Procurement & Contracts Manager
Saudi Manpower Solutions Company (SMASCO)
Total years of experience :13 years, 9 Months
SMASCO has engaged over 120, 000 employees and served over 4, 000 customers to date. The SMASCO Group comprises six subsidiaries specializing in manpower solutions, logistics & assets management, facility management, medical services, customer experience, and IT solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
1. Ensure the adherence to Group Policies in all work activities, maintaining regular communication with relevant parties and stakeholders.
2. Select, negotiate, and foster relationships with approved suppliers, ensuring they remain motivated and consistently deliver on agreed cost, service, and quality standards.
3. Evaluate Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) Project and User Requirement Specifications (URS), prepare and execute tenders, negotiate optimal value, and develop commercial contracts.
4. Define business needs and actively participate in the creation of the annual budget. Develop procurement and supply plans aligned with budgetary requirements to ensure the availability of materials, products, and services.
5. Collaborate in sourcing negotiations, ensuring vendors selected meet the negotiated purchasing conditions and terms.
6. Conduct comprehensive procurement tendering for strategic projects, from the creation and submission of Requests for Proposal (RFP) or Invitation to Tender (ITT) to the letter of award.
7. Work closely with the Legal Department to develop contracts and framework agreements for capital investment projects.
8. Develop vendor prequalification criteria and systematically track vendor performance based on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within framework agreements.
9. Obtain and analyze feedback on vendors' performance in business units, deploying improvement actions as necessary.
10. Utilize and analyze diverse sources of information creatively to understand wider business, market trends, and supplier dynamics.
11. Actively participate in the preparation of technical and commercial bids as per requirements for all tender submissions.
Afras was set up in 1976 to compete for construction, facility management, building and hospital operation and maintenance contracts in Saudi Arabia, with total manpower of 15, 000 employees.
Job Responsibilities:
1. Ensure that procurement policy, systems and processes are in place so that supplies and services are in a timely, cost effective and professional manner to meet the required specification.
2. Research, negotiate, maintain, monitor, and regularly evaluate relationships and contracts with suppliers and subcontractors so that organization has a reliable supply of materials and services that meet its standards of quality, timeliness, and cost.
3. Forecast demand and create supply plans that ensure availability of materials, products and services.
4. Design and implement warehousing strategies for materials, tools and equipment.
5. Develop procedures for coordination of procurement management with other functional areas, such as tendering, marketing, finance, operations, and projects management.
6. Select transportation routes to maximize economy by combining shipments or consolidating warehousing and distribution.
7. Ensure that existing suppliers, subcontractors, freight forwarders and custom clearance brokers are managed and controlled properly.
8. Participate in preparing of technical & commercial bids as per requirements for all tender submissions.
9. Ensure effective management of staff so that they are fully trained, motivated and organized in order to meet department and business objectives.
Tri-Spectrum is a fast growing company, manufacturing electrical socket & switches located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
I was responsible of flow of goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of manufacture to point of consumption. Ensuring fulfillment of the firm’s need in time with the proper quality at the lowest cost, handling and dealing with foreign & local suppliers, logistics and custom clearance to facilitate importing & exporting processes.
Power House is a leading Egyptian company active in the field of Power generation, distribution, control panels and pumping applications especially for the oil and Gas industry.
Job Responsibilities:
1- Analyze and evaluate all purchasing requisitions to ensure clarity and completeness in description of procured material and equipment.
2- Prepare and issue RFQs to qualified suppliers/contractors as per the approved vendor list.
3- Prepare technical and financial comparisons for received proposals.
4- Negotiate with suppliers on lead-time, cost and quality so as to obtain the maximum benefits.
5- Prepare and issue purchase orders, work service orders, and service agreements in accordance with selected suppliers, price and technical specifications.
6- Search& follow inventory records or warehouse to participate in planning and determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity.
7- Follow up freight forwarders, customs clearance agents, and the execution of purchase orders.
Etisalat is the Middle East’s leading telecommunications operator and one of the largest corporations in the six Arab countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, with a market value of approximately Dh100 billion (US$25 billion) and annual revenues of over Dh50 billion (US$13 billion).
Job Responsibilities:
• Develop strategies to achieve better reliability, availability and safety.
• Create and implement schedules for operational (preventive and corrective) maintenance activities in a specific area to ensure operational deadlines and after sales service standards are met through the optimization of plans and cost-effective deployment of resources.
• Attend to machine breakdowns and diagnose / troubleshoot any electrical / mechanical failures.
• Handle, adjust, and develop control systems of the machines.
• Provide technical support and solution for long and short term problems to ensure standard performance.
• Prepare regular maintenance reports highlighting all maintenance activities, machine failures
and foreseen spare parts for the future scheduled maintenance.
CIPS, the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, is a globally recognized professional body elevating the standards of procurement and supply chain management. With this qualification, I'm equipped with the knowledge and skills to ensure efficient, ethical, and sustainable procurement practices. This aligns perfectly with my goal of advancing to a leadership position and making a positive impact in procurement and supply chain management.
• Graduation Project: Controlling industrial process by using programmable logic control (PLC), supervised and simulated by SCADA system. (Project Grade: Excellent)