ABBAS ALFARAJ
Easteron Province,Saudi Arabia
Summary
Procurement and Materials Engineer with over a decade of experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, technical procurement, and contract administration within the oil, gas, and chemical sectors. Skilled in leveraging SAP and Ariba to streamline procurement processes and deliver cost savings. Strong background in electrical and mechanical systems with a proven ability to manage high-value contracts and vendor relationships in compliance with quality and HSE standards. To secure a challenging position in a dynamic organization where I can utilize my skills and experience to contribute effectively, despite a previous fragility in my career path.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Strategic Buyer
Hitachi Energy Ltd
2025.09 - Current
- Leading strategic sourcing activities for High Voltage GIS factory operations.
- Managing supplier negotiations to achieve cost savings and improved commercial terms.
- Developing and executing frame agreements and long-term sourcing strategies.
- Driving localization initiatives by identifying and onboarding local suppliers in Saudi Arabia.
- Managing global suppliers (including China-based vendors) to ensure delivery and compliance.
- Supporting engineering and planning teams with project-based procurement requirements.
- Utilizing SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba for sourcing, PO management, and supplier collaboration.
- Performing cost analysis, benchmarking, and supplier comparison for award decisions.
- Managing supplier performance and resolving delivery or quality issues.
- Handling annual consumption agreements and demand forecasting.
- Coordinating PPAP processes for new suppliers and materials.
- Supporting supply chain risk mitigation and capacity planning.
Procurement Specialist
Halliburton
Jubail
2023.01 - Current
- Locating key suppliers, negotiating the company's purchasing agreement and making sure their materials/products and services meet the company's specifications.
- Facilitate purchases from suppliers to keep business running.
- Acquiring services based on business need.
- Dealing closely with inventory people to keep the consumables available in stock once needed.
- Dealing closely with the material management team to create a material number to new required materials.
- Extracting different reports from SAP to help me making a final report to the Procurement accomplished tasks.
- Reporting the discounts, cost avoidance and cost saving to the top management.
- Reviewing the SOW of all contract 'Service' PRs and study the exact need of that service to select the proper bidders to be invited.
- Helping Service provider with the safety rules, HSE questionnaire of Halliburton especially for conducting On-Site Service.
- Studying the usage volume of all consumables to process a long agreement with vendors.
- Dealing with chemical products and their SDS, CoA Product specification Sheet and Registration & Regulatory Documents.
- Integrated SAP Ariba with SAP to streamline PO issuance and reporting.
SRM (Supplier Relations Management Specialist)
Sadara chemical company
Jubail
2019.12 - 2023.07
- Responsible to build relations among Sadara Chemical Company & Suppliers/Service Providers and Manufacturers by completing their registration through SAP Ariba network.
- Reviewing Supplier's questionnaire submission in order to complete the registration process through Ariba.
- Conducting Pre-Qualification meeting with manufacturers & service providers to find out their capabilities (Quality, Safety, and Technical) in order to provide Sadara with the required materials and/or services.
- Building up Sourcing List to help Procurement Department with the correct supplier for the requested materials and/or service to speed up the process of procurement.
- Following up with the proponent for the submission of Supplier Performance Evaluation every quarter and to solve the performance issues to make the work goes smoothly and to make both parties happy.
- Reviewing materials description to select the suitable bidders to be invited through issuing RFQ by SAP.
- Coordinating with Proponent to get the Technical Evaluation.
- Creation of PO to the correct bidder based on the result of Technical & Commercial result.
- Coordinating with buyers to close all AGED PRS Line Items.
Procurement Engineer
Saipem
Khobar
2013.01 - 2019.11
- Support Procurement Manager in the development and implementation of Procurement guidelines, procedures and Policies.
- Gain economic saving and increase service levels from suppliers and vendors.
- Coordinate with proponent for technical approval of the material/spares prior to its procurement.
- Assist in placement and follow-up of local and foreign purchase orders (according to the requirement), and coordinate with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery.
- Maintain complete updated purchasing records/data and pricing in the system.
- Negotiate for effective purchasing package (in terms of quality, price, terms, delivery and service).
- Sending RFQ, creating PO/BO for Project materials or services.
- Initiate Purchase Requisition for project materials.
- Follow-up with material supplier and manufacture to expedite material delivery.
- Handling materials forecast for projects and order all required materials.
- Filed material request check the status of all POS (Purchase Orders).
- Review Material Requisition (PR), Purchase Order (PO) to ensure materials to be supplied are complying with project requirements.
- Follow-up and coordinate with Project Sub-contractors all their weekly, bi-weekly, monthly submittals of material reports.
- Perform actual expediting of material progress and delivery at Vendors / Manufacturers site for urgent requirements and whenever necessary.
- Perform Material Reconciliation during 80% project completion until fall completion and provide support during project close-out.
Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer
Mohammad Al Mojil Group
Khobar
2012.01 - 2013.02
- Worked on E&I systems installation, inspection, and commissioning for industrial projects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Systems Engineering, Electrical Systems
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA12.2011
Skills
- Supplier Management
- Negotiation
- Contracts
- SRM
- Inventory Management
- SAP
- SAP Ariba
- Strategic Sourcing
- Cost Avoidance
- Savings Reporting
Certification
- CIPP
- CIPM
- CISCP
- CISCM
Accomplishments
- Cost Reduction/Avoidance
- Sourcing potential vendor for critical items.
- Back Log/Aged Requests
- Closing Aged Huge items within short time.
- Optimized supplier agreements.
- Initiated long-term agreements for high-usage consumables.
- Enhanced sourcing speed.
- Built sourcing lists to enable faster procurement decisions.
Languages
Arabic
English
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
http://linkedin.com/in/abbas-alfaraj-cipp-cipm-ciscp-ciscm-7a557045
Timeline
Senior Strategic Buyer
Hitachi Energy Ltd
2025.09 - Current
Procurement Specialist
Halliburton
2023.01 - Current
SRM (Supplier Relations Management Specialist)
Sadara chemical company
2019.12 - 2023.07
Procurement Engineer
Saipem
2013.01 - 2019.11
Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer
Mohammad Al Mojil Group
2012.01 - 2013.02
Bachelor of Science - Systems Engineering, Electrical Systems
University of Arkansas at Little Rock