Walid Medhat

• Formulate and execute strategic procurement frameworks, optimizing cost-efficiency and process workflows
while implementing new procedures to exceed KPIs.
• Negotiate high-value commercial terms for our mega projects with global and local suppliers (pricing,
quality, lead times, and payment terms) to optimize corporate cash flow, working capital and enhance the
given credit facility.
• Ensure strict supplier compliance with contractual terms, local content, quality standards, and regulatory
requirements through continuous monitoring, audits, and performance evaluations.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to evaluate technical samples, pre-qualifications, resolve specification
discrepancies, and ensure 100% compliance of material submittals with project specifications prior to
procurement approvals.
• Ensure effective follow-up with suppliers and the group procurement teams to track order status, resolve
pending issues, and maintain smooth procurement and delivery workflows.
• Apply advanced problem-solving methodologies to identify root causes of supply chain disruptions,
implementing swift corrective actions to guarantee continuous operational flow.
• Optimize supply and inventory processes by improving demand planning accuracy, reducing lead times, and
enhancing vendor responsiveness to minimize stock-outs.
• Lead cross-functional sourcing projects to align procurement strategies with corporate business objectives,
significantly improving supplier performance and bottom-line savings.
• Conduct comprehensive market analysis and benchmarking to identify competitive vendors, diversify
sourcing channels, and secure technical and commercial advantages.
• Negotiate and secure long-term agreements (LTAs) with strategic partners, achieving improved pricing
structures, service-level commitments (SLAs), and robust risk-mitigation clauses.
• Implement advanced spend segmentation and category-level analytical reporting to drive strategic decision
making, enhance procurement governance, and maximize transparency.
• Expand the approved supplier list by evaluating new vendors, validating documentation, and initiating RFQs
cycles to secure the best commercial and technical offers.
• Lead corrective action plans with underperforming suppliers, improving delivery accuracy, responsiveness,
and compliance with contractual SLAs.
• Implement structured evaluation frameworks and KPIs based performance reviews to enhance team
productivity, identify gaps, provided coaching and feedback sessions, motivation, and continuous
development.

• Designed and executed procurement strategies aligned with group objectives, driving cost efficiency, supplier
reliability, and long-term value across all purchasing categories.
• Utilized advanced negotiation strategies, including multi-round negotiation, total cost of ownership analysis,
and contract value engineering, to maximize savings and strengthen supplier commitments.
• Negotiated favorable payment terms with suppliers, improving cash flow, strengthening working capital, and
aligning financial commitments with group budget requirements.
• Leveraged procurement analytics and data dashboards to monitor spending trends, identify cost-saving
opportunities, and improve sourcing decisions across all categories.
• Achieved significant cost reductions through strategic negotiations, supplier consolidation, and optimized
sourcing methods while maintaining quality and service standards.
• Conducted thorough requirements analysis with stakeholders to define specifications, align purchasing needs,
and ensure accurate and cost-effective procurement decisions.
• Led high value negotiations with local and foreign suppliers to secure optimal pricing, favorable terms, and
long-term strategic partnerships.
• Implemented structured alternative sourcing strategies and vendor risk frameworks to evaluate financial
stability, compliance, operational capability, and service reliability, ensuring high-performing, resilient, and
low-risk supplier partnerships.
• Conducted thorough pre-purchase inspections to verify product specifications, quality standards, and supplier
compliance before finalizing procurement decisions.
• Streamlined delivery schedules by aligning supplier dispatch plans with production and warehouse capacity,
reducing delays and improving overall supply chain efficiency.
• Oversaw inspection of procured materials to ensure compliance with specifications, quality standards, and
contractual requirements before approval and acceptance, to identify defects, resolve non-conformities,
enhance material verification accuracy and quality discrepancies.
• Effectively managed multiple procurement priorities simultaneously by organizing workloads, balancing
urgent requirements, and ensuring timely execution of all purchasing activities.
• Ensured strict budget compliance by monitoring procurement spending, validating price variances,
and aligning purchasing decisions with approved financial plans.
• Optimized import procedures by reducing clearance delays, documentation accuracy, and ensuring full
adherence to Saudi customs regulations and SASO compliance requirements.
• Evaluated local and international markets to identify competitive suppliers, assess supply risks, and unlock
new sourcing opportunities across multiple categories.
• Led end-to-end contract management, including drafting, negotiation, compliance monitoring, and renewal
planning to ensure optimal commercial terms and risk-free supplier partnerships.
• Built a win-win strategic negotiation frameworks that improved supplier relationships and collaboration,
enhanced service levels, and delivered measurable commercial benefits across key procurement categories.
• Conducted regular supplier evaluations and business review meetings to enhance collaboration, increase
reliability, and drive long term strategic alignment.
• Developed multi-year procurement and supply strategies based on market insights, risk assessments, and
business priorities to support group expansion plans.

