Procurement & Logistics Manager
Hail Cement Company
Total years of experience :7 years, 11 Months
Key Responsibilities:
− Directing the procurement processes, contract administration, and logistics, partaking in company projects and providing the expected required cost and lead time for all items to support studying and executing the assignment, establishing a clear procurement plan, and ensuring requests are managed effectively with sufficient time to complete all necessary processes.
− Devising and implementing the overall outsourcing strategy, leading the design and delivery of the outsourcing management framework, guiding contract management, and supervising the establishment of corporate asset management to align the asset portfolio with the company’s requirements.
− Monitoring suppliers’ KPIs, managing relationships with key vendors and establishing action plans in case of deviations from KPIs, ensuring suppliers have processes aligned to safety, administration, training, and performance standards.
− Developing and implementing process improvements in the supply chain function, ensuring procurement and logistics procedures comply with government regulations, and directing inventory and supply strategies development to ensure the availability of needed material.
Key Accomplishments:
✔ Acting as the Supply Chain Manager.
✔ Increased the level of work process automation from 65% to 95%.
✔ Accomplished a 46% reduction in the Purchase Request life cycle, and reduced it from 27 days to 16 days.
✔ Redesigned the workflow of Purchase Requisitions (PRs), improved order prioritization, and increased satisfaction among end users.
✔ Restructured the roles and responsibilities of the team, which saved the cost of increasing the overhead, and eliminated two redundant vacancies.
✔ Appointed as a key user in SAP S4 HANA project.
Key Responsibilities:
− Supervising procurement processes, logistics, contracts, and audit operations and activities to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and the specified period.
− Build and plan advanced supply chain management strategies to ensure efficiency, reduce costs, and promote sustainability in logistics operations.
− Implementing advanced data analysis to evaluate logistics performance and identify improvement opportunities to make instructed decisions supporting the company's strategic goals.
− Managing relationships with suppliers and strategic partners to ensure the timely and high-quality provision of materials and services to enhance the company's competitiveness.
− Planning and structuring team roles and responsibilities, leading the procurement team, measuring KPIs, operational
effectiveness, raising quality, and reducing costs.
Key Responsibilities:
− Implemented inventory management systems and practices to optimize stock levels, reduce lead times, and minimize holding costs.
− Reviewed and negotiated contracts, terms, and conditions with suppliers, and ensured compliance and mitigating risks.
− Implemented process improvements to streamline procurement and logistics operations and enhance overall efficiency.
− Conducted regular supplier performance evaluations to assess quality, delivery, and adherence to contractual obligations.
− Developed and implemented strategies to achieve departmental goals and objectives.
− Resolved supplier disputes and facilitated the prompt resolution of delivery discrepancies to minimize operational disruptions.
− Managed the procurement budget, tracked expenditures, and identified opportunities for cost optimization.
Key Responsibilities:
− Handled the central procurement of the company, ensured assignments were performed based on approved policies, processes, procedures, and instructions, and identified opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes, and procedures, taking into account leading practices, cost reduction, and productivity improvement.
− Ensured detailed gathering of information about technical scope for Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Quotation (RFQ), developed RFQ or RFP including needed technical and administrative details communicating expectations to vendor, and developed technical and financial evaluation dimensions and framework for RFPs in coordination with related parties.
− Evaluated the suppliers according to the standards adopted and updated the supplier database periodically, reviewed the prequalification database and assessed and recommended potential vendors, developed a final contract with legal and regulatory affairs, and obtained required approvals to proceed with contract sign-off.
− Prepared documents related to contracts such as purchase requisitions, pricing agreements, and contract agreements in coordination with the concerned departments and received the materials, quantities, and services required ensuring their conformity with the purchase requisition and their quality.
− Oversaw the selection and execution of the sourcing approach for a given category, prepared documents and reports to support the negotiation cycles with suppliers, conducted distribution and network studies, monitored inventory, and analysed requirements to develop strategies to achieve or improve desired results. EARLIER CAREER
-Purchase of spare parts for aircraft (evaluation, price negotiation, availability, etc.)
-Communication with worldwide manufacturers, vendors and forwarding agencies.
-Warehouse stock control, monitoring of tools & spares in relation with shelf life, due calibration, etc.
-Follow-up shipment, custom clearance, national requirement approvals, transfers between locations.
- Purchase of spare parts for aircraft in AOG (Aircraft On Ground) situations.
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