PRAVEEN DSOUZA, Specialist - Category Sourcing

PRAVEEN DSOUZA

Specialist - Category Sourcing

Al Jaber Group

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Logistics & supply Chain Management
Experience
24 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 10 Months

Specialist - Category Sourcing at Al Jaber Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • October 2008 to November 2021

• Managed Buying office equipment’s and agreement for maintenance of equipment
• Taken care of the procurement & rental of vehicles (Bus, Pickup Trucks & Cars)
• Managing the procurement & rental of construction equipment (Tipper Trailers, Graders, Dozers, Wheel Loaders, Tool Carriers, Pork lifts, Tyre Rollers, Vibratory Roller, Finishers, Hand Roller, Generators, Compressor, Cranes, Manlifts etc., )
• Handled purchasing of spare parts for above said machinery & vehicles
• Taking complete responsibility and handling purchasing of Tools, Consumables & workshop machines.
• Analyzed and prepared agreement for vendor managed inventory for spare parts at workshop
• Handled solely arranging service agreements for cleaning/waste management/sweet & salt water supply as per project site requirement
• Managed successfully buying fuel, oil & lubricants
• Arranged required transportation requirement like aggregate etc.
• Handled services like ambulance and medical waste
• Managed to hire manpower as per requirement
• Handling of buying survey equipment and accessories
• Handling of buying lab equipment and accessories
• Successfully arranged maintenance and calibration of lab & survey equipment
• Managed and arranged third party inspection service and certification of construction equipment.
• Successfully arranged and responsible for safety related training services & certification for operators, site engineers etc.
• Handled purchase of safety items like safety wear, road safety items, workshop related safety items

Senior Procurement Executive at Mammut Building Systems LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • September 2003 to May 2008

• Resourceful in cost reduction by developing new and reliable vendors of the item with quality.
• Appointed as Purchaser with responsibility of buying consumables, Equipment and spare parts. Promoted as Executive Purchase Officer with added responsibility of buying Raw Materials i.e. Steel, Aluminum, Fasteners, Anchor Bolts, Insulation Material, Roll-up Doors, Power Ventilators, Paints and sub contract for fabrication & galvanizing etc.
• Appointed as key user of purchase, materials & logistics department for the implementation of Oracle based ERP System. It has been implemented successfully.
• Involved in entire purchase processing i.e. receiving PR’s, sending enquiries, receiving quotations, making quote analysis report, placing order, opening a L/C, import shipping documentation and arranging transportation.

Material Coordinator cum Purchasing Representative at Waha Electrical Supply Co. Of Saudi Arabia LTD. (WESCOSA)
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • September 1997 to July 2003

• Negotiating with shipping companies, custom clearance agents, insurance companies, forwarding agent and making contracts for handling company cargo.
• Shipment costing (Imports) for the inventory and project estimation/costing purpose
• verifying import & export shipping documents Coordinating with custom clearance agent and shipping companies
• Verifying the invoices which are related to imports (Material, freight, custom clearance, insurance premium)
• Opening a letter of credit with the help of finance department.
• Accountable for Purchasing of equipment’s, spare parts, tools, consumables items (International)

Purchase Assistant at Maharashtra Eastern & Ketones Pvt. LTD
  • India - Mumbai
  • August 1996 to July 1997

• Worked for expansion of petrochemical project with the supervision of vice -president & purchase officer
• Assisted for the procurement of Equipment’s, Instruments, pipes and fittings, consumables, subcontracts for civil works.

Education

Master's degree, Logistics & supply Chain Management
  • at Bharathiar University
  • December 2014
Bachelor's degree, Financial Accounting & Auditing
  • at St. Xaviers College, Mumbai
  • April 1995

Specialties & Skills

Supplier Selection
Supplier Management
Product Knowledge
Microsoft Operating Systems
ERP Systems, Microsoft Window Operating System,
Cost Control
Vendor Management
Vendor Development
Strategic Management
Planning

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Kannada
Expert
Marathi
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Exploring new places, Investment
    Employee of the year - WESCOSA