• Formulate end-to-end procurement strategies, allocating tasks to optimize costs & processes,
Improving and implementing new procedure to achieve KPIs.
• Negotiating terms with suppliers such as prices, quality, deadlines, payment terms, etc., ensuring
terms are managed and optimized for improved cash flow.
• Improving the material planning accuracy avoiding any out of stock of Raw materials/Packing Materials
to ensure smooth running production operations.
• Manage the receipt, storage, and handling of raw materials and products efficiently, preventing spoilage.
• Directed advanced inventory control strategies, including cycle counting programs, variance analysis, stock
reconciliation, and optimization initiatives, to improve inventory accuracy, reduce holding costs, increase
turnover rates, and significantly minimize shrinkage across multi-site operations.
• Coordinated and scheduled deliveries with suppliers to ensure on-time arrival, optimized lead times, and
uninterrupted material availability for operations.
• Ensured supplier compliance with contractual terms, quality standards, and regulatory requirements
through continuous monitoring, audits, and performance evaluations.
• Coordinated with food safety and quality teams to assess samples, identify discrepancies, and ensure all
materials met operational requirements prior to purchase approval.
• Applied strong problem-solving skills to identify root causes of procurement and supply disruptions,
implement corrective actions, and ensure continuous operational flow.
• Optimized supply processes by improving demand planning accuracy, reducing lead times, and enhancing
supplier responsiveness to ensure continuous availability and minimize stockouts and excess inventory.
• Led cross-functional sourcing projects to align procurement strategy with business objectives, improving
supplier performance and achieving measurable cost savings.
• Conducted comprehensive market analysis and benchmarking to identify competitive suppliers, diversify
sourcing channels, and secure the best commercial and technical advantages.
• Negotiated and secured long-term contracts with key suppliers, achieving improved pricing, service-level
commitments, and robust protection clauses that minimized legal and operational risks.
• Implemented spend segmentation and category-level analytical reports that enabled strategic decision
making and improved procurement governance and transparency.
• Collaborated with finance and department heads to control expenditures, prevent overspending, and
maintain full transparency across all procurement-related budgets.
• Tracking the status of requisitions & purchase orders on daily activities report.
• Lead and manage projects timelines requirements with sales dept. to ensureproper progress of
milestones for existing and new required products.
• Drove continuous process improvement initiatives by analyzing workflow gaps, implementing optimized
procedures, and enhancing procurement efficiency and operational performance.
• Negotiate and sign purchasing agreements with suppliers, follow up with purchasing teamto finalize
purchase orders and ensure on time deliveries.
• Review supplier invoices and verify them against PO and delivery receipts, following due payments
for suppliers to ensure productive progress and procurement cycle.
• Monitors market trends, prices, and developments to identify opportunities for cost savings or
improved quality.
• Participates as an advisory member of the product development team, providing information and guidance
on availability and cost of supplies and materials.
• Mentored and developed team members through coaching, performance reviews, and skills enhancement
programs, resulting in stronger procurement capability and operational excellence.

• Develops purchasing policies to increase efficiency and implement subsequentchanges to purchasing
procedure.
• Follow up the day-to-day operations of purchasing functions providingguidance in the related
areas, allocating tasks, encouraging teamwork environment.
• Planning procurement schedules in advance in preparation for busy seasonalperiods.
• Follow up and review purchasing files and records, price lists, the status ofrequisitions, contracts and
orders, locate suppliers, approve invoices for payment.
• Streamlined end-to-end supply workflows by integrating supplier performance data with procurement
planning, enabling faster decision-making and higher supply chain efficiency.
• Drove continuous cost-optimization initiatives through long-term contracts, alternative sourcing strategies,
and improved supplier performance, resulting in measurable and sustainable savings.
• Collaborated with logistics partners and government agencies to streamline customs workflows,
minimize demurrage costs, and maintain uninterrupted material availability.
• Conducted detailed pricing analysis and benchmarking to evaluate supplier quotations, identify cost-saving
opportunities, and ensure competitive commercial terms, ensure having a backup plan for the critical supplies.
• Identified new sourcing and business opportunities through market research, supplier scouting, and

competitive analysis to enhance procurement value and expand strategic options.
• Led global sourcing initiatives by identifying international suppliers, evaluating cross-border capabilities, and

securing competitive commercial terms across global markets.
• Work closely with the projects team managers to understand the plan details of procurement requirements
schedule.
• Interview vendors and visit suppliers plants and distribution centers to examine and learn about products,
services, and prices.
• Monitoring and follow up all shipments clearance process & ensuring all shipments legal documents
received, SASO compliance, original set documents handed over to our clearing agent.
• Resolve the related issues that comes up (delays, missing items, damages, etc.).
• Build and maintain a good working relationship with suppliers.
• Inspecting and evaluating the quality of purchased items.
• Creating detailed comparisons with vendor and product/service of prospective suppliers to support
management decisions & the required approvals.
• Monitor and support returns, damage replacements, and warranty claims.
• Controlling the procurement budget and promoting a long-term saving onprocurement costs.
• Selection, development and assessment of staff.

