Procurement Officer
MVL Group
Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months
Presently working as Procurement Officer with MVL Group, a leading supply chain and construction supply Management Company with concentration in the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa that provides professional services to companies within the defense, construction, and engineering industries.
Reporting into Managing Director with the following key responsibilities:
-RFQs to the Suppliers/Sub-Contractors as per the requirement of various Projects in Dubai and Afghanistan.
-Commercial terms negotiation with vendors based in UAE, USA, UK, Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany, Italy.
-Preparation and finalization of Purchase Orders after negotiation with the vendors and approval of higher management
-Ensure to achieve project milestones and timely delivery of goods
-Active liaison with customer and supplier and addressing their queries about orders’ status
-Contact suppliers in order to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries and other related issues
-Track down potential suppliers and meeting with them to secure cost effective strong business relationships
-Compare prices, specifications, and delivery and lock-in the most cost effective orders.
-Preparation and maintenance of purchasing files, reports and price lists.
-Weekly Stock reports
-Maintenance of books in terms of goods ordered and received.
-Dashboard maintenance
My job was a mix of various activities which included but were not limited to market analysis, procurement of professional services, vendor management, vendor induction, extrapolate data from various systems and summarize it.
-Conduct market research to identify potential vendors.
-Generating comprehensive RFQ/RFP in coordination with Technical & Commercial Teams & floating RFQ/RFP to prospect/approved vendor base.
-Obtaining quotes & making comprehensive & meaningful comparisons/scorings with initial RFQ/RFP in coordination with various internal stakeholders.
-Preparing logical Quotation Evaluation statements adhering to the SOPs w.r.t Technical & Commercial aspects.
-Negotiating with suppliers for quoted rates, making industry analysis to reach best available prices and ensure to lock in the most cost effective offers.
-Vendor management & Vendor Induction.
-Create & analyse data including market analysis as well as department and individual KPIs to represent operational performance.
-Responsible for raising and approving Purchase Orders under Purchasing Module of Oracle Financial.
-Design and maintain dashboards and various forms of visuals to ensure real time visibility for all employees about performance and status of issues and projects.
-Development / updating of annual procurement plan of PMCL based on approved annual budget.
-Was responsible for all departmental reports to Parent Company and Internal Stakeholders.
Hands On:
-Oracle Financial
-Excel
UN (World Health Organization): (April 2010 - July 2010)
Worked as an Intern with UN, whereby I was responsible for;
* Data Analysis (Data Entry, Data Categorization, Data Filtering)
* Retrieval of web based information from different sources.
* Assisted the librarian in day to day work in handling general queries related to library work.
Worked as Assistant Manager - Business Development whereby I was responsible to target clients and secure business by delivering customized solutions.
Main Responsibilities Included:
•Doing market research to track down potential clients and generate business while retaining existing clientele.
•Prepare presentations for the promotion of products.
•Meetings with potential customers for marketing purpose.
