrepancies to suppliers and management
✓ Identify suppliers of goods and services
✓ Negotiate terms with suppliers such as price, quality of goods, deadlines, expectations, etc.
✓ Liaise with suppliers and requesters regarding updates and details of goods
✓ Create purchases orders and tally these with supply requests and orders
✓ Analyze invoices to ensure accuracy of goods delivered
✓ Monitor inventory to ensure the flow of goods remains positive
✓ Achieve indicated SLAs such as Turn-Around times, compliance, etc
✓ Attend meetings with company departments to ensure any contractual obligations are favorable to the company
✓ Develop and implement sourcing strategies to optimize cost savings and efficiency
✓ Initiate and manage RFXs
✓ Resolve supplier issues

Company industry:
Real Estate

Procurement Specialist

October 2021 - September 2022

Iron Mountain

Cairo, Egypt

October 2021 - September 2022

✓ Inspect and process purchasing requisitions and reports
✓ Create the POs process for handled requests and enter on system when needed
✓ Generate procurement activities’ end of month and comparisons reports
✓ Follow up on stock consumption related to consumables, stationary, etc.
✓ Prepare monthly report of requests to procurement team
✓ Follow up with the warehouse team on inventory of items purchased by the Procurement Department
✓ Ensure that all potential suppliers are provided with identical information upon which the quotations are given equal opportunity to meet the desired requirements.
✓ Add new vendors on the system to start create PO from them
✓ Conduct due diligence on the PR
✓ Manage spot buying of low value PRs

Company industry:
IT Services

Import and Logistics Specialist

January 2021 - August 2021

Top Cosmetics

Cairo, Egypt

January 2021 - August 2021

✓ Arrange import documentation, clearances, shipping mode, delivery, tracking and notification
✓ Follow up with companies from start make a design until make a final product
✓ Communicate and negotiate with Chinese suppliers
✓ Monitor shipments to ensure that goods come to stores on time and follow up undelivered goods
✓ Ensured all invoices and documents are free from errors
✓ Making checklist to compare between Items and get sure there is no any mistakes
✓ Searching for new suppliers outside Egypt
✓ Contribution of making a formal email signature to company

Company industry:
Perfume & Cosmetics

Education

Ain Shams University

June 2018

June 2018

Bachelor's degree, Accounting

Egypt

GPA (rating): Good

GPA (rating): Good

I participated of Operation Management Research with my colleague at my class, this research is about how we can make a project and marketing to it. we made a project (X Watch), and my responsibility was made a strength of SWOT analysis and we got the best prize research. also, i participated of (Model of Egyptian Stock Market) this is a simulator model related to stock market and my responsibility was a portfolio manager who a person is invest in the stock market with a lot of fund, and i got the best portfolio manager of the simulator market
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Skills

Auditing
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Accounting
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Negotiation
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Languages

Arabic

Native Speaker

English

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Memberships

American Cultural Center

Membership

July 2014

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Principles of banking
Jan 2018
Soft Skills
Sep 2014
English for Effective Communication
Aug 2016