• Develop, lead the full procurement cycle, including RFQs, bid evaluations, contracts, POs, and supplier
onboarding, ensuring process efficiency and full compliance with procurement policies (GNFR categories).
• Conducted in-depth market research to analyze pricing trends, supplier capabilities, and industry
developments, supporting informed sourcing and procurement decisions.
• Led strategic sourcing and category management initiatives to secure competitive pricing, reliable suppliers,
and optimal long-term commercial value.
• Aligned procurement strategy with business needs by collaborating with finance, operations, and supply chain
teams to support accurate planning, budget compliance, and timely material availability.
• Monitored supplier performance through KPIs and scorecards, conducted risk assessments, and implemented
corrective actions to strengthen reliability and minimize operational risks.
• Conducted high-value negotiations and implemented cost-reduction strategies, achieving measurable savings
without compromising quality or service levels.
• Evaluated supplier quotations by analyzing pricing, technical specifications, commercial terms, and total cost
of ownership to ensure the selection of the most competitive and compliant offers.
• Follow up on Foreign/International Procurement Process & the clearance agents to release our shipments from
customs.
• Fostered long-term vendor partnerships that enhanced service reliability, improved quality, and supported the
organizations strategic sourcing objectives.
• Registered and onboarded new suppliers in the procurement system while issuing multiple RFQs to ensure
competitive pricing, broader sourcing options, and improved supplier diversification.

• Supervision and monitoring all purchasing team activities to achieve a balance between the technical and
the economic aspect, within quality standards & identify new suppliers (GNFR categories).
• Negotiate commercial terms with suppliers, lead time, execute Purchase Orders and follow up.
• Performing detailed comparison studies on the commercial and technical aspects of materials &
equipment.
• Studying the supply chain plans to secure the materials in order to fulfill with the sales processes.
• Plan workload and coordinate amongst the team members to meet deadlines.
• Handle priorities as per departments requirements.
• Handle & follows up all Shipments procedures and documents (invoice - Packing list - all regulation
certifications) for the imported materials & tools until receiving it in warehouse.
• Monitor & tracking stock according to the requirement for regular items.
• Evaluate and determine suppliers competence, capacity & performance.
• Strategic sourcing new suppliers for raw materials & spare parts.

• Making inquiries, comparisons, negotiations and purchase orders.
• Coordinate with the stores on deliveries & ensure that all items are delivered on time.
• Checking all delivery notes & invoices against shipment to ensure quantity, quality, weights, terms,
prices and purchase specifications are as ordered according to purchase order & manage approvals
process.
• Monitor Raw Materials (London Metal Exchange) to track raw materials price fluctuations,
delivering real-time market insights to notify Purchasing Manager for any changes in market
prices.
• Manages international sourcing to get competitive prices & to reach better payment terms.
• Import raw materials, executing LC, TT, and CAD financial forms, arrange insurance, follow up the
shipping agencies & custom clearance complete process.
• Monitor inventory levels of the raw material and the final product stores to prevent both costly
stock outs and overstock situations.

• Handling RFQs, RFPs, vendor pre-qualifications, comparisons, negotiations and purchase orders.
• Checking all delivery notes & invoices against shipment to ensure quantity, quality, weights, terms,
prices and purchase specifications are as ordered according to purchase order.
• Maintains updated records of purchase orders, material receipt reports, follows up deliveries and
processing of all related documents.
• Prepares payment request to finance department attaching original invoice, delivery notes, copy of
PO and PR.
• Follow up with Finance Department the due payment schedules to suppliers.
• Analyze price proposals and Tech. information to determine reasonable prices.
• Negotiates for best purchasing package (in terms of quality, price, delivery terms and service) with
suppliers, sub-contractors and service providers.
• Petty Cash.

Responsible for:
• Handling RFQs, RFPs, vendor pre-qualifications, comparisons, negotiations and purchase orders.
• Follow up P.R, maintains updated records of purchase orders & deliveries & returns with Suppliers.
• Search the market to ascertain the best products and suppliers in terms of best value, delivery schedules
and quality.
• Negotiating, monitoring, and evaluating relationships and contracts with suppliers in order to ensure a
reliable supply that meets standards of quality, timelines and cost.
• Coordinate with the stores on deliveries and returns.
• Checking all delivery notes & invoices according to purchase order.
• Ensure that the vendors dues are paid in timely manner in order to maintain and enhance the given credit
facility.
• Entering and coding data for ERP system.