سمر الفايز

-Lead commercial and contract management for a multi-billion portfolio of water transmission and distribution infrastructure within NEOM.

-Lead end-to-end contract lifecycle management for major service and infrastructure agreements, including tender strategy, negotiations, change orders, and dispute resolution.

-Advise proponent on commercial strategy, procurement governance, and contractual risk management to ensure alignment with project objectives, budgets, and regulatory frameworks.

-Support in complex sourcing and tendering processes while coordinating with legal, procurement, finance, and project teams to ensure effective contract execution and delivery.

- Managed procurement activities for financial advisory services related to transactions (M&A, JV,
divestments).
- Handled end-to-end sourcing and contracting for high-value advisory services

- Develop, implement and manage contracts and service level agreements for Corporate Procurement.
-Played a key part in the development of an internal purchasing system which has significantly improved the purchasing process experience to all departmental users.
- Develop and manage tendering process activities including development of RFP/RFQ documentation and classification to bidders in line with company guidelines and policies.
- Analyzes and evaluates bids in order to determine the optimal value.
- Prepare and issue purchase orders and agreements.
- Receive invoices from suppliers and verify them against PO & delivery receipts.
- Monitor overhead budgets and fiscal year expenditures.
- Develop and maintains policies and procedures related to procurement processes.
- Identify and register new suppliers.
- Review and evaluate supplier’s performance and suggest improvements to concerned parties including end-user departments.
- Develop negotiation strategy to achieve the desired commercial outcomes.
- Ensure competent call-off-contract frameworks are in place covering, high-transactional spend categories.
- Ensure that local Purchasing activities are conducted in accordance with Purchasing procedures.
- Source and deliver the day-to-day business activities.
-Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Led end-to-end procurement activities for luxury hospitality and residential projects, supporting the
successful delivery of 5-star hotels, residential compounds, office towers, and mixed-use developments.
• Managed the complete procurement lifecycle for the Kempinski Al Othman Hotel, including Furniture,
Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E) and Operating Supplies & Equipment (OS&E), ensuring timely project
handover and compliance with quality standards.
• Managed international procurement logistics, importation, customs clearance, and shipping
coordination to ensure uninterrupted project delivery.
• Prepared project budgets and procurement cost estimates, supporting commercial planning and cost
control across multiple projects.
• Provided project coordination of 3 stars hotel (Ottoman hotel) budgeting, purchasing & logistics.
• Managed leasing documentation and tenant commercial agreements for Al Othman Office Tower and Al
Mohamadia Residential Compound, supporting successful property operations.
• Coordinated with the finance department to initiate suppliers Letter of Credit requirements in relation
to project materials.
• Researched, proposed, and implemented vendor services to decrease costs to the organization.

-Attendning meetings
-Writing minutes & distributing them
- Doing excel sheets
-File and retrieve corporate documents, records, and reports.

Prepare all the illustration used for teaching and guiding students during the lesson. Scheduling programs given on each day.